under fire from the courts and key allies present brock obama has been meeting with internet executives. as he defends a program that has a dwindling number of support obama sat down with top names from the tech industry the meeting itself was held behind closed doors but concerns about the nsa is clandestine activities were on the agenda. some of those presents like yahoo microsoft and google want us spying scaled back. the meeting comes just a day after a washington court ruled that mass government espionage is most likely unconstitutional data protection advocates say it's due process were applied then it's clear that the nsa is breaking us lots yes they really want to be open they would allow these programs. the challenge to open in federal court. you know for the past six years the government has been putting up every roadblock so that these programs can be a challenge in the regular court heard that we use everyday in this country instead. it's been done behind closed doors in the secret physic or where only the government gets to make an argument. edwards noted still hiding in ru

the presenter of the united states brock obama and his supporters from the democratic party intend to continue efforts to resume the program after the members of the legislative body re convene to discuss the issue in january regarding the data november unemployment rate in the usa stands at seven percent. the united nations an organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to emission confirm that syria is unlikely to meet the december thirty first deadline to move its most dangerous chemical arms of the country. a number of other factors affected the schedule including security issues logistical problems in weather conditions. the u n and o p c dub you are making every effort to remove the most dangerous chemical materials from syria as soon as possible. executive council is scheduled to meet next on the eighth of january two thousand fourteen to review the progress. michael schumacher is in critical condition after striking his head in a ski accident that took place amid a resort in the french alps. according to doctors the seven time would chip in forty four your michael sch

i agree with you and go back to march he didn't why doesn't countries like you know why does it brock obama say myself and mr netanyahu were are in support of or against this or that instead of simply invoking. and margy by go back to president elect or. barack obama said that in two thousand and eight that no country should be subject to missile attacks from an outside entity which of course he was talking about gaza but the same sitting president right now drones the hell out of the world but you know what are the same words you know the international community will not stand another country firing missiles at you but the united states shoots missiles that countries all the time but again as i said i think into the term international committee use in the by each country i think first of all in order to advance their own national interest there is no i think doubt about it so. you want to be think that stays on is that you think it is them on the truck is a fierce honest to use a term like that when you're just pursuing your national interest is it dishonest using that term. i think i thin

killing your favorite program olivia's to welcome two new studded teams to get into killed us cousin brock obama has urged congress to approve an unconditional increase in the government debt ceiling the us government may face the debt ceiling issue again in february. if congress does not list the limits. obama spoke on the issue during his year end news conference at the white house on friday obama said that seating

detainees to their home countries but in so far cry from actually closing the notorious prison which brock obama has been promising to do for years in the wake of a mass hunger strike that i've gone through most of twenty thirteen arts he went behind the barbed wire of gitmo. transparencies the word repeated by us officials working at guantanamo like a monster by those few more comfortable speaking on camera. see the conditions under which the detainee smith knew i'd get to talk to. the people who are responsible for guarding me make it a strange cream as possible. here and thus preferring to remain unidentified. the majority of officials who were permitted to speak to every week we get media. when itself internationally via local media or whatever and are welcomed to me and we tell them what we have any journalist workflow or guantanamo starts with a mandatory introduction to media rules so called operation security briefing for the material that you get the gathering may do that. is it abides by our house the transparencies the word brought up by all the personnel we talked to on the grounds.

in other news brock obama is an illegal president at least that's what a maryland k.k.k. group thinks and they're trying to do something about it confederate white knights of maryland are meeting tomorrow in a government building in cecil county maryland to discuss plans to impeach president obama imperial wizard richard preston leader of the group told a local paper that iraq hussein obama is an illegal president and he's to be removed from office we also want obamacare shut down it's against citizens' rights if he has already notified maryland state police about the meeting and what to expect at it joining me now to talk more about tomorrow's meeting and the motivation for is richard preston imperial wizard of the confederate white knights of maryland how you do it for the rest of them good to see you. i guess i don't here's first of all why why impeach obama what's with the pope for one thing frozen with iraq you see obama has never showed his citizenship papers and wonder who is asked who is all for anything else. glenn beck's web site the blaze now has information on

yeah just very quickly when brock obama came into office he had the opportunity particularly among third world countries of really showing a you know a different side of america and what he has done instead by pursuing more aggressively than the last president as that president did before and going back the imperial policy of the united states in africa if you look at the way he dealt with while margaret safiya look at what nelson mandela said about what markets often he held them out as a hero if you look all around the third world at the position the united states has been staking out under obama in central and south america and how the people feel in those places where he could have done tremendous outreach and they were giving him the benefit of the doubt the problem is that he wasted it because he pursued the interests that put him into power just like everyone before came running toward their first chance i don't want to give. the last word on the program to be fair three years what kind of bomb a accomplish in the last three years of his second term go head first there first and f

looking at in addition to christie's marco rubio i think marco rubio is for the republicans what brock obama was for the democrats in two thousand and seven thank you all very much we've just begun to fight luntz acar bragman sounds like a law firm. for joining us on politicking today for my viewers out there i want to hear from you join the conversation on my facebook page share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting king's things and using the politics he had that's all for this week's politicking c.n.n. . this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand of years people came here twenty some years ago to stablish the last a life on the silence. and people feel the love of christ of working. people so you can. come and something happens on this island that makes them return to it again and again they say the below saves them. join me james brown on a journey for the soul. only. i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we were so confident because we were going to get married offi

looking at in addition to christie's marco rubio i think marco rubio is for the republicans what brock obama was for the democrats in two thousand and seven thank you all very much we've just begun to fight luntz acar bragman sounds like a law firm. for joining us on politicking today from my viewers out there want to hear from you join the conversation on my facebook page share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting king's things and using the politics he had today that's all for this week's politicking see it. the continuing and consistent rise of china be declaring restrictive fly zones or a critical view on the subject of buying u.s. dollar dead in fact it would appear china is tearing a page from washington's playbook if to make rules to fit its geopolitical interest . i was thinking somehow i had to come back because mom was waiting for me. i just knew that everything would be fine for some reason we were so confident because we were going to get married officially after he came back how could he not come back not have it never crossed my mind. when the militants decided to try and break

forces, the companies including google, microsoft, and twitter sent an open letter to president brock obama, arguing that while governments have a duty to protect citizens, recent revelations highlight the needs to reform group -- to reform government surveillance practices worldwide.

it's really about time we started this by looking at brock obama speak it's about time and i'll give you sneak preview one of our guys in new york is gonna be writing. finally about. and it's not his fault things you would have been a focus on what obama said in his speech and there were some terrific nuggets in a minute and then a little better than any state ofhe union for his last two years. so if it'll be interesting to see what the substance of this event brings in future. that meant i was slapped obama magically extended so far. when spectators up first on the big screen saw obama. and in their own president. all of this. the cheese those are mostly things in. what a disappointing prison desmond tutu said it's a disgraceful some african to have a mom like uma is present in some ways he's a much better present than mbeki because he believes that hiv causes aids and the desperation to africa from aids has plummeted since he took over. he believes the crime is a problem. but otherwise he's a man without any kind of policy which is no wonder because he was a communist and then use

ratio of positive to negative tweets, tea party versus gop, they were equally as negative toward brock obama it did not matter if you hash tagged gop or teaparty. same thing with mitt romney. exact same thing, the positive to negative ratio. positive statements to negative statements. if you look at this that you can see a bit of a division. tea party members were more critical of both parties compared to establishment republicans. what does that mean? it means we have a invited reprint -- divided republican party when you look at issue positions and attitudes toward -- candidates come part comparing tea partiers to establishment republicans. media habits clearly differ. we did not show you all our findings but fox and talk radio, it is clear. ofthe end, in the month october at least in 2012, when it came to posts on twitter, the posters for the tea party, the gop, the people who has party and gop, they rallied around their candidates. maybe more significantly, they rallied against the opposition. that is what we show here. divided in some ways but rally affected -- the rally effect at the e

looking at in addition to christie is marco rubio i think marco rubio is for the republicans what brock obama was for the democrats in two thousand and seven thank you all very much we've just begun to fight luntz acar bragman sounds like a law firm. for joining us on politicking today for my viewers out there i want to hear from you join the conversation on my facebook page share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting king's things and using the politicking hejduk that's all for this week's politicking c.n.n. . please. please. please. please please. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. what's happening to me goes i'm happy martin this is breaking news that though yesterday obama gave a really impressive and wide ranging speech on an issue that people have access to ninety nine percent of income inequality he said that the gap between the over rich and the rest of the country is the defining challenge of our time and that it drives everything he does an office yes obama even went as far as i'm deconstruct the very system he's a part of. ordinary folks can write

forces, the companies including google, microsoft, and twitter sent an open letter to president brock obama, arguing that while governments have a duty to protect citizens, recent revelations highlight the needs to reform group -- to reform government surveillance practices worldwide. the revelations have shaken the tech industry. it has heightened calls for surveillance reform. that is our topic today. has government surveillance gone too far? welcome to "washington journal. we want to hear from you this morning. the numbers are -- you can also reach out to us on social media. take a look at the headlines. first in "usa today," -- that investigation coming out this morning, it details how public service agencies are using that surveillance data. let's talk about the eight tech companies calling for more surveillance limits. those include apple, google, microsoft, and twitter. looking at the front page of "the washington post" this morning -- from that letter -- let's go to your calls. in northgo to david carolina on our line for independents. hey.r: i use a lot of the social facebook. outy

block brock was end -- president barack obama was invited to speak and he tries to apply the lessons of nelson mandella to his own life. >> he tells us what is possible not just in the pages of the hiss tribooks but in our own lives as well. >> one moment that will be talked about, he greeted and shook hands with world leaders including cuban president castro. >>> and former former president bush join had along a long with former president bill clinton and secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. she arrived with daughter shells i and -- shell i. >>> -- chelsea. >> and a group of leaders founded by nelson mandella are working for human rights. >>> back here in san francisco city hall are collecting signatures in honor of him. a condolences book can be signed in the city hall office and they are also collecting signatures for that memorial book that will be sent to the nelson mandella family. >>> they are trying to determine whether a man died from exposure. he was found unconscious near a safe way store. it is unclear if cold weather or foul play caused his death. his name is being

brock. remember when president obama looked the country in the eye and said, come december 1st, the health careebsite will be working? well, it's time to find out if he kept his promise. "reality check" is coming up next. >>> and good evening. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. sunny skies were this afternoon. plenty of that happening, but now temperatures continue to drop. we're going to tell you where it's going to get down to the 20s, coming up in just a few minutes. >>> fast food workers in the east bay claim that jack in the box is retaliating against them for wanting better wages and conditions. now they're taking their complaints to the justice department. this started in august when employees in oakland organized a strike. since then, more than 60 workers have been fired. the employees believe managers targeted them because of their race, immigration status, and for speaking out. >> so i think the answer, the strategies and reasons have varied. some were not given any reason. they were just told that their last shift would be in a couple days. >> some of the employees say they were f

exposes this whole idea of a branch of government the brock received morass that can't be controlled by the by the executive branch president barack obama in my opinion probably doesn't approve probably does not see the value of all this wiretapping all the political damage that's being done by the n.s.a. but at the same time he can't control it because government's out of control we see it very clearly with the n.s.a. i know you want to focus on the proper contractors but those contractors still work at the behest of the tale that's waving the door yeah you know i don't see you know agencies like the like the e.p.a. which has not outsourced most of their functions those agencies are not running amok but we still do but at the same time we still need to be very careful if you look at the laws of the been passed over the last five years of the dot frank look at. nothing to do with it most certainly does look how much power it gives to organizations within the with the rule making organizations within the within the exact not enough it has taken us back to where we are ninety nine those laws continue to give rulemaking take rulemaking awa