it was a gratuitous remark not in his own interest. i want to quickly mention the nsa. ed henry tried to press him on the balance that he is taking in talking about this and the change he has made in talking about it steve what was your take your answers and how he took it. struck me what he not do. make a strong case in defense of the programs absolutely essential for keeping us safe. sort of mentioned in the middle of one of his rambling answers. did he not do that which suggests to me that in the context of this ruling from judge leon in the context of this review from the panel, that there are going to be big changes coming to the nsa. some of those changes, one might argue are not necessary, some might be good. what we heard from the president, when he he was first confronted with this issue he said he wanted there to be a national conversation on this. well, to a certain extent we
truth is better. and when you hear the administration saying everything is okay, then you have to ask yourself, what about the bombshell last night, which is a sign of complete panic. what the administration did is to announce at night that people who lost their health insurance now are exempt from the fine they have to pay next year, or they can now purchase an outlawed kind of insurance, the one that was supposed to be a lemon, so bad you weren t allowed to have it any more and the millions are allowedit now catastrophic and the insurancers will the insurances will lose the young healthies who will have to balance out the cost of the older and sicker and they are in distress because this under pliened the financial obligation of the health exchanges. to wrap this up after this break and then we have the nsa and iran to talk about. more with the all-stars.
it before. president obama is signaling he will not scrap the nsa surveillance program drawing fire from multiple sources. james rosen on another problem for the president that is not going away any time soon. reporter: two days after his own intelligence add advisory panel urged him to dial back the national security agency telephone records, the president made clear he will adopt and modify some of the panels recommendations and reject others. wa they are clear what they are clear about is we need this intelligence. we can t unilaterally disarm. they are not snooping around. reporter: saying he will make a statement next month, mr. obama side stepped questions about the panel and about this week s ruling about a federal judge about the section 215 program which harvests metadata
struggling to finish it by the end of his tour. there is no widespread spying of nsa. it comes 18 months after the agent charged was embroiled in a prostitution scandal in south africa in advance of a presidential visit. a federal judge has struck down utah s same sex marriage ban. the mormon church there has long been against the same sex marriage ban. the judge s ruling said the law passed by voters in 2004 violated gay and lesbian couples rights under the 14th amendment. the salt lake county clerk has already started to issue marriage licenses. we will start the panel a little sooner than usual tonight to get reaction to the president s news conference and all that was in it. up next. what pajama boy said about obama before he became famous. [ male announcer ] e new new york is open.
on virtually all domestic telephone calls. but the president did identify one change he might be inclined to change. it is possible, for example, some of the same information that the intelligence community feels is required to keep people safe can be obtained by having the private phone companies keep these records longer. reporter: veterans of the intelligence community praised the president for standing up for nsa but one analyst voiced grave results about the trial balloon. this is a bad recommendation because it is harder for nsa to go through the material if they have to get warrants and material the foeb companies the phone companies are holding. reporter: the guardian newspaper in london which exposed the story from edward snowden reported today that the nsa once targeted a prime minister. the nsa charged with assessing the damage done by edward snowden, now a fugitive living in russia, told u.s. news he