our final speaker before we cut the ribbon is matt o'grady, the parks alliance. it is our nonprofit partner. they are with us every step of the way advocating for better open space, for more funding for open space, for better play grounds, for more parks, and we can't do it without them. so, i want to welcome matt. i also want to call out kelly knight who is a vice president of the parks alliance board who has joined us today. i don't know if there are any other park board members here. thank you for being here. matt come on up and say a few words. >> thank you, phil. (applause) >> bear with me a second. if you're sitting, stand up. everybody do a quick 360. turn around very quickly and just look at the view from this park. just walk around and look at this view. we live in the most beautiful city in the world. today this city becomes just a little bit more beautiful. thanks to the incredible hard work that has made this new renovation a reality. the parks alliance is the independent partner to the entire city for everything having to do with parks, recreation, a

we're back with joe rago, "wall street journal" editorial board members, mary anastasia o'grady and mattamensky also joins the panel. so, mary, are you buying the claim that the white house has offered that the president didn't know that the nsa was listening in on world leaders? >> you know, paul, if the president didn't know, the u.s. is even in worse shape than we thought all along. i mean, first of all, the nsa, everything they do is supervised. this wasn't some rogue operation. this is what they do. and you know, a lot of the data we get from europe is collected in this way. >> well, by -- and also collected -- >> with the help of the europeans, yeah. so the idea that he didn't know about this suggests that he's either not being truthful, or not doing his job, at all. >> yeah, the implication of that, and this idea that the nsa is somehow a rogue agency, like in a hollywood film where they just got all these people going out on their own and listening to whoever they feel like just because, well, it feels good, and we can do it so we will do it. that's not really plausible. >> the n