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Confidence in, but we've also got to do it in a way that recognizes we have hostile folks out there that will potentially try to do us harm. >> hostile folks out there and in washington, d.c. for more on how the president's comments will play in washington we bring in john king. good morning. >> good morning. >> we took two beats on the nsa with the president, asking whether or not he feels he knows everything going on, whether he is confident in what he says about the way the nsa conducts business. any concern that the president exposed himself now and if more revelations come out, hurts hi...

Know, the complexity and the pressure of that office. but nevertheless, the issues of privacy, the issues of civil liberties that are dear to the american people are tenets that he supported as a senator and to some extent as a candidate. so, one has to worry that, you know, taking the issue of looking in, listening in on the american people as a dragnet and as a wholesale without due process, without judicial review in the full context of the word, it's worrisome and i think the word hypocritical would be too harsh. but there is a contradiction and i think a lot of people have mentioned that ...

Introduction sort of introduction. >> i'm honored. >> so you are here because i know you are pushing this transparency issue that you fought for in the banking reform bill. you only got 64 votes in the senate. >> right. >> so of course it didn't become law. >> well, it kind of became law. let's start with what we're talking about here. we're talking about how our financial system is kind of rigged and talking about you know those moody's, standard and poors. >> tell you this is a good investment. >> gave aaa ratings to financial products that were junk. >> like all the bad mortgages that were ...

>> i'm honored. >> so you are here because i know you are pushing this transparency issue that you fought for in the banking reform bill. you only got 64 votes in the senate. >> right. >> so of course it didn't become law. >> well, it kind of became law. let's start with what we're talking about here. we're talking about how our financial system is kind of rigged and talking about you know those moody's, standard and poors. >> tell you this is a good investment. >> gave aaa ratings to financial products that were junk. >> like all the bad mortgages that were out there. >> like the subprime mor...

Either the television networks. or cable networks. the major newspapers and major websites. news websites. they don't do it. and it's going to be very rare that they will in the future. and i guarantee you that whatever the next administration is like, it's going to be even more down this road than the obama administration already is. >> well, and, howard, yeah, i just want to bring it back to transparency a little bit. i don't care about the golf game at all. i think that's much ado about nothing and kind of a distraction. but the transparency issue is sort of amplified because it was such a ...