he isk leahy has said looking for changes. he said they got a little bit out of their rating on this. this is problematic for the intelligence committee. this shows he is an independent. >> they brought up the issue of immigration and gun control. where are both of these issues? overgun-control he said is with. he sees immigration as still life. even though it is now out of his hands, he is still going to work really hard at communicating with members of the house and trying to get the product to the president does. >> thank you for being with us here. we appreciate it. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] the national governor association is beating up their meeting today. we will bring you live coverage on the role of cybersecurity. 12:15 p.m. eastern here on c-span. later you can watch ron paul at this year's young americans for liberty convention. whistleblowers like edward snowden and bradley manning. here is a look. isk is howgest sluggish will t

others senator leahy and for their support. i hope others will join that effort. we are grateful for the

it may include chairman leahy. mr. jennifer, of the aclu, will testify and speculate later that if i had 40 contacts, that would mean that for my name, you would accumulate 2 million phone records. 2 million. for one inquiry. multiply that by 300. we're talking about 600 million

i'm proud to say that i am introducing my bill with the support of chairman blakey -- leahy. senator feinstein and i might have some overlap in our purchase. i will be happy to work with her. i like to focus my questions on transparency. after mr. snowden's

there are thousands of privacy breaches stunned many members of congress, including senator patrick leahy of vermont. >> i want to know if -- whether it's n.s.a. or anybody else that's made a mistake, we ought to know that. if they're tapping into people's telephones where they have no right to, we ought to know that. >> reporter: almost 20 billions are already pending in congress to limit the surveillance program, to protect american calls and e-mails, and to ins the n.s.a. reports to

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to senator leahy, that's a distinction without a difference.e're also talking about delivery of some military items including some apache helicopters and f-16 fighters, that's previously been reported by other outlets. and lots of economic support be funds, it's a complicated account, but basically some of them, the ones that will go directly to benefit the egyptian government, are not being programmed and dispersed and, in fact, being suspended. meanwhile, a couple of items still are flowing; spare parts for the egyptian military, some economic support funds that go to american ngos in the country can still continue, although there really aren't that many american ngos doing many things in the middle of this egyptian crisis. >> josh rogin was the reporter that broke that story in the daily beast. the hill newspaper write that is the white house denies it's quietly suspending military aid to egypt, that it's evaluating aid and that the administration will reach out to congress once a decision's been made on how to move forward. again, that is f

accuses el baradei of quote but trail of trust meanwhile the office of for months senator patrick leahy told the daily beast on monday that military aid to egypt has been temporarily cut off now this is quite a different narrative from what we are hearing from the white house itself which says that aid is under review particularly military aid but it is not currently on hold now to be clear technically technically the administration's rhetoric is not completely amiss the five hundred eighty five million dollars of promised aid to the egyptian military in fiscal year two thousand and thirteen is not due until september thirtieth so it could still happen if things there settle down i guess and while all of this is going on clashes still happen in the streets of cairo on a near daily basis at least one thousand people have died hundreds of others have been injured and there are still no signs of an end to this bloodshed and these protests to talk more in depth about the crisis in egypt and what it means for the u.s. and the region moving forward earlier i was joined by bill true she was in

eastern also on c-span. " isoining us on "newsmakers senator patrick leahy. .hanks for joining us joining us for the questioning, phil mattingly, of bloomberg news. and legal affairs for cq roll call. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for being here. >> your committee has been at the center of two of the biggest debates, guns and immigration. as we head into this recess, i'd like to know what your personal top priorities are for the remainder of the year. -having a lot of quiet -- i've been having a lot of quiet meetings with members of the house. to get something on the president's. hearing this week, is getting nsa information on americans, i don't think there is enough transparency. i intend to work for some limitations and have the american people have a better idea how the secret court, the fisa court works. i want to do a number of other things. senator corner of texas and i are working on a way to get forensic labs. if somebody is going to be charged with a crime, and there is dna evidence, there is at least certain standards so we do not have some of the terrible this takes w

now, leahy says we cut off the aid. pretty soon we're going to have to renew the aid. >> predictions pat. >> in the wake of two black on white murders this week immigration tensions. >> mort. >> the weak economy in terms of employment and employment is going to continue to be the dominant issue for the rest of the year. >> michelle. >> school choice is going to be the education issue of the 21st century, the most important issue. >> russia's demographic demise will soon be seen as a total falsification. 23 years ago the birth rate was 1.2. today it is 1.7. midway between western europe's 1.5 and america's 1.9. no wonder putin seems a little cocky. russia has more babies than western europe. bye-bye! >>> a new approach could get more of oakland's african-american boys graduating high school instead of dying young. >> if you had not received the kind of support as a by that you are providing to these african-american boys at this school where would you be today? >> i'd be in san quentin, or dead. >> black men are teaching

now, leahy says we cut off the aid. pretty soon we're going to have to renew the aid. >> predictions pat. >> in the wake of two black on white murders this week immigration tensions. >> mort. >> the weak economy in terms of employment and employment is going to continue to be the dominant issue for the rest of the year. >> michelle. >> school choice is going to be the education issue of the 21st century, the most important issue. >> russia's demographic demise will soon be seen as a total falsification. 23 years ago the birth rate was 1.2. today it is 1.7. midway between western europe's 1.5 and america's 1.9. no wonder putin seems a little cocky. russia has more babies than western europe. bye-bye!

now, leahy says we cut off the aid. pretty soon we're going to have to renew the aid. >> predictions pat. >> in the wake of two black on white murders this week immigration tensions. >> mort. >> the weak economy in terms of employment and employment is going to continue to be the dominant issue for the rest of the year. >> michelle. >> school choice is going to be the education issue of the 21st century, the most important issue. >> russia's demographic demise will soon be seen as a total falsification. 23 years ago the birth rate was 1.2. today it is 1.7. midway between western europe's 1.5 and america's 1.9. no wonder putin seems a little cocky. russia has more babies than western europe. bye-bye! ♪ >>> this week on "wealthtrack" an award winning financial planner explain why they're building up their global real estate holdings. third avenue real estate value funds' jason wolf and gerstein fisher's gregg fisher on the opportunities of real estate around the world, next on "consuelo mack wealthtrack." >> new york life

patrick leahy of vermont of the subcommittee is saying earlier today the obama administration has decided to cut military aid to egypt after two weeks of violence between the egyptian military, police and security forces and the muslim brotherhood in 1,000 people have been killed and david carle says the senator's understanding is the egyptian paula terry has been halted and said deputy press secretary disagrees dance the human of questions from the white house press corps before he finally declared fellow democrats patrick leahy is flat out wrong. >> it is important for you and your readers to understand providing foreign assistance you cannot turn it off fraud or up and down but it is provided so those staunches are under review it has not been cut off but is under review. >> it could describe the obama foreign policy itself and its defense firm on the senator's claim telling fox news that the state department subcommittee was told the transfer of military aid was stopped. it started by conspicuously announcing a previously unscheduled cabinet level meeting today to discuss cutting aid

i have a history with senator leahy and senator schumer.e perfect message since columbine. 2008. it's 15 years ago while political figures haven't been able to get anything done. mayor bloomberg is putting his money where his mouth is. he has become the single most important person in the country on this issue. he is the guy putting his money where his mouth is. i think it's very unfortunate for senators leahy and schumer who i like very much to be misplacing their criticism here. i think bloomberg has done a remarkable job. >> here here, julian and mark, thank you both. coming up, we introduce a mini series that only a five-week congressional vacation could possibly inspire. we'll explain in a moment. ♪ there's a new way to fight litter box odor. introducing tidy cats with glade tough odor solutions. two trusted names, one amazing product. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lun

the office of vermont senator patrick leahy told the daily beast that military aid to egypt has been temporarily cut off something that the white house says is simply not true they say that it is under review but not currently on hold now to be clear technically technically the white house is right the five hundred eighty five million dollars of promised aid to the egyptian military is not due until september thirtieth so it still could go to the egyptian military if things calm down before then and while all of this is going on protests are still happening in the streets of cairo though they have been much calmer these past three days and if you're wondering why that is that's because of a nationwide curfew that is in effect forcing people off the streets at night bell true is in cairo and she describes that government imposed curfew. well right now we're actually on the government imposed because p. which means the close of the country everyone is at home holed up in that living room always leads to the screen to see what the lace is happening in egypt has been a quiet few days if

here's senator patrick leahy on the voting rights issue.video clip] this was not a state acting like they were open to negotiation or any effort to make sure all the problems they had with voting could be fixed. andhoping we can go back have a new voting rights act consistent with the supreme court. the supreme court is sharply divided. five people decided that after an hour of hearing argument, they understood this better than the hundreds of hearings, hundreds of hours. people said, you must have gotten it wrong. .e're going to change it --n then, the chief justice there still will be voting rights violations. host: the full interview coming up at the top of the hour on "newsmakers." what do you want to hear from lawmakers? barb is joining us on the line for democrats. i saw the newspaper hear about how much we are spending on defense and health care. health care implementation is taking a lot of time and money. whatever is going on is ridiculous and i would like them to concentrate on a solution. i don't really have a political party. i

military aid on thursday both vermont senator patrick leahy and kentucky senator rand. paul told the hill that they want president obama to freeze all military aid to egypt referencing the president's announcement yesterday that the u.s. had canceled its upcoming joint military exercises the egyptian armed forces leahy said while suspending joint military exercises as the president has done is an important step our law is clear aid to the egyptian military should cease unless they restore democracy president obama said today that he's reassessing that aid to egypt and so first of all i'm just curious each one of your thoughts on this friend cheska let me begin with i've been very vocal about how we need to suspend aid to egypt to the death have been ridiculous and as you said calls from the left and the right senator john mccain has also said suspend aid to egypt ted cruz it's very rare when you have that many people from all sorts of the spectrum who are on the same who are on the same page on this issue on the other hand maybe not on the other hand but as another piec

it is beneath the office he holds. >> coming up, "washington journal." " with patrickers leahy. we will be live in milwuakie for the final day of the national governors' association summer meeting. what are the milestone years for first ladies through history? mrs.ld say, certainly, adams, her period, the first to live in the white house, very opinionated, bright lady, capable lady. on a more social side, dolley madison, the melodrama of the burning of the house. then you have other first ladies but you go through a period for there are not many first lady's. i would take it up from there to harriet lane, president buchanan's niece. , that was thebers grandest whitehouse that ever happened. -- more with williams eale seale tonight at 8:00. >> we have never known what to do with our first ladies, and that is particularly true in recent times. on the one hand, they are expected to have causes. you cannot imagine a first lady today without a cause. and the other hand, those causes are not permitted to intrude upon law making, or an official it has been a tight rope. seeing how thes

an aide to democratic senator patrick leahy said the senator was told, quote, the transfer of military aid was stopped already by the obama administration in private. hit with a barrage of questions, white house spokesman josh earnest said that's not true, and danced around whether leahy's office was wrong. >> i haven't seen the whole statement, so i am not making a declaration. i will tell you our aid continues to be under review. >> reporter: a debate over semantics, just as the administration won't say there was a coup in egypt because doing so would force the u.s. by law to cut off aid. >> why won't the administration be transparent with the american people and the world when the entire world can see the military came in, took out a democratically elected president. >> and what i am saying to you, something that's available to anybody that seeks answer to this question, we made the determination that making a decision about whether or not a coup occurred is not in the best interest of the united states. >> reporter: a new pole from pew research shows the public is frustrated with t

the daily beast first reported today that, according to vermont senator patrick leahy's ovation the obama administration has suspended assistance temporarily. white house spokesman josh earnest insisted that was not true. >> this is part of a complex and broad relationship that we have with the egyptians. that review that the president ordered to early july has not concluded and reports to the contrary that -- published reports to the contrary that suggest that assistance to egypt has been cut off are not accurate. >> but leahy's office stood by its claim in a statement saying the state department and foreign operations appropriations subcommittee was told that the transfer of military aid was stopped, that this is current practice, not necessarily official policy, and there is no occasion of how long it will last. meanwhile administration cabinet members met at the white house this afternoon to discuss the egypt aid question further. >> for more on how much influence the u.s. and other nations have on the uncertain situation in egypt, i'm joined by talrak massu from the john f. kennedy s

it may include chairman leahy. willennifer, of the aclu, testify and speculate later that if i had 40 contacts, that would mean that for my name, you would accumulate 2 million phone records. 2 million. for one inquiry. multiply that by 300. we're talking about 600 million phone records. multiply that times seven years. what has been described as a discrete program, to go after people who would cause us harm, when you look at the reach of this program, it envelops a substantial number of americans. can somebody help me with the math here question mark have i missed something along the way the way? >> i would be happy to follow up in any detail that you'd like. first and foremost, analysts are charged with providing information that is useful. in that regard, they try to be judicious about choosing when to do a second or third hop. those are always exercised. they do not always exercise a second half for all numbers provided by the first top. theoretically, 40 times 40 times 40 get you to a large number. what we see

now senator patrick leahy said maybe it was involved in one, but when you look at the details of how programs were used, it has not stopped nearly the number that some intelligence officials have been claiming. >> yeah, and they've been -- there are many of them who have been careful to say understand this program and other programs we have stopped 54 terrorist attacks. there are some members of congress who have not been very careful and have bordered on giving false testimony to the american people and we should take a close look at that. but yeah, i think those who are careful and cautious about what they say realize that it's not this particular collection of phone records, mass collection of phone records that is doing the work here. >> i spoke to glenn greenwald on this program last night. he pointed out that high level government officials leak classified information all the time if it suits their interest, and nothing seems to happen to them. yet people with no status, no political connections like bradley manning or edward snoeden or lower level officials, they leak informat

yesterday during a senate judiciary committee hearing committee chairman patrick leahy questioned ifve helped thwart the terrorist attacks that the nsa claims they have. >> this program is not effective and i want has to end. the government is collecting information on millions of innocent americans based on an interpretation on this statute that on its face does not authorize this bulk collection. what's it going to be next? when is enough enough? >> becoming clear that the president and congress need to propose some sort of reform because the whole thing is going to come undone if they are not but what are the chances of that happening. let's bring back our gaggle. perry, it is like i said it is clear, patrick leahy was responding to the nsa put out all this public information, look at all this terrorist that was thwarted. seriously? this smells like the white house trying to float what can they come up with. >> look at the guest list. richard supported everything barack obama has done until now where he's been very critical of the nsa program. i think you're seeing -- this issue t

i say is jim and leahy mentioned the difference in the utility of the programs, but what i say to you is that each and every program and tool is valuable. there were gaps prior to 9/11, and what we have collectively tried to do, the members of the committee, other members of the other oversight committees, the executive branch, and the intelligence community is we have tried to close those gaps and close the seams. in the business record 215 is one of those programs that we have closed those seams. i respectfully say to the chairman that the utility of that specific program, initially, is not as valuable. i say you are right, but what i say is it plays a crucial role in closing the gaps and seams that we fought hard to gain after the 9/11 aphaks. as you mentioned, another instance, when we used the business record 215 program, as chairman leahy mentioned, so initially, the fbi opened a case in 2003, based on a tip. we investigated that tip. found no nexus to terrorism and closed the case. in 2007, the nsa advised us, through the business report 215 program, that a number in san diego

utah, rand paul, patrick leahy, and dick durbin have spearheaded this in the senate. state the capital of punishment, has closed three prisons. the fact that they are closing prisons shows that this is a national movement. precisely what the president ought to give a speech, explain the issues, exert some pressure, and show some urgency. >> this is being driven by economics. says if a guy is caught heroin, andt of that would trigger an automatic sentence -- then conceal the amount. that is not how you do it. >> the reality of the way that this works, it is the mules who are caught, the people carrying a large quantity of drugs, and they get a huge penalty, as much doeas a kingpin. you use that as leverage. mules frequently do not have anything to tell beyond one guy. >> a federal judge says that stop and frisk, you cannot do it. blumberg says of that will increase crime across the city -- mayor bloomberg says that that will increase crime across the city. >> the judge is right. >> you have an excellent idea. we need to work and that together. there is a guy in boston

the original sources came from senator patrick leahy, the head of the committee that runs foreign aid. he said the white house told him clearly most military aid had been halted while the administration conducts its review of all u.s.-egypt aid. the white house said before and after my story came out that there's been no policy decision to issuspend the aid. they're playing a word game, have their cake and eat it, too. basically, they want to preserve the flexibility to turn the aid back on if that's what he ultimately decide do, but at the same time for now most of the aid is not flowing. that's a fact. but this is something that the white house is not ready to talk about. so it's something they're trying to parse on background. >> josh, they may not be ready to talk about it, but it's, of course, out there. right? either one of you can read it one of two ways. one, the administration is trying to keep as many cards in their hand as possible. depending how the situation nets out in egypt. the other, very unsure what the foreign policy strategy is. what's your analysis of the situatio

senator patrick leahy dismayed that no heads have rolled at the nsa. >> if a 29-year-old school dropout can come in and take out massive, massive amounts of data, it's obvious that there weren't adequate controls. has anybody been fired? >> no, sir, not yet. >> has anybody been admonished? >> sir, those investigations are under way. >> reporter: many senators who believe the programs are necessary for national security say more is needed to ensure they're conducted legally. >> i don't want the public to take our word for it. i think there's a balance here. >> reporter: the pushback goes beyond congress. at a conference in las vegas, a heckler shouted at the nsa director general alzander. >> if you disagree with what we're doing, then you should help twice as much. >> read the constitution. >> i have. you should, too. >> reporter: kelly o'donnell, nbc news, the capitol. >>> a new round of evacuations in central washington as a massive wildfire continues to grow. that blaze has burned more than 104 square miles and is only 8% contained. authorities have declared a state of emergency and t

patrick leahy lead the committee hearing said he's seen a list of terror events.ut was not convinced the nsa tactics are effective. later today president obama intends to meet with congress to discuss programs as fell as the controversy fisa courts. president obama is not done trying to reboot his economic message. first, they were called that then went behind closed doors on capitol hill yesterday. the president with sessions to rally across the middle last plan. the house speaker didn't miss an opportunity to take a dig. >> i'm not going to speak for what the president is doing or why he's doing it. if i had poll numbers as low as his, i would be out doing the same thing if i were him. if i were him. >> now, just for comparison sake here, boehner's favorability, 18%. president obama, 48%. during one of the sessions the question about the next fed chairman bubbled up. according to reports, the democratic president walked up to the microphone saying larry summers, bad choice. they were told not to believe everything they read in the huffington post. the president

the nsa plan for additional checks and balances expected to be initiated by vermont senator patrick leahy some time later this fall. richard? >> thank you so much. >>> the first settlement is reached in the penn state jerry sandusky child molestation scandal. the school signed an agreement with a 25-year-old suburban philadelphia man known as victim five. the attorneys expect to finalize settlements in 25 of the 31 cases in the coming weeks. penn state authorized some $60 million for the settlements. a jury convicted san dus key last year of 45 counts of sex abuse. he is serving a 30 to 60-year sentence behind bars. he is appealing that. >>> a city in japan has some cleaning up to do after a volcano roared to life on sunday. the volcano shot a plume of ash 16,000 feet into the air and on to a nearby city. no one was injured but people did resort to face masks and umbrellas to combat the falling ash. nbc meteorologist bill karins joins us right now. you don't want to be in that situation. tough to breathe as well. >> i would like to -- i've never seen a volcano explode. i'd love to see one

she has a much different world view than say pat leahy. are going to be those battles going on in the democratic party. i think rick and i agree on a lot of economic issues. i think on foreign policy i'm a little closer to the rand paul camp. i would guess you're a little closer to the chris christie camp. >> christie's closer to you. >> crihristie's closer to me. >> exactly. prepping for 2016. i love t it! but a strong party has two wings. the republican parte can't doesn't win 49 states anymore like we did under reagan and nixon because we have one wing right now. we need neocons, realists, people that balance each other out. and we have it, but don't forget again, the democrats have it, too, because they're going to be electing somebody who -- if they elect hillary, who's closer to the view of a neocon -- >> how does this get the gop, rick, even in a different place than the party was "in depth" 2012? >> i want to reiterate what joe said, which is the media has a fascination with how divided the republican party is and tends to ignore t

it was similar to leahy's bill. failed, but it shows congress is concerned about the surveillance program and whether they are violating privacy every >> jennifer martinez on the land hearing -- planned hearing. you can follow her on twitter. you can also read your report online at the hill. affairsn, we bring directly to you putting few in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, re-think, and conferences. all as a public service of private industry. we are c-span. we are funded by your local cable or satellite provider. you can watch us in hd. >> a look at the ways that technology and innovation is affecting latin american countries and cream growth opportunities. it is part of the international festival called the biennial of the americans. a place investment in like russia today. the system of private property and the law really has not been worked out yet. you can engage that in territories like this on a do not those that require a lot of time.l for a period of a great example for us and latin a

guest: the main critic is senator leahy. he put forward a law that is supposed to stop the menstruation from funding the military's and -- the militaries engaged in human rights violations. this -- what the military is doing in the streets of egypt is not something we want to support. or our critics in congress but also in the human rights community and inside the administration. there are a lot of people who feel very bad about what is going on in egypt and believe it should be suspended because we do not want to have the blood of the egyptian people on our hands but also because his could be used as a piece of leverage, a piece of pressure to get you magician military -- to get the egyptian military to stop its policy of arresting islamists and killing protesters on the street. what role would congress play in this, if any? candy the administration do this without construing -- without consulting congress? the problem is congress has not been passing appropriation bills for quite some time now. they are not very effective

senator patrick leahy dismayed no heads are rolled at the nsa. >> a 29-year-old school dropout can come in and take out massive, massive amounts of data. it's obvious there weren't adequate controls. has anybody been fired? >> no, sir, not yet. >> has anybody been admonished? >> sir those investigations under way. >> many senators believe the programs are necessary for national security say more is needed to ensure they're conducted legally. >> i don't want the public to take our word for it always. i think there's a balance here. >> reporter: the pushback goes beyond congress. in a conference in las vegas. a hecklers heckled. >> read the constitution. >> i have. you should, too. >> kelly o'donnell. nbc news, the capitol. >>> and outside of our "first look" scrambled politics. the arizona and minnesota are the first state to legalize snej. senator rand paul is offering to bury the hatchet with chris kisskiss chris chris christi. >> i try to keep things in a less personal way. with governor christi it's gotten to personal. we're ready to kiss and make up. >> senator paul offered to smoot

senator patrick leahy dismayed that no heads have rolled at the nsa. >> for a 29-year-old school dropout to come in and take out massive, massive amounts of data, it is obvious that there weren't adequate controls. has anybody been fired? >> no, sir, not yet. >> has anybody been admonished? >> sir, those investigations are under way. >> reporter: many senators believe the programs are necessary for national security, and say more is needed to ensure they're conducted legally. >> i don't want the public to take our word for it. i think there is a balance here. >> reporter: the pushback goes beyond congress. today, the conference in las vegas, a heckler shouted at nsa director general alexander. >> if you disagree with what we're doing, then you should help twice as much. >> read the constitution! >> i have. you should too. >> reporter: and tomorrow at least a half dozen members of congress are headed to the white house, invited by the president to talk about the issues as congress considers adjustments to these programs, but would keep them in operation. brian? >> kelly o'donnell on the h

senator leahy has said from the beginning that he thinks aid should be cut.he said this as soon as the military deposed morsi back in july and he is saying that it is a coup when the current aid scheduled to run through september 30 is completed that they will not get any more government -- money from the united states and the white house is saying that they are still trying to figure out the situation and the sequester has impact died the aid and it goes through american arms manufacturers who build the weapons that are then provided to the egyptian military so that is how sequester defense cuts would affect the aide. >> let's talk about how the aid would effect egypt and what's going on there. would it effect the? >> i don't think it would materially. the certainly, already both states and saudi arabia are very supportive of the egyptian military and they are providing a lot of money. they are certainly filling in any hole from the eu decision to suspend aid may have had on the egyptian regime. i do not think you would have much of a material impact althoug

vermont senator patrick leahy says tv ads by mayor michael bloomberg turned people off to new reforms. that's going to do it for your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> heavy rain in central kansas caused widespread flashed flooding. an assisted living facility and hundreds of other residents had been evacuated. a flash flood warning sish used through monday morning. now for a look another the weather, here is nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. all that water, is it going to continue? >> they're going to get more rain. the flash flood warnings are in effect for today. it only takes two feet of water to sweep a car away. that's why these warnings are issued to remind people don't drive into those, what look like puddles because they could be much deeper than you expect. back through kansas we're seeing more rain, also southern missouri and arkansas. minneapolis seeing torrential downpours with those thunderstorms moving into northeastern iowa. we are looking at the threat of perhaps up to three inches of rain in minneapolis and down across southeastern kansas, southern missouri and n

it was similar to leahy's bill. it failed but it was a really close vote so it shows that congress is really concerned about the surveillance programs and whether they are violating americans' privacy. >> jenifer martinez writes for "the hill" reporting today. you can follow her on twitter. reporting at jenmartinez, and read her reporting online at the hill". online. later today minnesota senator amy klobuchar speaks to democrats in iowa. she's a keynote speaker there. according to the des moines register she'll be the first democratic hopeful to visit iowa for a possible 2016 presidential campaign. you can listen on c-span radio or watch online at c-span.org. >> tonight on c-span's encore presentation of first ladies. >> she was very proud of her husband, no question about that. she supported all of his decisions. once again she was a very private person. so it was fine for her husband to be in politics. it was fine for him to go to washington and be in the senate, be in congress, but she didn't want to be part of

patrick leahy has said he is he said the changes. nsa got out of their lane on this. this is problematic for the hiselligence committee. willingness as a leader and chairman to take this position shows that he is an independent in the senate. >> they brought up the issue of immigration and gun control. where are both of these issues? >> gun-control he said is over with. he sees immigration as still life.-- alive. even though it is now out of his hands, he is still going to work really hard at communicating with members of the house and trying to get the final product to the president does.-- president's desk. >> thank you for being with us here. we appreciate it. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] i've been pushing for this in the senate, that we would move cybersecurity legislation. it is complicated. network cybersecurity means different things to different people, but we need to get this done. is for -- as hard as it me to say. they have passed some of this. we need to look at what they h