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Things to the forward. what this shows is people don't agree with discrimination. they don't agree with bigotry. i have no problem -- >> is this the way to bring her along? >> i have no problem with people expressing religious freedom. however, it's time we stop using religion as a weapon of discrimination. >> this is what they say they say the religious freedom is to be against gay marriage, to serve gays in the pizzeria, befriend gays in the public square, but not to cater a wedding they don't agree with. >> it wasn't long ago that organizations like the kkk used religion as an excuse to dis...

Silicon valley money. jeb bush has been meeting with tech executives. it's not clear who will capture this new and growing source of wealth for elections supposed to cost over $1 billion on each side. one thing is for sure, we'll see lots of candidates and staffers making trips down the 101. >> the states on the west coast are huge. long before covering politics i was covering federal aid workers. friday night they issued 47 pages of instructions on how to shut down the department. and buried deep in there on page 23 a little note to the 15% of dhs workers who might have been furloughed, you...

Look what happened in jackson hole, wyoming. you had top candidates to president go there not knowing entirely who would be in that room except for a handful of big donors. the reason they went there was business when somebody like a paul singer says it's time to come make the pitch, these candidates do not hesitate for a second. they have their top staffers fly to jackson hole. it's a new era. >> someone put their better staffers on the super pacs, too. lisa? >> also on the money front, john, i spent a couple of days last weekend in silicon valley where competition is hot and heavy for those ...

Mcdermott with us as well. she says people should be afraid of google spying on them and not the government. this brings us to the meeting this week and the tech executives at the white house. they know too much about you. i'm talking about the tech companies and the white house. why should we be afraid of google? >> they see everything you search for. they see everything you are looking at and people share a lot of information online. they are not aware of the fact information isn't just disappearing after they look for something. >> this is how edward snowden puts it. let's listen to this. >...

Momentum seems to be with people on pat leahy's side of the argument and you have the panel recommending changes and you had the federal judge this week and calling the changes unconstitutional and the meeting at the whois with tech executives and that meeting went twice as long as it was supposed to. so does that change the equation? >> slightly. i think a lot of the pressure from congress for the moment is diverted to some other matters under the year and one of the reasons that i say this is that congress is out and out in a few weeks and the immediacy of action isn't there and the only thi...