please welcome brianna white. >> hi everyone, my name is brianna white, a student at san francisco state. that summer as a freshman i experienced my first internship at prometheus real estate; i worked at the human services department where my duties were to assist my supervisor and event planning for the employees and perform clerical duties. during this internship i gained a lot of experience, and also transferable skills that have a lot of impact on my success today. i also shadowed other employers and learn about property management, interior designing an asset management at prometheus. one of the special projects was breast cancer -- for the employees. also received great support from both my supervisor and her supervisor. as of now this internship has helped design to study economics and chinese and the future of our plans to pursue a career in asset management or mergers and acquisitions in real estate or investment banking. also prior to my internship last summer i was able to go to china briefly and intern in a company with skills that previously developed at prometheus. as a st

and the white house is dealing with this, too. that's where cnn's brianna keilar is this morning. w is the white house handling this? any comment? >> so far, carol, the white house is not commented on the identity of edward snowden being revealed. right now, the administration is considering options for extraditing snowden and also depending exactly where he ends up, what country he ends up in. forcing president obama off message in these key early months of his second term. as edward snowden stunned the world with his admission, the administration intensified calls to hunt down the leaker of an surveillance program. sunday night the justice department formally announced they were launching an investigation into the authorized disclosure of classified information. president obama returning from california after a two-day mini sumwit the chinese president had no comment. but he recently made clear he's upset by the high-profile leaks. >> i don't welcome leaks because there's a reason why these programs are classified. >> reporter: making the sunday talk show rounds, the chairman of

cnn's brianna keilar is at the white house this morning. good morning, brianna. ng on down there, no? is >> reporter: that's right, chris. stern warning from the white house, from the president's national security council, specifically to hong kong and china for allowing snowden to leave. a spokeswoman saying we have registered our strong objections to the authorities in hong kong as well as to the chinese government through diplomatic channels and noted that such behavior is detrimental to u.s.-hong kong and u.s.-china bilateral relations. the u.s. acting on all fronts diplomatically at this point. the u.s. has called on russia to look at all options for expelling snowden. but russian media was reported there really wasn't a reason for russian security to get involved in this specific case. the u.s. also calling on venezuela, ecuador, cuba to either not accept snowden into their countries or to expel him once he's there. but at this point behind the scenes, administration officials do acknowledge that some of their options are limited. right now we're seeing them

. >> reporter: i'm brianna keilar at the white house.is morning, president obama, the first lady and their daughters depart for a seven-day trip to west, south and east africa. this will be president obama's first extended visit to the continent since he's been in the white house. in 2009, he made a brief visit to ghana. on this trip, he'll be focusing on ways to bring the country along economically. specifically by increasing trade and u.s. investment in africa. his first stop, senegal. >> reporter: i'm in one of the biggest markets in dakar, senegal, a country which the u.s. considers a haven of democracy in a volume are tile region. here, president obama will highlight the stable government and strong rule of law as a model of success in a region which has seen major security challenges. among these, the destabilization of mali. and the islam insurgency in northern nigeria. the u.s. has operated drones. and the president will meet with the president to visit a place for food security. >> reporter: i'm in pretoria where nelson mandela'

to fundraise, which is very important when you're running for the white house. >> i think that's the most important thing of all. brianna much. reporting live from the white house this morning. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> all right. we want to take you back to istanbul, turkey, because it's getting pretty bad there. you see the smoke in the air, that's actually tear gas. government forces have been trying to break up protesters who have been protesting in the streets in different parts of turkey for a couple of days now. nick paton walsh is in the middle of it all. tell us what's happening, nick. >> reporter: well, behind me we see this continued standoff between police and protesters down there. they've made now two barricades that are reasonably constructed. they've been throwing rocks at the police and the police respond with substantial amounts of tear gas to clear them away. this continues, frankly, for minutes and hours, another crack there, as well, but we're now into eight hours of this activity. sometimes we hear a stun grenade go off, too. police now into the eighth hour of trying to control the proteste

cnn's brianna keeler is live at the white house with all of the intrigue. ou, john. hillary clinton launched her twitter account yesterday and already in less than 24 hours she has less than 300,000 followers. and this dive into cyberspace is reigniting speculation. the now iconic image of secretary hillary clinton sporting dark glasses, intently studying her blackberry is her new profile picture on her twitter account. the former secretary of state, senator, and first lady, also described herself as wife, mom, lawyer, and get this, hair icon and pantsuit aficionado, which she joked about at a recent fashion awards dinner. >> all you really need is a small, but passionate audience to be successful. we could call it "project pantsuit." >> perhaps most telling of all in clinton's twitter bio, tbd, immediately interpreted as a sign she'll launch another run for the white house, happy to welcome our 45th president to twitter, one of her supporters tweeted. clinton has kept a low profile since leaving office in february, though she's remained in the headlines, co

brianna keilar with more from the white house.d morning. >> not commenting on the revealed identity of edward snowden as they review their options for extraditing him. knocking president obalm aa off message in these key early months of his second term. as edward snowden stunned the world with his admission, the administration intensified calls to hunt down the leaker opsunday night the justice department formally announced they were launching an investigation into the disclosure of classified information. president obama returning from california after a two-day mini summit with the chinese president had no comment, but he recently made clear he is upset by the spade of high-profile leaks. >> i don't welcome leaks because there's a reason why these programs are classified. >> reporter: making the sunday talk show rounds, the chairman of the house intelligence committee said the leaks don't give a full picture of the nsa program. >> i know your reporter that you interview, groeenwald says he hs it all and expert on the program, he

we begin this morning with white house correspondent brianna keilar. >> reporter: in a candid and unusually long interview with pbs's charlie rose, president obama revealed how defending the homeland weighs on him, even as he discussed his goal of helping the middle class. >> and that is the thing that i'm going to be focused on for the remainder of my presidency along with the basics like making sure nobody blows us up. >> reporter: obama stood by newly revealed nsa programs that gather vast amounts of phone and online data from millions of americans. >> should this be transparent in some way? >> it is transparent. that's why we set up the fisa court. >> that's the secret court that rules on warrants for surveillance. it's suggestions his administration has been heavy handed, obama bristles. >> some people say well, obama was this raving liberal before. now he's dick cheney. my concern has always been not that we shouldn't do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism. rather, are we setting up a systems of checks and balances. >> reporter: obama discussed the bloody civil war in syria, w

. >> ynn's white house correspondent brianna keeler is in washington.st time we have seen a under surveillance order that has been this large in scope from the obama administration. what is the talk there this morning? >> reporter: well, the reaction from the administration, christy, as you mentioned, they are reacting to this without conif i recalling that it's going on, the fbi is not commenting. verizon is not commenting. but the white house or i should say a senior administration official put out a statement saying information of the sort described in the guardian article has been a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the united states, as it allows counterterrorism personnel to discover whether known or suspected terrorists had been in contact with other persons who may have been edge gauged in terrorist activities, particularly people located inside the united states, inside the united states, christy, because this is sort of the unprecedented domestic under surveillance. we definitely heard under the bush administrati

white house correspondent brianna keeler is traveling with the president. she joins us live.ght. president obama gave this interview before departing for northern ireland to go to the g8. 50 minutes, so a long interview and pretty wide ranging on the nsa programs both involving phone records and online activity being monitored. millions of americans. he said that they are transparent, he stood behind them. he also talked about syria, and as you know, a lot of hope had been pinned on the fact that the u.s. and russia, powerful allies to the syrian rebels had agreed to a new round of peace talks. president obama kind of tampied down some expectations down there in the interview. we saw this as well yesterday when he met with russian president vladimir putin. they're still very much at odds over whether bashar al asaad should stay or go. at this point, it's no breakthrough on the involvement of those two countries and a peace process between syrian rebels and the syrian government. >> thank you very much. >> let's discuss more on all these topics. the president, syria, all of th

brianna. a game changer in syria's civil war. the whiterms that the assad regime has used chemical weapons more than once. what president obama will do. >>> plus, a raging colorado wildfire. now residents of a major city are at risk. >>> and a stunning confession by a man who says he killed more than 30 people since he was 16 years old. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jim acosta. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you're in "the situation room." >>> the breaks news this hour, the obama white house now says president obama's red line in syria has been crossed. the intelligence community has concluded that sarin gas was used by the syrian regime and 150 people have died. the president has decided to provide more support to the rebels, including military assistance. let's go to jessica yellin who is at the white house. ben rhodes just wrapped up a conference call with reporters. what did he have to say? >> reporter: jim, ben rhodes confirmed that the intelligence community has determined that the use of sarin gas

. >>> all right, let's go back to the white house now and check in with correspondent brianna keilar.appeals court judges whoxt are they? >> reporter: these judges are individually pretty noncontroversial, patricia millet, cornelia hill ard and judge robert wilkins. as i said, if you look at sort of these judge picks individually, not very controversial. but it's the fact that president obama is picking the three of them together for a very important court, the u.s. court of appeals, for the district of columbia circuit. this is a court that hears a lot of government-related cases, a lot of cases that ultimately go to the supreme court. you could also look at it as a bit of a farm team for the supreme court. you see a lot of justices who come from serving on this court of apiles. and what we heard from president obama, carol, was a very political speech that he gave flanked by his three picks, and this is a political fight that certainly the white house welcomes, and you could argue that they are picking. it is obviously within president obama's rights to choose his judicial nominees,

brianna. i'm sure you understand that. >> then today it was unnamed western diplomats who leaked to "reuters" that the white house is seriouslyo-fly zone in syria. that leak, despite the fact that white house officials, that the white house's official comments on no-fly zone today called the idea difficult, dangerous and costly. the white house has also not yet officially specified what kind of weapons they plan to provide to the syrian opposition, but the leaks have provided it. again, tonight, two officials leaking this time to cnn that the u.s. is going to send small arms and ammunition and maybe anti-tank weapons. according to these anonymous leakers, those weapons will be provided by the cia, which, of course, would be covert action so there will be no official disclosure of that action, so, therefore, leaks. there's a lot going on in national security and national security-related politics right now. one of the newsworthy things about national security politics in the united states right now is how many significant leaks there have been of supposedly closely held information in recent days. just about every day for the

brianna keilar is following all of the details. so the question i have for you, and i'm not sure what the government is saying, but is the white house more angry or more embarrassed at what's going on right now? >> reporter: i think that right now there is a lot of frustration, but i also think when you're talking about the issue of embarrassment, i think it's more that the administration stands to be at risk of ineffectual. there is a stern warning that relations with the u.s. could be stressed. and also pressure on a defiant russia to act. and what you're seeing is it seems a concerted effort among administration officials to paint snowden as sort of hypocritical, raising questions about his sort of self described being a champion of internet freedom and freedom of the press. here is the secretary of state a short time ago. >> i suppose there is no small irony here. i mean, i wonder if mr. snowden chose china and russia as assistance in his flight from justice because they're such powerful bastions of internet freedom. >> reporter: one of the big issues here is that the president is at risk of appearing in-effectual. he's met with

brianna keilar has that part of the story for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, christine. the whitee've heard the identity of snowden revealed. obviously, the administration is considering its options right now for prosecuting snowden and for extraditing him, but above all, this has forced president obama off message. this comes on top of three other recent controversies. so president obama is talking about this instead of his priorities in these key early months of his second term. as edward snowden stunned the world with his admission, the administration ip tensified calls to hunt down the leaker of an nsa surveillance program. sunday night the justice department formally announced they were launching an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. president obama, returning from california after a two-day mini summit with the chinese president, had no comment, but he recently made clear he's upset by the spate of high profile leaks. >> i don't welcome leaks because there's a reason why these programs are classified. >> reporter: making the sunday talk

. >> something the white house is keeping a very close eye on as everyone across the world is watching. thanks, briannavelopments for you in the nsa leaker case. we know exactly where edward snowden is. he is hold up in the transit area of a moscow airport. not technically in russia, not technically anywhere else and, certainly, still out of the grasp of the u.s. now, russian president vladimir putin is saying snowden is a free man and russia will not hand the fugitive over to the u.s. bill black has more from moscow. >> reporter: that's how russian president vladimir putin described any suggestion his country is helping edward snowden. speaking on a visit to finland, putin's arrival in moscow was completely unexpected and despite the wealth of knowledge snowden has about u.s. intelligence operations around the world, russia's own security services have not spoken to him since his arrival. >> translator: mr. snowden is a free man. the sooner he chooses his final destination, the better it is for him and us. >> reporter: russia a will help return snowden to the united states. >> translator: we can hand

brianna? >> reporter: good morning to you chris. the president's itinerary remains the same going from senegal to south africa and then t tanzania. the white house is monitoring news of mandela's health very carefully and no doubt, they are making room for contingencies and we expect when the president heads to south africa we can see the tone of some of his events change. this morning he's on schedule meeting with the president. he'll then give a press conference with the president. and visit the supreme court of this nation before heading to gory island. his message here in africa is one about the economy but he chose senegal because it's an example of a democratic nation in africa. the president replaced an incumbent who tried to change the constitution to serve a third term. that obviously wasn't successful so president obama emphasizing rule of law and democratic principles here in senegal today. >> thank you very much for the report. >>> as we've been watching it was a dramatic day in the george zimmerman trial. one witness taking the stand, the last person to speak with trayvon martin. 19-year-old rachel gentel was on the phone mome