after the vote amash was asked to comment when house speaker john boehner said the house did the right thing by defeating deg this bill. listen. ask the american people if the house did the right thing. i think you will hear something very different in his district. i hear very different things in my district. it is important to keep fighting for civil liberties and fighting to protech the constitution. that is what the american people are asking. reporter: this was the first major challenges for the program leaked by former nsa contractor edward snowden. martha. martha: very interesting. it looks like some things disparate parts of congress are able so agree on in this case. how are those opposed to it, martha. reporter: they can t believe there is this support for a measure they say would make america less safe and less secure. here is mike rogers of michigan. have 12 years gone by and our memories faded so badly we forgot what happened on sent 11th? passing this amendment ta
texas. reporter: yeah. bill: thank you. casey stiegel is live in dallas on for us today. martha. martha: the big vote is over and congress says the nsa can keep collecting metadata, all the phone numbers across the board and congressman peter king says he believes that is a good thing. so he is here to the defend the controversial intelligence tool coming up. bill: the chain gang making a comeback. a county sheriff putting convicts to work. why the sheriff says it is one of the best crime prevention measures. the great outdoors.. .and a great deal. grrrr! ahhh! let s leave the deals to hotels.com. perfect! yep, and no angry bears. up to 40% off. only at hotels.com
these polls. that goes to sort of the political aspect of all we re watching. president obama bypassing congress and delaying a key provision, the employer provision they referred to in the health care law. 46% say it is no big deal. 45% say it is unacceptable. this goes to kind of the levers at the hands of congress, bret, what they can do and whether or not they can push through whether there would be delay in the individual mandate. congress, at least on republican side are doing what they can to postpone all this. sure, frankly republicans overall are trying to do everything they can to repeal the whole law or to defund it or to stop it. the president mentioned that in his speech yesterday. i assume he will mention that again in these series of speeches. it is this back and forth, this push and pull in washington over a law that republicans believe is going to be really harmful to the economy. democrats think it is going to help in the long run but both sides agree it will be pro
well-done. congress votes to keep spying. nsa program survives but should it? what do you think? peter king is a supporter. he is live to explain his position today. martha: plus after texas approves some of the toughest abortion laws in the country, what is next for dozens of clinics that state? we re respecting life. now there are two sides to this and there is a lot of passion on both sides but at the end of the day we want to protect women s health better and not have abortions done in facilities where there is not blood, if there are complications they can t take care of them.
a natural gas rig. it is not an oil rig. so the pollution threat is far less than we saw from the bp incident for example. that fire we ve been watching broke out on late tuesday. bill: one the more popular lines from the white house is what is described as phony scandal, a fake issue trumped by republicans in congress. lines like the following from the last week alone. listen. with this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals washington s taken its eye off the ball. and i m here to say this needs to stop. the phony scandals that have consumed so much attention here all to come to naught do not focus on pretend scandals. some phony scandals that have captured the attention of many here in washington. fake scandals or things like that. we have to keep focused on the north star here, the issues that the american people want us to be focused on.