angela merkel gave her state of the nation speech in parliament. she outlined the new coalition government's focus for the coming years. fractured her pelvis while cross-country skiing in switzerland over christmas, remained seated through the address. jessica, angela merkel is now governing with the social democrats. were there any signs of change in her policies in the speech from the usual politics now that she's sharing power? >> some of angela merkel's speech today and pay much of the well-worn rhetoric. especially -- contained much of the well-worn rhetoric, especially when she talked about germany being the strongest economy in europe at a role model for europe and the greater financial integration across europe. it showed influence from the social democrats with whom she is now in power, especially on issues of social reform such as hefty and expensive pension reforms, the introduction of the minimum wage in the germany. these are conditions that the social democrats had insisted on in agreeing to go into government with and le -- with ange

she said, she'll be right back. >> angela is about to find out if she'll be able to see her childrenoday. >> we don't have a whole lot right now, but we have each other. and that's the most important thing in the world to me. >> it feels like i haven't seen my kids in a year, and it's only been a week. there they are. [ sobbing ] >> i love you so much. hi, baby. >> angela's children are being returned to her under state supervision. >> i missed you guys. >> on future hearing she'll find out if she'll regain full custody. >> did you pray? >> i prayed every minute. >> me, too. >> me, too. >> later angela tells us about a message a police investigator sent her. >> tell me about this note? >> the investigator called and said wanted me to let you know as a parent you can decline trials involvement in custody case. >> you can decline the help of your tribe. >> she said it to me over the phone. >> why do you think she's telling you that. >> i think she wants to influence me that i'm better off without them. >> i've had so many clients tell me that. they told me if i tribe gets involved in t

i'm angela miles. in today's first look: it could turn out to be a fierce friday! traders anxiously await the latest news on the job market.it's expected 200,000 people were added to payrolls and the unemployment rate will remain unchanged at 7%. the market was eerily quiet yesterday ahead of the jobs numbers.. with the dow , nasdaq , s&p gold and oil not straying far for the flat line. alcoa had an earnings miss-- signaling what could become a rough start to earnings season. and are fortunes turning around for abercrombie and fitch? hares jumped 15% last night in heavy volume after the retailer raised its outlook. based on strong sales at the end of the year.. charles moon from trading advantages good to go this morning to talk with us about the jobs number expected today. 200 thousand jobs expected to be added to payrolls. so charles, what do you think here? > > i expect, you know, you look at the adp as a precursor to the nonfarm and the adp beat was pretty decent so i expect the same. i expect a beat on non-farm. as far as in relation to the market we'll see ho

anger -- angela? >> yes. thanks to the staff. you guys worked really hard of bringing up the recommendation of the piece cap members. they are long meetings and hard work. and we saw the last page of this when you guys were talking about adding a 7th period to the secondary level. we were really excited. cooper even drew a smiley face on my paper. i remember in piece we were taking about what the purpose of peace was and how to serve the community. i think the community stakeholder meetings that you hosted throughout the year, really touched on what the peace cap was about and insight to an amazing recommendation. i think you have done a lot of work this year. congratulations. >> thank you, ms. angela wei, you had an enormous contribution and really added a student perspective layer that was much needed and i want to also say it was a time that we were trying to cultivate our students and you really served a great leader in that respect. thank you for that time and we miss you. >> thank you, angela, i know these meetings aren't a

angela mcgrlowen and our next guest joins us today for this important issue.e has to work for those who are enrolled. what will we see when people start going to the hospital, where the harvard study suggests more people will be showing up for er visits because they can't afford obama care. angela. >> i think what we'll see is more people actually going to the hospital and the emergency rooms, but also, we need to know with this law that the republicans are introducing and keeping tabs on the website, how many people are impacted, where their premiums are being increased. how many people are losing access to facilities. how many people are losing access to their doctors. and how much of those rebates costing the american people? because the bottom line is the affordable care act, noble in purpose, is not affordable. >> steven, what about her point, noble in purpose but not affordable? >> it's just untrue. first of all, in terms of its impact, you have 160 million americans who are not going to be impacted at all because they're covered by their employer. you h

when we return, from angela merkel to yahoo! c.e.o., what are the stakeholders saying about the president's proposal. bloomberg's reporters are next. ♪ >> welcome back. president obama tries to reform government surveillance while balancing privacy and national security and he has also bought himself some time on iran this week. for on this week's developments, i'm joined by bloomberg's white house correspondent and national security editor, thank you both. margaret, you have been covering the president's n.s.a. review process day in and day out. what was the biggest surprise to you in his speech? >> the biggest surprise was one that he apparently made around midnight last night which was to take a stand on section 215, the collection of metadata. he said it's time for the program to change. of course, what he didn't say is how it should change. a surprise or disappointment to many of his advocates is how much he didn't resolve or spell out, how much he is passing on. >> john, why don't you spell out what some of those unanswere

angela merkellor has heard herself quite significantly.er berlin and our correspondent hans nichols. >> she will be in berlin and will not be traveling for three weeks. it is a hairline fracture. the important thing about this for the next three weeks is that no travel. she did have some travel plans. she will be staying in berlin. we will be listing to this press conference and finding a little more and how serious it is. it seems to be some sort of injury to her hip that she suffered from cross-country skiing. guy? for threeresting weeks in berlin. during our she had an important appointments in the next three weeks? davoss supposed to go to , actually. i believe she had one international trip land, but i saw that before the news broke that she was injured. i don't know exactly where it was planned and how significant it was. we will get more from you as it comes through. thank you for joining us from berlin. the meetingions, schaublefgang sharple could be interesting. it taken how this meeting will go this time with berenburg's chief ec

and the con influence of the three of us, them reading my book and angela's referral resulted in him on the 30th of march 2006 with -- came up from florida where he retired with a full pension and indicted on four counts of murder. and on the right, the picture that is him, like, the night before vunderring him. they allowed them to surrounder. the next day after he was a million dollars bail was set for him. okay. 50 exagents supported him. showed up in tie and surrounded him as they walked out down adams street from brooklyn extreme -- supreme court. there was a scene unlike you had seen. they were pushing people away. they were like soccer hooligans. bushing people out of the way. protecting him while the reporters try to ask questions. they called it body checking. chuck grassley of iowa mentioned this at the judiciary committee hearing about whether fbi agents should be so quick to, you know, protect somebody who is presumed innocent, of course, but just tactics were pretty wild. this was the trial started in, like, october 15th of '07. headlines like this every day in the new y

fairhen balance, angela mclowen, chris and angela, great to see you. chris, let me start with you. day five, obamacare, 2 million people enrolled. what is your scorecard? >> well, i guess it depends on how you want to grade it. in terms of the rollout, it hasn't been very good. probably a failing grade. in terms of i think since then, in terms of them being able to get the website up and running, deal with a pretty huge influx of enrollees in december, you know, i probably give them like a b, b minus. but, you know, it's still too early to give them a final grade. it all depends on what happens over the next three months. going into the final enrollment period. >> they need like 5 million pore people to enroll. do you think they'll get that 7 million? >> i think it all depends on, you know, a couple of factors. one, over the coming few weeks and months, you know, how good, you know, is the news coming out in terms of, you know, obama care? people start seeing, i think, positive stories, then i think you're going to see a good influx. but even without that, there is going to to be a

angela?e have a congress that has some of the lowest approval ratings historically. they can't get on the same page. i think a lot of them are playing politics instead of policy. i'm hopeful and optimistic that since the senate passed a bill, the house will follow suit. unveiling principles for immigration reform, that is not legislation. boehner is talking about unveiling principles. what they need to do is pass legislation and go to conference. >> mark, we heard angela referring to house speaker john boehner. as you know, republicans in the house are actually talking about doing something to implement some sort of immigration reform, but as angela is talking about, is it talk or will they get beyond principles and do something for once? >> we hope they will walk the walk. this has been an area of agreement for a long period of time. conservatives like john mccain, george w. bush, all supported different types of immigration reform. everybody acknowledges that this is a serious problem, a mo

sky and diane hit the capital damascus the aide to keep the government of prime minister to tie it angela is really twenty high level prosecution spread the paste. it takes is committed to head to the tt sherry which headline says is embroiled in a plot still wanted mine to the corruption allegations. the high council of judges and prosecutors handed out by justice minister bikie abbas tag says the chief prosecution and seven of his deputies in istanbul are among the case has been reassigned these changes come in day out of the government tightened its grip on the panel that appoints all judges and prosecute as agile as they see one of the biggest crises of his team ethic he is and how lah. a huge corruption investigation became in mid december with a string of high profile the rest including the sons of two cabinet ministers. meadow was called to prayer but foreign stars and is staying on democracy. egypt more than ninety percent of referendum petition said yes to the new constitution for the country according to state media it's been put forward by the mitre backed government that stand

joining me now are angela rye and mark hannah. you, rev. >> thank you, rev. >> angela, isn't mike huckabee talking about women's libido the last thing this party needs? >> but it's the first thing we should expect. there is absolutely nothing new under the sun, rev. we have seen them time and time again stay in women's va-jjs. i don't know why they continue to talk about reproductive health when they have no idea how to message this right. we're talking yesterday was the anniversary of the roe v. wade decision. and this is what they have come up with. i just really want them to find some other talking points, because this is absolutely the wrong road for them to go down. whether cathy mcmorris rodgers from the great state of washington or some other person, woman or not is delivering the state of the union response for them, they just need to have better answers. >> mark hannah, i know you don't want to go there with the references that angela made. i'll call her pastor after the show. but your thoughts about all of this? >> my th

angela blackwell founder of c.e.o. and policy link, a poverty focused research organization and glen hubbard chairman of the council of economic advisors under president george w. bush and now dean of columbia university's school of business and welcome to off you. robert dahl , i want to start with you to set the scene. what drove lbj to undertake a war on poverty it. >> well, he wasn't the first one to want a war on poverty. in fact, what i find so interesting is herbert hoover in august 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the united states. and then of course we had the great depression. in 196 -- 1962 a man named michael harrington whos with a socialist, part of the democratic catholic workers movement published a book called the other america, poverty in the united states. it has had a great impact. >> well, what really gave it a great impact was the fact that dwight mcdonald, the critic, then published a discussion of it in "the new yorker" called a reviseable poor. and that cr

let's bring in democratic strategist angela rie and former bush/cheney supervisor. the numbers are known very well, 2013 saw a big drop in president obama's approval ratings, and if you look at recent history, his trajectory is more in line with george w. bush than reagan and clinton before him, obviously, doing much better two years into their second term. angela, how does he get his mojo back? >> chris, i would argue he's never really lost his mojo. the president has had to face a number of crises, in part because he's dealing with an arm of the republican party who has practiced protest politics, meaning they are not trying to engage whatsoever with this president. you see when the house comes back -- >> angela, even if it is because of the pressure put on by republicans or naysayers in congress, the fact of the matter remains, doesn't it, that his approval ratings are down, not just with republicans, actually more with independents and democrats. >> sure, and i would argue, chris, that the face of the independents has changed. there are a number of republicans w

angela is a fox news analyst and david is the former national finance director. welcome to both of you. >> thanks. >> good to be with you. >> angela can we say that is an anti-balk care bill when it's really dealing primarily with the security breaches and the transparency of people's private information using the website? >> well, from a legislative standpoint, no, you can't say this is an anti-affordable care bill. but it's symbolic that democrats would go across the bill and join the gop in this legislation. they know they have to go back home in november and explain why they voted for this monstrosity of a debacle. >> why do you think they did, angela? >> politics in washington, d.c. nancy pelosi was a good speaker. a lot of people who voted for it didn't know what was in it. >> what is the significance of these 67 democrats brainging rank? >> well, i don't think there's much significance in it. i'm certainly glad and i think a lot of americans are glad that we don't have another repeal vote that was going nowhere and it might just be a sign that the republic

. >> warner: has angela merkel's government received any satisfaction from the americans on other these issues other than not spying on her cell own? >> honestly so far not. we haven't had the progress we need and we hope we are able to manage it until the chancellor has her visits in june in america. we should continue our cooperation because there are

angela, last word, where are we in terms of job creation? a number over 200,000 a month just to maintain. >> we're not anywhere with job creation. the 8 million jobs that david is speaking of are those part-time jobs and, jamie, people are living from paycheck to paycheck. and some people are having to work 2 and 3 jobs to make it it's because of the president's policies or lack thereof the reason why the income inequality gap is growing and the middle class is shrinking. >> got to leave it there. >> nothing from the republicans. >> thanks to both of you. we will have the president. we have a g.o.p. response. it will be very interesting night here on fox tuesday. thank you both. >> thanks, jamie. >> jamie, a new law in california is going to have an unintended effect on gun manufacturers. we will have the details on that coming up. hey kevin...still eating chalk for heartburn? yeah... try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new al

angela went out to hand out supplies. this is highway 92. we are handing out water and food. there are tonnes of people that need water and food. if you can, go out there, help somebody. >> incredible. who is to blame - the governor and georgia and the mayor of atlanta are under a storm of response. >> what could be do to have avoided that? we can't control mother nature and we could not make better predictions. neither could school superintendents. that's why the children were in the same condition we were. they were probably looking at the same modelling as the state folks. we closed the city of atlanta and the interstate system based on maybes, then we would not be a very productive government or a city. >> i understand that people are frustrated and angry. if there was a major lesson learned in the middle of the challenge, that would be that we need to stagger closings for private sector company, government and the school system. so if i had my drivers, i would have a school be released first, or closed first, let parents get the children and get them home safely. then ha

angela recurriÓ personalmente a un navegador, personas que certifica el gobierno para escribir a losn mÉdica, porque habÍan puesto la fecha equivocada. >> aunque angela todavÍa continÚa con la fecha de vencimiento equivocada, lo que mÁs le preocupa es ser vÍctima del robo de identidad, porque proveyÓ su nÚmero de seguro social, informaciÓn personal. >> muchas personas en la calle se hacen pasar por navegadores o agente de seguro. >> pero este estÁ sÓlo uno de los problemas que experimentan las personas que acuden a los navegadores. en nuevo mÉxico a uno de cada siete de ellos se les encontrÓ antecedentes penales. a pesar de esto, fueron certificados. la secretarÍa de salud confirmÓ al emitir ante el congreso la posibilidad de que convictos de delitos estuvieron trabajando como navegadores. las redes sociales, tambiÉn publican anuncios como Éste ofreciendo sus servicios. en otros casos, les cobran a las personas por los trÁmites que en realidad son gratuitos. >> los navegadores no pueden explicar un producto. no pueden ayudar al consumidor mÁs allá de poner la informaciÓn que el consu

has written about. >> angela, no one is further behind than women of color.en rr poor, that's the highest rate in 18 years, but african-american and latino women, 26% and 24% respectively. why are they falling through the cracks even more than everyone else? >> they are falling through the cracks because of the historical and continuing impact of racism, and when we're looking at these broad categories of inequality for women, it masks deep suffering in african-american an latino communities. one of the things we know is a majority of black people, including black women, live in communities of poverty. same is true for latino women, so what we have to do is remove these racial barriers, get children in the good schools, get women the education that they need, provide some resources and loans so that women can pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. if we don't deal with racism, we can't deal with the impact of gender on women. >> so let's talk about some of the specific things that are going on. two-thirds of the minimum wage jobs in 2011 were held by women. ev

. >> you just wound her up. >> so you're t'ed off, then, angela. the literal sense. what could be here, other than the discrimination of employees getting fair coverage, other than that and the if the r fact that it's delayed, what do republicans have to say about it? >> well,jamie, there is no beef. and the bottom line is, chris, we're not pulling criticism out of the air. this is the president's signature legislation. 30 years ago, a similar law was passed to keel deal with discrimination dealing with employees. i'm for a level playing field. everybody should have equal access. but dealing with regulatory reform or creating legislation, that should have been done before this bill passed congress. that should have been done before president obama enacted it. so after 2,000 delays and amendments, obamacare is still a train wrest. >> i remember when people were looking for a waiver. wasn't the idea behind this was that everybody should be access to health care? >> well, look, this was a goal of the legislation and, obviously, the reason why i think

angela rye, good luck to your seahawks. it's going to be interesting.d. we'll get you a shirt. >> all right. that's ted ed. i'm ed schultz. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >>> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, a major development in the chris christie administration probes there are new allegations of political corruption involving money for hurricane sandy recovery. allegations that have escalated into a federal criminal investigation. dawn zimmer, the mayor of hoboken, new jersey, says she met yesterday for more than two hours with the u.s. attorney. this comes after she made the explosive claim that christie's lieutenant governor threatened to withhold hurricane sandy relief money unless she approved a real estate project favored by the governor. mayor zimmer

angela wei, maufas, murase, norton, six ayes. >> it was moved and seconded. second under section s. >> angela wei, maufas, mcdonalds, murase, wynns, fewer, 6 ayes. >> excuse me. consent calendar resolutions. i'm sorry, did i miss something? no. thank you. board members proposal. first reading, none tonight. board members report. i believe we have a report from the committee as a whole which emily murase has already reported on. so, we have report of any other reports by board members? commissioner maufas? >> thank you president. i just wanted to make an announcement regarding black history month and acknowledge the hundreds of volunteers that will be doing the read aloud with books by black authors or illustrators in elementary schools across san francisco the 25th national african american reading and will be put on by black alliance schools educators and special ed fund and many many volunteers in coordinating with sfusd and training readers for all of our schools that select to be read to. so this year in february, the first week of february and spanning t

angela wei and logo an. speaker: thank you. things are picking up. we did recently an acc bylaw review to reconfirm the understanding of the bylaws with the real emphasis on the attendance policy which we have been reworking and we might possibly change in the future. another big thing on the cac agenda is the vision 2025. february 7th, is the last vision 2025 meeting and sac will be participating again at the bayview from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.. the sac leadership team participated to include a native in the 2025 campaign. thank you. speaker: the sac's annual youth summit will be held in march. we'll have students from the san francisco unified school district. important that we -- it will bring out the leaders and we are working with the health care sign up days. the next sign up days are at marshall and balboa high schools this thursday january 30th, from 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.. all meetings are open to the public. if you would like a copy of the sac agenda, please contact your sac coordinator. speaker: thank you very much. going on to item e, parent

angela merkel led the first meeting after her skiing accident of the new year. lex there was plenty to talk about. he conservatives and social democrats have been in the coalition government for less than a month and there are differences on policy that have to be resolved. >> cracking down on migrants from bulgaria and romania that no longer need work visas. the problem, they say, is being exaggerated. urkel turned to a coalition -- commission to make recommendations. >> i think that is the best way to handle this issue. we need to work with hard facts. >> they say those from the balkan states are well qualified and are needed by the german economy. >> as germany's business community, we want to stress the table areas and romanians are among the workers with lowest jobless rate and welfare dependency in the country. we are bad mouthing a part of the population that doesn't deserve it. >> it is likely to be the first of many disagreements. ask michael schumacher was not skiing at a reckless speed when he crashed 10 days ago. cracks based on video footage of the

plus, analysts angela glover blackwell of policy-link and michael tanner of the cato institute. >> ifill: here with us now, as they will be throughout the evening, our own shields and brooks. syndicated columnist mark shields and new york times columnist david brooks. 7 so, gentlemen, put on your prognostication hats. what do you expect tonight? >> it won't be f.d.r.'s new deal. we're not looking at the 100 days here. we're looking at modesty, theme of opportunity, discussion of the executive order. immigration will be bigger, probably a few threats on the debt ceiling somake sure congress doesn't put us in default, but not look at a gigantic agenda. >> i'm most interested in the tone. i think the president-- a nation that is severely pessimistic, has been now in the wrong direction rather than on the right track for 10 years now. the sense of pesmism is pervasive, and i want to see if the president can connect with people beyond the room tonight. >> woodruff: is there a defensiveness already setting in with this state of the union because the white house is already talking about the lim

joining me now is angela reid.anks, rev. >> angela, is this all the right has, accusing the president of being a dictator? >> and big flags, rev. can you imagine what you can do with a big flag? you know what is really troubling to me is the comparison that rand paul made to the jim crow south. >> yeah. >> the fact that this gentleman, like you said, that went on rachel maddow show and actually defended the segregation at one point, the same guy that surprisingly, though, the gop used to open up their african american outreach office -- >> in detroit. >> yes, in detroit, in motown, and then also you have this same guy who went to howard university and said hey, everybody, did you know the naacp was republicans and darn near gets booed off the stage because who are you to go and tell howard university about history? it's almost as troubling, rev, as that argument we often see in our twitter feeds from some of the very strange and speaking of deranged gop talkers that say hey, the democrats are the party of ku klux k

there are stories in the german media that he told the social democrat ministers within angela merkel's cabinet to report to him as spd leader, rather than to the chancellor. but he says no, he wants to be a constructive art and are within this coalition government. and of course to see it through to the end of the legislative period as much as possible. he also said it is necessary to have a confident approach for arguing for social influence in government. a combative speech as well. comes of the strains in the months to come? interesting to see. sports now. in tennis, stanislas wawrinka has clinched a remarkable upset victory at the australian open. the top two swiss player defeated world number one rafael nadal in four sets. he became the first man in over 20 years to beat 2 top seeds to clinch a grand slam title. switzerland's stanislas wawrinka celebrated his first rent slam title. he had words for his beaten opponent. >> rafa, i am really sorry. you are a great guy. a good friend. a major champion. >> nadal played the final despite back problems. the franca took the chance offere

the highesthed political rounds in germany when chancellor angela mel or -- angela merkel and other headsf state had their phones bugged by the nsa. she and the brazilian president asked the u.s. for a resolution to safeguard internet previous -- privacy. also taking reaction in the borders forcing large incident companies to store locally gathered data inside brazil. edward snowden offered to help brazil investigate u.s. spying on its soil in exchange for political asylum. in internet speak, a selfie is when you take a picture of yourself with your mobile phone and post the photo online. it has been chosen as the oxford dictionary's word of the year. -- a social networking mode -- must, narcissism for some, and for others it is a way of updating your every move by posing in front of a mirror or by holding your phone out in front of you and pointing the land that yourself. in the bathroom, a concert, on holiday, during a rally, or even in space. the trend has been very popular in showbiz land but also popped up where you least expect it. , named head of the catholic church a few months ea

[applause] >> thank you angela. really pleased to be here today with all of my friends as i look across the audience here and i would like to make sure i introduce one other person. he is the person or place me as the administrator for the federal railroad administration. thanks for being here today. [applause] so angela i started the first part of the speech telling you about the fact that at 17 i joined the air force and celebrated my birthday 18 years old by having a drink and then later when i turn 21 i was able to float. [laughter] that is all reversed today, isn't it collects what i really want to talk about is three weeks ago i became 63 years old and i told one of my good friends here, jim weinsteiweinstei n that i'm now an old man. he said no, 65 is not old. he said i'm 67 and i am not old. [laughter] so that is reversing as well in this station and there are other things that need to start, that we need to start thinking about. in the most recent discussions that we really had about the future of surface t

>>thanks angela. coming up...why the hack attacks at target and neiman marcus may be worse than suspected...bill moller brings us the details.and bank check.two financial firms that could come out with upside surprises this earnings season. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ there is no doubt the hackers are getting more sophisticated. the latest security breaches at target and neimens rattle all of us. so why can't systems be developed to protect us. it seems the bad guys are always ahead of the game. let's talk with jerry irvine. he is the cio with prescient solutions. you've just learned some new details about these latest hacks. what do we now know? >>there's suggestion now that based on the amount of information and the different categories of information from user id's, passwords, social security numbers, all of that information that it was not just a point of sale system but potentially the back end servers as well. >>so much more deeply integrated. it's scary. do we need to get used to these kinds

. >> back here in germany, chancellor angela merkel has made her first public appearance since injuring herself in a skiing accident last week. >> using crutches, she came out to meet carol singers at the chancellery. doctors advise her to rest for three weeks after she suffered a hairline fracture in her pelvis. she has had to cancel many appointments, but not this one. >> there's always a large media turnout or the annual visit of carol singers to the chancellery, but this year, there was special interest in the host, as angela merkel faced the cameras for the first time since her accident. throughout, she was closely assisted by the minister who heads the chancellor's office. >> my sincere thanks go to the head of the chancellery, who is helping out with today's if and as i'm having difficulty standing. as you have read and can now also see, i am supposed to lie down more. >> there is a serious purpose behind the singer's visit. each year, children across germany collect millions of euros for catholic charity work. this time, though, the head of the organizing committee also had a sp

chancellor angela merkel's chief of political staff is still attracting attention. >> he is quitting politics to take a job at germany's rail service, lobbying the very government in which he was part of the inner circle. >> some say the move is unethical and a symptom of an unseemly revolving door culture in berlin. >> as angela merkel's chief of staff, he was a dealmaker and mediator. he reconciled his speed and competing interests among cabinet ministers. he also coordinated the government's relations with federal, state, and community groups. that was then. now, just months after winning reelection for parliament, he is quitting. it looks like he may be taking a lobbying job. what a lobbyist does is try to persuade the government to do what his corporation wants. >> the thing what makes this case also different is that he is not only going to any company but to a public company where currently this job was just created for him. that arises the question how public companies are creating jobs for outgoing politicians. >> he is not the first german politician to cause controversy wi

presumably angela merkel and the rest of the government should be happy with the announcements?if they are, they aren't letting us know. but i think far more important to merkel and her government and the german public is a no-spy agreement that germany and the united states have been working on for a number of months, and the leaks that have been made to the press are that the german side are expecting nothing much to come of it. the germans had been hoping for promises that no other politicians would be spied upon, angela merkel had been given a promise by barack obama that her phone would no longer be listened to. there will not according to press reports be access to the roof of the american embassy, which is just a short walk from the building that you see behind me, upon which there is german media belief is a spy nest, which allows the americans to listen to the communications of people in the government district. nor will there be limitation on the ma -- metadata of the phone calls of german citizens. quite apart from how they feel about this speech. and as i said there

they said they will no longer spy on angela merkel.hey would also like access to the top floor of the american embassy, where it is believed an industrial spy nest is located with all kinds of equipment, and also eliminating the amount of metadata that is gathered. so that the rights of german citizens aren't violated. >> obviously all of this has caused tensions between germany and the u.s. any attempts to try to rebuild that relationship? >> well barack obama, the american president called angela merkel on wednesday. she has been suffering from a fractured pelvis after falling while skiing to wish her well and to talk about improving relations, and invited her to washington. it was agreed that she would come to the american capital at an unspecified time in the future. there are all kinds of things that the germans and the americans need to talk about and like to talk about. berlin has really become the go-to capital during the debt crisis, so americans look to her as their lock when it comes to getting the european economy going aga

secretary of state john kerry stopped by in berlin to meet with chancellor angela merkel. he played down the failure of the two countries to agree on a no-spy packed. >> we are partners above and beyond once in the road, and we will find our way to be able to move forward, resolving any kinds of differences in an appropriate way that respects our relationship. >> after his meeting with merkel ,kerry went on to munich to attend the conference. with turmoil in syria, delegates have their work cut out for them. >> our chief political correspondent is at the munich security conference. the german president opened the proceedings. how did his speech actually go down? >> i think many people feel this was one of the strongest speeches he has made as president. he gave a very impassioned appeal for germany to take on more responsibility in international affairs. this has been a perennial issue here at munich for a long time now. other countries have urged germany to get beyond check out diplomacy, to do more to help resolve international crises, and certainly, those were the words

spoke to german tv after his speech where he banned the type of nsa eavesdropping that once plagued angela merkel's phone. kristen welker has more. >> reporter: in an attempt to reassure key u.s. allies, president obama spoke exclusively to german tv network zdf after outlining plans to curb mass collection of phone records. >> a lot of suspicion had been built up in germany and, frankly, around the world in the wake of the snowden disclosures. and it's going to take some time to win back trust. >> reporter: on friday mr. obama announced the government will no longer hold on to telephone records, and he tasked the attorney general with finding an alternative and the u.s. will no longer spy on its allies. >> we do not listen to people's phone calls or read their e-mails if there are no national security threats involved. >> reporter: the interview, a clear attempt to repair his relationship with girlen chancellor angela merkel damaged by edward snowden's leak. >> what i can say is as long as i'm president of the united states, the chancellor of germany will not have to worry about this. >>

had intercepted angela merkel's phone calls it became clear that even the german chancellor is a new. spin. is spying among friends does not work at all we need trust among partners in this trust needs to be restored now obviously. data is not very protected otherwise those scandals would not have occurred whether it was germany whether it was in brussels in the know in france. it's not only the politicians and individuals but it's also and to prizes that are that are threatened according to edward snowden's latest leak the national security agency isn't just gathering intelligence for national security purposes but indulging in industrial espionage as well he cited germany's engineering firm siemens as one target and still no admission from the top i can give assurances to the publics in europe and around the world that we're not going around snooping at people's emails or listening to their phone calls so on the eve of data protection day we are asked some europeans if they felt like celebrating do you know anyone who is happy about it that his private sphere is controlled by govern