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Office you talked about new york being too city slick, the haves and have-nots. do you think the people who made over $500,000 have not contributed much? because that's how it feels and i don't think that's what you mean. >> that's not what i said and not what i meant. i want it to be a city for everyone. a lot of people have been struggling. this economic crisis for the last five or six years i think dislocated people more than has been acknowledged. we have to do things to help people that are struggling to make it. >> whoopi tried to get it in but there was no follow up or mention of the en...

Were folks who immediately said, okay, find me the census and tell me where the muslims live or tell me where the arabs live and the answer was we can't, they're white. so we haven't thought of this group as other. in this moment then the question becomes who is the other. well, it must be muslims. they can be the group that is dangerous which is exactly what we've seen with this nypd question. >> exactly. post-9/11 the muslim community bake the other. it was a target of government policies, including nypd surveillance programs, you know, infiltrating people's houses of worship, sending inform...

You. >> yeah. it absolutely does. i work here in new york. we're connected to new york. we've been through now twice as a family. and to think that we're now shutting down these surveillance programs and announcing it. i think that's an important part, too. not only are we saying that there has been surveillance, but now we're shutting it down. that weeks of politic. >> bill de blasio has said this is fair, that he's glad that the program has been shut down. these were investigators that were going through e-mails watching muslims where they pray, extreme muslims to find out where they're pray...

>> my lady, i thought it was somebody coming out to attack me, so i fired my firearm. >> your defense has now changed, sir. from self-defense to involuntary action. >> remember that 14-year-old girl who sent a tweet to american airlines claiming to be part of a terrorist plot? she has been arrested by dutch police after sending the tweet in question, the girl began to backtrack saying she made a dumb joke. but the airline that you now been inundated by similar tweets from copycats. the "washington post" and guardian were awarded the pulitzer prize monday for their articles on the nsa surveil...

Will boomrang against their own economy. >> crimea is gone and under russian control clearly. what else do we expect to hear from the president on any of this today? >> he has a news conference coming up and we will get a few questions. every time he is in europe he gets questions about the nsa surveillance programs. the europeans are very upset about that and murkala had her calls listened into and there is pressure on the president to reform the programs. and that is why you saw the leak saying the president wants to move the meta data over to the