efforts to reform the n.s.a. have reached a fork in the road in the senate there are two different reform bills currently being pushed there are a lot but there are two main reform bills currently being pushed one is by judiciary chairman senator patrick leahy called the usa freedom act and a companion bill was introduced in the house as well this bill actually includes some substantial reforms it brings transparency the top secret buys accorded fixes gag orders that prevent companies from sharing government information requests to their customers and it most importantly it bars the bulk telephony metadata collection on americans under section two fifteen of the patriot act also limits. under section seven of two of the amendments out altogether it's pretty good start but there's a competing and it's a reform bill in the senate one being championed by senator dianne feinstein the chair of the senate intelligence committee and one of the biggest cheerleaders of the n.s.a. her bill is the pfizer improvements act and

telecoms this is not an n.s.a. reform bill it's an n.s.a. entrenchment bill. and senator mark udall who's been critical of the n.s.a. argued the n.s.a.'s ongoing and base of surveillance of americans private information does not to respect our constitutional values and needs fundamental reform not incidental changes unfortunately the bill passed by the senate intelligence committee does not go far enough to address the n.s.a.'s overreaching domestic surveillance programs senator udall instead supports a bill introduced earlier this week by senator patrick leahy and by congressman jim sensenbrenner in the house it's a bipartisan bill that would all together and the n.s.a.'s ability to conduct bulk collection of phone records which means in the coming weeks or in the coming months there will be a showdown in congress over what and it's a reform should look like and just how far it should go earlier i was joined by elizabeth going team the co-director of the liberty and national security program at the brennan center for justice and she started by saying where se

to make these disclosures how important is that effort when it comes to overall n.s.a. reform what could disclosure of these documents lead to whether this is that it's one of a number of amendments that have been offered including to get a vote on the head of n.s.a. the senator mikulski software these are important political steps trying to get a handle on the spying that's been done by the end of national security agency which of course was revealed by mr snowden and was pretty much unknown to most americans and most senators with a few exceptions so getting some more visibility more light on what's happening and maybe some more restrictions on what the n.s.a. does would be very helpful but again i don't know that there can be any votes the senate's gone for another couple weeks to come in on december ninth they don't have much time to try to deal with. these amendments much less four hundred fifty other mamet's the interesting thing we saw a few months ago when the house was considering this bill was the emotion about it but nearly. passed they just lost by a few votes and

coming up in this half hour senator dianne feinstein is introduce new legislation aimed at reforming the n.s.a. the national security state but in reality it's just another win for the surveillance industrial complex why is her bill so much weaker than other proposals on the floor.

coming up in this half hour senator dianne feinstein is introduce new legislation aimed at reforming the n.s.a. the national security state but in reality it's just another win for the surveillance industrial complex why is her bill so much weaker than other propose.

freedom act which is a reform bill that would stop bulk data collection reform fice the courts and add transparency to the n.s.a. they wrote quote we are. congress in addressing these critical reforms that would provide much needed transparency and help rebuild the trust of internet users around the world now these companies have also stepped up their lobbying efforts on capitol hill apple spent thirty two percent more on lobbyist this quarter than last wall facebook spent twenty eight percent more money talks on capitol hill and as always we'll be keeping an eye on this for you and the money and where it's going and big or should i say venti news coming from starbucks today the coffee company claims that twenty thirteen has been its best year its fourth fiscal quarter was up thirteen percent year over year and china asia pacific region was up eight percent even as chinese media outlets criticize starbucks for squeezing higher margins out of its chinese operations and here's the thing if you're not a coffee drinker have no worries starbucks has something for you as well welcome teavana not nirvana teavana a tiv

n.s.a. revelations that's all new in today's tech reform and in japan the fukushima daiichi power plant continues to leak radioactive material but now there is a plan to remove the plants nuclear fuel rods although we will be very rare.

n.s.a. revelations that's all new in today's tech reform and in japan the focus power plant continues to leak radioactive material but now there's a plan to remove the plants nuclear fuel rods although it will be a very risky war in the fallout of fukushima ahead. it's thursday november seventh find him in washington d.c. i'm that good lopez and you are watching r t well starting off this hour it's one small discussion for world leaders one huge leap forward when it comes to ending the nuclear standoff between iran and the u.s. p five plus one negotiators from the u.s. iran britain france germany russia and china met in geneva today for the first session in a two day meeting the goal is to come up with a framework to deal with iran's nuclear program and limit the country's ability to create weapons now with this meeting is monumental in importance not only because of the nuclear implications but also because of the warming relations between d.c. in tehran with the country's new leader hassan rouhani now. join our earlier by brian becker he's the national call a coordinator at the answer coali

n.s.a. a senate confirmed position. this is a reform that senator mikulski has been advocating for years. and i think this, too, allows us to have a more vigorous and more open debate about these issues. and the reality is, mr. president, the thousands and thousands of americans who work in the intelligence field honor our nation day in and day out with their dedication and their commitment to the security of our country, but as the senator from colorado has noted, too often in the past, too often the leadership of the intelligence community has said one thing in private and another in public, and if our amendment that we put together with senator mikulski passes, there would be a new focus on transparency, and i think creates some very serious obstacles to those who might want to engage in the kind of deceptions that the senator from colorado noted and we've seen in our hearings. i'd like to yield back and we'll wrap up our colloquy here shortly. mr. udall: again, i want to thank senator wyden for his leadership and for taking the time to join me here on the floor. as the senator pointed

n.s.a. tapping into google servers is not an accurate report. clearly, however, we need to have reformsthe system. we need to have more transparency. and we need to ensure that the privacy and civil liberties of americans are being safeguarded. and just today we approved a major reform bill that would l do just that. i'm very pleased that it includes an amendment that i authored with my colleague angus king from maine that will strengthen the role of the privacy and civil liberties board to do for oversight of n.s.a.'s collection programs. >> woodruff: senator, let me turn you now -- thank you for that. i want to turn you now to the republican party and there's a new nbc/"wall street journal" poll out need shows record low approval ratings for your party for the republican party. it shows approval is down for the government overall but for republicans 22% positive, 53% negative. why do you think that is? >> that's certainly a clarion call for the republicans from my party to do a lot of self-examination. i think it's worth noting that the president's approval ratings are down as well. t

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reform. es, sir. >> other members of your own conference called for changes to the n.s.a. data collection program. this is something you have generally been against. it's likely to come up -- >> generally been against? changes? >> you like the program as it is. >> no, no, no. i didn't like amash. right think we should away smarely this is an end to the program. what do we have as a substitute? is there something that could protect the american people? but i have been a critic of this program for a long time and i have taken my heat from the intelligence community for opposing this. this is something that is of the most serious nature. i like the fact that we will be having a public dialogue on the subject and you see two things. you see senator feinstein in the senate saying, it's ok, just leave it. and you see conyers and others in the house saying, get rid of it and so we're saying, what is it that we would do that would protect the american people, that is necessary to protect the american people? maybe metadata collecting isn't necessary. maybe it is. we have to find that out. think having two