mr. hayden is correct to some extent what he's going to do is try to make sure they can keep doing what the nsa is telling him he needs to do to keep americans safe, but at the same time make sure he does whatever he can to make americans feel more comfortable with it. >> congress is divided, american people are divided. i want to show you polls, when gallup asked what priorities are, economy, education, health care at the top. look at government surveillance of u.s. citizens, 42% call it extremely or very important. and you look at the latest quinnipiac national poll, people are split 48% to 47% on this program. a lot of times we talk about the president winning over the american people, that's how he puts pressure on congress. is this, though, really more about congress, is this a message to them? >> i think it is in part a message to them that he is serious about trying to do something. he knows he couldn't do nothing. i mean, things keep coming out every few weeks, there are more and more revelations from the snowden documents, and president obama just doesn't have the option to sit the