we have you here, and you were at masseur olan's press conference, and chris, how is it seen? how is the event of the day? it was just terribly long. >> well, you know, the press conference went on for well over two hours, and i think maybe three or four minutes in total were devoted to the questions of president olan's alleged affair with the actress. and that's all that everybody really wanted to hear about, because the other two hours and 8 minutes or so, were devoted to olan's talking endlessly about his economic programs, and the wars that he's waging in africa, and people had heard them numerous times before and there were almost no headlines in t so the question was, masseur president, would you tell us a few basic things, like what's going to happen to the first lady? you're not married to her, valerie, and you seem to have another lover, and she's in the hospital, seems to be suffering from nervous exhaustion, and you're going to on a state visit to the united states on february 11th, and you know where the consort of the united states usually stands and sits around w

eavesdropping telephone calls, cell phones, of course, we heard about angela merkel last year, france with a olan, brazilian leaders and others outraged, the president intimated some of that may be feigned but he says dozens of close al aisles will no longer be listening to those phone calls. at a time fbi can say we need this information. no judicial review there. >> that's larger gob to be unchanged, the president declining to make significant changes that instead promising more openness and more trans piece allowing those companies to divulge what kind of information or in broad terms what kind of information the government is asking for. so much of it goes to congress. we have heard some positive reaction from both sides of the aisle today, civil libertarians, mixed reaction, many disappointed that the president didn't go farther but these are the proposals. now, march 28th, a deadline, a fisa law gets reauthorized in congress. >> appreciate it. at the whitehouse, mike, appreciate it. the changes president announced today were largely driven by a series of leaks from edward snowden. david shu

the domestic drama comes at a tricky time for olan. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.hat politic stops at the french door. but not anymore. strict laws that are supposed to protect privacy, that in the world of internet and paparazzi there's no such thing. the 59-year-old french president had a rakish reputation after he established his partner, the 48-year-old former journalist valerie, as france's first lady just after his election. she checked herself into a clinic suffering from stress, it said, over the weekend. in the what goes around comes around school of french politics politics she herself has supplanted another politician who had been the mother of his children. it was a messy and often nasty triangle. and so is the new one involving french actress julie gailler. her long rumored affair was alleged in the gossip magazine "closer" late last week that reported that eded that he would go to her apartment on a motor scooter. the magazine's editor says she merely confirmed what everybody already knew. public opinion seems fixed on the idea that the affair is a di