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Foreign leaders by the nsa should require approval directly from the white house. the report follows a bruising meeting at the white house tuesday with executives from the country's largest tech companies. sources tell cnn's jim acosta, several said they flew to washington to voice their concern on government surveillance. hurting their bottom line abroad to the tune of $35 billion in lost business. several were frustrated with the white house's focus on the troubled healthcare.gov website. sources said the president said one thing he is not considering is a pashd for edward snowden. i spoke t...

Make hig decision probably by january but we already know one of the recommendations he has not accepted and that is from this panel they recommended that the nsa be split from the military cybercommand. the white house has already rejected that one. that said, the senior administration official told me the white house is aware, they have a trust gap here with the american public but also the foreign public and they want to address that. the president is going to really listen to these recommendations, make some changes and i'm told it's likely in january he is going to make a speech to the am...

On forever so why are we talking about this? he also called edward snowden noble. your thoughts? >> well, of course, who would know better than the former kgb guy in vladimir putin. this is exactly one of the worries administration officials had when snowden went to russia that russia would use him as a massive propaganda tool and here you see it. vladimir putin poking fun at the u.s. saying i wish i could spy like the u.s. can and get away with on allies. that's a problem. and he has snowden there, you know, the great irony being snowden in a country that does its own spying at home and abroa...

There and trying to get secrets, for instance, to help american companies or just because they can, but because there's a national security interest. but also remember this issue that we've been covering, jake, a lot. foreign leaders, the nsa spying on foreign leaders such as angela merkel, her phone calls. made the germans very angry. that will now have to get senior level approval, approval at highest level in the white house by the president if the nsa is going to be spying on those kinds of communications. you know, earlier today i spoke with a senior administration official about this, an...

Now, that is not pursuing terrorism. that's not pursuing criminals. there are ways to do that. what i'm saying is, there's a way to do this without violating the privacy of innocent people. and we had that way worked out. we weren't chosen by the director of nsa, michael hayden. he didn't even come down to see what our suggestions were. his deputy director did, named bill black, and he said, my gosh. you guys have made major breakthroughs. why are you being so modest? so the whole story has not been told about this whole business. >> we're working on getting the whole story out. i know you kno...