hunt for the man who leaked secret nsa documents. edward snowden last reported to be in hong kong but where he is and what faces him is unclear. we'll get reaction to it from former congressman ron paul. and in today's "deep dive," a fight on the right over education. find out what's pushing some conservatives to confront sitting governors and party leaders like jeb bush all across the country. >> and clashes continue in turkey today as demonstrators and police square off in the streets of istanbul. the latest on what's fueling this fight. good morning from washington. tuesday, june 11th, 2013. i'm chuck todd. another busy tuesday here in the nation's capital. we're also monitoring the news overseas in south africa where former president mandela is spending a fourth day in a hospital being treated for recuring lung infection. country's current president says mandela is in serious but stable

condition and many family members travel to see him. let's get right to my first reads of the morning. the search for snowden is on. and international manhunt is under way for the 29-year-old former contractor as the justice department prepares to file charges form nally against snowden. "the guardian's" walt green wald says they plan to release more documents. snowden checked out of the hotel in hong kong where he had been hiding for several weeks on monday. whether he is still in hong kong is unknown. fbi agents visited his mother's house here in maryland. and they were in his father's home in pennsylvania. this evening, at 5:00 p.m., the full house will hear from intelligence officials about the nsa programs in a closed, classified briefing. if you can have that with 435 members. the house intelligence committee

will get another briefing on thursday. the senate intelligence committee also will be briefed on thursday. that session is open to all members of the senate. this is a follow-up to the all senators briefing held last week regarding government collection of governments' phone records, thursday afternoon before news related to prism, the internet search function, if you will, broke. on monday calls from senators to extradite and prosecute snowden grew. senator feinstein told reporters, quote, i think it's an act of treason. florida's bill nelson used the same word. asked whether he would describe the act as treason, saxby chambliss replied if it's not, it's pretty close. one area where there is a whole lot of less outrage when it comes to the nsa surveillance story, if the american public

hasn't responded with a collective shrug after learning the phone records are monitored, the's not a sense of outrage. according to a new post/pew poll, 56% of americans believe tracking telephone records of millions of americans is an acceptable way for the federal government to investigate terrorism. 41% say it's unacceptable. fully 45% of all americans say the government should be able to go further than it is saying that it should be able to monitor everyone's online activity if doing so would prevent terrorist attacks. 45%. full 62% of americans say it's more important for the government to investigate terrorist threats even if those investigations intrude on personal privacy. what's fascinating and also predictable at the same time is how partisan reactions have changed with the democratic president at the helm. 69% of democrats say terrorism investigations not privacy should be the government's main concern. that's up 18 points from january

2006 when bush was in the white house after reports of warrantless wiretapping were taking place during his tenure. republicans focus on privacy increased 22 points since then and if the public isn't crying for a debate on the surveillance programs, it's clear the white house isn't either. here's how press secretary jay carney responded to questions yesterday. >> there is obviously an investigation under way in to this matter. for that reason, i am not going to be able to discuss specifically this individual or this investigation. but it is an absolutely appropriate topic for debate. this is a matter that is absolutely appropriate for public debate. this is a conversation, especially worth having and debate especially worth having here in the united states. he believes that it is entirely appropriate to debate these matters. but he welcomes a debate. i'll repeat he thinks it's a worthy topic for discussion. this is not the manner by which he opened to have the debit.

>> apparently this is worthy of debate. anyway, there's an old saying in washington that the cover-up is worse than the crime but in this case, it's hard to know which is more disturbing at the state department. nbc news has documents related to ongoing and old investigations in to disturbing allegations of state department personnel, security agents attached to them secretary of state hillary clinton and at least one ambassador. the state department is responding to the fact that the investigations were whitewashed or squashed altogether and that those orders somehow came from high up. the so-called seventh floor of the state department. october memo of the state department's inspector general says the ambassador in question, we're not naming him, quote, routinely ditched his protective security detail for sexual favors of both prostitutes and children. ceasing the investigation in to

the conduct. it's just one of what another document rescribes as, quote, several examples of undue influence from within the bureau of diplomatic security and from the top floor of the department. all of which raise concerns about the integrity of some internal investigations. why is all of this coming out now? a former investigator with the inspector's general office and self proclaimed whistle-blower who since retired believes the investigation she helped conduct is getting whitewashed because of the pressure of other high level officials at state and this memo circulating, a state department security official alleged to have engaged in sexual asaults against embassy local guard force members. and members of hillary clinton's security detail, quote, allegedly engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries on the secretary's detail. two of the countries were

colombia. you remember how that urned out for the secret service and russia. the memo cites cases of abuse hope at the time including engaging prost toouts, ped feel yeah, sexual assault, unexplained shootings, unauthorized leaking of information and a possible underground drug ring. state department spokesperson told reporters on monday that the bureau of diplomatic security requested a review by outside experienced law enforcement officers on top of the inspector general investigation referred to the oig's office of investigations for an independent review. >> i'm not going to talk about specific cases but i can say broadly that the notion that we would not vigorously pursue criminal misconduct in a case, in any case, is preposterous and we have put individuals behind bars for criminal behavior. there's record of that. ambassadors would be no exception. but of course, we would be -- we

are conducting investigations of all of these cases. >> the whistle-blower is represented by an attorney. >> she felt it was an obligation to give the information to congress. she's on her behalf urged congress to intervene. we don't feel there's anywhere else to turn. >> house foreign affairs house chairman royce said he is appalled not only at the reportreport ed misconduct but the interruptions of the investigations. now, it was less than six months ago another major internal investigation in the state department painted hillary clinton's state department in a negative light. that scathing report on the failed diplomatic security procedures in the aftermath of the mbenbenghazi attack. finally, when koimts to the effort to pass comprehensive

immigration reform the president has for the most part taken a backseat taking the suggestions of those of the senate to work the will but today, with the first votes scheduled for 2:15 p.m., the so-called vote to proceed, the president will weigh in publicly to push the bill forward. obama's immigration speech today is just his second official event on the issue. think about it this. compare wit the eight events that he held on gun control at the start of the year. the president will deliver remarks in the east room where he'll praise the progress made in the senate. after today's senate vote, expected to pass easily, the debate turns to the amendment process. there are four key areas where republicans are trying to change the bill. the first and most important is border security. texas senator cornyn's amendment is the one to watch. could be others coming from conservatives including potentially from gang of eight member marco rubio. then there's ben filths and

taxes. how and when do those in the green card process have access to federal money for health care and emergency care? then questions of who to apply for status specifically. there's likely tussles over the crimes to disqualify a person from applying for legalized status and questions of refugee status and asylum prompted largely by the boston bombing. on the democratic side, the most closely watched amendment is the leahy amendment to allow immigrants to get legal status for same-sex partners. republicans say it's a poisoned pill. the question is whether leahy brings it up on the floor. if you want to understand the momentum, this is perhaps all you need to know. american crossroads and the seiu are on the same side. cross roads released a print ad yesterday and seiu's campaign out today with republicans, law enforcement officials, veterans, small business owners and undocumented immigrants talking

about why congress needs top pas the legislation. >> i'm a registered republican. >> congress needs to do their job. >> congress needs to grow up. stop fighting with each other and work together. >> our immigration system is broken. >> democratic senate majority leader reid said he wants a final vote on the bill before the senate recesses for the fourth of july holiday. the price of privacy. ron paul says edward snowden has done, quote, a great service to the american people. plus, do too many people have too much access to classified documents? what other information does snowden have to share? riot police in istanbul are cracking down on protesters and the prime minister refuses to back down there. first, the politics planner. it's election day in virginia. and we're playing "cheers"

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the notion that we're trolling through everyone's e-mails and voyeuristically reading them or listening to phone calls is on the face absurd. we couldn't do it if we wanted

to and we don't want to. >> that's the director of national intelligence james clapper in a sit-down exclusive interview with andrea mitchell over the weekend pushing back against the notion of a big brother government but opponents say that's what we should be afraid of. joining me on the phone, famously known for a presidential candidate and former republican congressman of texas, ron paul. thank you for joining me. >> thank you, chuck. nice to be with you. >> i want to start with this issue. you called mr. snowden -- you have been -- you have praised him and essentially said that he's a hero in this case. you've heard there's a lot of senators, both democrats and republicans, who believe what he did was illegal and should be treated as a traitor. why shouldn't he be treated as a traitor? >> well, it is probably illegal. there's laws against this. but what about the people who are breaking the law, violating

the constitution? even using the patriot act extensively and said they did the act within the law. who's going to punish them? why not talk about those individuals breaking the law and which one has the higher order, the constitution and the written law or the authority of the executive branch who controls the enforcement of laws? i would say that the bigger the government gets the greater threat is the lack of knowing the truth of things. so really, my goal in life has always been to try to figure out what the the law and individual who is are willing to take a risk and realize the danger of telling the people the truth, they're real heroes for instance right now, we have a cia agent in prison because he told us the truth about torture so i would say that we have to sort this out both moral sense and a legal

sense but to say that only the whistle-blowers are the ones who are breaking the law we should question the people in authority about breaking the law and what recourse do we have? evidently they feel very frustrated and they have to go to the public because going to the fbi and other agencies to investigate themselves doesn't seem to pan out very well. >> now, i had a lawmaker say to me yesterday that you get more protection from the media than perhaps going to an inspector general or the fbi. i want to ask you this question about the issue, there seems to be two issues. one is disclosure of the programs and the other is whether the programs are in some part a violation of the fourth amendment. start with the disclosure and transparency. would you be potentially uncomfortable but accepting of, for instance, the telephone data base program, the idea they vacuum cleaner essentially all telephone numbers and which --

what american telephone numbers, what calls to who, not necessarily the contents in a database and if the government is transparent about that procedure, would you be more accepting of the procedure? >> being transparent about them breaking the law and violating the fourth amendment doesn't make me feel any better. >> you believe that even the telephone, even that specific instance, set aside the issue of prism, that that one also is a vie ligs of the fourth amendment? >> yeah. the big question is, dwrshd they do it? we're not listening and not going to use it and we are not going to ever use it. well, why do it? you know? if they're looking for ten people, why do they have to look at 300 peopmillion people's activity? it's a blatant violation of the clear language of the constitution, the fourth amendment. and the founders knew what this was about. i mean, the british did it to them. they wanted the try to prevent

this. yet now, we have the heroics and the politics saying, oh, you know, to be a patriot, the person tells us the truth, they're committing the treason and turned on its head and the foolishness, even the political foolishness of the republicans running to rescue obama, the american people are sick and tired of all this snooping and prying and surveillance. >> right. >> the republicans run to the rescue of obama saying we passed the laws, good laws. we want to do is we want to preserve the laws so it doesn't make political sense. it doesn't make good moral sense. doesn't make good constitutional sense. >> very quickly, do you believe the only way we can resolve this debate is by having the supreme court weigh in on the constitutionality of these procedures? >> well, i think that's -- you know, that's a tool that we have to use and hopefully it gets there. but i think the ultimate test is

education, the people understanding this and the people determined that they believe in liberty and they want limited government. when you have big government, you have this kind of abuse. you have big government taxation. abuse. with abuse comes from big government and the natural tendency of individual that is hold the power to abuse it. the biggest issue is the acceptance by the people of big government to take care of us cradle to grave. safe and secure in the houses by having policemen investigate and have all this surveillance, as well as economic security. if we expect the government to be the nanny state, it will be big and will be abusive. that's the most important issue. >> ron paul, i'm going to leave it there with the campaign of liberty. congressman paul, thank you for coming on this morning. >> thank you. bill harlow is the author of "hard measures." bart gelman is an investigative

reporter and broke the story of snowden for "the washington post." bart, on the search for edward snowden. has the justice department been in contact with you about trying to track him down? >> i don't think i'm going to get involved in commenting on any investigation or contacts with me about any investigation. >> fair enough. one other thing that you have been pretty vocal about, though, is that "the washington post" and you made a decision about whatnot to print because you thought it was printing too much. that was a decision you guys made independently, the government didn't ask you to hold back on some of those slides when it comes to the prism program? >> we thought the story was very important. the president says now that he welcomes a debate about this. the only real comments we are getting from the government are that -- are what you displayed from general clapper which is that they're not trolling voyeuristically through all of our e-mails and phone calls.

nobody is claiming that. certainly not our story and not snowden in any of his remarks. and so we thought those portions, that there were portions of that program to be debated and we thought there were disclosures in some of the slides about the fruits of the intelligence or particular methods. >> right that we were not going to consider publishing. the government talked to us about what it didn't want us to publish and we didn't agree. we made our own judgment. >> okay. i want to talk to this issue. edward snowden was a government contractor and claims what he had access to, this isn't a case -- he's claiming this is not a case where we didn't get stuff he didn't have access to but he had a security clearance to an amazing amount of ability to essentially target individual citizens. do you believe he's telling the truth on this? >> seems to me some of the reporting he exaggerates more than a little bit. how far, i don't know.

some of his statements give the impression that he has an exalted view of his own abilities and importance but that's one of the things to be investigated is did he have greater access than he should have? normally they're highly compartmented and only available to a small number of people. i.t. specialists have a capability to make the system run and sometimes access to greater amounts of information than the average analyst. >> this could mean a contractor? it's striking to have access to the sensitive information, the subpoena and works for boos allen s. this a full-time government employees and contractors? >> post- 9/11 there's a large increase of contractors brought on board to the intelligence community to add to the vast amount of work being done and work side by side

indistinguishable with the need -- >> contractors through the same amount of vetting as cia? >> supposed to go through the same security clearance process and i'm sure it will come out whether his was done as well as they should have been. he came to the conclusions late in his time with the government. >> right. >> and so it may not be the kind of things that would have popped up in a polygraph or an initial interview four or five, six years ago first joining the government. >> it is an amazing amount of people that have security clearance for some of this information. are you finding out that perhaps too many people have this kind of clearance? >> i'm not going to be the judge of that. but you have to read raelize there's a number of people who need to know things about a program in order to operate a program of this scale and scope. we are talking about a program that on the telephone side is

collecting and analyzing the entirety of the telephone call record communications in the country and that is dealing with volumes of information from facebook, google, microsoft and so on. that have never existed on the planet before. and so, for example, on a smaller scale program, slightly smaller scale program during the bush years, if i'm recalling correctly, approximately 6,000 people at the nsa had access to the special compartment then called stellar wind. there were 14 in the white house and ultimately although very slowly over time 60 in congress. so it's not the policy people and the top big shots who need to know things only. primarily the people operating the program. >> and mr. harlow, this seems to be the issue some have with the program. maybe they're accepting of the program but to find out so many different people have access to this personal information. >> well, and it's unclear to what level they have access.

maybe access to one level of the program and you have to assume they're abusing and breaking the law as snowden did to dive in to it to the level to cause any problem. but, you know, six weeks ago the media and public were saying, you guys in intelligence, how could you have missed the boston bombing and not connecting the dots and now the same people, many of them saying how come you were collecting these particular dots? you can't have it both ways. you have to either allow them to collect the intelligence to tell you the tale or say we'll willing to accept the damage that occurs when you miss it. >> the public doesn't seem to be nearly as fired up about this debate as washington is. bill, bart, thank you both for coming on. coming up, remembering a legend of the political world and one of my personal heroes. we're going also to sanford, florida, looking like a dlong dy to seat a jury in the george

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day two of jury selection going on right now in the george zimmerman trial. on monday, judge nelson rejected the defense's third request to delay proceedings and lawyers began interviewing potential jurors. how much do they think they know about the case? zimmerman pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. ron motte is covering the story for us in sanford, florida. tell us what you know. >> reporter: good morning. this could go on for a while. over three hours and four potential jurors.

they have brought 500 people to the court. they have not all come through so far this week but they have got to a panel of six and about four alternatinges and before t end of the week the judge is expected to stop the process for just a time so that they can continue the frye hearing, an important hearing to make a decision about whether the audio experts who may have heard or who may not have heard something on the 911 call with the screaming and the gunshot and their testimony will be allowed when the testimony gets under way. that's a pretty important ruling we believe by the end of the week, chuck. back to you. >> all right. a long wind-up before the start of the trial. we should note zimmerman sued nbc universal for defamation in civil court. the company strongly denied his allegations. well, how do you sum up a man's life that you so admired in 90 second? you don't. i'll try.

a great visionary died in his sleep early monday morning. leaving a legacy that spans decades and, well, a couple of centuries. three distinct and successful careers all had one goal. to make the american political system a little better and a little more noble. he was considered the leading republican media consultant of his time and pioneered methods of campaigns that are now the norm today. perhaps his greatest accomplishment was a loss when ford was trailing carter by more than 20 points in the polls. ford hired bailey to help bail him out. he came up with a series of man on street tv ads and one of the first time it was tried in political tv ads and almost worked. ford lost one of the closest elections in history. 1987 bailey's second career began co-founding the presidential campaign hotline known as the hotline. daily briefing on the 1988 presidential campaign with the motto cover the coverage. but do it with a brain and a sense 0 of humor. looking back, it was clearly the internet before there was one

and the list of esteemed hotline alumni is long and impressive. but doug's overriding passion was to try to lift up american politics. whether it was his hope to see a third party rise up to punish the two parties for a broken system or attempt to see the two major parties work together. he simply wanted the system to be fixed. for me, he was as important of a mentor as one could have, someone that taught me how to think about politics. always pushing me to be better and while he battled health problems for years, he seemed indestructible. the idea he's not on the other end of a phone call after a particularly depressing day for me is hard to fathom. he'd want me and others to keep innovating and don't get stuck in a rut and press on. doug bailey was 79. he survived by his wife pat, two devoted children and as doug would say to me all the time, one perfect grandchild. ?ñ?h

we're watching some developing news out of istanbul, turkey, where clashes between police and demonstrators have been going on all day. earlier riot police used water cannons and teargas to disburse protesters where it began two weeks ago. the turkish prime minister called them vandals and traitors. well, in today's "deep dive," reading, writing and republicans. conservatives are honing in on education. as the battleground for the latest fight with the federal government and turning in to an interparty squabble. the issue is long been a political hot potato fen most part the obama white house won bipartisan praise for handling the federal government's role in education. that is at least until now. the argument right now is over something called common core divisional standards formulated

by school officers and state governors. they cover english language, arts and math with plans in the works to create standards for other subjects, as well. the idea's to create a set of standards for kids from kindergarten to 12th grade for graduates for college or the workforce. the obama administration promoted the standards tying them to federal grants so to date 45 states voluntarily adopted the standards over the past three years and these standards have become a rallying cry for some members of the tea party movement driven by what they describe as government influence in the schools, conservatives have forced at least two gop governors in pennsylvania and indiana to put the program on hold. michigan legislators have been asked to whoeld funding and the rnc is calling the standards an inappropriate overreachment not all republicans on the same page. in fact, several are pushing

back against the conservative criticism. >> too often people are looking to fight with someone for the sake of fighting so in some ways it's viewed as the federal government with a mandate on us and people don't realize the common core actually came from the governors. >> these standards, the common core state standards, are clear and straightforward. they will allow for more innovation in the classroom, less regulation, equip students to compete with the peers across the globe. do not pull back. please do not pull back from high, lofty standards. >> well, emmitt mcgorty is with the american principles fight and led the standard against the common core standards and joins me now. i look at the common core standards. looks like a basic, just a baseline. looks to me not imposing the will on states and local school boards of saying how you teach the programs or specifically

teach but a baseline. is that not the proper role for the federal government? >> no. it is not the proper role for the federal government. what children are taught and how it's taught is something that their parents should have a say in. it's something their teachers should have a say in. be part of the conversation. it's a matter of local jurisdiction, state, it's a state matter at most. it is not a federal matter. it is not a matter for private or special interest. >> what is your concern, though, about the states adopting sort of a basically the same core group of saying, okay, this is -- we're going to meet these minimum standards coming to teaching children on these basic parts of skill sets? >> well, there's a couple of concerns. one is the quality of the common core. so the common core is a value -- has been evaluated by a professor of stanford as putting american standards about two years behind the international

competitors by eighth grade. likewise, the english language standards have been evaluated by professor dotski not preparing students. the quality of the standards are poor and then the process -- >> what if the quality were better and you could sign off on it, you are making an argument then that you think there should be some sort of standard, are you not? >> well, i think the two things go hand in hand. the reason why the quality is bad is because the parents and their legislators, their state legislators were cut out of the process and when you cut the judge out of the process, you have to expect bad standards. they go hand in hand. we have talked to legislators across the state. none of them knew about the common core really until this issue started to arise. they didn't know about it. pushed in to the states without their consent. they weren't briefed on it.

the states had very little time to evaluate the standards. >> is the issue less with the specifics of what the government is pushing and more with the idea that they have an idea at all? >> ultimately, it's about empowering parents and i think what we're finding in this country -- this is a mom-led movement, really, in state after state. what we're finding is that you dig down deep enough, there's a bed rrock of principles almost l americans agree on and includes the idea that parents should have a say in what their children learn and moms rise up against it and that's what the republican party's struggling with now. >> so you think the federal government, no role at all? should it be zero role or what should the federal government's role be in primary education? >> h >> here's the problem. bush administration was big on accountable and never answered the question, accountability to whom? if you have accountability running the federal government, you don't have accountability

running to parents and local officials. and that's what's happening. you can't have accountability running to the federal government and takes away the -- >> sounds like you're not fully against the idea of the federal government having a role here. >> i'm against the federal government having a role. takes away authority -- >> any role at all? >> any role at all. >> even minimum floors? >> the federal role in education should really be limited to civil rights. that's making sure that the civil rights of americans is not -- are not violated. >> access to school and education, period? >> yes. >> all right. 'em mitt, i appreciate you coming on. following your campaign. >> thank you very much. >> tomorrow on the show, another take on the education debate from a normer governor, former indiana governor, mitch daniels, now the president of purdue university. we'll be right back with the soup, the trivia and all sorts of other special treats. ream to work?

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democrats taking up for granted in the massachusetts senate race hold ago fund-raiser for joe biden and al gore and tonight in d.c. and a rally for president obama tomorrow in boston. brand-new pole suggests markey may need some help and a state president obama won in november by more than 21 points. let's bring in our guests. welcome to all of you. sarah, you get the first question. where is the republican cavalry for mr. gomez? >> he may not want the republican cavalry. >> i understand in some cases

but not the same amount of money or grassroots money out there. >> i think these committees make decisions based on the winnability of races. while a shot here if it appears closer, i think you'll see it but today it appears to be an uphill battle. i think it's important for republicans not to engage heavily in this race. >> senator gomez? easy! you don't need to spell that out any more for a republican party, right? need nonwhite male faces? >> absolutely. anyone reasoning around in a military jacket and explaining to everybody they want to come to washington and shake things up is going to have an appeal. >> you think they could. >> i think markey's race to lose but insiders not a year to be an insider.

>> all of those things that he lost touch. but you don't see that same -- if there is outrage out there it's passive outrage. >> it is to a degree but if you talk to a lot of males in massachusetts a lot of them line up against markey. he needs the female vote. the conservative radio host up there. they are so fed up with the long democrats in power they are saying they have eaten at the public trough too long. >> but it seems to me that is the whole reason why i'm surprised there is not outside money that there is not -- gomez has run out of money. >> i think you'll see money come in there. you still have two weeks which is a long time and special elections are very unpredictable. >> you're making this case. no. i hear you!

>> markey's campaign now is the class war fare. when the ads are like private equity, he is not for us and trying to get the women to the polls. >> the new state department story about a tenure that happened during the hook tiilla clinton time and has nothing to do with hillary clinton but another damming report over hillary clinton watch in the state department and has to do with diplomatic security, does it have -- tries to do some investigations but easily gets intimidated into stopping them. >> yeah. here is the problem. the problem is it leans exactly what is hillary clinton's strength which is she is strong. nothing she can do about it. if she was still secretary of state she would be able to fire somebody and now she has to make a firm statement. >> action on the hill? >> they are instructing their staff it to investigate it and my guess it's moving to

hearings. >> royce is not a darrell isss kind of guy. >> drip, drip, drip. >> yes. >> ben ghazi and this? >> a lot of great tributes on doug bailey but few talking about what a great businessman he was. >> my new u.s. news.com blog which is up today and it's about geena davis and her work on getting girls into technology by changing scripts? hollywood. >> very nice. >> a friend of mine needs a bone march o marrow. a swab of the mouth and so many people out there that need a transplant. the database is not large enough. aur job to make it bigger. >> i figured a correction on the trivia question. i get to say i was right! torch song trilogy. we remember it.

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