for the obama administration. to try and we thought is right. it reflects poorly on the u.s. administration. and you know you self respecting country would submit to such interfere and saw such a lean by the u.s. in its battles. and so. this morning. the u.s. secretary of state told it would threaten. trade. a parent had so many friends morning the u.s. secretary of state called a traitor. edward snowden. is not a traitor. is not a spy. he is a whistleblower he was told the public an important truth. the u.s. secretary of state. is wrong in the mall. anymore . a. traitor not here to the u.s. enemies and there is also a requirement. that the doc. and. congressional aide approve four times neither of these changes you. the u.s. administration was not given. a mandate. but the bomb administration was not given a mandate. by the people that the united states. to be. back and i mean i wold say break u.s. constitution. and a little is about the nation for that matter that it had some allocated to you. violate international law and all i called for the rendition of anybody i didn't.

rights violations for one of the reasons for disdain, and that is one of the concerns of the obama administration. he condemned the crackdown and the the last election, and that was used against him at home. >> for the president to be silent, i thought, was an enormous mistake. >> obama has repeatedly said when it comes to iran and the nuclear program, time is running out, and that likely will not change regardless of who is president. aljazeera, washington. >> police in london have stopped a man who appeared to be about ready to jump off a building spree of the dramatic scene played out as they scuffled with protesters who had taken over an empty area, and they have since made 57 arrests. we have a report. was the heart stopping moment at the very end of the police operation. had this man succeeded in what appeared to be trying to do, throw himself off the edge of the building, the story of the day would have been very different. in the end, they restrain him, apparently against his will, and took him away for hospital treatments. he had been describing police as fascists as he ran towards the e

as you mentioned the obama administration has acknowledged that it has been collecting the telephone records of millions of arisan customers and 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 now a senior administration official confirmed to r.t. that the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court order which was first revealed by the guardian was signed on april twenty fifth and it requires of rising 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 contents to the cont

the obama administration is running out of time. r 1st is the deadline for the administration to set up health care exchanges a and now a new government office report has grim news for president obama. we're joined. nice to see you. >> hey, greta. >> so october 1st, they're supposed to have all these federal exchanges set up to the extent the states aren't doing it themselves. >> yes. >> how are they doing? >> the report was mixed. they said we're going have to watch the deadlines to come in the next couple of months to know whether the administration is ready october 1st. that's important because that's when the unin shirred are going to begin enrolling in these marketplaces. if they're not ready, they're going to be running into a brick wall when they tried to get insurance and they're going to be very unhappy. >> doesn't every state have the same set up? what's the problem? i would assume the states are similar. >> a lot of the states are similar but the problem is the insurance rate is regulated at each level. the obama administr

is any one out there tired of the obama administration's teaching moments?e already knew the consulate in benghazi didn't meet minimum inman standards or the standards of the 1999 accountability review board after the bombing in kenya and tanzania. after the death of ambassador stevens and three other otherss time for another teaching moment with a review board who didn't bother to question its most important witness, the person who appointed them. now, we need a teaching moment on media sensitivity? really? you now want to safeguard the media against an overly intrusive prosecutor? what are you going to do, one up the constitution. we have already got a first amendment. how about you stop ignoring it? how about you stop judge shopping. how about you shop patronizing the media that until you now have proven you could have cared less about. how about you stop see vetly and soa, sirisser is repetitiob pee about thatting records. you are a political operative whose actions are unprecedented in the history of this country. this latest scandal is not the first ti

wesleyan university i started out by asking her what this data collection tells us about the obama administration this incident shows that under obama it is a lot more of the same compared to what was under bush and so i think this is just more evidence to show that. purity policies are not very different from his predecessor notwithstanding his campaign rhetoric which was to preserve civil liberties and to reverse overreaching government surveillance so i think that's an important point for the american public to accept and to hold the obama administration accountable for in terms of the vast. surveillance that's going on it's literally including local phone calls including all of our telephone calls that are now being collected into this massive database which they can then query at any time now the government's position is yes we are engaging in prospect is intelligence gathering which is very unconventional but we are not going to query the data unless we have some form of individual a suspicion based on specific facts the problem is how do we know that in fact they are not going to abuse the

rhetoric that the president used, the statement he made about the red line clearly put the obama administration in a little bit of a bind once it was proven in the american intelligence calculation that chemical weapons were used, the administration believed it had to do something. yes wshlg yes, the question is whether american support will tip the balance. aleppo is under siege. the government is looking to retake that town and all of the momentum right now in is the hands of government troops. >> mark, quickly, the white house is holding a briefing right now previewing the president's trip to northern ireland for the g-8 summit. to what extent does he really need to pressure putin to, in turn, pressure assad to step down and do you expect that to come out of the g-8 summit? >> right. so the pressure right now is he wanted to make this announcement before the g-8 summit to make it look like the u.s. was actually taking definitive steps. what the russians will now do, i mean it is clear that they are continuing to support president assad's regime. there is some time in the future another peace

fox news confirming another obama administration leak investigation, this time the target is a retired four-star general. joining us from washington with details elizabeth barnes. >> the obama administration investigation into the leak of classified information relating to the stux net is zeroing in on retired four-star general james cart wright. he has often been referred to as obama's favorite general. the leaks release details to a "new york times" reporter and an author about the computer worm including how the virus

in 2010, the obama administration charged drake with violating the espionage act after was accused of leaking classified information to the press about waste and mismanagement of the agency but the charges were later dropped. william binney worked for almost four years at the nsa. he resigned shortly after the september 11 attacks. he was concerned increasing surveillance of americans. we are joined in studio by shena. first, can you talk about the significance of what has just been revealed? >> we it had stories including one in usa today in may 2006 that says the government is collecting basically all of the phone records from large telephone companies. what is significant about yesterday it is the first time we've seen the order to really appreciate the sort of staggering and broad scope of what was approved and the first time we cannot confirm this was under section 215 of the patriot act, which has been dubbed the library because people were most worried about the idea they could use the library records and now we know they're using it to get phone records. just to see the immens

used in guantÁnamo bay still exists, and you seem more drone strikes under the obama administration. > host: there have been a lot of other missile strikes. so in many ways, president obama said during his second inaugural address at the decade of warrior is coming to an end. what he was referring to is the decade of the big wars is so fair, but these wars is there waning. >> host: the way of tonight is the cia, secret -- "the way of the knife: the cia, a secret army, and a war at the ends of the earth." >> caller: hide, mr. mazzetti, how are you doing? first question, is there any truth to george bush senior having funded terrorists to the bank in the early years of the war? and how do you feel about the cia hiring students for terrorist attacks against the united states? thank you. >> guest: i didn't hear the second question. >> host: literary studios of attacks against the united states. i don't thought much about it. i know that was a movie, but are not informed on either subject. >> host: you know, hartsdale, new york. >> caller: mr. mazzetti, i was wondering with the attack by a

now we should also mention that senior officials for the obama administration only made their admission after the guardian newspaper published the story and the classified order on its website that court order is marked top secret and it is due to expire on july nineteenth a less it's renewed but we are now finding out that apparently this top secret court order has been pushed upon verizon dating back to two thousand and six this is this appears to be something that is being carried over from bush to obama approved by obama and it's also a revelation that comes on the heels of many other scandals that have been concerning the obama administration we have been reporting about the fact that the department of justice. he was secretly following the calls of reporters and journalists at the associated press there was also a warrant that the obama administration filed to obtain the e-mails and phone calls of fox news reporter and it seems as though these journalists in the u.s. are being targeted or surveilled by the u.s. government now because the u.s. government is trying to find out who i

immigration is going to be one of major themes going forward by the obama administration.co rubio h put forward and idea that may include so sovtd amnesty for illegals, may include some amnesty for illegals. >> i would like to see it pass in congress. i think the way to pass a bill is toocus on areas of bipartisan agreement. that is how you get something accomplished. in immration there i ink there is a widespread bipartisangreement number one that we have to get serious securing our borders, it doesn't make sense who is coming into this country. number two that we need to improve, we need to stream line and expand legal immigration so we can remain a nation that welcomes and celebrate legal immigrants. my d came to this country 55 years ago penniless fom cuba, that is our shared heritage. if we focus on areas of agreement we can fix the broken immigration system. unfortunately what the senate democrats are trying to do, they are focusing on areas of sharp partisan diagreement. i think that is sadly, because the obama white houseants a political issue more an they want to

is doing now is the obama administration went to the fisa court. >> that is why.that have been monitoring this are not affecting like this is a revelation. they have leaved all along that the obama administration was continuing to use the powers they have to obtain records. but this is the first time we have actually seen an unredacted order. and basically it's everybody. if you have a verizon phone account in the u.s. the nsa has obtained somewhere -- i don't know if they are looking at yours, but logs of all of the calls you have made. these are not the content of the calls themselves. >> bill: they say. >> well, yes. it doesn't cover like what cow said and who said what to you, but this is a very brood net. so even if they are only looking for terror activity, they are going through everyone's records to look for it. >> bill: everybody. if i -- i think we can assume every phone call in the united states on any carrier is being monitored by the federal government. >> and we don't know about internet data or internet transactions, but broodly the assumption is th

just doesn't think that applies to them in the quest to hunt down terrorists the obama administration has announced plans to give spy agency its full access to people's finances is going to allow for the roshon of our privacy rights of been going on since nine eleven. the mechanisms are already in place for that type of control and monitoring and and time some say you're overdramatizing all you have to do is look at what's happening i see it getting far worse it's just all it's total hypocrisy as far as i'm concerned and this court order was only the beginning it's become clear that the n.s.a. has been renewing these collection request every three months for the past seven years in the spread are also involved leaves revelations lead to a scathing new york times editorial which said that the administration has lost all credibility which was later edited to say the administration has now lost credibility on this issue and that was before another story broke that the n.s.a. and the federal bureau of investigation are running a program called prism or what is it the washington post found

>> this is damaging to the obama administration, for a couple of reasons. just without any assumptions of how far it goes, just so far, fair to say, it's hurt his credibility, and equally important, it's hurt the credibility of government in general, as an institution that can be trusted to do a good job of the tasks assigned it. and these scandals, spreading across several departments, raised doubts about the truthfulness of government officials, honesty and competence. that's harmful to the administration, which is an administration that believes in government and believe it could be an effective instrument to do good things. it's hurt. >> less of a problem, nationally, politically for the president than an international problem. when you have president putin lecturing us on privacy or angela merkel asking questions, and i think this is more noise here, but on a grander scale, internationally it harms us. >> it embarrasses us, and it's harmful to have a president weakened politically and domestically weakened and in the world. but i think contributing to

approved of the president's handling of the irs situation and 5 8% high-ranking officials in the obama administration were aware. undermining trust and confidence in the administration specifically and government generally. we need to get facts out so people can begin to believe in the confidence of their government. actions laid out to deal with their responsibility. >> there was a greater effect in other ways too. >> probably right. but other things like the affordable care act and uncertainty about the country's fiscal position, probably a bigger impact. >> tryidifficult with this stuf lingering out. >> thank you. >> president obama in miami. rick santorum talking about that next. >>> government gone wild, again, this time, billions with a "b." isn't irs line dancing this time. what is it? coming up. chris christie may have a backup plan in he wins re-election. coming up. with the spark miles card from capital one, bjorn earns unlimited rewas for his small business take theseags to room 12 please. [ garth ] bjors small busiss earns double miles on every purchase every day. produce delivery. [ bjor

this is quite a game changer being announced by the obama administration what we know is that the u.s. has decided that it will provide military support to syrian rebels but u.s. officials would not specify what that support will involve the national security council that the pfizer ben rhodes says that the new assistance to the syrian rebels will be different from the non-lethal communications type of quitman that the us has given before this of course leads many to believe that the united states will now be arming the syrian opposition now these decisions are being made after the u.s. intelligence community has independently concluded that the syrian government has used chemical weapons including the nerve agent gas sarin on a small scale against the opposition however washington so far has failed to disclose what specific evidence they have what has led them to make these conclusions and this announcement but this is counter to what the chief u.n. investigator said just two months ago during our investigation for crimes against humanity and war crimes. we collect its weakness to mo

coming up on r t the obama administration might want to arm syrian rebels but there's a hitch most americans don't want the u.s. to arm the opposition force it will take a look at the divide between the people and the politicians ahead. through a freedom of information act request the miami herald obtained the names of guantanamo bay detainees said to be too dangerous to release so where do we go from here we talked with coming up. with the ongoing n.s.a. surveillance scandal you might be wondering how to avoid being tracked on line will look at ways to avoid leaving behind a digital footprint later in today show. it's tuesday june eighteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r t well we begin this afternoon with an update and an in-depth look as well into the latest polls that gauge the american public sentiment about syria in spite of the newest reports estimating that ninety three thousand syrians have died in the civil war despite the obama administration's announcement that it has a nothe evidence to conclude that president bashar all oss software has used

you are trying to link this directly to the obama administration. o rain on your obama bashing parade going on right now. >> telling the truth. >> telling the truth? >> barack no house obama. >> darryl issa, the chair of the committee, has refused to release the full transcript that said the white house had zero to do with those decisions. why won't he release -- wait, wait. why won't he release? >> what percentage of irs employees voted for obama? >> you want to know why? >> he was going to give them 15,000 more agents under obama care to go after agents. >> they spoke how much he helped terrible government was. why would anyone who works in government would vote for someone who says they are terrible. that doesn't make sense. >> he wanted to get more efficient. >> do you think government is efficient? >> i think government -- i think government is not as efficient as certain other institutions. that's a nice acronym. >> it's true. >> fat, flabby, and flatulent. you believe in government. >> i believe government plays an important role in our societ

the obama administration's public relations play on obama care is nothing new.artment of health and human services already spent millions of taxpayer dollars hiring professional publicists to make it possible. we told you the national football league requested a white house request to help produce advertising campaigns to essentially sell president obama's signature law to the people. obama care by the way has been law of the land for more than three years now, but we're starting to see more and more parts roll in. joining me to talk about this, byron york, political correspondent and fox news contributor. byron, good to see you tonight. >> hi, harris, good to be here. >> why does the white house need help selling obama care? >> because the polls have been bad for obama care ever since it passed. we have just not had any time when a majority, solid majority of americans thought this was a good law, signed into law in march, 2010, and it has been kind of underwater ever since. a "the wall street journal" poll asked will you be better off under obama care. 19% of

unique take on the obama administration's decision to stand down in its fight against universal access to plan b. birth control take a look. when you think about this now well i mean it's a good deal for pedophiles a good deal for people who commit statutory rape against young girls and right laura i'm not sure how helping young girls of void unwanted pregnancies is going to encourage pedophilia but i really do think that comment is very very ugly. american banking industry is back and more dangerous than ever according to the f.d.i.c u.s. banks posted a record forty point three billion dollars profit in the first three months of this year this staggering profit tops the previous first quarter profit record that was set more than six years ago just before the financial crisis and big bank caused great recession so now the big banks have fully recovered from the financial crisis that they themselves caused and the rack breaking raking in massive profits yet again you'd think they'd be extra careful not to cause another financial meltdown right. wrong. it appears that big the big bank ba

in an op-ed, the obama administration lost all credibility on the issue. that editorial prompted this response from comedian stephen colbe colbert. >> yes, i'd like to order a home delivery of the new york times. my wife likes the style section, i go straight for the obama bashing. >>> in 1955, john dingell came to washington. today, he's still there. the michigan democrat is the longest serving member of congress at 57 years, five months and 26 days. that's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> now for a look at the weekend forecast, we are joined by bill karins. >> andrea will be gone by the weekend. >> it's good news. >> let's get into it. landfall around big bend, florida. there's really nothing on the south side of the storm. the heavy rain is north of it. a lot of it, the worst is working from jacksonville, north carolina up to raleigh, durham and virginia beach. you can see the heavy rain goes up to richmond now. there's also light rain in new england. it's not associated with andrea. the heavier rain with that will be later today. it goes al

senator -- then senate candidate barack obama accused the bush administration of putting forward a falsee between national security and our civil liberties. he was very fired up about it. at think it is a pretty safe bet that president obama now would not make this same argument. because he is caught, as are we all, and a very real choice between national security and civil liberties. and edward snowden -- well, edward snowden right now is still very much a question mark. at tough day on wall street. investors looking for direction. chase investment council's tells us what direction this market is headed. nsa surveillance, irs abuses, eric holder's overreached, and the benghazi stonewall. presidential historian jean hampton cut and democratic strategist doug on what is left of the obama agenda. ♪ i have copd. if you've got it, you kn how hard ican be to breathe and man, you know how that feels. copd includes physema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a oncdaily inhaled copd maintenance treatment thatelps open my obstructed airways for a full 24 hours. you know, spiriva help me breathe ea

for them they're really wasting people now not so much because the obama administration yeah i'm really surprised they're not really with all the. other scandals that have been coming out recently from sort of from the patriot act on it seemed pretty clear that something like this was going on whether the government is tapping into your phone records or your e-mail account it seems that most people agree they wouldn't be surprised either way in washington i'm chad boil. still ahead here on our john dingell it's a major milestone in his career but it just might be thomas jefferson's worst nightmare the u.s. representative has now become america's longest serving congress then what is congress supposed to be a career path for a limited tenure well look into that issue after the break. the words you heard all day long right out of the. radio guy and. what you are about to give you never think anything like that until. well it's a big week on capitol hill as one over the hill lawmaker reaches a major milestone u.s. representative john dingell has become the longest serving congressman in am

for them to really make it to people now not so much because the obama administration yeah i'm really surprised that not really with all of the. other scandals that have been coming out recently from sort of from the patriot act on it seemed pretty clear that something like this was going on whether the government is tapping into your phone records or your e-mail account it seems that most people agree they wouldn't be surprised either way in washington i'm chadwell r.t. . the n.s.a. whistleblower his identity has only been known for about a day or so and already edward snowden has become a household name and contractor has earned a large showing of support from former whistleblowers as well as transparency advocates some protesters in new york city gathered today to show solidarity with the man believed to be hiding in hong kong from or from new york city i'm joined i was joined earlier by law residents laurie harnessed and i asked her what happens today. well that's just a people gathered as a protest in union square to stand in solidarity with snowden to kind of preemptively beat t

list saw his prioritising there will cressy and i give him marks for that now some of the obama administration officials say that this trip is really it designed to establish a new paradigm and u.s. africa policy they want to move away from that donor recipient kind of relationship and more toward a more equal men mutually beneficial trade and development type of partnership so first of all are africans ready for that and do they want it i think i think they do wanted but you know is should be either or ok i mean all kinds of countries in areas of the world. more stronger reach of africa to get aid so you know frequently people's will see trade not aid i actually don't buy the slogan i think we should be there are some through syria which you need there are other things which you need treat of course treat has to be to be number one and definitely africans are very interpret mirror and they will very much like to improve relations with the united states and finally at one president obama and others have been talking about balancing out this relationship and moving forward with relations we are

used as computer passwords a bill that will make it legal to unlock your phone and the for obama administration announcing a blitz against patent trolls so lots to talk about today and i've got the perfect person joining me to help me break this all down charlie warrigal is the deputy editor at buzz feed forward and charlie let's get straight to it so this morning the house of representatives heard testimony over the issues of unlocking phones what does it mean first of all to unlock a phone and why is it illegal in the u.s. . well the phone means once your contract is up you are able to go on and continue to use it and you can put in other sim cards on it and use other carriers instead of being locked into the carrier that your phone. was bought with so essentially this is something that is unique to the united states and the rest of the world sim cards are very interchangeable and it is something that the library of congress in january of this year ruled. against because of copyright laws and so this hearing. sort of i think we saw lawmakers and the witnesses come out basically. in favor of a

administration. you weren't working on why is barack obama so brilliant and obama is the best thing in the word? >> whichever administration is in office. >> bill: i'm not saying you were partisan but the stuff you were going after if the information came forth might hurt the obama administration; is that accurate? >> true. >> bill: okay. so then, cbs then, you tell cbs news that you think somebody is hacking you because your computers are coming on by themselves. they send in their techs? >> not exactly. i mean, i had more information than just my suspicion by the time i went to cbs. i had some help that i can't go into detail about. >> bill: you got some computer geeks to help you find out if, indeed, you were being hacked. >> i got some help. then in january, this is about january of this past year. i informed cbs once i knew because this is cbs-issued equipment and they were in the cbs system and cbs hired an independent forensic firm that came and looked at the cbs computer. >> bill: they found out that you indeed were being hacked and made the announcement on friday. so where does it go fro

issue, it would never get negotiation over iran's nuclear weapons program and that was the obama administration's priority. i've long thought that was a mistake but i think that's what dominated president obama's thinking. and i think now you're seeing the consequences of operating under a delusion. >> speaking of iran, newly elected president said to be a reformer or in your review just more of the same? >> you know, you've got to strain pretty hard to find reformers in the leadership in iran. i remember him when he was the chief nuclear negotiator about ten years ago. he was an expert liar. he carried the ayatollah's waters. he proclaimed publicly that he had deceived the europeans, that iran had deceived the europeans by using the negotiations to buy time to advance their nuclear weapons program. he said it with great disdain. if this is a reformer, then i've got a brooklyn bridge to sell you. >> at least no more mahmoud ahmadinejad for now. >> thank you, eric. >>> we have a fox news alert for you now out of turkey. a new round of protests going on right now in downtown istanbul following a ni

speaker, you're criticizing the obama administration for doing this, although you're saying it could be acceptable, because you -- because you could trust them. other people say, hang on, what about the bush administration who took us to war in iraq over what turned out to be a pack of lies about saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction? why would you trust them anymore with that information? isn't it like for like? >> let me go back to 2006. you'll find i said if it is narrowly restricted to terrorism, it's acceptable. my position hasn't changed. >> that wasn't my question. >> let me just say for the record -- >> my question was, why would you trust -- why would you trust the bush administration -- >> i didn't. >> -- given their terrible breakdown of intelligence and information over weapons of mass destruction? why would you trust them anymore than you would trust the obama administration with the same records? >> let me say, first of all, i don't believe colin powell lied. i don't believe that that's an accurate statement. i think they said what they thought was true at the tim

so guys another week another scandal for the obama administration i'm right or am i right the presidentsure is hands full have an answer for a recently disclosed document that reveals the extent of the n.s.a.'s warrantless search.

fan of the "new york times," butok the "new york times" is no fan of obama doing this, saying in today's op-ed, "the administrationnow lost all credibility." yes, i'd like to order home delivery of the "new york times," please. ( laughter ) ( applause ) my wife likes the "style" section. i go straight for the obamaç bashing. but i didn't actually make a phone call justxd then. i just assumed want n.s.a. is listening and will pass it on. ( cheers and applause ). then again, i do think the obama administration has a point. when they call this program "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats to the united states," and not just because anyone who has dealt with verizon's customer service wants toç kill someone. now, south carolina senator lindsay graham makes a great point. >> i'm a verizon customer. i don't mind verizon turning over records to the the government if the government is going to make sure they try to match up a known terrorist phoning with somebody in the united states. i don't think you're talking with terrorists. i know i'm not, so we don't have anything to worry about. >> ste