connecticut reds 22 then the senate stands reds 22 then the senate stands in the senate today lawmakers failed to advance a 54 billion-dollar bill that would have funded transportation projects in housing and are looking -- urban development programs in 2014. in a vote of 54-43 the chamber fell six shorts vote votes short that would have set a vote on final passage. after the boat harry reid and other senate democratic leaders spoke with reporters about the outcome. >> we have heard the cry for a couple of years now about regular order. i would hope those people would ask for regular order would refer to the constitution which says no money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law. it's hard to find a more basic duty of congress than to pass appropriations bills. and to pass appropriation bill we have to start the process. the senate needs to act in the house needs to act. we need to work something out in conference. we chose the transportation bill because it's a matter for which there has been broad bipartisan support. the committee reported th

>> guest: senator senator you alluded to how quickly the communication landscape is changing the. that part of the explanation for why we have seen reluctance from congress to take on some of these larger technology focuses in legislation things like the rewrite of the telecommunications act? we hear people say these laws are outdated but the same time there's a real risk of legislating and seeing the market shifted to your feet. >> guest: that's exactly right and if you think about something like À la carte i don't know if there will be a need for À la carte. i don't know but it's possible if congress gets in and tries to legislate too much into specifically in these areas then all of a sudden we stifle innovation and we prevent the investment that we need to keep the cutting-edge in the u.s. economy like we have. i have people sit in my office thing we need to rewrite the 1996 act. tell me why you think so. the internet is only mentioned twice now in office two that then they say again about than in 95 and 96 the telephone companies local versus long distance. we have moved so f

there he will usher senate democrats out of town for the recess. but it is becoming clear that this president needs a vacation that is still 10 days away. president obama headed to an amazon distribution center in chattanooga, tennessee. there he delivered a wide range of speech on jobs, the economy, obamacare, just a little spin on the sequestered in the keystone pipeline. take a listen to this gem today from president obama. >> this same group has kept in place this meat cleaver called the sequester that is just splashing all kinds of important investments in education and research. if public-sector employees were like the last two sessions come in the unemployment would be 6.5% instead of 7.5%. our economy would be much better off. we are now as president obama using two hypotheticals, slamming the sequester and the incipient cause of all of our unemployment problems. he did not mention that that is the very same sequestered in his white house proposed. the same sequester that he signed into law. ed henry will have more on the president's speech

it's kind of a senate courtesy. i think i if we can do it in such a way that it doesn't delay too long of a time for tom wheeler to take over, that's okay. but if it's going to take a long time, it's going to be protracted, i would go ahead and try to get tom wheeler on. >> host: well, one of the concerns senator cruz expressed was restricting speech. >> guest: i don't really share that concern. the fcc, you know, that's a hard job. i think people don't always appreciate it, but it's one of those jobs where it's very difficult to make everyone happy, and often times you don't make anyone happy. and i just don't see them weighing in on political speech. i don't see that that's a big agenda item for anyone. but, you know, certainly it is something they could do, you know, conceivably, but i don't see them doing that. so my view is we have to have a well functioning fcc, let's get the chairman in there, let's get rolling, let's get as many commissioners as possible. if we can get the republican on quickly, let's do tha

as our senator. and a to be able to introduce her today. please help me welcome senator kelly ayotte. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. i am deeply honored to be here tonight, especially with my wing man, joe, who is with me. i want to thank joe. at the ambassador and augusta, everything they have done for the party, and time and time and again hosting this event, their activism -- we are so blessed to have great americans like augusta and joe petrone. thank you so much, both of you. ambassador, you are wonderful. and i want to thank our party chairman, janitor horn -- je horn, for her dedication, for her tenacity. she does not back down from a fight. principles,or our and she works very, very hard. we are grateful for what you are doing for our party. i know that jennifer and all of you are working incredibly hard to make sure that 2014 is a winning year here in new hampshire for republicans. ad i will tell you this -- winning year we need not just in new hampshire, but we need to take bac

senate. the clerk: washington d.c., august 1, 2013. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable brian schatz a senator from the state of hawaii, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i have a few matters -- the presiding officer: we are in a quorum call. mr. reid: i'm going to consent to terminate it. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, following leader remarks, the senate will be in morning business until 11:00 this morning. the time until that will be equally divided and controlled between the majority leader and the republican leader. at 11:00 the senate will proceed to executive

we know that it's something that senator bachus can get done in the senate. if we can think about how america can get to the strongest, the most innovative, it brought the world everything from the pace maker to the post-it note to facebook. it's clear we're the country we are today because we were able to invest in those opportunities, to invest in scientific research, to invest in innovation, to invest in entrepreneurship. i truly believe these are things that democrats and republicans can agree on. simple ideas of workforce training, comprehensive tax reform. bringing the debt down in a balanced way. these are things we should agree on across the board. what's the problem? well, first of all, we know that some republicans are willing to work on those kinds of things. i know better than anyone because of 2/3 of the bills i've done have led because of bipartisan. some want to move the country the right way. want to move our country forward. but a group of ideologues in the oules of representatives is holding the country back. let me tell you what i'm talking

it wouldn't pass the senate. and you would try to come up with some sort of compromise in conference that might delay implementation of the individual mandate. plenty of bills gone to conference that have not worked out in the end. there is no compromise so the law is enacted as it is. do you think that's going to happen in this case? >> you know, i don't know. i think there is always a great desire not to shut the government down. and you use that desire to try to get a compromise. and i think ultimately you could in conference committee either make the lawless bad or delay the individual mandate or delay the whole thing. even the president is very concerned about this law because is he delaying the individual-00 employer mandate because he is concerned maybe about what it will happen in the elections when it is seen that insurance premiums go up and actually, there are more problems than there are benefits. >> you have said, that you would not vote for a continuing resolution in the senate if it includes fundin

i also want to thank the ranking member and chair of the senate energy committee, senator wyden and senator murkowski, for their consistent support of this legislation. we hope to get this to the floor when we come back in september with a strong vote. i'm told this will be the first substantive energy bill on the floor since 2007. about time. and i hope that we'll have support from both sides of the aisle. i know it has support on both sides of the capitol. it's going to help job creators all over the country. it's the right thing to do. on this side of the aisle, we focus a lot on an all of the above energy strategy. we believe we ought to be producing more energy, particularly energy sources in the ground here in america, and i demonstrator that -- support that strongly. we also talk about embracing smart, economically viable strategies that produce -- that use less energy. there is less on this part about using less. that's what this bill does. it is supported by more than 250 businesses, trade associations, advocacy groups, national association of manufacturers, the sierra club, the al

in other words, you like the way the senate works, but the senate doesn't work like it did anyway.in other words, this is a wholly new world. >> and i want to -- >> i wanted to ask bob on the filibuster, but you first. >> i can't argue with the numbers. i understand them, but what you're asking me to accept is because we're going through this, and the numbers are dreadful, you're going to take an institution that's begin us the protections against very bad ideas historically because there was a place where you had to think twice about what you were doing. to me, you give that up, and you lose a great deal. i said it, it depends on where you sit and whether or not you think these are great rules. because of them, i think, are terrible. again, the leadership and the ability of people to know each other, something you or bob pointed out, which i find one of the worst conditions, and that is, you got a staggering number of people now arriving here on monday night, tuesday morningings, leave thursday night or friday mornings, don't know each other at all. no institution, public or priva

lou: on that, senator mccain talks about the immigration debate.nd the "chalk talk", we will ow you how that might be a little uncomfortable for t my mother made the best toffee in the world it's delicious. so now we' turned her toffee into a business. my goal was to take an idea and make it happen. i'm janet long d i formed my toffee company through legalzoom. never really thought i would make money doing what i love. [ robert ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your business dream a reality. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. lou: senator john mccain is making a lot of friends in the republican party. in this interview was a lot of rambling. there he slammed my colleagues at fox news. calling their coverage of the immigration legislation ebate so let's take a look at it the senate. you are part of president obama's new best friends forever. just today. >> don'tget me wrong, you have earned the applause. >> to joke it would be a tough choice is the candid

entered the senate, which is rare for senators.s both serious and deliberate about the causes he believed in and was willing to push as hard as he could on certain causes. but he's also very careful because it was always in the back of his mind that he was running for president. he eventually did. and the people who go into the senate serious about running for president ultimately play within fairly careful boundaries, ryan. that's what i expect to see him do. >> i think he'll be very tactical about it. and i think that you'll see him behave differently than senators in the way that he uses social media. but he'll do it in a very tactful kind of way that doesn't offend his -- you know, the rest of his colleagues. he's a very smart actor, very smart, and i think that will continue. and i think you're more likely to see him probably anger folks on the left by working with republicans on issues like pharmaceutical issues or -- and sticking with the white house rather than annoying the white house and sticking with, say, the elizabeth

senator, let me start with you.s is frankly, i'm sure sarah remembers this during the bush years. always comes up when the country is put on a terror footing and nothing happens. then we have this debate. is it a relevant debate? are we now overdebating? >> i think it's pretty much a thoughtless debate. in the sense -- put yourself in the oval office and have intelligence officials come to you with threats you think and they think are credible threats. my hope is president will always exercise caution on behalf of this country in the face of those so-called credible threats. it doesn't matter what action a president will take. the president these days, and this political system is always going to be criticized, i think the president's willing to take some criticism for his action here based on what he thought was the right thing for the country. based on the threat. >> you guys dealt with this criticism as well when the -- back during the color alert levels. there would be a big pronouncement. >> i think you're righ

aama's nevada yes-man or kentuckian to run the senate question mark -- senate?u for all you are doing. we are going to have a lot of fun. [applause] >> we want mitch. we want mitch. we want mitch. >> i would like to thank saint jerome for hosting the annual fancy farm picnic. it is great to be back here in west kentucky. to i only have six minutes speak today and i have a great piece of advice. he told me i could take two minutes for my speech by using i instead of referring to myself as alison lundergan grimes. alison lundergan grimes is a long name. where else would you find a name -- [booing] my name was so long that my grandmother decided we would do something about it. with your help, come january 2015, you can call me senator. [applause] [booing] now i know senator mcconnell will say i am not right for the job because unlike him i have not been in washington, d.c. for 30 years. do i really need to apologize for having more government experience than rand paul? i know many of you want to see rand paul here today. he is spending the weekend with his loved on

four democratic senators, four republican senators. the democratic senators, chuck schumer of work, chairman of the immigration subcommittee, bob menendez of new jersey, our hispanic democratic senator, and michael bennett of colorado. across the table you'd be thinking, well, what republicans would sit down with you, they must have been pushovers. sitting on the republican side, john mccain, former republican candidate for president of the united states. lindsey graham, republican senator from south carolina, marco rubio, tea party republican from florida, and jeff blake, the new senator from arizona. we sat there for seven months, it was a lot of work, over 40 face to face meetings. we went through everything under the sun, things we haven't mentioned today. h1b's, these are visas that we offer to specialized training people, special professionals. let me give you an example. over 50% of the phd's that will be awarded at iowa state university in stem subjects, science, technology,ngineering and math, will go to foreign born students.

, of course, democrats run the senate, that they are considering bringing back the senate before the scheduled return date, which is september 9. nothing has been decided yet. the house side, which of course is run by republicans, i was just in touch with a member of the republican leadership who said that the plan is still to wait until september 9. now, this is all very, very fast-moving, so all of that can change. but it's entirely possible that both could come back. if the senate comes back, it would be hard to see the house just kind of staying home next week and not returning to follow suit. that's in terms of the schedule. the thing that i would add in terms of the critical question, which is, would this pass, that is why we n-- we now have a bet sense of why the administration has become hyper-aggressive in getting information to members of congress. right about now, there should be a conference call starting with senate republicans. a little bit later there will be a conference call with senate democrats, and then tomorrow, on a sunday, labor day weekend, they are going to h

senate.hey should have gained it in 2010 and doubled up on it in 2012 but because they have this fight and vote on shutting down the government could end up again nominating people like sharron angle sharron angle and why they nominated her in nevada. looks like 2014, republicans should have a great shot at senate. may not happen. >> okay, let's talk about that. let's look at landscape for 2014 after a special election in new jersey, which the democrats are expected to win in october, there will likely be, we will assume that, 55 senators voting with democrats. 45 republicans. which mean the gop will need a net pick up, net pick up of six seats to take back the senate. but republicans have one advantage. they are defending only 15 seats in 2014 while democrats are defending 20 seats they now hold. chip, i know it is a little silly but we like to play these games. looking at it from the vaptage point of summer 2013, how good are republican prospects for november of 2014? >> i'm going third tim

the same senator mccain and for that matter, senator graham who have spent the last several years calling the president soft on foreign policy. and a threat to world order. i mean, is this for real? like is this for real at all? john mccain is going to egypt on behalf of the president who's foreign policy he called ffectless and written in can disappearing ink. besides the whiplash you may get from just hearing this news, it's real and it may matter for our politics beyond the question of egypt. if it's true that the log jam in congress has been hurting the country, if it's true as the data suggests that refusal by congress to do anything is dragging down the economy. and making it impossible for the nation to address basic problems, then two republican senators wading into egypt on behalf of a democratic president might signal some sort of actual change in that republicans who have played a specialty of refusing to govern are suddenly choosing to take part in government. and it might be that the log jam in washington is breaking. i mean, just a little, with republican leaders no longer u

, senator.e is what i call the grand disillusionist. i think you know it is funny. let me tell you one more thing about mitch. he sold his soul. how many minutes i got? we'll be quick. mitch sold his soul to the corporate elite. i will give my soul to the middle class families that work hard in the country. mitch has sold himself to the pharmaceutical companies out there while i'm going to give my soul to the senior citizens that can't afford their prescription drugs because of mitch. i'm going to tell you one more thing about mitch. you're right, he sold his soul to the wall street bankers that caused this big recession, not obama. i'm going to give my soul to those college students that are owned a burden with the high cost of going to college and with their debts. now i'm about done. i have one minute? well, i'd like to talk about my website, marksberry, 24team.com. when i was running we couldn't get traction with the media, what not. even our party leaders. i came out with a song, what about

there are a handful of republicans from the senate that the president continues to meet with senators who he's had to dinner -- dinner and that's a smaller group and he likes them and they seem to like him but based on the last few meetings, there's no evidence that they're really making any progress and i think as we head into september you'd have to say the prospects are pretty dim. >> one thing is different. we used to have our crisis for the budget before they left for vacation? remember that? the last couple of years we'd have a crisis movement. -- moment everybody has delayed that until the fall. there are going to be two face-offs, one over funding the government and the other over lifting the debt limit and it's all been squooshed into the fall where these decisions have to be made. the secretary of defense chuck agel came out and said these sequestration cuts tonight. -- continue. basically chuck hagel said lives will be at risk because of the lack of funding. we're going to have to either shrink the force considerably or keep the force and have them have old technology. >> s

congressman or senator if you do that you will not be prosecuted and we will investigate the wrongdoing both of these gentlemen refused to do that they chose the most public and potentially embarrassing method to the united states to do that maybe said you know that's the only way out is we maybe that the way to change thing is to embarrass the u.s. government because it tortures people we know that it's not the only way to change overnight here on you know you know now having i take issue with it but having a great discussion we're having a great discussion now in the u.s. about privacy we should thank mr snowden for that certainly. yeah absolutely we're having and we should gradually in a conversation about privacy with people on all cut people on all different sides alleging all kinds of different things nobody is really sure what the truth is if we had gone through for instance a congressman or senator and what congressional investigation is this i don't really trust. they had this information it would lying to us for years it took someone else outside the loop to do something time

lee's welcome the former senator. -- please welcome the former senator. [applause] our third panelist was director for howard dean's presidential campaign in 2004 and 2006. she managed a successful campaign out of montana. in 2008, she managed al franken's campaign and the recount. [laughter] 2010, named president of the group hosting this event. please welcome stephanie. [applause] our final guest is a former prosecutor and the first woman to give birth while being an active member of the missouri legislature. [laughter] in 2006 she became the first woman elected to the u.s. senate. in 2012, she won reelection in one of the most-watched races in the country. this past june, she said it is important to start early. please welcome the senior senator from the state of missouri claire mccaskill. [applause] senator mccaskill, let's begin with you. why is it important to start early? >> well, i think we have to realize that in a day of citizens united where there is huge money that can be written behind closed doors and flood airwaves with distorted informatio

senate seat. after u.s. senator frank lautenberg died in june, new jersey governor chris christie appointed a replacement senator to keep that seat essentially occupied until new jersey voters could choose who they wanted to take that seat for the remainder of mr. lautenberg's term. well, as of tonight, we now know that the two candidates in that election to take frank lautenberg's u.s. senate seat will be for the democratic party the mayor of new jersey new jersey's largest city, cory booker. the republican party, the former mayor of new jersey's 280th largest city, a place called bogota. looks like bogota but say it bogota. lonegan is the former mayor. if you want to get a little flavor of what this race might be like, cory booker versus steve lonegan, mr. lonegan's previous preelection effort as mayor of bogota was subject of a spectacular documentary called "any town usa." >> steve lonegan is an outright liar. >> i hate lonegan. >> put a monkey up against him, i think a monkey would win. >> i have no int

i would have challenged that senator, that southern senator.ould have challenged him and said what the hell are you talking about? to say the word exotic, that's a dog whistle. president obama has -- has reached out to republicans from the north, to the south. i think senator harkin should have challenged him. the notion that they laughed after the senator made those comments, that's reprehensible. so i'm out raged by it. i think it's stupid. it doesn't even in my judgment, it doesn't even meet the standard test that we should give to all our politicians which is if somebody say something wrong, you talk about it. you speak out. he should have challenged him. >> all right. we're going to have to leave it there. donna brazile, ross, jonathan martin, thank you so much. great to see you even if it is long distance. >>> hail to the nfl franchise from washington, d.c. doesn't sound quite right. but one online magazine just dropped the name redskins from its vocabulary. will the nfl care? our sports lead is next. just by talking to a helmet. it grabb

joining us with reaction is senator rand paul. senator, welcome back to fox news sunday. good to be with you. >> good morning. >> it was a little more than a week ago that the president insisted to the american people that there was oversight of the program and there was no talk of abuses. >> what you are not reading about is, the government actually abusing these programs. and listening in on people's phone calls or reading people's e-mails. what you are hearing about is the prospect that these could be abused. >> senator paul, what do you make of that statement now that this new information has come to light? >> you know, i think that the president missunderstands the constitutional powers. the checks and balances come from independent branchs of government. if they tell him everything is okay, that the nsa can police themselves. one of the things that our founders put in place was they wanted to separate police power from the judiciary power. they didn't want police to write warrants. they wanted an independent responsive to the people with open debate in public. i thi

what has senator paul been up to?tor rand paul of kentucky heads to iowa. >> he has planned to visit south carolina and nevada. >> tomorrow he headlines a g.o.p. dinner new hampshire. >> i know rand paul, i think he'll run in 2016. >> what stands between the paul dynasty and 2016? >> well, i'll tell you the first thing that stands between them, three (bleep)ing years! (laughter)

senate. >> chris christie in one of his latest moves as new jersey governor has -- >> i like chris christie, i think he is a straight forward, brash speaker u i think he has managed to stand up and defend his principles in a state that is historically not very friendly to republicans. and i am glad for that. the decisions that states make locally about health care u i think are best left to the states. >> could you see yourself on a ticket with chris christie? >> i am not going to speculate about the future. i can tell you my focus is 100% on the u.s. senate. because the senate right now is the battleground so if i raid and i did that you're seriously mulling running in 2016, is that correct? >> i find it amusing because i don't know what seriously mulling means. i understand in the media, it's fun to cover the game, it's fun to cover politics all the time. but we have got huge challenges in this country. i am a big, big believer that good policy makes good politics. if you do the right thing

are you concerned about senator john mccain? >> i am always concerned about dealmaking for the sake of dealmaking. if one party says here is what i stand for and another says here is what i stand for and in the process you have to say how do we get something done? that is different from saying it is really cool to get some people in the room and let's try to negotiate something. sometimes you look at what senator mccain has done. he has had great accomplishments. he has had a heroic path for the country. other times there is an enthusiasm about gangs for the sake of gangs. >> this is a little broad, hypothetical. for those people who are watching, if someone out there and the audience happens to be a conservative who has substantial financial means to give money to some group in washington and they have not done so before, why would they get it to you incident the club for growth or americans for tax reform or some other organization? why is yours the one they should be giving their money to? >> there are a lot of good groups ou

senators, welcome. senator chambliss, your republican colleague in the house, peter king, said this threat, this al qaeda threat, is the most significant that we have seen in many years. what have you been told about it? >> well, the one thing that we can talk about, david, is the fact that there's an an awful lot of chatter out there. chatter means conversation among terrorists about the planning that's going on, very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11. we didn't take heed on 9/11 in a way that we should, but here i think it's very important that we do take the right kind of planning as we come to the close of ramadan. we know that's always an interesting time for terrorists. we're also, what, 38 days, 37 days away from the september 11th anniversary. so we're paying very, very close attention to the chatter that's going on, and i can tell you, david, this is the most serious threat they've seen in the last several years. >> can i just press a little bit? what makes it so serious in is it the nature o

hearing yesterday and they were talking about edward snowden and they were the senators were appalled at what they've seen out of the n.s.a. ron wyden has been saying for years if the american american public knew what was going on behind their backs they'd want change they would be appalled it's time for our government to practice oversight we need are represented. in big washington d.c. to use this power of oversight to get to the bottom of what's going on in the n.s.a. and not blow off whistle blowers bring them in ask them questions find out offer them immunity find out what's really going on in our name in the n.s.a. the privatization of information but again bozell and private organization ninety nine percent of its income comes from the united states government no oversight edward snowden brought to what was what was going on to booz allen to the american public and we should know this information so that we can have a debate in our country about this steve ok steve jump in you know i waded through that whole very nice to look way that you just offered for any attempt at all to

out of spite. >> senator mcconnell offered this welcome to president obama on the senate floor in advance of his visit to the hill. >> it really would be nice to see president obama work with congress for a change. to get some important things done for the american people. republicans have been eager to do this all along. but really, it is almost like there is a "gone campaigning" sign outside of the oval office. a "gone campaigning" sign outside the oval office. and on the rarest of occasions when he does come to the hill as he will today, you find out it is basically just another internal campaign rally with democrats. >> president obama visited with both house and senate democrats. he went to the house side first, where congressional reporters asked him about symptoms of the disease of dysfunction. >> jobs, middle class, growth. >> are some republicans treating you like -- >> what has he done to shut this down? >> what would you do to negotiate with republicans? >> joining me now, krystel ball, and ezra klein, she is a very powerful speaker. >> she is amazing. i think she is a very pow

lee's welcome the former senator. -- please welcome the former senator. [applause] our third panelist was director for howard dean's presidential campaign in 2004 and 2006. she managed a successful campaign out of montana. in 2008, she managed al franken 's campaign and the recount. [laughter] 2010, named president of the group hosting this event. please welcome stephanie. [applause] our final guest is a former prosecutor and the first woman to give birth while being an active member of the missouri legislature. [laughter] in 2006 she became the first woman elected to the u.s. senate. reelection inon one of the most-watched races in the country. its past june, she said is important to start early. please welcome the senior senator from the state of missouri claire mccaskill. [applause] senator mccaskill, let's begin with you. why is it important to start early? >> well, i think we have to realize that in a day of citizens united where there is huge money that can be written behind closed doors and flood airwaves with distorted information, the best anecdo

you have senators like senator wyden and udall and others who have said, and senator leahy, who don't the program is effective. as to whether americans' privacy is being violated, just ask my constituents. if i go back home to a town hall or meeting, they will tell you that their privacy is beingthe e department, the intelligence community, rely on so heavily is a court case from the 1970s where one person was under suspicion for a limited period of time, and they collected his records. that's very different from collecting the phone records and other data of every single american in the united states. >> well, general, let's get directly to this, answer these two concerns. to the congressman's constituents in grand rapids, michigan, explain why their privacy is not being violated. specifically why do you need this information on every phone call that's made by every american? again, just the fact of the phone call, not the content. why do you need that to fight terror? >> well, let's start with the legal premise here, chris. i realize smith versus maryland in 1979 was about a very sp

senator mccain, it is the worst vote i have cast in many years. senator mccain talking to a liberal magazine, openly regretting his vote, i think for good reason. because today we got a report on the american economy, and the good news is that the economy is growing, it's just not growing very fast. part of why this bar is so short is the budget cuts john mccain supported then and regrets now. without those cuts, the american economy would look more like this, with more jobs and more money to go around. senator john mccain's expression of remorse for that is real news. but it is not even the biggest news right now about john mccain. throughout the obama presidency, john mccain has dogged the white house, blocking the president's domestic agenda, at one point rejecting immigration reform, though he himself had been a champion of the idea. senator mccain reserved a special level of disdain for the president's foreign policy. >> we need to take gadhafi out. we could have ended this conflict a lot earlier if we used the full weight of the u.s. power,

it is from late senator frank church, 1975.t capability at any time could be turned around on the american people and no american would have any privacy left. such as the capability to monitor everything read telephone conversations, telegrams, doesn't matter. it would be no place to hide. if this government ever became attorney does, the words of the late senator frank church in 1975, who convened the church committee hearings to challenge this level of total surveillance. that is the quote that jim bamford ins in his book. thank you for being with us for this hour. book,mford, most recent "the shadow factory: the ultra- secret nsa from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on america." so to spencernt piece, "they ackerman, national security editor at the guardian. we will have a link your piece as well called, "u.s. government declassifies court order on nsa surveillance as pressure builds." democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed