the it ministration is not confirming the -- the obama ministration is not confirming the report. people are voicing their opinions on this, including here in maryland. live from the newsroom with that part of the story. counterterrorism expert michael greenberger says he expects congressional hearings and investigations into the collection of the phone records. this secret operation was approved through the proper channels. people in baltimore are split over the news that government has been secretly collecting phone records from verizon customers for months. >> i do not think it is right for the government to step in and have any right to that. >> i am alright with it. it is important information for government to have. i do not feel i am being spied on. says therterror expert nsa is go to the data and sorting out the information may to terrorist organizations. >> this is a way the intelligence agencies can see who the united states is associating with terrorist organizations. they can focus their investigations more clearly. like the obama ministration follow the proper legal t

under the obama ministration, it is been harder than ever to uild in this nation. red tape, and outdated tax code, shortsighted policies are driving the cost of everything, stifling innovation, and sending jobs and opportunities to our competitors like china. politicians and bureaucrats will bet taxpayer money on pet projects. meanwhile, the hoover dam, the golden gate bridge, even our highway system would be impossible to build in today's regulatory environment. this administration would have us believe that we can build a great nation on a rain of red tape while operating the service economy by things that my earlier generations. this is not an issue of republicans versus democrats. it is about america. is about the world. our competitors have detailed strategies for growth and high wage jobs. competitor tax codes, and cooperation between the government and the private sector. as result, we are now being isplaced by being displaced in he global economy. china now produces more energy than we do, now produces more coal than we do, and is the orld's leading manufac

in this and ministration he is expected to set standards for existing power plants that would drive them out of existence. people think president obama is for tracking and natural gas. tois only using natural gas destroy the coal industry. and he likes the glut of natural gas. it has reduced the price so much. compete withannot it in the u.s. anymore. utilities are starting to plan for a non-cola future, relying on discontinued clutch. i can assure you the president obama and possibly president to killafter that wants fracking. in my book i describe how environmentalists to not like fossil fuels. they do not like solar wind, either. feinstein from california had a bill that blocked solar panels in the california desert, worried about how they might interfere with the desert tortoise. you havewind farms, environmental impact statements of focus on how the wind turbines pylons might interfere with the reproductive habits of wales. it is crazy. to enter your question, president obama has a lot of authority.th the only tool congress has is the ability to say no. -- thosest four years things

signed the urban mass transportation acts into law and established what became the federal transit ministration his initial project injected three hundred seventy five million dollars in incentives and subsidies to lure of state and local governments to intervene in the transit industry but all support has grown increasingly ever since and in fiscal year two thousand and twelve at the federal transit in ministration budget request was over twenty two billion dollar. i think with fines for bus and rail repair program development and administratively expensive among. the urban mass transportation act promise to bring the melody to lower income family but have all the taxpayer bend productive well earlier i spoke with len gilroy he is the director of government reform at reason foundation who makes the case for privatizing a public transit and the street. well prior to the one nine hundred sixty s. most of urban transit was private run through private companies providing transit services and really after the world war two era when you had the rise of the automobile and you had the rise of suburban

administration a republican administration was saying carried on after no hard election by a democrat a ministration it's had oversight of the congress it's had oversight by the judiciary so the constitution is was supposed to protect us and the law. we. are going to lose the people we have in power not all of it i haven't seen yet any abuse no you know you may argue as to what is protected. information what is not my understanding telephone records to all phone numbers is not protected under the fourth amendment so until i see something that sort of massive of course i'm going to go then yeah go ahead go ahead jump in let's make this let's make this concrete let's make this concrete section two fifteen of the patriot act allows the government to get a court order to require a telephone company or any other company to produce any tangible thing as long as that thing is relevant as long as the government has reasonable grounds to believe that that thing is relevant to an opera as to foreign intelligence or international terrorism investigation i have not heard a single plausible argument for how ever

obama drew line between his surveillance efforts and those of the bush a ministration.eaffirmed his insistence that no americans' phone calls or emails are being directly monitored without court orders. >> what i can say unequivocally is that if you are a u.s. person, the nsa cannot listen to our telephone calls and the nsa cannot target your emails. >> and have not. >> and have not. they cannot and have not by law , unless they -- the fbi -- go to a court and obtained a warrant and seek probable cause, the same way it always has spent. growing up, watching movies, you wanted to set up a wire time, you have to go to a judge and show probable cause. >> obama's comments came as to pull numbers showed his approval rating has dipped 8% since the nsa disclosures emerged early 26 ago. the drop was even higher among young voters. in his interview, president obama was asked about the extradition of whistleblower edward snowden. >> after going public as a source behind the nsa disclosures just over a week ago, edward snowden reemerged on monday after several days of quiet. and i

even the obama's president obama's administrator of the credit of the national credit union or ministration is for lifting that is for lifting the cap and it's got a lot of bipartisan support but of course the bankers lobby is fighting it tooth and nail because they don't want the competition well it is a bipartisan bell but also regional and local banks are in the financial panic suffered much more than the credit unions dead could it possibly because they had these stricter tightening tighter lending standards. i don't think so because debbie mots again who's president obama's head of the national credit union ministration has said that small business lending business lending and did not contribute significantly to. to a credit union implosions i mean there could be some bad business loans as there can be some bad mortgages but credit unions also have the advantages where they know who their members are they would only be making loans to their members so a military credit union would make credit unions to veterans businesses say a doctor's credit union may make a loan to our hospital or a

the start of the bush administration but talk about what it means in the context of what is it ministration has been doing particular in the area of national security interest where you talk about the drone program get more on all these other things can texturally how does this fit in and the relevance of it you have also the complication of the a.p. story the i.r.s. story in terms of the government intrusion and extra curricular activities as a moderate republican which i think the term you. actually i'm a conservative but i they say things that are when people get that impression that you know moderate. how you. look at how obama's ratings are gone and how he's handling these well you know for for all of the the energy that was put into getting him elected in two thousand and eight and it was phenomenal political structure and organization there the governing piece the poll the politics of governing they have been woefully i think someone inept i mean putting the president in very very difficult positions not understanding the dynamic to be in the white house and in the hill whether you'r

the rug let's start off with a new clean slate well that's very interesting when it's a product ministrations sleep you know that was done for political reasons so the question the real problem you have is these investigations can become very political and just the now the timing of the announcement when they're going after general cartwright is maybe a political move on the administration's part to give cover to the snowden investigation it's too complex and too difficult to cut into soundbites and say this is why this is happening this is why this isn't happening you have to have a level playing field and you have to have an opportunity with whistleblowers in federal government and around the world to have a place to go where they can safely provide information one thing that's important is the new. media can be a very importing betting outfit when this information comes to light the new york times they just don't release it wholesale they call the ministration up will this compromise in the ongoing programs or will people's lives be put in jeopardy they don't report this information unless

cheryl: if it could be less to do with the obama ministration or the idea in a government agency was a living breathing organisms and never lets you put out of business. they try to kill the department of education over 30 years. >> of course, that is the one that they and once you're in the belt way you can escape and the only thing that has economic growth is washington d.c.. while the rest of america is hurting how we will pay our bills especially when they are as complicated as they are. so we would love to see the irs broken-down with the idea of a fair tax across the board but more importantly, sitting here and hearing all these congressmen and senators calling for the abolishment but what of the screen why do we make sure this doesn't happen again? that there are laws put in place that no groups in the future are targeted regardless of their political or religious beliefs? >> you have been waiting for your filing two years ago and still having gotten it. what if they were neutralized out of the campaign? was that the unintended consequence or a goal to neutralize conservative

start coming out with the horizon leaks with this prism how are we just finding out about this and ministration that tells transparency well it's because not transparent i mean that they have secret interpretations of laws and they're doing this in secret and not telling anybody i mean senator wyden and udall have been complaining about this for several years now. so they were on the intelligence committee so those of committee said an idea what was going on but rest of congress didn't have the foggiest idea what does the patriot act mean to american freedoms it means we don't have any it's setting up a tele tarion state. when the government has that much information they can do those things they can use the i.r.s. to intimidate people or anything else they can send the f.b.i. . what they did to me and some others you know so that's the power the government has they have that they have the power of the gun and the force and if they had the knowledge about you then they can start to use that against you especially if you don't agree with the policies that they're setting up so let's go back to t

show that there was a war crime committed when he revealed the thing that really angered this ministration when he revealed the collateral damage video that showed a reuters reporter was killed by our helicopters and that they were flippant about how they had just killed a bunch of people and there were children and in this in this vehicle this is this was wrong we needed to see we need to see more of these things so we can understand what's going on in the theater of war when we go into places like iraq and afghanistan and other places around the world this is a very chilling. take away so i mean you have been here who are going to let me jump in here david the gentleman the people the soldiers that were involved in that video conducting it are they on trial for committing war crimes and if not why is bradley manning on trial i don't see. the fortunate bradley manning the well i think there is always disproportionate within the justice system i think that this administration as press administration has tried to hold soldiers and marines and sailors accountable for their actions. that's wh

basically the feeling was the worship and ministration had been too deferential to pakistan and by two make al qaeda built up a base about rations in the tribal areas of pakistan that looked a lot like afghanistan pre-9/11. base of operation for bush to launch attacks and bush was convinced by the cia it was time to start doing things unilaterally and that's one of the reasons you cite increasing drought strikes that obama carried through an increase in tensions between u.s. and pakistan. >> host: when you refer to sub title ii a secret army, are you referring to the cia? >> guest: i'm referring to a couple things. i'm referring to the cia paramilitary force evolved over the last decade. it could be people who work on the drugs, man hunting, all those things. the other aspect i talk about at great depths in the book is the special operations troops would see their own tremendous growth since 9/11. one of the themes of the book is the blurring of the lines between soldiers and spies and the work that increasingly the cia has come to look a lot like the pentagon and the pentagon has come

the syrian government have condemned the obama's and ministration decision to arm the rebels. a new debated about whether the peace between the rebels can be struck at the bargaining table. >> another day of boat -- bloodshed. two years of civil war have claimed the lives of more than 93,000 people. while the u.s. has decided to arm the syrian opposition, the obama administration will not say what types of weapons it will send, or when they will arrive. >> i will not be able to say here is the specific list of every type of item that will be delivered. we do want to be responsive to the request that have been made. lex leaders argue whether that is the right response right now. >> providing arms to either thiswould not address current situation. only political solutions can address these issues sustainably. >> officials, including the secretary of state, have talked have talked with many of washington's allies to define a strategy. among those getting the pulse from washington, the russians, who have sold weapons to the us on -- assad government. >> the peace conference is in

blemish to a huge the bloomberg a ministration because they have spent more than $2 billion in the last seven years modernizing the e911 system. so this rollout of the new dispatch system was a key part of that overall program. the police department keeps saying, no, these are just disgruntled workers who do not like the new system, but the number of complaints on am getting at all levels of blemiso the bloomberg a ministration because they have spent more than fire, police, indicate this is a big problem at the city of new york has begun and there is a family so when now. >> they are suing for $40,000 because department has admitted a delay. they are denying that it was a system delay. either way, i think the city will be liable to some degree or the fact that the eminent did not get there in time, and police said that she had been alive, waiting for an ambulance go to scene >> we want to keith alexander, who testified before congress on wednesday before secret documents about the nsa's surveillance program stunned the nation and sparked heated debate. during his testimony, he denied c

the suit was initially filed in 2006 against the bush a ministration. but in a statement on monday, the center for constitutional rights noted -- meanwhile, the aclu and other groups have filed a motion of the top secret for mental -- top-secret intelligence surveillance court asking it to make public its opinions on this section of the patriot act that authorizes the government to obtain "any tangible thing" related to a foreign intelligence or terrorism investigation. that section was the foundation for the court order exposed by the garden last week demanding verizon hand over records on millions of customers. turkish police in riot gear have descended on a protest encampment taksim square in istanbul, firing tear gas and rubber bullets and forcing many to flee into nearby gezi park. today marks the 12th day of a rise in protest movement against prime minister erdogan who stands accused of imposing religious and authoritarian rule by the protesters. today's raid came a day after erdogan's devotees of the prime minister will meet with protesters. gave

ministration >> especially when you have a issident who has shown he very reluctant to intervene. if there was anything that really marked the first term of obama period, it was not only getting out of iraq and not surge intong the afghanistan maybe wasn't working and speeding the way out of that to the afghan good enough committee inside the white house but also his incredible reluctance over the past two years to get very close revolutionse arab and i think that's going to be the fascinating debate that plays out. go back and talk about tom donilon? does tom of legacy donilon leave that they can build on or not build on? tom donilon did a number of different things. he's a lawyer, known as a political operative who spent a lot of time studying foreign policy. you would see him go home with full giant l.l. bean bags of foreign policy readings on the weekend. he kept track of the number of president.brief the it hit about 800 by the time he announced his time. time to leave. >> that's right. had threeer hand, he big projects i think he really focused on. one of them was china. the

the a bomber ministrations acknowledged it's collecting telephone records from at least one cell phone provider britain's guardian newspaper name the network has rising in its report what is more important has more for us. senior officials are defending the practice as necessary to protect americans against terrorist threat now this marks the first time that u.s. present barack obama has approved for the communication records of millions of u.s. citizens to be collected indiscriminately and in bulk regardless of whether any of those people are suspected of any wrongdoing secret foreign intelligence surveillance court order which was first revealed by the guardian was signed on april twenty fifth and it requires of horizon to produce the daily phone records of its customers now the telephone records being handed over to the national security agency indicate the numbers of both parties on every call the location data the call duration unique identifiers and the time duration of all the calls whether they're made in the u.s. or made overseas now the order does not request that the content

administration's record -- to allay the growing criticism here of the administration's record lex -- the it ministration's record? >> i do not think it will be typical of the reaction in the media, i dare say, tomorrow when the is analyzed. he made a lot, since, things that most germans could feel very comfortable about, like promises about climate change, about closing guantÁnamo, about ending the war in iraq, but the problem is we've heard these promises before. we've heard them for about five years, and people are much more skeptical about them. the atmosphere in the german media generally at the moment is one of considerable anger after the revelations about the spying program, and he did not really address that. he spoke about the fact that he was convinced that the balance between privacy rights and the need for national security was right, but that is a question of trust, isn't it? >> how about the trust between merkel and obama? they have the cool off, and then he has the privilege of speaking at the brandenburg gate. >> i think they are both pragmatic politicians, and i do nothing personal chemis

pipeline within the next couple months ministration decide to protect the environment and break america's addiction to fossil fuels or truck up another victory for big oil and the staging silent protests and blocking construction vehicles from tearing up.

international community or parts of it england in particular france recognize the provisional look ministration in libya at a remarkably early date earlier really than international law would have allowed and then they found themselves supported by this extremely swift referral and decision by ocampo absent even at the time the ultimate indictment of the accord them that it was no. only politically motivated in delivering a judgment but it was actually playing a very active role in influencing the events on the ground that's quieten that's why the charge for any given chord let alone the international criminal court don't you think so. you know you obviously prefer very black and white propositions like absolute indictment but he went on what was then that i mean i don't know let me for you you have to let me finish i'm afraid it's a very serious criticism that can be made of the court and. if you if we look at the court it did suffer serious criticism campos time now of the overall purpose of the call many citizens would say or use. worthy work whether it's going to work for the reasons we've

have been very, very close, had been the so-called policeman of the gulf during the next to ministrationand then they underwent this really extraordinary upheaval which took a country that was on the verge of becoming a very westernized a modernized country and took it back. a sophisticated state. very many intelligent people. it's a large stake of 70 million, roughly three times. a state that is largely -- large deposits of oil right sometimes second 1/3 in deposits of oil. a state that can look after itself and is also a revolutionary state in the sense that it wants to expand its tentacles. and so it is a much more formidable adversary than north korea. that does spawn various fronts and movements. it is also cosying of the smaller groups. so it is a much more formidable. capability to manufacture nuclear weapons is very much feared in the west because of not just it becoming a nuclear power but because of its aggressive ideologies, because of the confrontational stance, not just the united states but israel and other gulf states. so it is -- up until now we have relied on sanctions.

part of it and our ministrations fall on the whistle blows. the use of the nine hundred seventeen it's been object against journalistic sources. by the obama administration must be condemned the obama administration. has now to eat eight. journalistic forces eating the espionage act. that is more than twice of all previous presidents combined during back to nineteen feet and from. your brother minister a few posts to erect. a new interpretation. that will. a new interpretation of will. which will which the foreign. journalist explores what is spies. and that is not acceptable. if such a precedent and used to meet it. it will result in. the complete destruction of national security journalism in the united states. and the already. serious national security journalists. speaking about how their. government forces to skates to reveal. government misconduct in their national security. stream is a serious matter. the same time as. the national security sector of united states is increasing. its share of the u.s. . tax burden. and at the same time w

administration's record -- to allay the growing criticism here of the administration's record lex -- the it ministration'srecord? >> i do not think it will be typical of the reaction in the media, i dare say, tomorrow when the is analyzed. he made a lot, since, things that most germans could feel very comfortable about, like promises about climate change, about closing guantÁnamo, about ending the war in iraq, but the problem is we've heard these promises before. we've heard them for about five years, and people are much more skeptical about them. the atmosphere in the german media generally at the moment is one of considerable anger after the revelations about the spying program, and he did not really address that. he spoke about the fact that he was convinced that the balance between privacy rights and the need for national security was right, but that is a question of trust, isn't it? >> how about the trust between merkel and obama? they have the cool off, and then he has the privilege of speaking at the brandenburg gate. >> i think they are both pragmatic politicians, and i do nothing personal chemist

pipeline within the next couple months ministration decide to protect the environment and break america's addiction to fossil fuels or chalk up another victory for big oil and those staging silent protests and blocking construction vehicles from tearing up the earth makes somebody a terrorist some people think so i'll explain in tonight's g.o.p. take. you need to know this yesterday democrats on the house oversight committee led by ranking member congressman elijah cummings of maryland released a full transcript of the testimony of a witness in the i.r.s. controversy investigation or to the washington post that testimony appears to confirm that the initial targeting of potentially political groups both right and left originated with a low level employee in the i.r.s. is cincinnati office as was originally reported and not with the white house which congressman darrell issa has suggested congressman cummings also released a letter with the transcripts explaining his decision which he concludes with a transcript debunks conspiracy theories about how the i.r.s. first started reviewing these

ministrations plan and the administration said they would only drop the appeal if the corpsman approved the plan but in there are still this only concerns the name brand version and the generic is still caught up in similar battles so you know that's ten to twenty dollars more expensive for a lot of women but i do think this is ultimately a good thing you know women who need access to emergency concerts to contraception need it and by putting up barriers to it that that's a bad policy and. the science doesn't back up age restrictions you know it's finally time to just drop this and you know i'm happy to beat up on the environment ministration about this because it's ridiculous than it should have been over the counter a long time ago the the the obama administration's own scientists were saying this is fine for a teenage girl and it's a whole lot safer than getting pregnant a thirteen year old having dealing with a pregnancy is a much more dangerous situation than taking any kind of contraception number one and number two you know they were pretty much going to use their bases i think t

whatever he can do that with the secretary of defense he does have that power it's time for this ministration to either report up or to at least tell us what's really going to happen the president doesn't have the authority to released from guantanamo bay to include men like shakur aamer back to london and now i have the united states hunger strike there's no sign that there's anything in the cohesion going on to the hunger strike i mean my client reports that all of his personal possessions are still confiscated toothbrushes so letters from home his attorney client. privilege the two of us with communicating between each other has all been taken and not returned he asked me he said hey what kind of people vote to fund prison that's ninety five percent full of men who haven't been charged with a crime after eleven and a half years i have to tell you and only answer for the mystery to me what kind of person says we don't care if you've done anything you're sitting in guantanamo bay or just on the ground here in one town i'm ok there's. no change whatsoever and everybody is sort of waiting for

how many terrorist plots we foiled but we can only tell you so much and this is coming from and ministration that is certainly not shy about bragging about the terror plots that it disrupt also that it manufactures and then this wraps. well this is one of the actually dynamics i mean in a concert republican marker see this is not informed consent by those who are governed this is manufactured consent and are actually it's course in secret and so on i would see her we know what's best for you and we're simply going to make those decisions on your behalf we're not going to tell you what those decisions are that's not democracy it's just appealing to authority thomas what's your response to the argument if i have nothing to hide. and if there is a wonderful opportunity for me to share something i've been asking everybody that i meet or the last couple of weeks so just take your life and do the following the keys to your car your house all of your passwords every single account your medical records your bank statements take all of those including all of your valuables go to the other side of tow

about tax because there's three elements there's the legal aspect what to the lobby protection ministration aspect how do they collect taxes and then the political aspect what the communique from the g eight spoke to is they do believe there should be changes in the law to allow governments to be able to better figure out how to collect taxes across the board and that's a joint effort with the o.e.c.d. and that's positive that they're working together because you can't solve it individually on the tax administration side they're talking about much more transparency where companies have to provide more information to governments with regard to where they earn their money so that they can figure out how to collect taxes the political side is still out there that's where governments want to reduce the taxes they are around the world to try to attract business and labor yet meet their financial goals created by the melt down and raise more to enforce right not least you know it's my next question do you think that there's a real danger the government could be competing with each other in order

grown increasingly ever since and in fiscal year two thousand and twelve at the federal transit in ministration budget request was over twenty two billion dollars is included funds for by. and rail repair our repair program and development and administratively expensive among. the urban mass transportation act promised to bring the ability to lower income families but have all the taxpayer bend productive well earlier i spoke with len gilroy he is the director of government reform at reason foundation who makes the case for privatizing public transit and the street. well prior to the one nine hundred sixty s. most of urban transit was private run through private companies providing transit services and really after the world war two era when you had the rise of the automobile and you had the rise of suburbanization of people moving out of downtown's there became more and more pressure on the downtowns to. keep themselves go and and so at the same time you had cities that started to regulate the private transit operators and in fact they were regulating their fares and not allowing them to charg

start coming out with the horizon leaks with this prism how are we just finding out about this and ministration that tells transparency well it's because not transparent i mean that they have secret interpretations of laws and they're doing this in secret and not telling anybody i mean senator wyden and udall have been complaining about this for several years now. so they were on the intelligence committee so those of committee said an idea what was going on but rest of congress didn't have the foggiest idea what does the patriot act mean to american freedoms it means we don't have any it's setting up a tele tarion state. when the government has that much information they can do those things they can use the i.r.s. to intimidate people or anything else they can send the f.b.i. people what they did to me and some others you know so that's the power that government has they have that they have the power of the gun and the force and if they have the knowledge about you then they can start to use that against you especially if you don't agree with the policies that they're setting up so let's go ba

admitted this kind of mass gathering of telephone data this is the first instance so barmer of ministration perhaps continuing something similar it's not known the full extent of this that it that it might get to it is very likely that it could create a lot of anger and for more we're now joined live by idea. from a libertarian pressure group of the freedom association idea thank you very much indeed for joining us now it's r c so the guardian newspaper discovered records of calls are collected within the u.s. and some of those coming into the country what kind of ramifications can this condo have globally well first of all the sort of ramifications most directly we see is that these conversations are taking place not just in the u.k. but not just in the u.s. sorry but between the rest of us and and people outside the u.s. like the u.k. for example the ramifications go way beyond the borders of that country but i think secondly the point is that the wider point is that it sets a bad precedence and the end sets a standard the u.s. tries to position itself as a leader clue billy in terms of f

effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want if i can go to eric first to new york you see it ministration bill fixing facts and and intelligence around a set policy i think you know where i'm going to rock two thousand and three well there's no doubt about it and you've already touched on the historical record that we've seen of the united states making sure that the intelligence fits a preconceived narrative one that serves its interests and the interests of the military industrial complex and what we've seen in syria particularly in recent weeks has been precisely the same pattern and isn't it a nice coincidence that the issue of the chemical weapons and the supposed that documented evidence from the united states of the use of chemical weapons so-called chemical weapons by the assad regime is not. that that coincides with the military victories by the assad government in the city of qusayr a strategically important city that cuts the supply lines of the rebels and the foreign terrorists that have streamed into the country and this pattern of these discoveries the discoveries of atrocit

frenzy perhaps no one summarized it better than new york times editorial board which published it ministration has now lost all credibility on this issue mr obama is now proving the truism the executive branch will use any power it's given and very likely to be. was it word new york times welcome to that this administration has no credibility club i'm glad you're finally coming around in the scene obama's contempt for the law when it comes to spine however where are you going to comes to his policies on drones get mo or indefinite detention what will it take for you guys to come around to that but back to the other scandal the news hit the corporate media world like a drone strike after journalist and constitutional lawyer glenn greenwald broke the story of the n.s.a. collecting all of horizon customer's phone records just a day later he broke the news about the n.s.a. why the spread secret surveillance program that works with corporations code named prism the question now is whether or not this recent disclosure could turn greenwald himself into the n.s.a. his next target given the agency's a