thank you so much. >> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the pope greeting the president, a historic first meeting at the vatican.

even with shared beliefs about income inequality, why wasn't if a shared meeting of the minds. president the president proposes scaling back surveillance. mike rogers and ranking democrat. new satellite images spot hundreds of floating images in the southern indian ocean. in a major setback. the flight for 370 is stalled once again due to dangerous weather. with families desperate for answers we'll talk to the brother of philip wood. rescuers keep searching. the number of people unaccounted for is now 90. this woman lost her baby and her mother. >> i have lost my baby. and my mom.

she was the most beautiful woman -- >> and this family was hosting a sl slumber party for seven children and they miraculously survived. >> i was thinking, this is the end i'm going to die. >> it looked like a bull dozer that was bull doezing down 100 trees at a time. we'll get to all of those stories in a a moment, first, the findings from the chris christie commission report, joining me now steve kornacki host of "up with steve kornacki." first, chris, your takeaways, i gather what this report reveals and this is the lawyers hired by the governor himself paid for with state funds, is that he was

apparently told by wildstein about the bridge plan but he, the governor still says he did not know about it and there's a lot of blame for bridget kelly. is that correct? >> well, what they are claiming is that wildstein told the governor spokesman that he had had a conversation with the governor about the traffic issues in ft. lee. it is not specific what they are saying wildstein told him but saying this would not have registered with the governor because he would have thought of it as some kind of local traffic issue and basically claim he had no recollection of that with wildstein but it could have and probably did happen. just saying it wouldn't have registered because it wouldn't have been presented as i'm pulling off this massive retribution scene. he was pretending it was more a routine traffic issue. overall what struck me about this, this is the most important thing to keep in mind. this is his lawyer.

this is a report, internal investigation. what this really reads like is this is christie's defense. they are mounting their defense here. all of the evidence and documents they can get and they couldn't get everybody in this. they couldn't get the most crucial players because they didn't talk to bridget kelly and mayor sokolich or dawn zimmer. i'm about halfway through and it may -- it may be that everything in this report is true, but the thing to keep in mind, thgs not the definitive report on this. this is the u.s. attorney is looking into this. this is essentially -- everything in here is what they'll be telling the u.s. attorney. >> and it is a preemptive shot coming from the taxpayers and just to clarify, it was not direct conversation between david wildstein and the governor himself, but it was to the governor's office, is that the clarification as you go through all of these?

>> i don't have the page in front of me. i've got 300 plus right here, but i'm almost -- i may have read it wrong but i'm almost sure i read -- wildstein had a conversation with michael, christie's spokesman and in this conversation, well after the closures and he basically tried to implicate others, bill stepien, who is christie's political director, since distances himself. >> since removed. >> and claiming he had a conversation about it. what i read wasn't specific about what the conversation was but he claims -- his report claims that wildstein told him he talked to christie himself about it. then the report says this would not have registered in the governor's mind as significant because he would have just heard it as wildstein the port authority guy talking about sort of random traffic issue that would rise to the level of the governor saying, this is

something i have to deal with. >> steve, we're showing a split screen, we're showing randy mastro, this is the law firm hired by the governor's office to do this investigation, quote/unquote, and you carefully and correctly point out, you're the resident expert on all of this, this is not the federal investigation and legislative investigation. this is from the governor's office. >> absolutely. the important thing to remember is, they -- because this is the governor's own legal team that is -- this is the same legal team that is basically representing the governor's office or helping to represent the governor's office in the inquiry from the u.s. attorney which is active and potentially if they end up cooperating in the inquiry from the state legislative committee. they have a vested interest in that and because of that bridget kelly not talking to them, mayor sokolich and dawn zimmer, not talking to them.

so you're getting -- this is an incomplete report. there are a lot of people they did talk to but this is an incomplete report when you think of the u.s. attorney and the investigation the u.s. attorney is able to conduct. he'll have no problem talking to dawn zimmer, the people around dawn zimmer and no problem collecting documents from dawn zimmer. in addition to talking to all of the people apparently that the christie investigation talked to. that's where the ball game is. there's the legislative committee but really the ball game is the u.s. attorney who is not going to have any problem getting access to anything he wants to have access to. >> got it. >> thank you so much steve kornacki, i know you'll have continuing details on the website throughout the day and evening and up with steve kornacki, thank you. president obama was at the vatican today. they wanted the meeting to focus on shared priorities, eliminating poverty but also focused on areas of disagreement, including what the church calls religious freedom

and as well as immigration reform. joining me now is ann thompson who has been covering pope francis' papacy from the beginning and thank you both so much. what struck you? the vatican not only issued a statement after their meeting but a statement on the eve of the meeting focusing on areas of the disagreement. >> the vatican made clear that the issue of the contraception mandate under the affordable care act would be an area of discussion. that certainly something the white house i don't think was anticipating and certainly didn't want to publicize. in the statement afterwards, it did mention those issues and those issues of right to life, right to con shee entous

objection. he pledged to continue dialogue about those very upset about the contraception mandate. many catholic institutions including schools and agencies are suing the obama administration because of that mandate and so perhaps this will be a reset with the obama administration and the u.s. conference of bishops. >> and father reese, this is of course the very issue, not as it applies to the catholic institutions but applied to hobby lobby and private businesses that was argued at the supreme court this week. this is very top of mind. of course, the president as any leader would want to have a wonderful glowing photo opportunity with pope francis, the most popular holy father that we have had since i guess john paul realistically john paul ii. this is not -- this is not what is going to happen and what did happen, even by the president's

own acknowledgement. they didn't specifically discuss obama care, they clearly talked around that issue. >> you have to remember that the vatican always supports the local bishops when they are in conflict with the state. but what's interesting here is that these conversations really took place with the vatican secretary of state. that's where they discussed the conflicts. when the pope and president actually got together, their principle focus was on the poor and marginalized and challenges to peace around the world. that's certainly an area where the pope and the president are on the same page. >> except that the pope made a strong statement about syria when he first assumed the papacy and clearly was not -- would not have been happy with the lack of international intervention or recognition of the crisis as the civil war has continued. i wanted to focus with both of you on that statement from the vatican last night.

if we can put it up on the screen. the audience will take place in the context of a complex phase with the administration's relations with the church of the united states marked in particular by controversy on the implementation of health care reform having to do with rules on mandatory health care coverage and contraception and abortion. and other issues such as legalization of homosexual marriages. anne, you were with the pope and have commented on the way he framed that debate. this was i think a much harsher preview, if you will, from the vatican, than the white house expected? >> i think everybody was surprised at the language the vatican used, but i think the important thing to focus on here, andrea is that they are both talking to each other. they are having the discussion about these issues and you can't move forward unless you talk to each other. i think the other thing that struck me, especially when the

president came out of the meeting with the pontiff is how relaxed and genuinely happy he seemed after this meeting. pope francis is someone who likes to talk about issues that make people -- historically have made people in the church uncomfortable. in the exertation he gave the president today, he talks about going out and talking to the people and getting the smell of the sheep on them. urges his bishops and priests to do that. he's not afraid of confrontation but it's not an angry confrontation, it's listening. that's one thing that he is known for is listening. and i think perhaps we saw some of that today. >> and father reese, this pope is so extraordinarily popular in the united states, we see it in our own nbc polling, yet on these issues it's going to be very hard for the president and for the u.s. conference of bishops to come up with compromises. we've seen what happened when first secretary sebelius came up

with the options and they scaled them back. you get to a point on affordable health care where the president is caught between the catholic constituency and bishops on one hand and women largely including many catholic women who use contraception, not only for family planning against church teaching but medical reasons. >> this is a conflict that's been ongoing. there's been attempts by the administration to find solutions and compromises. and probably it's going to end up being decided in the supreme court. but what's interesting in the meeting with the pope this didn't come up. it came up with the secretary of state, just as it did when john kerry met with the secretary of state. and in that meeting we know that the meeting went on for an hour and a half and only spent five minutes talking about -- >> put it in context. >> the real emphasis, the real focus of the vatican at these issues at these meetings is on

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i think the people have a right to know who is getting their information and right to decide how that information is shared and used after heard today's testimony, i've -- i still have serious doubts that those rights are being respected in law or in practice. >> minnesota senator al franken has the same concerns, three years later, reintroducing a bill and aimed at making sure the tracking information that companies gain through data on smartphone apps doesn't end up in the hands of stalkers or violent offenders. senator, thank you very much for

being with us. >> thank you, andrea. >> this is technical and you know the details but it is so important. the safety of so many people is at stake. tell me what your argument is and why you think it's been stalled. you got it through committee, didn't get it on the floor. >> that was last congress and this is about the abuse of location tracking technology and it's far more widespread, this gps stalking than people realize. my first hearing on this a couple of years ago, my first testimony i got was from the minnesota coalition of battered women. and they told this story, about a woman in st. louis county in minnesota, northern minnesota, she goes to a courthouse and there's been domestic violence. she goes to a domestic violence program while she's there, she gets a text message from her abuser saying, why are you county building, are you going

to through the domestic violence program? >> that's crazy. >> they take her to the courthouse because she's frightened, very scared. and they take her to the courthouse to get a restraining order against the guy. she's in the courthouse and gets a text from this guy, saying why are you getting the courthouse, are you getting a restraining order against me? >> this is far more widespread than people understand. part of my bill would be to get more data on this. the last reliable data from this is from the department of justice in 2006. that year there are more than 25,000 cases of gps stalking. think of how much more widespread the use of smartphones has become such 2006. >> and gps. >> how does your bill help protect women? you've got women -- even think of the few percentage wise, the small number of women who get to rescue places and battered

women, safe houses, there's so many people who don't even get legal protections here. so how can you protect people from being stalked online? >> well, my bill would make the stalking apps illegal. and have real punishment for them. i want to read one. this is -- we read this in the hearing, so they took this down this is from e phone tracking.com, worried your spouse may be cheating, track every text and call and move they make using our easy cell phone spy software. these are stalking apps. this would make -- make it illegal to develop those apps and illegal to sell those apps. so this is a part of a location privacy bill that you're right, i got a similar bill passed right before the end of the last congress through the judiciary

committee. i'm reintroducing it and hope to get it done this congress. >> do you have bipartisan support? >> i do. actually, this thing passed by a voice vote in the judiciary committee, ranking member chuck grassley, friend of mine said aye so it does. >> what about the chamber of commerce and other business interests opposing you? >> we're going to try to beat them on this one. i -- we've been working with industry on this on people make these things. basically what i'm saying is that you really have a right of privacy. you have the right if someone wants to take your location, something that's very private where you go to school -- take your kids to school, if you go to a doctor, where your home is, if someone wants to take that information, and collect it and sell it maybe to a third party,

all they -- they got to get your permission. this is good technology. if you're driving around and want to find the nearest pizza place, you need this technology. people want to use this. this technology is good technology. this is about the abuse of it. >> can i quickly ask you off subject about the nsa reforms that were announced officially today by the white house. in response to the uproar after edward snowden, do you think the white house proposals go far enough? they only protect the bulk collection of metadata on telephone calls and provide some protections of the phone companies but hold it for 18 months, there would be a fisa court and white house version that would intervene before looking at the content. but as far as i have been able to report, there is no change in the e-mail collection. >> that's right. first of all, i voted against both the 215 metadata, the bulk

collection phone piece of that and against the internet -- the 702 because it wasn't enough transparency. i think this is a good step in the right direction. but i would like to see more transparency so the american people know how many americans data has been collected and how much has been looked at. i think that americans -- i have a bill on that that i think is the lead transparency bill in the senate, bipartisan, dean hiller is the co-sponsor, lead co-sponsor on that. and i'd like to see more transparency so the american people have the information that they need to know to decide on whether the government is striking a right balance between protecting people's security and freedom of privacy. >> thank you so much, al franken. >> thanks, andrea.

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>> let me flip it the other way. if we had people who add midnight on monday finished 3/4 of their application or having trouble getting back into the call center we would be criticized because we cut off people from getting insurance. that's common sense. so we would do it in any other situation, it makes sense to do it here. >> help explain this honor system where people will simply explain that they are already in the process and what the reasons were. how is that working? >> it's self-attest arks the reason i say this is so silly, it's hard to believe there's anybody in america right now sitting in their living room saying i'm not going to fill out an application today or call 1-800-318-2596. i'm going to wait until wednesday so i can scam the system. what we found in december is that people, there was a large volume right at the end. people needed more time to work

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tryinging to resolve the heated debate sparked by edward snowd snowden. how will congress respond? joining me now dutch ruppersberger of maryland. thanks for joining us. >> thanks. >> you have come up with a plan, a bipartisan plan and it seems as though it is -- going to at least move forward in the house but it isn't the same as the president's plan. the president would have a fisa court before every entry on suspicion of a terror threat going in and looking at the content of a telephone call, the president would have a court and judge actually approve that. you would not. why not? >> that's not the case. let's just say this. the chairman rogers and i have been negotiating for nine months to come together and have a bipartisan bill. we have been working cloesely with the white house and we're very close to the white house. the different between the white house's proposal and ours is we

both have the courts looking at what we call the information that's going to be used to give us the ability to get the telephone data we need to protect us from terrorist attacks. the white house would have the court prejudge the issue and we would have the court oversee the procedures. we both are in a position that after we get the metadata numbers, no content at all and give you an example, if a terrorist from yemen, safe house in yemen is calling the united states, we want to find out who is calling and whether there's a conspiracy there. we clearly have the court review that after the fact. before the fact we're a little different but still looking at it -- >> that's my point. that is a clear difference. the president's plan would do it before the fact, you would do it after the fact. you would argue you can't wait, that the intelligence community needs to move more quickly. >> we want flexibility.

if tlsz here's an attack coming want to jump on it right away. if we had this before 9/11, there's a good chance we could have stopped the attack. the reason is because we didn't know the terrorist was a san diego coordinating the attack. yet because of the information out there and public had a concern that the nsa was violating policies, that was not the case and no indication at all -- our representatives say they go to work and care about protecting the american. we've listened and changed the concept so the government would no longer hold the bulk date taxt there's one issue left and that is the issue whether we give more flexibility before versus after they get involved. we're still working with the white house. we need to resolve this and get it passed in the house and senate and have the president sign it so we can protect americans and maintain privacy that we care so much about in this country.

>> i presume that you agree with the president's decision that for the next 90 days the fisa judge should renew the program until something can be resolved in congress? >> you know how congress is. the good news is that rogers and i are very bipartisan and we put other bills on the floor that we've been able to pass which is rare in this town. the stakes are too high for intelligence, we have to protect ourselves from attacks and don't want any anxiety or anyone in the country to feel their privacy rights are being violated we're going to be -- yes. >> i was going to quickly ask you what about the 702 program, prison program that involves e-mails, that is not part -- that's a separate program but this is not part of the so-called reform that the president proposed today. should there be some limits placed on that as well? >> how i'm going to answer that, the most important issue is the issue of united states of america and our citizens rights to protect our country. that's the highest priority. the other issue has to do with

the ability to gain intelligence information on international level, whether it's china or russia or terrorists or whatever. that's not on table now and we're focused now on changing the bulk collection. that's a big deal to remove bulk collection and phone companies who have all of the information now. we'll basically -- the fbi will go with an administrative warrant to give me the number we're concerned about our terrorists calling from yemen and right after that the courts will then make a decision on whether or not they pass the test called reasonable arctic uable suspicion. hopefully in the next couple weeks or months. >> as i understand it, the telephone companies will only hold records for 18 months but the intelligence community is now acknowledged that 18 months is long enough, that the same amount of time they are now holding the material and the government will not be storing bulk data for five years. what about the senate? i know you and the white house

are working together. you have bipartisan support in the house and think you're going to reach agreement with the white house. what about the senate? >> senator feinstein and chambliss and rogers and myself work very closely together. we had a meeting two days ago about where the senate is going to be. right now the senate will wait until we do what we have to do in the house. but we all care about the same thing, providing privacy and yet maintaining the ability to protect our citizens from terrorist attacks. and that's the whole focus of where we are and we feel good about coming together in a by sart san way. it usually doesn't happen a lot in this town but we hope it will happen now because the stakes are so high. >> thank you so much for being with us today, we appreciate it. >> bye. >> james schlessinger, leading defense hawk and cabinet member under nixon and ford and carter died at the age of 85. he served as cia director and

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president obama is now taking a tour of city's historic coliseum and ancient amphitheater, today millions of tourists visit the site each year including the president and his staff. and back here in the states, high winds, icy weather canceled the search for debris overseas from mh flight 370, 19 days

after it disappeared. new images show possible wreckage of the jet liner as families of those on board are waiting for some report, some explanations. including the family of american passenger philip wood. on monday they delivered families the worgs the possible news that the plane likely ended in the southern indian ocean. james wood is the brother of philip wood. thank you very much for being with us and our condolences at least so far we don't know what happened, but the outlook i assume is not at all promising. what have you been told and what is your conclusion about what happened to flight 370? >> well, the airlines are basically giving us an e-mail update every day but more of af press release for mat. what we hear and know is what you know. so the idea that -- the weather is causing a lot of trouble, is

frustrating but i don't have any control over that. i just wish we could get answers quicker. i know that's wishful thinking but i do wish we could do that. >> is there anything you think the united states should do they are not doing? have they sent enough naval assets and air as sets to try t do the search, at least when there is a window in this bad weather? >> as far as air assets, they are doing all they can do. my internal question i've asked is under water assets, under seas assets. i don't know their position on that but i would figure that submarines might be useful at a time like this. >> what i've been told the remote submersibles from our experts can be useful if they can narrow down the area but they have a range of a mile or two. they would need to better understand what the possible field is. how did you first learn, mr.

wood. decision on monday when we all heard that announcement? did you have any prior information or notification? did you get the notice that some did over in beijing and kuala lumpur? >>y receive the text personally but sarah forwarded it on to me. i was actually sitting in a media on the phone with media while listening to the prime minister talk so i actually heard it through an ear piece. >> which is -- >> not pleasant. >> i can only imagine how devastating that would be. tell us about philip wood, about your brother. he was so adventurous, we talked to sarah bajc, we have a sense from him. but from your very personal perspective, what stage of his life was he at when this all happened? >> renewal is the best wordy can tell you. he was at the stage of renewal.

he had been in texas for a long time and then in 2010 moved to beijing. kind of to start fresh and his kids were now in college and he was getting ready to just have a new adventure. so i think that was a key -- that's a key word that keeps coming back to me. then as -- he was going to kuala lumpur, it was another step with sarah this time. she sends her -- by the way, i wanted to let you know that. >> so kind. >> he had said something to us that echos in my mind. he said it to my parents actually. he said, i don't know what the future holds but i'm not afraid. and it's haunting me. but those were his own words. >> that is so poignant and i

can't imagine what it would be like to have a relative lost and not know what had happened. we just give you all of our hopes and prayers for answers to this mystery, that engaged the nation but principlely you and sara and the family. thanks for being with us today, james wood. >> thank you, andrea. >> that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports" follow the show online and on twitter at mitchell reports. my colleague ronan farrow has a look at what's next on "ronan farrow daily." >> looking for that interview, great show and emotional interview there. stay tuned this coming hour. we have got the very latest on governor chris christie's report and everything you need to know about a few other important subjects, president obama's very first meeting with the pope and especially personal to me, something that mississippi is

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topic of the visit to be about income inequality across the globe. >> two firefighters were killed after a massive fire engulfed a drens shal building in boston's back bay neighborhood. >> todays attacks on obama care aren't about extending the deadline. >> what is this, a joke? >> ukraine said it's finished withdrawing the last of the troops from crimea, the split is final, they are calling it a conscious uncouple. >> welcome to "rfd", we start with possibly a little good news for chris christie. what is important is the perspective, today the law firm hired by the governor to investigate the case of the george washington bridge lane closures last september found no evidence that the new jersey governor