dianne feinstein was now mayor. >> i was home.ned on the radio and i heard people gathering at city hall and there were certain signs of unrest. some rocks had been thrown. so i returned to city hall. and watched this crowd transfix into a mob. >> reporter: the crowd smashed city hall windows. someone torched a police car. then another, soon nine cop cars were ablaze sirens whaling. police officers with orders not to further insight the demonstration became targets. in the castro district, a group of so called rogue cops broke into a gay bar. in two hours it's anger spent. the next day would be the late harvey mill's birthday celebration but the fires of determination continued to burn among activists. >> in some ways it was bigger than george and harvey milk because it set the stage for other things to come for the gay community becoming very enpowered. >> reporter: many say those days helped san francisco. dianne feinstein's career flourished she went on to the u.s. senate but says nothing good can come of assassination. >> i th

reform senator leahy and senator feinstein senator feinstein has received three times as much campaign cash from intelligence contractors like general dynamics and northrop government than senator leahy has course that might explain her efforts to help the n.s.a. caught by its illegal surveillance and her fake reform bill joining me now to talk more about the shady political dealings behind n.s.a. reform is lisa graves attorney and executive director of the center for media and democracy. so let's start by asking a question which likely doesn't even need to be asked do you think senator feinstein's generous contributions from the surveillance industry might have something to do with this gift legislation she's pushing through the senate for the . well there certainly is a striking contrast between the amount i'm going to receive from intelligence and military contractors compared with senator leahy but i would say that senator feinstein seems to have been captured and i'd be very intelligent to be conducting oversight over you know one of the things that's most striking is that senator

lat late-breaking news that senator dianne feinstein challenged a bill that would allow americans to keep their health care. joining me now, host of "power play." start with di-fi, as she is known. chris, why is it significant that dianne feinstein who is not up for re-election is now throwing her support behind this bill by senator mary landrieu to allow americans to keep their health care. what is going on? >> the fact she is joining a call from what began as looked like a desperation pass from a red-state democrat, bound for electoral defeat, the drum beat is on, and bill clinton, today, has successfully pushed president obama way out on the ledge on this. because if the president were to allow and sign into law what is being described here, it would tend to eviscerate the effect of his law, which is intended to radically transform the insurance industry in america. >> the white house was asked whether they -- because the president last week referenced a fix, some sort of a fix that he is having his advisers look into. but the white house was asked today would that include a chang

the chairwoman of the committee senator dianne feinstein a fierce n.s.a. supporter touted the legislation known as the prize improvements act saying she believes the reforms in the bill are prudent responsible and meaningful but critics of the bill say it falls well short of meaningful reform and they say that it actually gives the n.s.a. more legal protections to conduct its bulk collection of communication records under section two fifteen of the patriot act edward snowden's leaks revealed a secret reinterpretation of section two fifteen of the patriot act by the n.s.a. and the fai's a court that gave the n.s.a. enormous power to collect americans phone records in the feinstein bill rule will remove this program section two fifteen program for murky legal grounds and officially codified into law electronic frontier foundation called the bill disingenuous saying don't be fooled the bill codifies some of the n.s.a.'s worst practices would be a huge setback for everyone's privacy and it would permanently entrenched in his collection of every phone record he

feinstein bill or move this program from murky legal grounds and officially codified into law. electronic frontier foundation called the bill disingenuous saying don't be fooled. the bill caught up on some of the industry's worst practices would be a huge setback for everyone's privacy and it would firmly entrenched and says collection of every phone record held by us telecoms this is not an essay reform bill is an nsa entrenched its bill. and senator mark udall has been critical of the nsa argued this is an ongoing basis surveillance of americans' private information does not respect our constitutional values and needs fundamental reform. not incidental changes portion of the bill passed by the senate intelligence committee does not go far enough to address this is overreaching domestic surveillance programs senator you're no instead supports a bill introduced earlierhis week by senator patrick leahy and by congressman jim sensenbrenner in the house. the bipartisan bill. there were altogether and use this ability conduct ball clutching the phone records. trees in the coming we

oh and up so i began eating and this is breaking the set so it seems senator dianne feinstein a change of heart this week went from being a cheerleader for the n.s.a. to calling for a top to bottom review of the agency in the wake of the spying on allies leak and just yesterday feinstein put forth a bill that will lead to the reform the spy agency's surveillance practices that then i read the fine print the bill basically leaves the bulk metadata collection untouched and codified is the practice is already put in place well so they need senator nice three sixty on that one looks like the same old dianne frankenstein to me having a belated haul that we never won let's go back to set. the peace. it was a. very hard to take. your. life that had sex with the terror threat there. so a lot has changed and the world learned about n.s.a. spying foreign leaders are outraged public protests are grown. but there is one thing that hasn't changed at all and it's a spine all day every day thankfully activists here in the u.s. are also taking to the streets at a recent rally called stop watching us p

entrenchment act from senator feinstein you know we're seeing the institutions. and that of course makes it all the more compelling and exciting it was so incredible i think years ago you would never see people on the street protesting the patriot act so it's amazing to see people out of their computers into the public sphere demanding to repeal the patriot act stop warranted blanket spying with the n.s.a. it was really really amazing and you mentioned the art music and that was one of the most captivating things i think the incredible unification with the signs just incredible you know everything that we're looking at here is so beautiful you know i mean all the all that materials and of course the bands you perform there why did choose to incorporate this into the rally to make sure that it resonates beyond the people who understand the value of privacy social movements in our country have always been rooted in culture beyond policy and so that was the idea with the bands was to speak to different folks who might not necessarily care as much about the n.s.a. bu

feinstein said.. >> as i understand it, you can keep it up to the time, i hope this is correct but this is what i have been told, up to the time the bill was enacted, then, after that it's a different story. i think that part of it, if true, was never made clear. >> oh, that part was never made clear. well, that's true. it wasn't. but as far as our research can tell, few, if any health insurances are grandfathered. in they all have to comply. all of them with the affordable healthcare mandates i hope that helps senator feinstein. joining us from washington mary katharineham and juan williams. both fox news analysts. you are one of the biggest apologists of obamacare. you are. >> you are one of the biggest attackers. i grant you good faith. i say you are a good faith man. >> no, no, no. i recognize there are some parts of the law that are are good. i just think that they could have been done in the private sector and now we are seeing what the government is capable of doing, which is throwing the whol

so i began you know and this is breaking the set so it seems senator dianne feinstein had a change of heart this week and she went from being a cheerleader for the n.s.a. to calling for a top to bottom review of the agency in the wake of the spying on allies leak and just yesterday feinstein put forth a bill that will lead to the reform the spy agency surveillance practices that then i read the fine print the bill basically leaves the bulk metadata collection untouched and codified as the practice is already put in place. well they need senator nice three sixty on that one looks like the same old diane frankenstein to me happy belated hall when everyone let's go back to set. the bar. it was a. very hard to get. the trigger. happy ever had sex with her but they're looking. to cut cut. cut cut. cut. cut cut cut. cut. cut. so a lot has changed since the world learned about n.s.a. spying foreign leaders are outraged public protests are growing but there is one thing that hasn't changed at all and has a spine all day every day thankfully activists here in the u.s. are also taking it to the

feinstein: thank you very much. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. feinstein: thank you very much, mr. president. mr. president, i rise to support the levin-mccain amendment and have added my name as a cosponsor. i'd also like to speak in support of provisions authored by chairman levin that are in this year's defense authorization act which provide more flexibility for the president and secretary of defense need in order to move detainees from guantanamo. i strongly support the levin-mccain-feinstein amendment. here's what it would do. it would clarify that guantanamo detainees transferred to the united states for law of war detention do not have any additional rights or benefits such as the right to claim asylum. so it limits it. it would clarify that gitmo detainees transferred to the united states may not be released from law of war detention into the united states. and, thirdly, it would require a detailed plan to be submitted to congress on how to close guantanamo, including the specific

general >> claro que haría una ley pero hay un candado en el congreso para estas medidas, agregó feinstein dijo que el incidente revela lo fácil de llevar un arma a un aeropuerto >> federación de empleados solicitó guardas armados, dicen que quienes revisan prefieren no portar armas ellos mismos. el agresor paremanece en el hospital, pero dicen que tomó una decisión consciente al disparar a los agentes >> la última vez que se discutió el control de armas fue tras la matanza de newtown. estaremos pendientes >> es un debate que se repite. estudiante de 21 años resultó herido en incidente con arma de fuego. policía de glensboro dijo que se produjo cuando una o más personas abrieron fuego >> the new york times dijo que venezuela integraba en 2007 una lista de objetivos prioritarios para el espionaje. los otros países eran china, corea del norte, irán, iraq y rusia. según memorando publicado por edward snowden >> alcalde de toronto en centro del escándalo por presunto consumo de drogas, pero dijo que continuará en su puesto. se dijo que hay copia de video donde aparece con una pipa fumando crac

miss feinstein has been a traditional defender of the nsa. but she says she did not know of the monitoring of miss merkle neither did susan collins, a 17 year veteran of the u.s. senate. >> absolutely no justification for our country should be collecting intelligence information on the leaders of some of our closest allies. >> the reports of nsa spying, by the way, all flow from the studious work by former nsa contractor, edward snowden. >> the national security agency took the unusual step thursday of denying a report that'ves drop on the vatican phone calls and may have tapped in on pope francis before he was elected. what are you making up? is this a church, state issue? >> you got in on the consistent, the ones that depict the new pope, john? >> who knows. saved a lot of money. those guys have not done anything that was not known to the national security council and the white house and the idea of blaming these guys who are doing the job they were signed to do and oh my goodness, for miss feinstein, that there's a touch of hypocrisy here.

. >> do we believe that diane feinstein is incapable of holding a secret interrogation, an interview of these folks?

think feinstein's trying to ward it off -- patrick leahy, there's sensenbrenner in the house, there's -- >> especially pushing legislation to stop the nsa from data collection. to let the aclu basically argue why certain things shouldn't be done, and to really handcuff our intelligence services the way that happened in the 1970s which indirectly led up to our failures that led to 9/11. >> how big a danger is that, mary? >> well, it's -- i think it's possible that, you know, you're going to get the momentum but it's incredibly naive. i mean, you know, as if -- if the u.s. stops doing this, then it won't be happening anymore. if the u.s. stops doing it, then the only ones doing it will be the chinese, the russians. you know, the brazilians. the cubans. and probably the germans and the french. the idea that by banning the u.s. from doing it, you can somehow stop the spying world is crazy. >> all right, mary o'grady, thank you. >>> when we come back, our election day preview from a pair of high-profile governors races to some controversial ballot measures. we'll tell you what's at stake i

people like dianne feinstein and patrick leahy who were adamantly opposed to taking away the minority's rights who knew, they have been in the other role. they changed because they said enough is enough. that is why you saw the change. look, democrats who are now in the majority have said we get it, we are going to be in the minority one day, we are going to be in the position where we are going to want to filibuster and we won't be able to do it. but they are arguing that they have no choice. obstructionism is so bad that it can't get any worse than it is now. >> jeff, just do a fact check for us. how much -- how worse is it now than it was under president bush or president clinton?

senator feinstein's bill is an effort to codified the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of americans telephone records which is in fact on shaky legal footing right now and there's another program that's being legalized in this bill which has not gotten as much attention as it really should which is the back door searches of international communications and so what has been happening is that the n.s.a. is allowed under the files and limits act to go collect huge amounts of communications of people who are suspected to be foreigners overseas without any individual warrant because they are foreigners overseas what ends up happening is the n.s.a. scoops a lot of communications between people overseas and americans and also ends up scooping a lot of purely domestic communications of americans into that pile as well these are all communications americans communications that the n.s.a. would need an individualized order court order or warrant to look at under ordinary circumstances oh another sign of the vaastu of a growing reach of the national security agenc

senator feinstein's bill is an effort to codified the n.s.a.'s of both collection of americans telephone records which is in fact on shaky legal footing right now and there's another program that's being legalized in this bill which has not gotten as much attention as as it really should which is the back door searches of international communications and so what has been happening is that the n.s.a. is allowed under the phys ed limits act to go collect huge amounts of communications of people who are suspected to be foreigners overseas without any individual or it because they are foreigners overseas but one of the well the well one group is fighting to restore the privacy of e-mails they call themselves the dark mail alliance and they've created an encrypted spy proof platform phillips imerman the president and co-founder of silent circle told r.t. about his bid to resist surveillance. we're trying to restore the privacy. that we feel that has been lost by pervasive surveillance email is intercepted by intelligence agencies all around the world

intelligence community and the congress about just what ought to be disclosed and i think senator feinstein is going down exactly the right path which is to do dramatically more oversight on some of our foreign operations because later we have a lot greater transparency in perspective at least from an oversight point of view on what goes on domestically we also have the safeguard of the pfizer court even though that court can be improved but in terms of overseas operations those operations are conducted under an executive authority called twelve triple three we need to do a much better job of oversight philosophically speaking adam don't you think that the american public that it runs against the psyche of the american public to tap phones. well you know i think it certainly raises the most fundamental privacy concerns among the american people no one wants to have their phone tapped at the same time and as speaking as a former prosecutor i think americans are completely comfortable with the idea that when appropriate due process like in a criminal case where you suspect someone is involved

>> senator feinstein also had the intelligence committee. she said she thought we should continue. this is going to lead to what often happens in the senate which is nothing? >> i disagree with the legislation. i can tell you right now i will not vote for the status quo. it makes usnk safer. we have seen because of the leaks in some cases we look silly by what we have collected. i would rather have us more specific about what we do. we use very good intelligence. superbble to get intelligence. a lot of it was very specific human intelligence based on what has come out publicly. >> one more quick question on reform legislation. do you think the senate intelligence committee has the credibility to push forward a reform package given that it oversaw this program for a number of years? >> i will let you asked them that question. i am sure they will be anxious to answer. we have a basic disagreement on this idea. oh like two things. i would like more the opinions to be made public. they support the idea. they would like to make it public. a closede kind of door. i like to have an advoca

and it's been an amazing partner of this department and for the city it was 0 started in 1983 by feinstein. it was to teach our children job ready in essence and helping them to understand the land. they've been a fantastic partner and in recognition of their 30th anniversary and all the amazing work we don't talk about we do with the san francisco conservatism core i want to bring up a colleague to make a short presentation about this presentation >> thanks phil. good morning, commissioners. many of you know b about the sf cc but i'm going to make a presentation we were founded in 83 with mayor feinstein and the primary purpose is to serve protecting 18 to 26-year-old folks. all our young people come voluntarily to our program who want to have a better future. the program we provide we provide a charter high school job readiness and career demonstrate services and case management and one year of posting program support to make sure their post core is successful and the second puff purpose is to provide high quality environment work such as the rec and park to name a few. with regard to re

like lindsey graham, or dianne feinstein. she spent her time defending the program.hen asked do you have any questions, and she would say no, no, questions. >> but you had questions for general alexander. >> of course. they are going to give us a sit-down interview, so we'll caught him in different places. and we caught him so many times that he spoke arabic to us, because of the al jazeera people. but he does give us some substantive answers, and those are in the piece. >> something that is left out of the final show is your exposing yourself to this sort of surveillance. tell me what you did. >> i went up to mit, there is a professor who if you give them your email and pass word it goes through and analyzes all of your relationships over years and years. i have had an email accounted with gmail and it looked at hundreds and thousands of emails that i have had. and it has a time line at the bottom and the biggest relationships are bigger dots -- and you can see them change over time like a word cloud. but just with the metadata. no context of the emails. but he was

senator dianne feinstein is co-sponsoring a bill to help people keep their plans. with both parties keeping up the heat, jay carney tried a little damage control yesterday. >> i think as you saw the president say in an interview with nbc last week, the answer is yes, the president has tasked his team with looking at a range of options, as he said, to make sure that nobody is put in a position where their plans have been cancelled and they can't afford a better plan even though they'd like to have a better plan. >> so it appears the damage is done. at least when it comes to the president's credibility. a new quinnipiac poll finding more than 50% of people do not think the president is trustworthy. joining me now is ranking member of the house committee on homeland security, mississippi democratic congressman bennie thompson. sir, it's good to have you here. i know you just stepped away from the hearing of security of personal information about the federal website for healthcare.gov but i'd like to get your reaction for what seems to be this gathering storm for democ

it was so telling that senator dianne feinstein of california who is in an absolutely safe seat or jeff mercly, the senator from oregon said they were thinking of signing on to this interim fix. they are afraid if they lose control of the senate, they will be in the minority. dianne feinstein will lose her chairmanship. >> if sperling is right, this is just a transition, we just have to muscle it through, take the heat. that's what they're telling democrats, as i understand it. they're basically saying, look, this is going to be a rough period but you got to break a few eggs to make an omelet and this is going to be all fine by election day. why is that wrong? >> well, where's the omelet? >> it's out there. it's on the next stove. it's coming. >> if you look at the enrollment numbers that they released this week, only about 100,000 enrollments nationwide. 27,000 through the 36 federal exchanges. so i think this program is a lot more troubled than even people realized by what's been made public. so these problems are going to rand randomify over time. >> i think you have the problem wher