everyone, weike want things not to happen. i think it is a matter of sometimes the senate and the asse have as much problem's the republicans. our job is to get them to see this is a national interest year. we have been a supporter of the no labels movement. they're willing to recognize their job is to solve international problems. business people are pragmatist. affiliated with either party. i'm happy to be in the middle of that. , i wenta book last year around talking about it. other countries have figured out what we're doing. they're focusing on free trade. we have great education. we have to keep our first-place status as innovators by having trade,c education, free access to the best and brightest, and reasonable patent system. passed thee innovation act. there is some appetite in the , aate for pursuing a bill similar bill. how important was that your members? there's been a lot of back-and- forth about whether this bill would sort of stop the trolls, or it would weaken the judicial system in terms of how patents are co

and that's the collection of metadata, it's so controversial in the weik of the edward snowden leaks, they are saying that it should be shut down. we had the federal judge in response to a case brought saying that it had not solved or.net prevent any attacks, and then we had the president's own advisory commission that he appointed saying that it did not prevent any attacks, but they should go forward. the president is very much in limbo. his spokesperson, jay carney saying that it should go to the review and everybody is trying to find a way out of this. but here we have this agency pointed by the federal government saying that the program is illegal. we'll wait for the white house later today to deal with this report. >> mike, thank you very much. and meanwhile, edward snowden, the man behind this controversy, in a live web chat today. it will be head on the snowden website at 3:00 eastern time. he is expected to address changes to the national security agency. >>> the gop laying out its strategies and goals in the year to come. so far the party leaders are keeping tight-lipped, and