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Hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we start with the heads of some of the country's top tech.cans speaking with the president. they're trying to air their that are concerns over the nsa's surveillance programs. google, apple, twitter, yahoo! facebook, at&t some of the names represented over at the white house, all of them deeply concerned with what the nsa has been doing and how it's impacting their bottom line. joining us senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, we just learned a key microsoft executive has been tapped by the president to come in and help with the oba...

Some of the nsa surveillance programs may be unconstitutional? >> at this point, no. jay carney was asked about that at the top of this press briefing. and not surprisingly, wolf, he again punted over to the department of justice which did release that will brief statement saying yesterday that they believe that the bulk phone record collection that is going on at the nsa that is at the heart of that federal judge's ruling yesterday who said that that is likely unconstitutional, the department of justice saying that they believe that that activity is constitutional and jay carney reiterated th...

It all happens in secret, and the court hears the government's point of view, doesn't hear the adversarial point of view, and then rules. and if it rules in favor of the government, there's no one there to appeal. so, it's a very stacked procedure when you're talking about these large programmatic surveillance programs like this call log metadata program we're talking about. >> obviously, this is just a preliminary injunction from a district court judge, the appeals court above him, and then the ruling on the merits, the appeals court above him and, of course, the supreme court. there's lots m...

President and vice president arrived after that and spent the next two hours discussing the nsa surveillance programs with which these companies have been forced to comply. recently, many of these companies signed an open letter calling for reforms to the nsa's wide-reaching surveillance programs and transparency. those programs have treated america's tech giants like a grab bag from which to mine user data, e-mail, chat, video, photos, you name it. much of the time the nsa isn't asking for the data. it's telling. here are just a few specifics. from facebook, the nsa mines profiles or connecti...

Surveillance programs. then there's the times here. we talked about this yesterday. edward snowden releasing a statement saying he feels vindicated by the ruling saying that the collection of data by the nsa he revealed to the world was most likely a violation of the constitution. and the reporter who helped snowden break the news told cnn he agrees. >> how can it not vindicate him? let's use common sense for a minute. here's an american citizen working inside of the government who discovers that the united states government is doing things without the knowledge of the american people that is ...