a look at first lady's rachel jackson, willie donelson, and angelica. journalists report. >> president obama spoke about a range of issues including surveillance programs at nsa and u.s./russian relations. this is about 55 minutes. >> good afternoon. these have a seat. over the past few weeks thomas i've been talking about what i believe should be our number one priority in the country. building a better bargain for the middle class and for americans who want to work your way into the middle class. at the same time i am focused on my number one priority -- keeping the american people safe. been reminded once again about the threats to our nation. as i said at the national defense university, and meeting those threats we have to strike the right balance between protecting our security and our freedoms. as part of this rebalancing, i called for review of our surveillance programs. unfortunately, rather than orderly and lawful process, the , repeated leaks of classified information has initiated the debate in a very passionate but not always informed way.

>> louis donelson was there and i asked tom income to come over. i went home for lunch, went home for lunch and to tell how he was going on about 130 imacs or 2:00. and that day we were moving. we had moved. that was the day we are moving from our house into a governor's mansion. so all of our stuff was transported to the governor's mansion, except a few things. the house was cold. leslie, who is here, with sick. she was home from school that day. drew was in school that day. and she was sitting there wondering what these men were doing, you know, she said can't somebody make up somebody's mind? and so i said, well, this is what could happen. we were going to be sworn in saturday but it might happen this afternoon. and that presents a whole group of issues, you know. we talked about, the biggest constitutional issues come we don't do that in the united states. george washington said, you've got the mount vernon update, you've got the most important election is not election of the first president with the election of the second. whether we have a pe

there were complaints of whether one of the gemmer series -- donelson's role is important for a brief period of time as was wendell willkie would over a sustained period, it was hopkins but as the book also makes it clear these four men that were desperate for the approval and the engagement of roosevelt. there was a quality of, you know, almost a transactional quality. he wasn't emotionally engaged with any of these men i don't think. >> he was a ruthless person and he was to describe people and one of them was hopkins. and towards the end he had a few falling out and one of them was to you want to move out of the white house because he didn't want to have a cocktail party every day that led to a lot of problems because roosevelt lacked these and roosevelt argued on the one hand and hopkins never said goodbye to fdr and always regretted it and he got the news fdr got at the clinic where he was back for his illness. his nurse had no idea and she couldn't afford out why he was getting condolence calls from joseph stalin and winston churchill. if you look at the way he took the nation t