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President obama met with honchos from tech companies about how to improve the web site after its disastrous launch in october. today's meeting included executives from microsoft and apple, facebook and twitter, and others. our ed henry is the main man at the white house and is live this afternoon. why are they just now bringing g in people from private business? you think that i would have tried this in the beginning when they were getting slapped around? >> reporter: i asked jay carney the question. why not do this in the summer. he said the president met with tech engineers, talking about th...

Gone to congress or the inspector general. this is very much a vindication for snowden, for lynn greenwald, the people who supported him. eating crow is something i have done before and i expect i'll -- >> it works better with ketchup. >> yes, indeed. >> given the ruling, we know the tech executives are meeting with the president today. i'd like to be a fly on the wall. >> i think they're very much related. because you look at the pressures on the president right now. these tech executives don't like this program. they're consumers don't like that the companies are involved in sharing the data...

I'm just wondering if we brought advanced copies of "house of cards." >> you want a little cameo? >> well, i wish things were that way. man, this guy is getting a lot of stuff done. >> the president a "house of cards" fan. thaf that was the president with some of the country's top tech executives. he was talking about the show "house of cards." the president is meeting with leaders from apple, yahoo! facebook and google and they're supposed to be talking about the performance of healthcare.gov but it's expected that the nsa surveillance program will be a hot topic as well.

Discussing this with ben wisener of the aclu, civil libertarians are arguing this is what happens when an open court discusses these things as opposed to a private fisa court. >> tomorrow president obama is meeting with a group of tech executives from google, yahoo, all the big tech companies who are not happy with this program either. they want changes made. the combination of this court ruling, the corporate unhappiness, some of our allies unhappiness, it certainly seems like there might be some changes in this program that might respond to those criticisms, but it is also true that it's a p...

Some of these issues tomorrow at the white house with. so top tech executives. republican versus republican. the budget bill that passed last week is now running into opposition in the senate. there are 50 votes needed to pass. still, the deal is expected to pass, but it's already it caused a big split within the republican party. last week john boehner chided republican conservatives who opposed the bill. >> i think john has got his irish up. he was frustrated that these groups came out in opposition to our budget agreement before we reached a budget agreement. i was frustrated too, but i t...