again, to senator udall, you're welcome here anytime.ave been a guest a number of time. >>> did you hear the democrats worried about the morale of federal workers? anyone worrying about the morale of those people paying those workers, you know, us? huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know bad news doesn't always travel fast? (clears throat) hi mister tompkins. todd? you're fired. well, gotta run. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >> how dumb? hear about this? they want a commission to study the declining morale of federal employees. they want to know why they're so bummed out. not to get to the bottom of our morale as the taxpayers funding this whole government and trying to fund a retirement. craig smith says that is what is taxing, what he self-serving politicians call prioritizing, craig? >> boo-hoo hoo. think about this. wore worried about the morale of the federal employees who mak more than the private sector. elijah cummings

in december, during an open committee hearing, senator mark udall echoed this request. in early january, 2014, the c.i.a. informed the committee it would not provide the internal panetta review to the committee, citing the deliberative nature of the document. shortly thereafter, on january 15, 2014, c.i.a. director

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if you look at the udall race, you have mr. same side of the same coin as ken buck. he supported the personhood amendment, which has been rejected twice. that works against his candidacy and works for udall. he'll lose a significant amount of the women's vote. he voted against the dream act. michael bennett carried the latino community 81-19. so if he voted against the dream act, he'll lose a large percentage of hispanics. he voted against don't ask, don't tell for the military. if that be the case, he loses a large percent of the lgbt community, that's another segment. he voted for the paul ryan bhuj et, and that also slashed medicare as well as he wanted to privatize social security. you lose a large part of the seniors. and with that kind of effort, i don't see how you can get to the middle and to the majority of coloradoans. he voted against the debt ceiling and he voted to shut down the government. >> i have to ask you about guns. >> "the national journal" said he's the tenth-most-conservative senator in the senate -- or i

mark udall was safe until cory gardner challenged udall, who now faces a similar barrage of health careattacks. >> obamacare doesn't work. it just doesn't work. tell senator udall to stop thinking about politics and start thinking about people. >> the gop's 2014 road map includes three must-win states where democrats are retiring. south dakota where mike brown leads rick weiland. west virginia, where shelly more capito leads natalie tenant, and montana, where steve danes has a double digit lead over former lieutenant governor john boelginger. open seats in michigan and iowa are also open targets. these were states twice won by president obama, but they suggest a tough fight until election day. mark pryor of arkansas, mary landrieu of louisiana, kay hagan, and mark begich, all face strong gop contenders with ample war chests to pummel them. that's 11 states where the gop is tied or leading to win six more seats needed for the majority, and there are three more vulnerable democrats. minnesota senator al franken, jeff merkley, and mark warner. all at risk in their states in large measure f

udall. once again, our staff is still waiting for several documents that we have requested. these requests are not unreasonable. the amount of time it is taking to produce them is. as much as anyone, i want to say the committee study of the cia's enhanced interrogation program finished and released. that cannot happen while the cia slow walks the documents that we have requested. we do not have many options available to force the agency's cooperation, but i will not rule out any in order to get the agency to finally cooperate with our requests. i want to thank the chairman for her leadership in getting this study written and i want to mention something that happened this afternoon. i am outraged that the cia continues to make misleading public statements about the committee's study of the cia interrogation program. there is only one instance in which the cia pointed out a factual error in the study. a minor error that has been corrected. for the rest, where the cia and the committee differ, we differ on interpretation and conclusions from an agreed-upon factual record. you c

senator udall, thank you very much for being here tonight. appreciate your time. >> of course, rachel. if i might start, just thank you for doing what needed to be done which is to lay out the comprehensive history here. it was a dramatic and historic day today given senator feinstein's speech on the floor of the senate. she laid out the facts. facts speak loudly. if i might say this, the situation begins with the cia and it ends with the cia. and i would add one other note, i've lost confidence in director brennan, particularly because he won't acknowledge the misdeeds and misconduct of the cia. as senator feinstein in her speech today pointed out, about six weeks ago, he acknowledged to senator feinstein and senator chambliss that the cia had, in fact, gone into the computers of our intelligence committee staff. today he denied it. i don't understand why he won't come clean. that's why i've lost confidence in director brennan. >> to be clear, you're saying that he's telling the intelligence committee, the leadership of the intelligence comm

. >> senator udall. >> thank you for your distinguished service to our nation. admiral rogers, i want to turn to you. responses,ed policy i noticed you stated the government could continue to access phone records through phone service providers repositories. that could serve as a viable alternative to the current records collection program. i was glad to read that. you wrote that the business records 215 grew out of a desire to identify cap after 9/11. a gap after 9/11. aw anoted that the nsa solv call, but could not see that the call was coming from an individual in the united states. i am concerned that a program such in 215 could have prevented 9/11. as the 9/11 commission pointed out, the commission knew about .lmodovar i don't know why the nsa could authorization to determine if this member was in contact with anyone in the united states. i don't see wobble collection authority would be necessary. the constitution is not an impediment to our security. it is the source of our security. andan and bulk collection of infringe on the rights law-abiding americans

udall is strong. this is a huge warning for our democratic campaign. that turnout will be harder than they thought. >> we have another eight months to revisit this. thank you so much. ♪ >> welcome back. we are joined by bloomberg's john. john, let's start with ukraine. crimea votes to lie with russia on sunday. will they pay a price? >> not enough to do what they want to do. that is the question. ukraine is gone. >> ukraine or crimea? >> probably ukraine. crimea is already gone. the next question is the cities in eastern ukraine. that is what the u.s. intelligence people are watching right now. a lot of russian forces on the border. putin talking about the government being illegitimate. >> is there any way for him to get to an off ramp? >> there are a lot of off ramps. but i don't know anybody that thinks he is going to take one. >> this is not going to stop. >> there is no way to stop it. no way for the west to stop it. that is what encourages putin. >> let me turn to the cia versus congress. give me a portrait of john brennan. whether it was in the 7

the idea of transparency as senator udall mentioned. the idea we have we have to have a dialogue that talks about whau we are doing and why. we have ensure strict accountability and we have to make sure we follow the processes appropriately and when we make a mistake, if we fail to meet the requirements, we are up front about the how and why. >> do you have any thoughts about the allegations that the fisa courts are a rubber stamp for the administration? >> i don't believe that to be the case. >> you believe they are exercises sufficient oversight? >> yes, sir. >> so you do appreciate the fact that we have at least with a large number of americans and people around the world a significant problem with the pr aspect of the work that you and your organization will be doing? >> yes, sir, which is why my personal opinion is the fisa structure worked well and i am open to the view that instilling great greater confidence we should look at improving that. >> if i had a recommendation for you it would be as much as possible given the aspects o

udall is strong. this is a huge warning for our democratic campaign. that turnout will be harder than they thought. >> we have another eight months to revisit this. thank you so much. ♪ >> welcome back. we are joined by bloomberg's john. john, let's start with ukraine. crimea votes to lie with russia on sunday. will they pay a price? >> not enough to do what they want to do. that is the question. ukraine is gone. >> ukraine or crimea? >> probably ukraine. crimea is already gone. the next question is the cities in eastern ukraine. that is what the u.s. intelligence people are watching right now. a lot of russian forces on the border. putin talking about the government being illegitimate. >> is there any way for him to get to an off ramp? >> there are a lot of off ramps. but i don't know anybody that thinks he is going to take one. >> this is not going to stop. >> there is no way to stop it. no way for the west to stop it. that is what encourages putin. >> let me turn to the cia versus congress. give me a portrait of john brennan. >> he is a longtime off

we got an answer from mark udall.nts it made public. >> when i first went on the committee some three years ago i went about understanding the c.i.a.'s program of interrogation which was brutal, ineffective, clumsy, filled with flaws. i call it torture. we have been pushing ever since to get this report released and clear the record. we know in america when we acknowledge our mistakes we are stronger for it. >> what is it the c.i.a. doesn't want the public to get across to us. senior white house reporter for politico. the american people are not proud of torture. they are not very happy at least on center and left about the continued existence of gitmo. they don't like some of the drone stuff. there are things they don't think america should be doing because it is not what we stand for. what is the c.i.a.'s mission? to keep us from knowing what it does? >> this has been a battle going on for years. if you listen to what dianne feinstein said in the beginning of her remarks back in 2009 the committee learned that what

then it will be senator wyden, senator scott,'s senator udall. -- senator scott, senator udall. think,ask this first, i to mr. chow, then dr. montgomery. it should be better known in the united states that russia's national budget is made up 52% of editing -- energy revenue. i'm sure the u.s. budget is considerably less. it has been written over the course of several years that russia has continued to use what has been termed -- not my term, but someone else said this -- energy blackmail. their state coffers full. foreign policy over the last 20 used thissia has energy blackmail over 40 times, including in countries like lithuania. you said that there was no silver lining. that our actions today may not take immediate effect. were much more bullish on your position. i would like to ask you all, what are the steps, in your opinion, that the u.s. should take to reduce russia's influence and reduce their quick access to cash and promote policies not in our interest and not in the interest of europe and democracies around the world? starting with you, dr. montgomery. what are the on

udall: thank you mr. president,. thank you madam chair for your very kind words. senator boxer is the chairman of the committee that deals with climate change legislation and has been ever present in terms of trying to see if we can come up with a bipartisan solution and get legislation. and i was just very proud to serve on her committee when the obama administration came in and the senate sat down to work and was really trying to do something about climate change. and, unfortunately we ran out of time, but we still as you can see by the number of senators that have spoken, we're up to 30 now we still have incredible passion about this issue. we know it's a serious problem the american people know it's a serious problem and we want something done. now, what have we learned? what have we learned? i've watched my colleagues over the night. i guess i'm number 30th and i've watched what they've been talking about. one of the things we've learned and the tradition here in the senate is normally if we're talking like this and our colleagues on the republican side of th

mark udall is placing a hold on president obama's appointment to be top lawyer at that agency. precise reasoning, it comes amid the fight the cia spied on the committee's staffers, what that means, is that the position of the top lawyer to the cia will continue to be occupied by a man of the name robert ettinger. oddser, you've never heard of robert ettinger, and you're not alone. it is worth explaining this man's record. do you remember this headline? we would later learn the chief of the cia's clandestine branch ordered the destruction of 92 videotapes of enhanced interrogation or what i refer to as torture. tapes of torture, torture tapes. torture is a crime under american law. these tapes were plausible evidence of the possibility of those crimes having been committed so the cia wanted to get rid of those tapes, they asked their lawyers, basically, is it cool if we destroy videotapes of us torturing someone? jose rodrigez, the man who would destroy those tapes, received legal guidance from two cia lawyers that he had the authority to destroy the tapes and the destruction wo

the big interrogation report that the committee approved, senator udall referred to it and discussed representations to the department of justice regarding coercive interrogation. you indicated to me yesterday that you had read the report. based on information in the report, does it appear to you that the cia provided our justice department awful legal counsel with acceptably accurate information about the coercive interrogation program? >> based on my reading of that section of the report, i agree with what the former general counsel said, which was that the information provided fell short of the normal type of information that is provided. >> so the answer would be no. >> yes, i think that is right. >> you have told us that it does not appear to you that the cia divided the justice department with except ugly accurate information, correct? acceptably accurate information, correct? >> yes. >> we talked about this in the office. ins is a particular opinion the office of legal counsel. i have been concerned about it. it is inconsistent with the public's understanding of the law and i

the first is this idea of transparency as senator udall mention. this idea we've got to have a dialogue that talks about what are we doing and the wind. in addition we have to ensure strict account build on the part of the national security agency. we have to make sure we do in fact follow those processes are probably and when we make a mistake, if we fail to meet those requirements that we are very up front about how and the why. >> do you have any thoughts about the allegations that the fisa courts are just a rubber stamp for the administration? >> i don't believe that to be the case. >> do you believe that they are exercising sufficient oversight? >> yes, sir. >> so you do appreciate the fact that we have at least with a large number of americans and people around the world a significant problem with the pr aspect of the work that you and your organization will be doing? >> yes, sir. which is why, for example, my personal opinion is the fisa structures worked well but i'm open to the idea that with a view of instilling greater confidence we shou

>> it is encouraging at this point of the we have bipartisan and bicameral efforts, senator udall in the senate, corey gardner, tim ryan, congressman paco, all trying to look get creative ways of being able to expedite the process. that is the problem we had. several facilities wanting permits, need to have these permits. our view is the department of energy should go ahead and approve permits to all that meet the criteria and let the market figure out which ones will be built so we can quickly get our natural gas to our friends. cheryl: three years they approved 6 applications they got, 24 that are sitting on the secretary's desk that haven't been touched. isn't that correct? >> it is important to point out not all of those will be built. the market, a round world, is not infinite. the capital needed to build these facilities isn't infinite. we need to quickly get those economic facilities built as quickly as possible. >> we let the companies decide whether to move forward, crazy me. and companies that are heavily into natural gas, and they want to see export capabilities, boosting

and mark udall, up for re-election this year, had tougher words. >> i've lost confidence in directoran, particularly because he won't acknowledge the misdeeds and misconduct of the cia. >> getting awfully close to seeing senators actually call for brennan to step down. now, this morning, nbc news is reporting that senator udall is putting a hold on the president's pick to be the cia's general counsel. right now, the white house is standing by director brennan, but it's treading lightly on the details, while the department of justice investigates, or at least decides whether to investigate, senator feinstein's claims and director brennan's questions on whether senate staffers improperly took sensitive cia documents from a virginia office. the president confident that director brennan has been straightforward with him about his version of the events? >> the president has great confidence in director brennan -- >> on these events? >> i'm not privy to conversations with -- and i'm not getting into specific conversations. >> as for brennan, he's not making career moves unless he hears fro

. >> speaking of that, senator mark udall, a member of the committee, also a vocal critic of the cia, as i understand it, kasie, sent a letter to the president, as well? >> it's something udall has focused on aggressively, transparency in particular and this detention program, yes. >> thank you very much. let me go to pete williams here. pete, we know the cia inspector general opened an inquiry regarding this and is said to have referred this to the justice department. break down the legal questions, especially as it relates to the allegations from senator feinstein today. >> well, i guess there are competing legal claims here, the question of whether senate staffers improperly accessed classified information. that's what the cia was looking at. now the senate's allegation the cia should not have been looking into the computers that were used by intelligence committee staffers at an off-site facility. there are a couple of issues here for the senator. one is what you called the separation of powers issues, which is the cia and executive branch agency interfering with the legislative b

and kay hagan and mary landrieu, that's expanded out in the past few weeks to include pele like mark udall who was not considered vulnerable or what has happened is, the president's approval rating has gone down, the healthcare law popularity has also sunk and people are getting really upset about that area and the economy is not improving so people are getting closer look by voters and how do they know? they are not getting outstanding with obama when he visits states to campaign. none are committing to appear with him and that's assigned that they know that they could really be in trouble. they are not super vulnerable but it's still pretty early and in a few months we will get the picture of how big that math is. >> deblasio come the new york mayor will be forced to back off many of his populist initiatives. >> i kind of agree with pat. it's deblasio versus the rich in new york city and the rich are winning. >> susan? >> the democratically led senate will not take up the minimum wage. >> i have to respond to that because that's so clearly unrealistic to when the mass popularity is down

you have colorado senator mark udall or virginia senator mark warner suddenly embracing the need for more exports and more natural gas. this is putting a lot of pressure on the obama department of energy to approve these 24 applications that are sitting there, which is really important they get blanket approval. only when you get all them out the door can the market decide which ones are the best position to pass further regulatory reviews and get all the capital and get this process moving quickly. >> senate republicans and even some democrats wanted to have a vote to expedite the energy process approvals this week. harry reid didn't allow a vote. it would pass the house when it comes up. the house will pass something like this. is this proforma posturing by some of these pro drilling democrats or are we going to see something happen? >> it is posturing to some degree. that gets into the tricky politics of this. the white house has always played a careful walk with natural gas. they like to say they're in favor of it because it resonates with americans. their environmental base hate

udall: mr. president, i'm also very pleased to join all-colleagues here tonight to talk about one of the most pressing challenges confronting our nation in my state of colorado and that is climate change. we've seen in my state that this is not an obscure threat or a distant problem. we've had catastrophic floods and megawildfires that's been the result of drought, of a whole series of changes in the way that we see climate systems operate in colorado. and it's threatening our very way of life. i have a powerful photograph here. we've had the past two years three successive megafires. and last year's black forest fire brought destruction into colorado springs. over 500 homes burned and we lost two lives. and this fire quickly surpassed the 2012 waldo canyon fire, which was the most destructive fire in colorado history. mr. president, now is the time to act. now is the time to grab the opportunity to create new energy technologies, to enhance our national security, and to, by the way, to keep fai

senator barasso, senator mccain, senator udall, and others, to build the record and to try to forge where we might be headed. but for right now, this amendment, which is, i believe, not in the jurisdiction of the committee. also i would urge it be set aside. if it were in fact to pass, we would ultimately have this referred to other committees, d we have the urgency, i think, of the moment. there is also a view that because we have that urgency of the moment that what is proposed on l.n.g. would not have an immediate impact for the ukraine because ukraine does not have the import infrastructure to accept u.s. natural gas. it does not currently have the wherewithal to build that, and turkey has atold ukraine if it ever did build l.n.g. structure, it would block them out of safety concerns. we can have a debate about all of that, but above all, i don't believe that the amendment is within the committee's jurisdiction, and i also believe that we would also believe that we would delay the bill. senator boxer? >> i strongly support the bill. i am so pleased you have worked across the aisle wit

senator barasso, senator mccain, senator udall, and others, to build the record and to try to forge where we might be headed. but for right now, this amendment, which is, i believe, not in the jurisdiction of the committee. also i would urge it be set aside. if it were in fact to pass, we would ultimately have this referred to other committees, and we have the urgency, i think, of the moment. there is also a view that because we have that urgency of the moment that what is proposed on l.n.g. would not have an immediate impact for the ukraine because ukraine does not have the import infrastructure to accept u.s. natural gas. it does not currently have the wherewithal to build that, and turkey has atold ukraine if it ever did build l.n.g. structure, it would block them out of safety concerns. we can have a debate about all of that, but above all, i don't believe that the amendment is within the committee's jurisdiction, and i also believe that we would also believe that we would delay the bill. senator boxer? >> i strongly support the bill. i am so pleased you have worked across the aisle w

americans for prosperity will go pretty heavy out against mark udall in colorado next week. democrats are going to start to begin more heavily in these efforts to define these republicans as extreme, out of the mainstream and unelectable in these states. this is going to be sort of a shift in strategy in the coming weeks. >> no one loves that more than the tv stations. peter. >> louisiana governor bobby jindal has faded a little bit from the 2016 conversation. he was in new hampshire friday speaking at a fun st. patrick's day related event. bobby jindal quietly laying some 2016 groundwork. >> not interesting in running for president, ima's just talking to everybody i know to. one for more me. the. >>> the immediate fallout from that florida special election we have already seen a number of senior house democrats announce their retirements. i'm told in the next week to ten days look for two to three more. >>> that's it for "inside politics." see you back here next sunday. catch our morning take each weekday from 7:30 a.m. eastern. "state of the union" with candy crowley start

. >> senator udall. >> thank you for your distinguished service to our nation. admiral rogers, i want to turn to you. responses,ed policy i noticed you stated the government could continue to access phone records through phone service providers repositories. that could serve as a viable alternative to the current records collection program. i was glad to read that. you wrote that the business records 215 grew out of a desire to identify cap after 9/11. a gap after 9/11. aw anoted that the nsa solv call, but could not see that the call was coming from an individual in the united states. i am concerned that a program such in 215 could have prevented 9/11. as the 9/11 commission pointed out, the commission knew about .lmodovar i don't know why the nsa could authorization to determine if this member was in contact with anyone in the united states. i don't see wobble collection authority would be necessary. the constitution is not an impediment to our security. it is the source of our security. andan and bulk collection of infringe on the rights law-abiding americans

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senator barrasso, as you know my cousin and our colleague, mark udall, has introduced a bill that would expedite approval of exports to all wto countries from existing or future export facilities. i support this effort. the volume of our exports will be determined by the price of gas and the costs of facilities. and the gas will likely go where there's the most need. and there's a strong interest, i think, in eastern europe given russia's aggressive economic behavior. last summer i joined a bipartisan letter with both democrats and republicans to support further lng exports, and i understand there's also a bipartisan op to decision to this -- opposition to this policy. but what the letter said -- and these are both democrats and republicans saying this and it's even more true to today -- the world is hungry for u.s. natural gas. so what you're doing i would really like to work with you on, but i think this could derail this very important bill we're working on, and so i'm going to support the chairman in terms of referring the jurisdiction and the ruling that he has made. thank you, cha

that was udall. what is your impression of the governor so far in your working with him?> i've enjoyed it. i think he is very involved. he comes to the regents meetings. he pays attention. >> is that a plus? >> i think so. >> as napolitano settles in as state leader -- >> this was in the oval office. >> -- it is her former job in the federal government that's posing problems. >> education not deportation. >> no on napolitano pro testers have zeroed in on her role in deportations while secretary of homeland security. >> the fundamental problem is not me. i think i become the personification of a greater frustration so i will take the hit of being the personification of that frustration but the frustration is that the congress hasn't fixed the underlying law. >> but here how do you as uc president ease their concerns? >> well, i think by actions. >> part of that action? setting aside $5 million to help uc's estimated 1,000 undocumented students. also on the agenda, tackling the diversity issue the university is often criticized for. >> i know that you've said that you reall

congressman mark udall. is that winnable?t's winnable because he was facing a damaged candidate who lost in 2010 and the rising star in gop politics in colorado, cory guard they e basically had the field cleared for him. he's the best possible candidate in a very purple state. in a state in which udall has to be very worried now. >> now, michigan, the gop candidate, terry lynn land, democrat retired here in this one. >> that's right. this is carl levin's seat. he retired after 30 years in the senate. she is a former secretary of state of the state and much to everybody's surprise, in a state that obama carried by eight points. three or four points up against her nearest rival. and it's very early, but if she holds her strength, she'll win there. >> what about new hampshire, the gop candidate has a familiar face. >> rublicans run away with it, in part what will happen, and that means if they win, they need to win six, but if they win eight or nine or ten, it will be because they widened the playing field and that is scott brow

but thank you senator udall for your introduction to this bill. i would like to put in the record an opt-ed i thought was on point. and now i would like to begin with our witnesses. then we will go through a round of questions. our first is adam sieminsky, and ne next david goldwyn, and then edward chow, and we are pleased to have the minister of energy from the republic of lithuanlit and mr. david goldwyn as well. please mr. sieminski, proceed. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here today. eia is a statistical agency -- >> can you speak closer to the microphone? >> thank you. >> as you know, the eia is a statistical and analytical within the department of energy. it's data and analysis are independent by any other office of the united states government so my views shouldn't be construed as representing any federal agency. the total natural gas consumption is going to average 71.5 cubic feet a day. that is a slight dropnist last year. in 2015, forecast natural gas consumption falls slightly as the decline in commercial use offset the increase

udall had really strong comments recently in politico about maybe not want to go campaign with senatorma. what you're saying i get. republicans -- it's almost a carbon copy of 2010. republicans want to run against obamacare and they had a lot of success in 2010 except they didn't have as much success as they should have had because they nominated candidates like christine o'donnell in delaware, sharon engle in nevada. here is one i just saw that was main news this weekend. in mississippi thad cochrane, i think we can all agree if he's nominated by the republicans in mississippi, he is likely to get re-elected. here is what he had to say about the tea party recently, though. >> the tea party, you know, is something i don't really know a lot about. it's a free kcountry. we have open opportunities for people to participate in the election process. >> i mean, so thad cochrane, and he is a credible tea party challenger from mississippi running against him be and then we just got the news the other day former democratic congressman, conservative democratic congressman travis chilleders has d

colorado senator mark udall said president obama knew of an unprecedented action taken by the cia against the committee with regard to this report but then the white house doesn't seem to be in a hurry to declassify itself, they are in a battle with the senate committee about some other documents it doesn't want declassified. >> i think that's exactly the point. the white house doesn't really want to engage in this because they are involved in these other committee. and also, the white house really doesn't want to make an enemy of the cia. you want, as a president, you want to have a good relationship with the intelligence community, and with the director of the cia. so i don't think they're really willing to push in this case. and you also have to wonder whether the white house and the intelligence community have maintained they didn't know a lot about these programs and how they were being run specifically the torture program, maybe there is something in that report that reveals otherwise, that they knew exactly what was going on. i think thi it is something they want to think about. >>

. >> senator udall. >> thank you for your distinguished service to our nation. admiral rogers, i want to turn to you. your advanced policy responses, i noticed you stated the government could continue to access phone records through phone service providers repositories. that could serve as a viable alternative to the current records collection program. i was glad to read that. you wrote that the business records 215 grew out of a desire identify a gap after 9/11. you noted that the nsa saw a call, but could not see that the call was coming from an individual in the united states. i am concerned that a program such in 215 could have prevented 9/11. as the 9/11 commission pointed out, the commission knew about almodovar. i don't know why the nsa could not gain authorization to determine if this member was in contact with anyone in the united states. i don't see wobble collection authority would be necessary. the constitution is not an impediment to our security. it is the source of our security. we can and bulk collection and not infringe on the rights of law-abid

let me just take a moment here to to explain mark udall of colorado is making this case for natural gas exports given the ukraine crisis. i understand there might be some various perspectives on the committee on this issue but i would also ask the members to remember this is a non-binding resolution. non-binding resolution that comes in the face of mr. udall's call for action and the actions for others in order to do something to remove or at least signal, think this through, members, signal to the ukrainian government and to europe that right now, very much under the thumb of russia, that there is a way forward should the gas be cut off, there is the hope that gas could be exported from the united states into their markets, thus relieving the pressure that russia might otherwise bring into play. i think the wider issues that have been made here, the economic benefits of exporting liquefied natural gas, the fact that the department of energy did look at this long and hard, the administration looked at this, the dod decided it outweighs the cost, the department of energy has found that a

the republican congressman who's running for senate in colorado right now against mark udall, his name is cory gardner. he has supported anti-contraception like personhood at the state level and federal level in colorado. he supported them for years. he bragged about supporting personhood when he was first trying to win his seat in the house in 2012. but now he's trying to run statewide in colorado. and now he has decided that he never really had that position at all. he says he didn't understand what he was advocating all those years. the republican position on contraception has become increasingly doctrinaire, completely untenable except in republican primaries. that fact and that issue boiled over today in a bombshell case at the united states supreme court. we have more on that ahead. stay with us. >>> so the lawyer who's arguing the case that a corporation should be able to deny its employees access to contraception on the basis of their religious beliefs, the lawyer is arguing that case and he gets out 1 1/2 sentences of his argument when he is interrupted by justice sonia sotoma