showcase some of our top interviews with power players in technology and media from the last year. ,ncluding, the ceo of linkedin ebay, and disney. we spoke with industry innovators about the future of technology. we begin with one of the top of 2013,nd companies twitter, and its ipo. it went public and began trading on the new york stock exchange, raising $1.8 billion. the company has had a storied history. its cofounders all came together to celebrate that chapter. who were joined by the ceo grew the company from a scrappy startup to a global communications powerhouse. i caught up with them on the floor of the exchange on the day the twitter went public. i think the thing that may be surprised me most about the ipo is the almost spectacular understanding of the service that so many investors that we met with half. i would go in to meetings to sell them and they would show me tweets from folks like the likes .f sean white that.t's of examples like the opportunity to go talk to --ple who are your trying who you are trying to help understand your vision, it's tremendous. >> let's talk a bit a

congress doesn't do something, what happens is the president maintains all the authority that vis-a-vis ncluding 215 subject to whatever additional constraints he puts on himself, some of which he did today. but in the longer term, and the longer term really isn't that long, that default switches. and if congress doesn't do something, the 215 authority actually goes away in, i believe, may of 2502015. so one of the questions, i think we'll leave it here, is do the politics settle enough that you could have a congressional enactment that says, this is the portion of this program that we ,ill endorse beyond may of 2015 and does the review group recommendation as articulated by the president today embraced sort of by the president today provide a formula for that longer term stability or not? the picture strikes me as very different if you think that that recommendation and the president's discussion of it today provides a basis for settlement of that issue than if you believe it doesn't. thank you very much for coming, and come back. [applause]

, cyber security, force protection for troops and our allies, and combating transnational crime .ncluding sanctions evasion in this directive, i have taken the unprecedented step of extending certain protections that we have for the american overseas.people i've directed the d. n. i. in consultation with the attorney to develop these safeguards, which will limit the duration that we can hold while alsoformation restricting the use of this information. the bottom line is that people around the world, regardless of their nationality, should know that the united states is not spying on ordinary people who threaten our national security. privacyake their concerns into account in our procedures. this applies to foreign leaders well. given the understandable attention that this issue has received, i've made clear to the community that unless there is a compelling national security purpose, we not monitor the communications of heads of state and government of our close allies.and and i've instructed my national security team, as well as the community, to work with foreign counterparts to deepen

the republican party is strongest when it economic the current needs of people, but also ncludes those who have traditional moral beliefs and social issues have always been a party. issue for the they continue to be as long as the republican party is willing to fight on those issues. >> frank cannon, the president of the american principles project. that's americanprinciplesproject.org. thank you for having me. >> mr. hogan. >> a live look at the senate floor. they begin preliminary consideration to a bill extending unemployment benefits expired on january 28 by three months through march. that legislation being offered senators jack reed of rhode island, a democrat and senator republican of nevada, senator reed on the far side of the screen on the democratic side. they're voting now. this is a procedural vote on whether to move forward on the the bill. you can follow live coverage of 2.t on c-span we expect to bring you reaction from senators reed and others the the vote sometime in upcoming half hour or so. we'll have that live for you. president who's expected to speak at 11:40 east

diabetes,nclude colorectal cancer, and liver cancer. the report is the first time that they have concluded that smoking is harmful and linked to these diseases. they find that smoking causes --umatoid arthritis, rick and macular degeneration. increases the risk of death from tuberculosis and infectious disease. it also harms pregnant women and their fetuses and causes birth defects. it can cause ectopic pregnancies, which occur when a fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube rather than the uterus. this comes 30 years after the first report by the surgeon general on smoking. it goes on to say in this the report raises the annual death toll by about 37,000 additional lives lost. it notes that tobacco has killed 20 million americans since 1964 when the first surgeon general report was released. 21% of women of childbearing age still smoke today. that is little bit from the article in usa today. rie, oklahoma on the republican line. what do you think about nsa surveillance reform? is going to take about half of the money from the nsa