we heard dan pfeiffer weigh in on that. he said that clemency for edward snowden isn't under consideration at all, should it be? >> i don't know the facts. i don't know whether any information has been distributed to foreign powers. i'm concerned that the national defense director lied to congress and i haven't heard anyone talk about repercussions. we're not only spying on foreign leaders, but there are accusations that we spied on the pope as well. there are problems. we lost a lot of credibility. the only way to start fresh is someone new in charge of intelligence. >> there's also a suggestion from one of the former chiefs, in today's "new york times," in an extensive review of the entire nsa program, he said that the nsa should get out ahead of this and put out everything they knew snowden to have. do think that's a good idea? >> maybe. the fundamental question of whether or not this constitution or not, shouldn't be a secret court, it needs to get into the supreme court, with senator widen and myself, we introduced a b

but that was white house senior adviser dan pfeiffer speaking on sunday. "the new york times" published an explosive piece on sunday titled, "no morsel too minuscule for all-consuming nsa." new details about secret nsa programs and the agencies overseas surveillance based on documents leaked by snowden. "new york times" journalist scott shane writes -- "the new york times piece reveals how the nsa intercepted the talking points of view in secretary-general ban ki-moon at a meeting with president obama in april. a major eavesdropping effort focused on the climate change in 2007.e the documents also detail how the u.s. spied on iran supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei and gain the ability to scan the stream of international communications and pluck out messages tied to the supreme leader. the nsa has also been active in latin america. "the times" revealed the nsa aided the colombian army by monitoring movements of the farc rebel group using eavesdropping gear aboard a defense department plane flying 60,000 feet over columbia will stop venezuela was listed

dan pfeiffer this weekend on abc. >> our goal is to get as many people done as possible.n promise the first enrollment numbers released later this month won't be what we want them to be. there's no question the website hasn't worked the way we want it to work. >> the enrollment figures, getting ready for those numbers november 15th. but you have dianne feinstein, mike rogers, a number of lawmakers now saying, this is a real problem. >> security is starting to be one of the things we're hearing about more and more. two of my cleggs at a.p. obtained a memo from the administration that said because of insufficient testing, there was a possibility that there was a high security risk involved with this site. we're now told by the administration that those security risks have been abated. but what that memo also said was that it would take six months of mitigation efforts to ensure the security risks were not there. we don't understand how you can go from that position four days before the rollout to now saying there are no security risks. >> two things. this is not the only co

ezekiel emanuel, dan pfeiffer, and david axelrod, looking like the team rolled out over the weekend.ot there and play defense. how do they do? >> they did poorly. ezekiel emanuel, from what i've seen earlier when megyn kelly interviewed him is practically hydrophobic overdose and interrupting an injury and a fevered and he is claiming this is on the backs of the insurance companies and the problem with that is that everyone who looks at this, no matter what their politicals drive or political preference is in the media, they come to the same conclusion that this isn't the insurance companies fault, it's time to follow the law and do it a mandate and that the false narrative that is being used by the administration to try to shift the blame and it's not working and the problem is that these repeated arguments and controversies as you pointed out on the sunday shows, i'm seeing it in morning television and this might have died down and we know the basic guidelines, but it has not died down. this is about the perfect storm as i could ever imagine. >> it's kind of unbelievable to me to s

george stephanopoulos later this morning, george goes one-on-one with white house senior adviser dan pfeiffer and republican senator rand paul. >>> take a look at this extraordinary new video, a fireball roaring along power lines right in the middle of a suburban neighborhood and abc tracked down the guys who shot this video. >> reporter: when they lost power friday morning in montreal, they never expected to see this. some kind of an electrically-fueled maz, blazing down the power lines towards their house, watch again, as the oncoming surge approaches the second one that day, he had his camera ready. >> we saw this fireball barrelling down the power lines emanating an extreme amount of heat. it was so hot. >> reporter: he put the video up on youtube friday. it's racked up over 1 million hits. >> it's like a fireball. >> reporter: online users have been chiming in, calling the result of a high impetus. >> first time i have seen anything like that. i appreciate people saying, just thanking me for showing something they have never seen before. >> wow, that is frightening. >> thanks to abc's su

dan pfeiffer is described as whip smart in the book. acerbic. i wonder why? because he leaked the information. >> he's quoted as saying he wrote a memo to president obama, i can't find it here, but i can summarize it, where he basically says, sir, we're going to portray you his a reasonable person because you can't please both david brooks and paul krugman so we just have to choose. why not just go with the best policy? >> what about this rumor about this feud between reed and romney, mention that story? >> you like this one? >> i don't know if i like it. >> remember when senate majority leader reid suggested mitt romney hadn't paid his income taxes. the report it was none other than jon huntsman. and he said this book says he told harry reid that. now, the huntsman people are disputing that today. >> so far, nothing in the book is -- >> no, but what are they going to say, yes, i did it? maybe i'm just a geek. >> i think it makes sense. >> i've got to tell you, there's nothing sexier than a mormon feud. >> that's why i thought we had to let people know that "

george stephanopoulos later this morning, george goes one-on-one with white house senior adviser dan pfeiffer and republican senator rand paul. >>> all right, take a look at this extraordinary new video. this came out overnight, it's a fireball roaring along power lines right in the middle of a suburban neighborhood and abc's susan saulny tracked down the guys who shot this video. >> reporter: when the griffith family lost power friday morning in montreal, they never expected to see this. some kind of an electrically fueled mass, a fireball, blazing down the power lines toward their house. watch again, as the oncoming surge approaches, the second one that day, he had his camera ready. >> what we saw was this fireball barrelling down the power lines emanating an extreme amount of heat that forced us back inside because it was so, so hot. >> reporter: he put the video up on youtube friday. it has since gone viral. is this morning, it's already racked up more than 1 million hits. >> it was like a surge. it was literally like a fire ball, that is the only way i can describe it. >> reporter: onlin

the response from dan pfeiffer on a white house twitter account to your personal tale of what's happened to you didn't make you happy. tell us. >> i'm very, very grateful to be alive. i know how lucky and blessed i am to be alive. the two things i think that are of utmost important, the reason i'm alive today is because of my medical insurance and because of my doctors. i find myself in a very uncomfortable and very stressful situation that's a bit overwhelming. my insurance company as pulled out -- completely pulled out of the individual market in california. >> right. >> that's united health care. the largest insurer in the country. they have pulled out completely from the individual market in california. they're gone. of course my policy is gone. i have a termination note or a cancellation letter just like the other 10 to 15 million americans out there receiving these cancellation letters. so i don't have my insurance company that i love. i don't have the medical policy, the health policy that i love and trust. and now if i go in a health exchange, i have to choosedocto >> right. choo

i'm sure you're aware that dan pfeiffer, who is the president's communications chief, tweeted out a message company's to be blamed for the loss of your coverage. we've got that tweet on the air right now. what do you say to blaming the insurance companies? >> what i think that blame always does, is it turns against the person doing the blaming. when you have a crisis situation, what you need is you need to restore confidence. you need to restore confidence, you need to restore trust. and when you blame, you're doing neither. stuart: i know that you've been trying hard and fighting hard to get back the doctors who saved your life and the hospitals, the institutions which treated you. have you been successful? can you get back to the doctors who saved you? >> it's going to be incredibly difficult. i actually have two choices here. because, you know, i lost my insurance company. they are no longer writing policies in california. and then i lost my insurance policy. so i have two choices, i can go outside the government health exchange and pay for my family of four it's over double the premium

white house chief of staff dan pfeiffer tweeted that out. >> period i were promised that wouldn't havetless. dagen. it yours. dagen: thank you so much, stuart. the future of the republican party can be boiled down to two governors races to be decided tonight. one in new jersey and the other in virginia. the president trying to qualify about what he said keeping your current health plan under obamacare. who is picking up what he is putting down. >>> immigration summit underway at the white house. the administration says more than a trillion dollars is on the line with the leaders of these companies. >>> money well-spent for dodge. wait until you hear how many durangos that dude sold. all that and another anchorman is here. mr. connell mcshane on this hour of "markets now." connell: stay class sir, southern virginia. that's it. dagen mcdowell's home state and focus today. not as an exciting election as maybe, i don't know, last year but, or -- dagen: or new york city. connell: that one is pretty much a foregone conclusion unless every poll is wrong but dagen's home state of virginia we'

kerry ricker but no discussion, -- decisions reached until he takes a stroll and talks to to dan jarrett and pfeiffer. andinforms kerry, biden, hagel of the decision he has made with that trio of the diocese. >> why would you want a cabinet job? >> the pay is not bad. in that sense is barack obama does not have a jim baker. he does not have a leon panetta. he does not have an individual with the understanding of government, how it works, to help with what they call policy execution. he has people there who love him, honor him, and obey him. they do not understand how you make the machinery work. of whether the president could come out of this thing and do something on immigration, the problem turns on his credibility. next thing thehe president has to say about anything? immigration. he will have to make assertions, are those assertions going to hold up? the same way you are asking about affordable care act. what comes next with this president? that is his problem. that is the confidence question that will threaten his entire agenda. >> i think you're right. what happened with obamacare highlighted t

colleague dan pfeiffer said over the weekend, if the president did not intend to keep that promise, why did he make sure there was a provision in the law designed to keep the promise, which was the grandfathering clause? >> policies are going to change. the people here working at the white house are saying to the president, these policies are going to change. grandfathering will do no good. i can tell you what is the case. slice of the population we are talking about they get their policy coverage through the individual market in a with the upheavals market all the time, even more so than the rest of us. what happens when we are talking about the cancellation notices and the transition notices is that the people who have gotten those letters did not have -- the policy that they have today, even though it had insurance covers -- coverage three years anymore.t why? because they downgraded. or they have change significant element of the plan, probably while they jacked up the price is significant. i understand the communications issues here and this -- our focus has to be, when we talk abo

white house adviser dan pfeiffer and republican senator rand paul. the 2 p.m.t is fox news sunday, guests include dr. ezekiel emanuel. an architect of the affordable care act. seniormes cupp reddick, fellow at the ethics and public policy center along with republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina. cnn's state of the union follows at 3 p.m., candy crowley sits down with new hampshire republican senator kelly ayotte. also former house speaker newt gingrich. at four, his face and nation from cbs. host bob schieffer welcomes intelligence committee chairman democratic senator dianne feinstein and house intelligence committee chair republican congressman mike rogers. also michael hayden, his former head of the national security agency and the cia. sunday night were tv talk shows on c-span radio. it brought tears of public service by c-span. abc this week, 2 p.m. fox news sunday. 3 p.m. the state of union and at 4 p.m. eastern time facing nation from cbs. listen to them all on c-span radio. and 90.1 fm here in the washington dc area across the country on xm

on abc's "this week," dan pfeiffer was asked if there are conditions under which president obama wouldhe's seen a positive reaction to his disclosures and he wants the u.s. to stop treating help like a criminal. snowden says, quote, the people must fight against the suppression of information about issues of public significance. whoever speaks the truth is not a criminal. snowden's fate is one of the few areas these days where both parties seem to agree. on cbs' "face the nation," the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee said clemency is a terrible idea. >> if he wants to own up to the responsibility the fact that he took and stole information, he violated his oath, he did it is close disclosed classified information that has allowed three different terrorist organizations to change the way they communicate, i'd be happy to have that discussion with him. >> reporter: snowden also wants assurances germans won't turn him over. of course angela her kmerkel's government is furious at finding out the u.s. swausswau spying on it. so is there a case to be made snowden is a