nobody is listening to your telephone calls. that's not what this program's about. >> president obama speaking out about the massive government surveillance programs and says that your privacy is safe. storm andrea is not over yet. the risk of flash flooding all along the east coast. also, unemployment is up. and the stock market is now reacting. what it means for your wallet. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm suzanne malveaux. the president responding now to the growing debate over privacy

versus national security. watch. >> our goal is to stop folks from doing us harm. and if every step that we're taking to try to prevent a terrorist act is on the front page of the newspapers or on television, then presumably the people who are trying to do us harm are going to be able to get around our preventive measures. >> the president's comments come on the heels of new reports now about government surveillance. according to "the washington post" and "the guardian" newspapers, intelligence agencies, they're gathering massive amounts of information from major internet companies. we're talking about microsoft, apple, youtube, yahoo, google, facebook and others. many of the companies deny giving access to information. well, the director of national intelligence says that internet data collection does not target u.s. citizens. we heard the president reiterate that point. he says investigators don't look at the vast majority of data

because it's not terror related. that the program is legal under the patriot act and it is reviewed by a court every 90 days. i want to bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger. gloria, it was really interesting to see how the president went through these two different programs. and he made the distinction between the programs, the verizon phone call records and also what was reported regarding the internet. now, he made this case and it was rather private. he said, look, i'm going to be out of office in three and a half years. i'm going to be at the top of the list if you want to listen to my phone conversations or read my e-mail. i want to protect your privacy because i'm going to be a citizen -- private citizen myself. i want you to listen to this and tell me if you think it's convincing. >> i will leave this office at some point, some time in the next three and a half years. after that i will be a private citizen. and i suspect that on a list of people who might be targeted,

you know, so that somebody could read their e-mails or listen to their phone calls, i'd probably be pretty high on that list. it's not as if i don't have a personal interest in making sure my privacy is protected. >> what do you think, gloria? >> well, i think a few things. first of all, this is president obama, former senator, former constitutional scholar, right? or who still considers himself a constitutional scholar. what have the controversies, suzanne, he's been dealing with? surveillan surveillance, drones, leak investigation. all of these three issues go to the heart of what he's really about, okay? he believes in protecting privacy. that's one thing. now, he's also president of the united states. and he understands the difficulty in doing that. so we see the struggle internally that he is having with this. and he says, look, there's got to be a balance between privacy

and national security. and by the way, i think he also implied, look, you can't have it both ways. if you want to connect all the dots and you want the government to be on top of things because you don't want to have another terror attack, then you cannot be guaranteed as he put it 100% security, 100% privacy and zero inconvenience. >> he actually acknowledged there was a trade-off as well. this is a very different obama here. i thought it was also interesting, too, gloria, here he really emphasized, he said, look, you know what, go to members of congress. there's a federal court as well. don't blame me on this. listen to how he put it. >> that's also why we set up congressional oversight. these are the folks you all vote for as your representatives in congress. and they're being fully briefed on these programs.

and if in fact there was -- there were abuses taking place presumably, those members of congress could raise those issues very aggressively. they're empowered to do so. >> so, gloria, you know, does that kind of take the air out of the balloon here? he says congress has to authorize this every 90 days or so, every three months, and there's a federal court in play here. >> you have heard from members of congress briefed on the democratic side of the aisle, members of congress like mark udhal, but you've also heard from a republican or two who says, you know, i didn't know the extent of this. what the president is saying is that he is not doing anything without the full knowledge and support and approval of members of congress who know about this. what he's saying is, look, i'm

not some renegade rogue president who's going around the congress and trying to put these things in place to snoop on you. i am doing this in concert with the congress as is required by law to make sure that we don't have another terror attack. so he was trying to tell the american public, look, all of us know about this. we understand what we're doing. and we're doing it to protect you. and it's not easy. and by the way, as you know, suzanne, the president also said, look, this is a debate that i welcome. that we're going to have to have in this country because we have to, you know, as the world gets more complicated, we have to figure out ways to deal with these privacy issues and our security. all right. gloria, thank you. very interesting to see the president walking that fine line, the balance he has between national security and privacy concerns that a lot of people have been raising lately. >> and unapologetic about it, suzanne. >> right. >> there wasn't any shrinking away from this. >> no. and everybody has some credit here to go around.

all three branches of government. thank you very much. appreciate it, gloria. tropical storm andrea hammering the east coast now. heavy rain, strong winds. right now it is moving over the carolinas. folks there could see dangerous storm surges, flash floods, possibly some tornadoes as well. already several tornadoes ripping through florida damaging homes, hurting at least one person injured. some people who saw a tornado touch down say they couldn't even believe what they were seeing. watch this. >> that was the first time i'd ever seen anything like that. i've seen waterspouts here before, but seeing on land like that, i've never seen it. kientd of neat but in a way it's scary when you see the damage, it was a minimal storm that it caused. >> tropical storm andrea also going to soak millions of people all over the eastern seaboard this weekend. i want to bring in our nick valencia who's in wrights vilvi beach, north carolina. nick, we've been seeing you there on the monitor from time to time being blown around, barely standing there.

how are the conditions? >> well, it seems as though the worst of it has passed, suzanne. there are of course these sustained winds that come, gusts of wind i should say that come about 40 miles per hour. probably the most dangerous thing right now for the residents are the beach is the sand. it's just brutal just pelting us. it is just brutal here. but for so many residents here it has been a non-event. you've got to remember this is a part of the united states and particularly part of north carolina that is accustom to hurricanes, it's accustom to severe weather. for a lot of people here, residents aren't hunkering down. they're leaving -- they're not leaving. they're going about sort of their everyday life. >> and what do we expect, nick, in the hours to come? >> well, you know, we've seen the sun come out and the water sort of recede back. earlier those waves looked a lot more angry than they do right

now. we do know that there has been a dozen homes or so here that have lost power. i spoke to a resident earlier who was without power and that still seems to be the case for her in the last couple of hours. but this storm for all intents and purposes, suzanne, it's moving towards the northeast. it's going towards new york. it's going towards our colleagues there in new york and boston and the northeast area. so for those of you watching at home in that area, you know, expect some heavy rain to hit you in the coming hours. >> all right. nick, we're going to check-in with the new yorkers and those in boston. thanks, nick. appreciate it. stay safe. i want to do a quick check of the markets right now. you see the dow it is at 15 -- more than 15,000, up 169. it follows the release of the may jobs report this morning showing that unemployment rate is up, but just barely. 175,000 jobs were added in may. now, it's actually more than analysts expected. and actually better than we did in april. i want to bring in alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. is this overall good news,

alison? >> you know what, suzanne, it's a good report. it's just not great. because to be honest with you it's still just kind of average when you look at how job growth has been in this country over the past three years. and then you look at the unemployment rate. it ticked up to 7.6%. kind of a good reason there, more people jumped back in to look for a new job. but the problem is a lot of them they haven't gotten a job yet. and that's why you saw the unemployment rate go higher. so the market -- you see the market doing real well. stocks have been all over the place this week with investors very worried about whether the federal reserve is going to start to pull back on its economic stimulus. when you look at this job number -- at least when investors look at this job number, they wanted it to be good, maybe not so good. so this may have been their kind of sweet spot they were looking for, which is why we're seeing the rally today. that's not to say wall street wouldn't have welcomed a better number for jobs, but status quo seems to be sitting well with them today, suzanne. >> all right. alison, we know it's not an increase across the board when it comes to jobs. where are we seeing the biggest gains, the biggest jumps here?

what kind of industries? >> okay. so some of the places that have been doing well continue to do well. they include professional and business services. they added 57,000 jobs. that includes 5,000 architects and engineering jobs. so what you see there playing out is the housing recovery pushing that along. food service jobs, meaning restauras and bars, there continues to be growth there. there was an additional 38,000 jobs added in may. that sector has actually added more than 300,000 jobs over the past 12 months. the problem with those jobs though, they're low paying jobs. you can't necessarily pay the bills easily on those kinds of jobs. all right. so now let's go to the not so bright spots in this jobs report. government jobs got hit hard. the federal government lost 14,000 jobs. we know how spending cuts have been a real drag on the economy. now we can actually see it in the numbers how it's a drag on jobs. manufacturing sector also got hit losing 8,000 jobs. suzanne. >> all right. alison, have a good weekend. appreciate it. >> you too. here's what else we're working on for this hour.

he was a decorated navy s.e.a.l. spending years fighting for our country, but he was also living what he felt was a lie. >> i just recently came out. i'm starting to live my life as a full female. i live -- this is my life. >> plus -- the norwegian navy blowing up one of its own ships. we're going to tell you why straight ahead in the newsroom. and most guys, right, they want a man cave. wait until you see what some workers did with your money to set up their own private play room in a government warehouse.

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building collapse in philadelph philadelphia, it's now been turned over to accident investigators. officials are now saying "they are absolutely sure there are no more victims in that rubble." six people were killed on wednesday when that four-story wall of a partially demolished building collapsed on to the neighboring salvation army store. one of them was 24-year-old art student anne bryan. her family says she was brilliant, caring, had the ability to find beauty in everything. philadelphia's mayor promises a wide ranging investigation. and as we mentioned, the government can find out more about you, electronic communications, than you might have imagined. so what is the government specifically looking for? tom foreman explains. >> imagine that the billions of phone calls being made in this country every week will boil down to a single neighborhood so we can comprehend this. and a computer was recording every time a call was made, where it was answered and how

long it lasted. that is metadata. you don't know what's being said, you just know contact was made. now, that computer could analyze all those contacts to come up with essentially networks. who was talking to whom most often? we all talk to the same people over and over again. then, along comes some kind of event in the middle of all this. a terrorist event. what investigators could do if they had a suspect in particular is go back to all of that metadata and say look at all of the activity on the phones before this happened, around the time this happened. did some groups stand out as being much more busy than all the others when this occurred? and should we focus on that group more, not just for our suspect but for everyone connected to that suspect? privacy groups of course are having a fit over this. they say this is like posting a police officer outside of every single person's house and saying just write down every time somebody comes or goes in case they might be involved in crime

some day. the government says it's not really being used that way. they say that information is being held by the computer. and the information is not accessed without suspicion and additional fisa court orders to say now investigators who have a real crime on their hands can go into that data. that leaves a lot of things unanswered at this point. it's not clear how detailed or extensive this data is. for example, if you have gps on your phone, is the metadata included that tells people where you were the whole time? we don't know how long the data is being kept. we also don't know about possible future uses for that data. we're talking national security now, but the fear for many privacy advocates is maybe in the future it won't be just about that. >> as you can see here, also appears to be a generational divide over privacy versus security. this is according to a cnn/time orc poll. 57% of people under the age of 50 are not willing to give up some civil liberties to curb terrorism. half of those over 50 are

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he was an elite member of the navy s.e.a.l.s., now she is a warrior princess. this is chris beck before and this is christin beck now. she says living life as a woman was not possible while living the life of a navy s.e.a.l. anderson cooper sat down and talked with her. >> christopher todd beck enlisted with the military in 1990 with the dream of joining the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s., the elite unit with the reputation for being one of the toughest, the fittest and most secretive forces in the u.s. military. beck realized that dream serving for 20 years with the s.e.a.l.s. in some of the most dangerous battlegrounds around the world including iraq and afghanistan. a former navy s.e.a.l. who knew

beck says he had a stellar commendation from his service members. he had a long list of medals and accommodations including the bronze star and purple heart. but for 20 years while beck was fighting for his country, he was also fighting an inner battle, a battle over his gender identity. chris beck wanted to live his life openly and honestly as a woman, which is what he started doing after he retired in 2011. chris beck is now kristen beck, she's currently on hormone replacement therapy and feels like she's becoming the person she was always meant to be. it's been a long journey for kristen to get to this point. she's written a book about her experience called "warrior princess," hoping to help others. the book comes nearly two years after the department of defense repealed its don't ask, don't tell policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. but gender identity has nothing to do with sexuality.

transgender, men and women, are still banned from service. the 20-year decorated combat veteran would not be allowed to serve in the military as she lives her life today. anderson cooper, cnn. >> and kristen beck spoke with anderson about keeping the desire to be a woman bottled up. listen. >> it's got to be so -- just sad to think that for 20 years you have to -- that you have this incredible bond with these people you're fighting with, and you want it to be the closest bond imaginable and yet you can't really let yourself be yourself. >> it's definitely tough. it's -- i mean, it's strength and honor. when we shake hands, you know, we shake hands and we say strength and honor. and that's still what i gave true. i gave true brotherhood. i did my best. 150% all the time. and i gave strength and honor

and my full brotherhood to every military person i ever worked with. and i feel that pretty much any transgender person that's in the military right now -- and there's a lot of them right now probably doing service, they're doing the same thing. and you would never know that they're transgender or anything. it's just too bad because they're doing a great job. and nobody even knows it. >> what would have happened if you had said to some of the s.e.a.l.s. you were serving with that this is who you are? >> well, it's probably very similar to some of the support i'm getting right now. but it would have been only that, a few of them that would have accepted saying, hey, you're my brother and i've never seen you do anything wrong and totally honorable and it's good to go. and they might have accepted it and maybe half and half. maybe less. i don't know. that's a chance that if i took it, i might be dead today. >> and you can see more on that story on cnn.com.

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that was in san jose, california, earlier. the president touted the affordability of the new health exchanges they're being called being set up for millions of uninsured americans. so this is how it works. people will be able to sign upstarting this october. the administration hopes to enroll about seven million people in the health insurance plans through these exchanges. now, california has been a leader in implementing one of the first exchanges. listen. >> if you're one of nearly six million californians or tens of millions of americans who don't currently have health insurance, you'll soon be able to buy quality affordable care just like everybody else. and here's how. states like california are setting up new online marketplaces where beginning on october 1st of this year you can comparison shop an array of private health insurance plans

side by side, just like you were going online to compare cars or airline tickets. and that means insurance companies will actually have to compete with each other for your business. >> under the exchanges the government will pay subsidies to people who earn less than a certain amount. a senior administration official tells reuters that at least 2.6 million people on the exchanges need to be young and healthy for them actually to succeed. check out this story. we are looking at couches, personal photos, hair trimmers, yeah. all found in these hidden getaways set up inside the environmental protection agency warehouse, or epa warehouse. get this, you paid for it. brian todd explains. >> how's this for a man cave? a private space with a couch, chairs, tv, a weight set. this isn't your cousin's basement. it's a u.s. government facility. a warehouse in landover, maryland, overseen by the environmental protection agency

leased and operated by a private contractor for $1.6 million of your tax dollars a year. >> when the auditors first saw it, it was overwhelming. >> robert was the lead inspector who just released a report. the document looks like a sure wi -- brochure. here's a picture, a chair, artwork on the wall. some had personal chairs and pin-ups. >> refrigerator, microwave ovps. >> that black object bottom center, that's a hair trimmer. i spoke about all this with taxpayer advocate ryan alexander. >> we pay high money for these people to manage our inventory and take care of our warehouse and what the inspector general found they didn't do any of that. >> and these personal spaces were hidden from security cameras by partitions, curtains and piled up boxes. the epa said we couldn't get access inside this warehouse, but epa officials say as soon as

they learn what the inspector general found, they had the private contractors who operated this building escorted out. they prohibited them from coming back. and they began taking inventory of everything inside. it's not just the little getaway spaces that raised concern. those little specks on the box, lower right. >> we did take pictures of places where they had taken rat traps and where they were rat feces all throughout the building. >> one place the contractors did keep immaculate, their gym. >> pictures show also a computer that was attached to some speakers. and it appeared to be used for music. >> there was a security breach with all identity information lying there in open boxes. did we mention the seemingly inexplicable inventory. pardon my language, but what the hell do we need with pianos in the epa warehouse. >> that's a good question.

why they had all this stuff we with respect using. >> an epa spokeswoman says the pianos had been there for award ser moanmies and other functions there and then moved to the warehouse. the agency said in a statement that it moved quickly to draez all address all these problems and indeed the inspector general gives the epa high marks for its fast response. we called and e-mailed several times the private contractor that operated the warehouse. apex logistics of college park, maryland. we never heard back. brian todd, cnn, washington. former cop on trial accused of murdering his wife. the lawyers want to know why he threw out old cell phones and destroyed the hard drive on his laptop the day before she died.

on the stand today in kansas, a former police officer accused of shooting his wife to death and then setting her body on fire. brett seacat insists that he did not kill his wife, vashti. he says she shot herself and then set their home on fire. but seacat said today he does blame himself for her death because of an argument they had the night before she died. he says he threatened to expose her alleged extramarital affairs if she went through with their pending divorce.

>> i knew that vashti had had an affair with the vice president. and i was suspecting she was having an affair with her boss -- or had an affair with her former boss. >> earlier in the trial seacat's co-workers testified they saw him burning hard drives and throwing away his cell phones the day before his wife's death. now, seacat told the jury wanted to replace the items -- he wanted to replace these items and he was concerned about identity theft. another very sick child getting a better shot, hopefully at a lung transplant because of a federal judge in philadelphia. the same judge who issued a ruling in favor of a 10-year-old sarah murnahan has issued the same ruling for this little boy, 11-year-old javier acosta. the judge issued another temporary injunction against the rule that prevents children under the age of 12 from getting in line for available adult

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there's something called a lung allocation score, which basically measures how sick someone is with this type of condition. on a scale from zero to 100, sarah is at a 78, very sick people usually rate in the high 50s. this is the first time sarah --. if not number one, she's number two, for the reason her blood type. before this ruling, she was number 100, maybe. i mean, since we talk about a difference, we have no chance, no chance of getting lungs and the odds of sarah dying were very high. now we have a chance.

and there's no guarantee, but we have a shot now. >> and the chance is what they say is all they were really asking for. just to put this into more perspective for you, i have a statistic here which i think will spell things out which gives you an idea of just how rare lung transplants are for children. since 2008 there have been a total of 8,775 lung transplants performed in the united states. of that only about 1%, suzanne, or just 88 have been for children under the age of 12. >> wow, jason, our prayers are definitely with sarah and her family. thank you. he says it's one of the most difficult places that he's been to. up next, anthony bourdain's trip to the congo and the scary flight that he was on up next. [ male announcer ] running out of steam? ♪

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president obama's message about privacy and personal security has changed since i covered him and other data surveillance programs are helpful to fighting terrorism. so i want you to listen to what the president said today and we'll play you something from a couple of years ago. >> i came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. my team evaluated them. we scrubbed them thoroughly. we actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards, but my assessment and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. >> now, i want you to listen to then senator obama, this is back in 2005. he's speaking about homeland

security and the fact that he felt that the bush era patriot act was a threat to americans' rights and freedoms. listen. >> i believe we owe it to the nation, we owe it to those who fought for our civil liberties, we owe it to the future and our children to make sure that we craft the kind of legislation that would make us proud, not just legislation that we settle for because we're in a rush. we don't have to settle for a patriot act that sacrifices our liberties or our safety. we can have one that secures that both. >> want to get to nancy gibbs here to talk about all of this. the president's message and how it changed over time. you're the author of a popular book that goes through and describes, explains that these presidential -- part of the very exclusive club here, and they go through an evolution from candidates and critics to leader and president. and a lot of that happens when they get intelligence. talk about the president's evolution here. >> well, it is really the difference between being outside

of the decision-making circle and being in the center of it. a candidate can pretty much say, argue, criticize anything he likes. but all the presidents we spoke to said the same thing. once they get their first presidential daily brief, the world looks very different and the spom responsibility, the bu they feel changes the way they set their priorities. >> what are some of the experiences, the common experiences that they have? because obviously they have a lot more intelligence than any of us are aware of. but they probably also have a very different perspective on what those threats look like, and the world that we are all facing. >> well, they do. on inauguration day they swear an oath to defend the constitution. but the minute they're in that office, the burden is to defend the country. and they all feel it. and one thing we have seen today and the response to this news is that members of congress from both parties, just as presidents from both parties, have acted in the way they think is necessary to keep the country safe. and that responsibility, of not

having an attack on their watch, is really the most compelling issue for them. and so, you know, candidates can talk more abstractly, as law professors, they can talk more abstractly. as presidents, this is something they all share with one another, carrying that burden of responsibility, knowing what they know, getting the kinds of inte intelligence that is top secret, threats they can't share but they have to respond to, is something they live with 24 hours a day. >> i want to talk a little bit about the title of your book, the president's club, inside the world's most exclusive fraternity, it is fascinating. we're looking at pictures here of president obama, former president bush there. we saw something in huffington post that caught our attention, the morphing if you will of the photo with george w. obama as the headline there, critical but saying, look, they believe

president obama morphed into george w. bush when it comes to his policies. he expanded the patriot act and some of the things we're seeing and discovering talking about today. do you think that's a fair asse assessment? >> well, you know, the argument this is george w. bush's fourth term i think is very much overstated. but unlike in domestic policy, where presidents have more ability to set their course, presidents in some senses inherit the foreign policy of their predecessors. dwight eisenhower had to resolve the korean war that harry truman had started. lyndon johnson had to deal with vietnam that had begun under president kennedy. and obviously president obama had to contend with the wars in afghanistan and iraq that were begun under president bush. and it isn't as though any president can take office and easily suddenly change the course of foreign policy overnight. and so, you know, in that sense, i think candidates are entirely sincere. president obama, i suspect, was

entire lly sincere with his intentions to defend civil liberties, to close guantanamo bay. once you're in office and the barriers to doing that, the price to be paid for doing it, looks very different. >> it is a fascinating look at the evolution, each one of these men, each one of the presidents as they go from candidate to leader and one with a second term. nancy gibbs, thank you, very good discussion. really appreciate it. she's one of the most popular women in the world. hillary clinton, many are wondering if she's going to run for president in 2016. others are asking who is going to play her in a movie about her life. well, we actually know who the top contenders are. we're going to tell you up next. . she got a parking ticket... ♪ and she forgot to pay her credit card bill on time. good thing she's got the citi simplicity card. it doesn't charge late fees or a penalty rate. ever. as in never ever. now about that parking ticket.

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fund-raiser. the hollywood reporter says front-runner has emerged to play young hillary clinton. this is in the upcoming movie "rodh "rodham." carey mulligan known for her role as daisy in "great gatsby." she will meet soon with the film's director. it will focus on the early years of clinton's career, including when she met the future president bill clinton. these other actresses have also been rumored to be in consideration for the role. you see them all there. pretty amazing lineup. emma stone, jessica chastain, reese witherspoon and scarlett johansson. that's it for me. have a great weekend. brooke baldwin takes it from here. not just your phone. the feds with access to your e-mail, your photos, you're about to hear both sides. why you should be worried and why you should embrace it. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now.

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