after 48 minutes on hold been a busy gnal and the call isropped. completely unacceptable. >> white you cancel everyone's card and reissued to everyone since none of us can get through? people would be grateful for the pro-active nature. >> target neds to do more to protect its customers data to restore confidence how come it has not gotten ahead of the news? but 22 days between the time the rip-off started in the date they said something apparently reporters were calling them fromall over the country they did not say anything they let people use the credit cards and put themselves at risk. why? trying to uphold their good name during the season? crazy. >> there are situations where of a data em preach you hear the alarm sometimes they cannot be discovered right to way. sometimes law enforcement investigates and they tell the target they dealt with their release that does not excuse the problem. gerri: target did not even find out first. they hado be td by other people in the industry. this is not a pblem on the web but in the real world that they w

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isrop in unemployment rate -- morning,ng news this federal judge rules this week that the national securitygency program that collect the records of millions of americans of phone calls is lawful. says it does not violate america's privacy rights. it is december 28, the morning and welcome to "washington journal." our topic to kick things off is the end of that extended unemployment benefits. will congress renew them when lawmakers return in january? we want to hear from you. for republicans, the number is 202-585-3881. 585-3880.rats, 202- you can also find us online a on twitter -- find us online on twitter, @cspanwj. and e-mail, we're at journal@c- span.org. the morning look at headlines. first from the front page of this morning's "new york times." the headline -- the story also making a big/in this morning's washington post -- a big slash in this morning' post."igntongton long-term unemployment is the highest since world war ii. there are 4 million people who have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer. joining us to talk about that is the hill -- is a reporter from "the hill." down fo