what is it that senator udall's office did? when they announced 250,000 people lost their insurance. had their insurance approximately seize because of obama care canceled. he started pushing back using his office. using his staff to push back. and what was, called and described as a hostile way, with these -- these employees of the di vegs of insurance trying to get them to change the numbers. >> we have the e-mails that, that one of, there is a director of external affairs, jo donlin in colorado. she wrote to internally, said, senator udall says our numbers were wrong. they're not wrong. cancellation notices affected 249,191 people. they want to trash our numbers if i am hold strong while we get more details. and then she goes on. and then, she later writes -- e-mail to our colleague saying, follow might e-mail. i received a very hols till phone call from senator udall's deputy chief of staff. on the phone with the chief of staff right now. happy friday. its this inappropriate meddling or is this a senator's office just tryin

the administrator wrote, quote, senator udall, the numbers are not wrong.he cancellations affected more than 200,000 people. they want to trash our numbers i'm holding strong while we get more details. many have already done early renewals. regardless, they received cancellation notices. now earlier today we did in fact reach out to the senator's offers for a comment. we've yet to hear back, shocker. democratic strategist rick unger, and mark, i have known you for 20 years. >> hi, sam. >> thanks a lot. >> how are you doing? >> he is one of my friend -- all right, i would think this is something we all agree on here. i don't like to be lied to. i don't like accounting practices where they say social security is there. or budget gimmicks and tricks where they tax now and ten years later we'll cut our spending. we know that is a lie. or if you like your plan keep your plan, like your doctor, keep your doctor, or not liking the unemployment numbers, don't we agree here? we don't like to be lied to by our government? >> and don't we agree when an elected officia

now, senator udall voted for the health care bill. i understand why he is concerned that this could hurt his election in 2014. there is a difference between calling up an office and saying hey, are these the right numbers versus a hostile phone call, and the employee staying we're standing strong. this was clearly an attempt to use the office, to use the staff to pressure a public policy maker to use the insurance and cancelling. i think it raises questions about abuse of power. >> the cancellation notices were coming in, the larger picture is, and the pressure was mounting on the democrats who voted for the law from their home states. why did you vote for it and say i can keep my plan until there was pushback from his offers saying there were not that many cancellations. how unusual is it to have the united states senator's office call up the division and start pushing them to change their messaging? >> well, i think it is highly suspect and highly unusual, and while they're trying to down play, we're just trying to verify the number

sides with house intelligence committee chairman my mike rogers, colorado democratic senator mark udall plus president obama's former national security advisor tom donlon and c.e.o. deputy director is key member of the group that advised the president how to reform the nsa. all that plus our own panel of analysts. 60 years of news, because this is "face the nation." good morning again, the house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers has been out front from the beginning defending the nsa programs since they first came under fire, mr. chairman, welcome. >> thank you. >> schieffer: i want to ask you about the president's speech, but the first thing i want to get to is that you suggested that perhaps edward snowden had some help from the russians. he of course the man who dumped all of this information out on us from the web and from the american files. what do you say to that? >> couple of things, i said that there -- he's likely to have had help, i think there are some interesting questions we have to answer that certainly would lend one to believe that the russians had at least in

hard way. 26-year-old jed udall has been arrested on drug and trespass charges.ponded to a man breaking into cars. in a statement senator udall said he was stressed about the news and promised to stand with his son during treatment. >>> new this morning on msnbc.com mayor de blasio is keeping a promise to reform the stop and frisk. the city has dropped an appeal on the controversial policy. >>> and coming up this sunday on "meet the press," a look at the battles ahead. the president laid out his agenda to congress but will anything really get done? david gregory sits down with white house chief of staff denis mcdonough. >>> it's friday and that means politico's seven surelli is here for our first look at scrambled politics. >> happy friday, betty. thanks for having me. >> the state department is set to release an environmental report on the keystone pipeline. back in june president obama promised that it would be acceptable if it doesn't add to the pollution problem, but if it does, does this put him in a tough position? >> it absolutely will put him in a tough p

udall: thank you. mr. president. let me first thank senator shelby and senator mikulski for their really, really hard work on this omnibus appropriations bill, and that's what i'm down here to speak on. the american people sent us here to make choices, sometimes very tough choices. they don't expect perfection but they do expect us to be fair and to get the job done. americans are tired of shutdowns, of sequestration, of stopgap funding. and today we are making decisions we were sent here to make. the annual appropriations process is the right way to do the people's business. instead of kicking the can and passing the buck, lurching from crisis to crisis, i think we are making some significant progress. this was my first year on the appropriations committee, and i especially want to thank chairman mikulski for her leadership, her unfailing support and for doing such an amazing job. she once said it's not how long i serve but how well i serve. senator mikulski has proven once again on both counts she is truly exceptio

. >>> colorado senator mark udall tried to fudge the number of cancellations in his state. member of his own congressional delegation says yes. corey gardener is demanding an investigation after udall's staff tried to bully the colorado insurance commissioner into lowering the number of people whose insurance policies were canceled under obamacare. complete colorado reporting, 250,000 people lost their plans. udall staffers indicated the number was misleading because most of those policies were canceled and they had the opportunity to renew them. insurance officials didn't budge. >> the u.s. air force is facing a scandal after they relegaled 34 of the u.s. missile launch officers were caught cheating on a certification exam. the monthly exam test the knowledge of how to operate the nuclear missiles they were maintaining. they were using text messages to share answers. all 34 men have been stripped of their certification. it is not a failure of the entire airpor force. >> our actions will be about making sure every member of our air force understands we will not accept or al

. >> and the third prominent democratic candidate today to say that, mark udall from colorado said something similar early in the day. and mary burg in wisconsin running for governor against scott walker, her campaign said she had scheduling issues so she can't appear with the president. >> in north carolina, kay hagen didn't appear. mary landrieu has been putting as much distance as she can from the president on obamacare. >> joe manchin, the conservative moderate democrat from west virginia who many of those other democrats look to. a former governor, they look to him. he said as well he doesn't like these executive orders from the president. the president thinks that's how he helps the democrats, using executive power on issues like the minimum wage. what does it say when not only the republicans who say it's an imperial presidency that's supposed to be congress's turf but when democrats are saying no, mr. president, within an hour or two of his big speech? what does that tell us? >> well, it sort of dims the light. i mean, you had president obama doing upwards of 30 fund-raisers last yea

udall: mr. president, i'd ask unanimous consent that we vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: mr. president, like so many of my colleagues, i rise to speak to this important omnibus appropriations bill that we have before us today and i, too, want to thank the senator from alabama, who i count on as a friend, and the senator fro from -- i was going to say from baltimore, but the senator from baltimore and the great state of maryland more broadly for all the great work they've done and for their colleagues on the appropriations committee as we well. we're showing the country we can work together, we're going to start the new year on a different note and i'm excited to be a part of that effort and i will support the bill of the i did want to come to the floor like a number of my colleagues have and talk about some of the business that's yet unfinished, to set the stage for more work that we can do going forward. we've had a hot of fires over the west in the

senator udall's web site shows his son lives in el dorado springs. >> a warning for folks at the superals are trying to rip off fans. fake tickets, and jim gray will be here to talk about the big game. and on the drudge report and the new york daily news, there are like 15,000 tickets available. >> a lot of tickets and not going 0 be that cold. >> that's going to be 40 something. >> that's fine. >> it's 19 today. >> it's -- 19 is not even bad. >> i'm wearing a bikini. >> we'll all glitch cameras will be on her. we'll get to that amanda knox thing when the judges get past the entree. >>> more headlines. the california democratic congressman henry waxman announced he is retiring after four decades in office. he was a key architect of the health care overhaul, at chairman of the house energy committee -- commerce committee until 2011. >> doctors are trying to wake the racecar driver michael schumacher from his month-long medically induced coma. according to his manager. he was skiing skiing in the fres when he fell and his head hit a rock. >> ed in says man confessed to smuggling nearly 4

senator udall i see why he is concerned it may jeopardize his election in 2014. there's a difference between calling up an office and saying are these the right numbers verses a hostile fophone call forcing them to say we are standing strong. this was an attempt to use an office to use a staff to pressure a public policy maker into changing the numbers of people who have had their insurance canceled. i think it raises a big question about abuse of power. >> the cancellation notices were coming in and the pressure was mounting on these democrats who voted for the law from their home state. why did you vote for it? why did you say i could keep my plan. there's a push back saying the numbers aren't 250,000 cancellations. it was technically but alo were offering renewals. how unusual is it to have them call up the division of insurance and start pushing them to change their messaging? >> i think it is highly suspect and unusual. while they are trying now to down-play it saying we were trying to verify the numbers at the same time they were panicking trying to deal wi

arizona congressman mo udall. the most important thing to me is that it's there.ou get a real lift from getting out of the artificial world and being with nature. not only oil lay beneath the tundra. minerals vital to national defense were being imported from the third world while unknown quantities waited in alaska. the amounts were assumed to be vast. the alaska lands act would prevent further exploration. within those borders, there's the potential of providing for this nation the 31 minerals which we're importing from the third world. why weren't they developed before this? because the need wasn't there. because it's expensive. if there was debating room on alaska's minerals, there was no debate on the wilderness. it was vast, and it was america's last wilderness, the last wild home for many plants and animals. we could import minerals but not wilderness. we couldn't have both. we'd have to choose. doug scott was the chief lobbyist for the environmentalists. people in future generations will be outraged if we destroy everything natural about this planet in our

senator udall says there has. do you know of any abuses? >> there has been a handful of cases, literally a handful where nsa employees have looked in to the database inappropriately. looked at boy friends or girlfriends and everyone of those cases they were dealt with appropriately and i believe actually some of them may have been fired. but that's the limited abuse that has taken place. there has been no systematic abuse, there has been no political abuses, has been minor, very minor. >> schieffer: why did your panel recommend that this great trove of telephone numbers, this giant phone book that the nsa has, why did you recommend that be put in private hands? i ask that in light of the recent messes of target and also with neiman-marcus where all of this information has been hacked in to. why isn't the government better capable of protecting this stuff than private? >> government in the nsa case showed it was not capable of protecting classified information. and i happen to know some industries in the private sector who do a phenomenal jo

for example, we have burke, udall, begich, hagen, he flew down with him then hid when he came to new orleans. aren't you seeing the beginning of the not-obama wing of the party as they try to maneuver for the election and that that further weakens him. >> i actually saw the president speaking to issues that unite democrats but also unite independents and also attracts a lot of republicans, which is economic opportunity for all americans. and i think if you look at the senate races in the past, it's not really dependent on the president's number, although i think the president did a lot of work on tuesday to shore up his numbers and the party's numbers. >> if he has all of these unifying issues, why are they trotting away from him? >> i think you'll see more and more democrats coming towards him. i think donna's arguments about the minimum wage are really important ones. i think tuesday was really about expanding economic growth, expanding opportunity for all americans, minimum wage is an important part of that. it's an issue that divides republicans, divides very conservative members

even more embarrassing was democratic senator mark udall's uncomfortable nonanswer last night when cnn's dana bash asked him if he'd campaign with the president in colorado. >> that was not a yes or no. >> we'll see what the president's schedule is, we'll see what my schedule is. but coloradans will re-elect me on my record, not the president's record. >> one more chance, you won't see yes or no, will you? >> we'll see what the schedule allows. >> mo, these democrats are basically giving obama the political equivalent of, i might have to wash my hair that day. isn't this embarrassing and worrisome for you guys going into 2014? >> no. >> tell me why not. >> well, it's january. now, if you want to see an example of a candidate who is fleeing from party leaders look at governor rick scott down in florida who just last weekend had the chair of his party's committee, chris christie, the next great big hope of the republican party, and they were sneaking in and out of back doors. >> you were turning this around on republicans and not answering my question but you just prove midmy point. if it'

phone data collection program senator udall challenge the effectiveness of the n.s.a.'s surveillance program and outlined the scope of the cia i want to be able to reassure the american people especially given what's been happening. that the cia and the director understand the limits of their mission its authorities we all are well aware executive or twelve triple three that order prohibits the cia from engaging in domestic spying and searches of u.s. citizens within our borders another senator concerned with domestic spying is ron wyden to look for clarity and to the n.s.a. the ability to track and the visuals using smartphone apps he asked the f.b.i. director if the f.b.i. is required to have probable cause in order to acquire american cell side location information for intelligence purposes what he said might surprise you no i don't believe so senator we in almost all circumstances we have to obtain a court order but the showing is a reasonable basis to believe it's relevant to the investigation and the intelligence director is testifying today overwhelmingly agree t

mark udall of colorado is under fire for allegedly pressuring state health officials to offer negativebamacare numbers. last november at the officials estimated that nearly a quarter of a million folks in colado have their policies canceled as a result of obamacare. but the senator reportedly pushed the division of insurance to reduce that number to 73,000. by touting those who were given the option of renewing their policy. his staff writes that we need to move on this asap. or we will be forced to challenge the 249,000 number ourselves. it is wildly off or very misleading and reporters keep repeating it. saying that even if some customers were given the option of renewing policies, it doesn't change the fact that they received cancellation notices. and stocks finishing flat ahead of tomorrow's all-important jobs report. the dow jones down eight points and the nasdaq down nine points. weekly jobless claims improving, onto a five-week low, down 15,000, 300 30,000. food prices also decling and down more than 1.5% because of higher corn and wheat supplies. food prices have fallen nearly

but i will tell you one other thing, greta, as you mentioned the udal case in colorado. many identify not with the republican party or the democratic party but identify themselves as independent. there is a sense that we're being lied to. you like your plan, you keep your plan. it was a lie. you are not saving $2,500 a year. now they are trying to fix the books out in colorado. people are fed up. those unemployment numbers, you are reporting on on your show tonight, those are phony numbers. we don't count the chronically unemployed. the accounting they do in washington is totally dishonest. i know as a lawyer, there would be people you would have to defend. cuffed, perp walk put in jail if they did the same accounting washington does. >> you mention independents. bulging numbers. more and more people seem to be moving to that area. in the next election, what will the republicans have to do. you have got to nab some of those independents. are we going to see immigration reform? how are you going to grab those independents, the republican party? >> look, i think that's a g

. >> they are wrong they have not substantiated with any real evidence in the best experts senator udallor weinstock -- senator white in disagree that this has prevented any terrorism. if it goes to the supreme court then they will stop. if congress does not like the of law that congress wrote that it contains a lot john: why should i care? >> it isn't anybody's business. when a person is innocent what they have done with their life whether calling or surfing the in their -- and is not the government's business but it is being gathered anyway. john: i tried to get worked up about this i have 100 other things about government over reachhe that i hate more. thank you. jim and james. if you drive through this town police may threaten to take your children. this police officer was fired for telling the truth telling about the secret ticket quotas. next. i love to eat. i love hanging out with my friends. i have a great fit with my dentures. i love kiwis. i've always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free -- it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. ev

and i'd ask the panel to take their seats and i would ask the good senator udall to sit there at theend. and he's going to introduce us to a member of the second panel. but knowing his schedule, we said we would allow him to go first. we also want to know that senator inhofe, one of the great members of this committee, has to run to his -- be a ranking member in his armed services committee. so he's going to leave, preserve his early bird status and come back. all right. so before we can do our opening statements, senator udall, we want you to be able to go to your next appointment so please, go right ahead. >> thank you, senator boxer. good morning to the committee. thank you, senator vitter. i appreciate the opportunity to introduce a member of your second panel. but a man who looms large in our great state of colorado. and that's former governor bill ritter. he helped our state become a national leader in the new energy economy. and in our fight to combat global warming. and he was our governor from 2007. senator boxer, to 2011. and he found really creative ways to build a biparti

colorado senator mark udall was on cnn immediately afterwards, he dodged three or four questions in a row about whether he would be willing to appear alongside the president campaigning in colorado. mary landrieu in louisiana said she was disappointed citing inaction on keystone. shows you the degree to which these democrats the allies in the president's own party regard him as albatross as they head towards november. >> as i pointed out in the segment prior to you, democrats don't -- not on the side of the folks the minimum wage. president so weak. every single poll and every single issue he is just dropping like a stone you would think that the republicans wouldn't help him and get on the side of the folks. >> republicans in response to what you are saying is that to be on the side of the folks is to create jobs their answer on the minimum wage issue that you cited was a full paged a in the "wall street journal" today taken out by think tank that quoted bill gates as saying that when there is a demand to raise the minimum wage when it basically happens and i'm paraphrasing bill gate

and senator mark udall of colorado, a state the president carriy eied twice, was repeated asked by cnn if he wanted the president to campaign for him. and he dodged. >> we'll see what the president's schedule is. >> the president's allies feel good on health care, republicans are largely shifting away from a repeal argument, and his vigorous defense of the law may rally democrats, while on immigration reform, the president won applause from top republicans by avoiding partisan attacks, which may help speaker john boehner and eric cantor craft a deal. >> so let's get immigration reform done this deal. >> yet, republicans are turned off by his threat of going around them on other issues, including today when the president slipped up and claimed he was signing a bill passed by congress when really it was an executive order. >> now i'm going to sign this bill. thank you, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> he was signing a new plan known as m.y.r.a.s that will allow people who don't have 401(k)s to save money. it never went through congress and it's just an executive

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ron widen and mark udall, two more liberal democratic senators who have pushed hard for reforms, saythey feel vindicated because the president is taking good steps. then you have another democratic senator, richard blumenthal of connecticut, said, quote, the president was stronger on principle than prescription. the president's reform blueprint, while bold and courageous, is a first step, leaving a lot of work to be done. part of that is that democrats have seen this evolution where the president is someone who first ran for office in 2007 and 2008 blasting a lot of these surveillance programs when they were run by then-president bush, and then today an fox you had a bush architect, al gonzalez, the former attorney general, suggesting this president has largely got it like, like he believes president bush did. take a listen. >> having been in the oval office with president bush and understanding the danger and threat is this country deals with every day. i'm pleased the president does his job in ensuring the security of our country. >> so perhaps an evolution for this president on th

declaring the attacks in benghazi could have been prevented, to democrats like ron wyden and mark udall demanding more oversight on the nsa surveillance programs that the president is expected to deliver on, at least partially, in a speech friday, and on health care a democratic pact is running this ad in support of democratic congresswoman ann kirkpatrick of arizona. >> it's why she blew the whistle on the disastrous health care site calling it stunning ineptitude and worked to fix it and another said at a meeting white house chief of staff dennis mcdonagh dismissed his concerns about rising health insurance premiums schrader saying they feel confident about it. i'm sure he knows best. i'm just a little country veterinarian from a small town in the great state of oregon so what do i know? i'm from a marginal district that they need to have that talks to people on a regular basis, whatever. now, two other democratic congressmen at that meeting called me tonight, and they insist that while health care is a high stakes issue the conversation got intense. they say it was not a big blowup a

jedediah udall was taken into after a man matching his description was trying to break into cars in eldorado springs, california. he admitted to having used heroin in the past 48 hours. with four counts of first-degree criminal trespass and one count of drug possession. he was released on $1500 bond. mr. udall, a first term senator ,ho is facing reelection released a statement in which he and his wife expressed support for their son and asked for privacy. his first brush with the law. in december, he was cited by law charges of on walking out of a store without paying for ad phil and imodium. scott is a republican in oak view, california. he agrees with the big immigration proposal. scott? richard in lake placid, florida. disagree line. caller: good morning. . strongly disagree i agree with a lot of other colors -- callers. these illegal criminals who come into the country do not help the country at all. i got a report that they send back to their home or their country of origin $56 billion per year. just a few years ago it was $25 billion. rebuildingwork and that was done after hurricane sa

ken buck, he ran and lost in 2010, and he would carry that baggage into a race against mark udall if the primary. north carolina, greg brannan has been a thorn in the side of the republican front-runner tom tillis. louisiana, bill cassidy has been pushed to the right by tea party favorite, rob manus. and as we said before, there are plenty of times where incumbents are facing the tea party challengers. it includes pat roberts of kansas, lamar alexander in tennessee, lindsey graham in south carolina, and john cornyn in texas. but the senators and their allies don't intend to take the challenges lightly, and as evidenced by this super-pac ad that blasts steve stockman. >> lies. shady deals. ethical failings. it's everything that's wrong with washington, and it's congressman steve stockman's troubling record. >> joining me now is brian walsh, former spokesman of the national republican senatorial committee. brian, sal, how are you doing? sal, i'll start with you. i think you might contend that my setup there buys into the premise that says the tea party has been a problem for republican

ron wyden and mark udall, two democratic senators on the intel ye intelligence committee, already knewsnowden was talking about. they warned the public for years that we should be alarmed about this but two powerful senators were barred by the law and were too afraid to tell the people what they know. that's why mr. snowden did what he did. he knew there was no way inside the system to make fellow citizens aware of what their government was doing to their privacy. >> ruth, it is true the obama administration has used the espionage act more to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists not just than any previous administration but more than all previous administrations combined. so the argument that ellsburg makes that it's a different environment than the '70s might be accurate, no? >> i think there has been an excessive use of the whistleblower -- excessive use of power against whistleblowers. i also think because i see the world -- glenn sees the world in black and white, i see it in gray terms which makes me apparently a complete tool of the establishment. i think that snowde

mo udall also had that capacity. it is a tool that you want to be able to acquire is a public speaker and a public servant in particular. >> i appreciate you telling people in my generation to take part in what is going on. >> hi. we were talking about education and especially the voucher system. i was wondering what your opinion of school choice and the voucher system was. >> i generally think that having school choice is a good thing. i think sometimes it is overrated. i think vouchers can be a good thing, but i also think they are overrated. i do not think -- i think if everybody got to go to a charter school or a private school things would be resolved is too simplistic. we need to look at all the tools we have available to us. i know extraordinary public schools that have served their communities extremely well, but i also know there are charter schools and private schools that have served their communities well. i do not think there is any solution. i think we need to find the test in all of these models and ap

mo udall also had that capacity. it is a tool that you want to be able to acquire as a public speaker and a public servant in particular. >> i appreciate you telling people in my generation to take part in what is going on. >> thank you. >> hi. we have been talking a little bit this week about education and especially the voucher system. as a future teacher, i was wondering what your opinion of school choice and the voucher system was. >> i generally think that having school choice is a good thing. i think sometimes it is overrated. i think vouchers can be a good thing, but i also think they are overrated. i do not think -- i think if everybody got to go to a charter school or a private school things would be resolved is too simplistic. we need to look at all the tools we have available to us. i know extraordinary public schools that have served their communities extremely well, but i also know there are charter schools and private schools that have served their communities well. i do not think there is any one solut

mark udall says it has to be lower than that.o to the public with a much lower number so it doesn't seem bad. >> he was saying to the "the washington post" was the first one to report that i believe. but, regardless, 250,000 cancellations, the reason that he wanted to create this record know it was the denver post actually who he spoke to. the reason he wanted to correct the record is he said these people, many of them got the cancellation notices but also told that they could get it reinstated, you know, but they would just have to go through that, you know, the hassle of doing all of that regardless though. >> and pay more by the way. >> it's a headache to have to do that though. >> still a cancellation. that's not fudging. >> cancellation and worried about what kind of healthcare you are going to have. what are you going to do for your doctor and if your kid gets sick and you have to go through the paperwork again. >> if it's ridiculous if i steal your car and given you a bicycle instead have i stolen your car or traded vehicl

this out -- -- mark udall tweeted this out. the plan would extend unemployment benefits for three months. , after the senate cleared the 60 vote threshold to advance legislation, house speaker john boehner had a , saying the house will not take it up unless it is paid for. here's what the statement said -- the speaker would also like to see language on the president's affordable care act included in these extensions, as well as an agreement to go forward. jim from south carolina, a republican caller. good morning. if harry reid is so right and they economy is stimulated by unemployment, why don't we all just go on unemployment yucca people not working and not conjure bidding takes away from that effective the economy. i can't believe people believe his rhetoric. unemploymentd into they only paid in during a factor of 26 weeks, not for four years. it is a shame people believe this kind of rhetoric. is true the government created such a big economy. the governmente created such a big economy, then how come -- growing five or seve

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senator mark udall said that it was focused on the bulk collection of phone metadata which others largelyse. >> i urged him to pull back on the metadata. >> reporter: cnn has learned that the white house is giving serious consideration to several new reforms, including new rules addressing the insider threat in the wake of edward snowden. >> end mass surveillance. >> reporter: including improving the issue of security clearances to better audit who can access what records. setting standards for inscription to make clear the nsa will not break inscription for commercial spying. and issuing new trans paparency reports and how many individuals' records were actually exposed. peter is on the intelligence review panel. >> a particular company for law enforcement and for the query how many people's records are being looked at. i think there's a belief out there that sometimes the searches are broader than they really are. >> reporter: today the chairman released details about classified department defense department report which found snowden disclosures may jeopardize soldiers' lives in the fi

they posted an interview done by dana bash with mark udall.the headline, democratic senator did not say whether he would campaign with barack obama. that interview has been posted on "the weekly standard. cnn's did" -- cnn's dana bash did ask mark obama tother he wanted campaign with an directory. cassandra joins us from white plains, new york. good evening. if you are on the air. please go ahead. we are going to move onto bradley in akron, ohio. turn the volume on your -- turn the volume down on your television set. i have been watching this. i am really a nobody in this country. -- ia couple questions don't know if it will be aired -- that i have to ask. i am far from an angel. i have been in trouble in my life. i am 57 years old. i have never, ever done things that you shouldn't do, but i have done things just to survive. i don't understand why this -- i believe the part that 1% got everything and we have nothing. say a man is starting, they -- is starving, they say, you are serving the country because you need help, you know? all of these

senator udall, let me apologize to you. i skipped over your name and called on senator wyden. it's your moment. >> no apologies, madam chair. thank you for being here. am i to make it clear how much this committee respects and admires the hard-working members of the intelligence community. i know everyone on this committee keeps this worldwide threat assessment handy. it is not reading that puts you to sleep he gets your attention. i want to thank you and your team for putting this together. i did want to pick up on senator heinrichs questioning. we are back in operation here. director brennan, you know a long history of this committee study of our detention and interrogation programs. i would like to put my statement in the record that walks us through that record. but i did want to focus initially on a cia internal review, some people call it that up another review. were you aware of a cia internal review when he provided the cia's official response to this committee in june of last year? i don't have much time, so i'd appreciate a yes or no answer. >> it wasn't a review, se

. >> reporter: colorado democrat mark udall carefully praised key parts of the president's speech.this year. does that mean you're going to campaign with him or you'll have him campaign with you side by side? >> we're going to be running a strong campaign based on colorado's interests. >> reporter: that was a yes or no. yes or no? >> we'll see what the president's schedule is, what my schedule is. coloradans are going to re-elect me based on my record. >> reporter: wow. one more chance. you won't say yes or no, will you? >> we'll see what the schedule allows. >> reporter: translation -- he's keeping his distance, and obama won colorado twice. alaska is a different story. obama lost it twice. and the senate democrat running there knows it, saying this about the president. >> if he wants to come up, i'm not really interested in campaigning. >> reporter: democrat mark begich didn't stop there. >> if he wants to come up and learn about alaska, bring it on. i'll drag him around, show him whatever he wants to see, but i want to convince him and show him some of his policies are not in th

privacy advocates, senators ron wyden and mark udall, called for more restraint on the nsa and some in the intelligence community expressed concern that national security could be weakened. >> this is fraught with peril for anyone in the private sector to do this. >> reporter: the vast collection of data was put in place after the september 11th attacks, and as a candidate in 2008, mr. obama was a harsh critic of the program. now, as president, he is learning how hard it is to rein in entrenched techniques and to quiet search a large political firestorm. >> the white house really viewed it as urgent to get this nsa issue, if not completely resolved, bottled up, contained and moved into some other forum so the president can get on to talk about the other issues he wants to address. >> reporter: now, some edward snowden supporters say the president's announcement is vindication for snowden. in his speech, the president said snowden had brought more heat rather than light to the debate, and he defended the surveillance program, saying it's never abused its power but said change is necessa

i know senator udal was here earlier. they are working very hard to enroll this into their program to success flu conserve the species in a way that's voluntary. like the partnership i'm so fond of, it doesn't assume that the stake holders don't want to clean up their system. and protect endangered species. do you think that range-wide plan can preclude the need for listing under the endangered species act? >> senator, i think i met with the members of the partnership two weeks ago in texas. and i think they're poised to make some significant steps forward. they already signed up between a million and a half and two million acres of oil and gas lands. and they're working on the possibility of several million more. so the question is, you know, can the implementation of the plan potentially address the threats to the species? will it? i think it's a question of performance. and we have a little bit of time left to see if that will work. >> sorry to cut you off, but we've gone over quite a bit. we're going to turn to senato