0 you think is cereal, it s part of a balanced breakfast on the ridiculist. that does it for us. we ll see you an hour from now at 10:00 p.m. eastern. a krrks 3c 360 later. hope you join us for that. hope you join us for that. piers morgan starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com this is piers morgan live. we welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. a government shut down for 16 days, spies spying on spies and online health care sign up, more complicated than doing your taxes all designed by canada company. that and the president maintained your coverage won t change. if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. if you like your private health insurance plan, you can keep it. we ll keep this promise. of course, he didn t keep any of those promises as it turned out and what about the pesky nsa story? you can t keep this promise to the american people, if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep yr doctor, period. if you like yo
0 and we re back tonight s outer circle. an american is helping the country of iran s soccer team preparing for the world cup. i asked why the coach decided to go to iran. reporter: erin, an american citizen making headlines for his decision to move here to iran and help iran s national soccer team qualify for the world cup in brazil next year. his name is dan gaspar, born in
electronic equipment we take in is swept before we go in and swept when we come out. this is ubiquitous. it is everywhere. it is thousands of pages a day. and so you know, for everybody to be wringing their hands nobody s asked yet the french or the germans or the spanish to say okay, who are you listening to? what collection are you doing? on who? you d probably get them stuttering and stammering and say we ll neither admit or deny just like the u.s. agencies do. it s kind of amazing your point, which is sometimes you gather, you gather so much. seems like we re gathering so much we don t know what we re gathering. the president doesn t even know, what s the point? jay carney today was, frankly, apologetic. they said they re going to go ahead and make some changes. let me play just as jay described it. we recognize that there need to be additional constraints on how we gather and use
including the one that targeted world leaders when he took over the white house from president george w. bush. the official also tells cnn the president would have been told which specific countries were being targeted in those briefings. but then, a senior administration official still insists to cnn that president obama didn t learn until recently. so which of these sources are telling the truth? jim sciutto is out front. reporter: administration officials tell cnn the spying of loaders of close allies such as german chancellor angela merkle took place without president obama s direct knowledge. a senior official says it s not reasonable to expect that the president would have been involved in or necessarily briefed on decisions about individual intelligence targets. in an interview at the fusion cable network president obama says his administration is reviewing the way it collects intelligence.
the president doesn t even know, what s the point? jay carney today was, frankly, apologetic. they said they re going to go ahead and make some changes. let me play just as jay described it. we recognize that there need to be additional constraints on how we gather and use intelligence. so does he have a point? that there should be additional constraints? or is that basically unilaterally disarming as someone told me today, that the u.s., if it backs down now and stops doing this monitoring, it would be very damaging possibly for the security of the u.s. as well as its allies? what he said was the diplomatic correct thing to say. the executive branch is in charge of this. they know what they ve got to look at in order to keep america safe. this is not a partisan issue. this is a bipartisan issue. we all agree that we ve got to do the kind of intelligence gathering that we do in order to keep americans safe.