the gop brand? here, in my opinion, is where the gop is somewhat out to lunch. it has to do with immigration reform, it has to do with abortion, it has to do with marriage equality, it has to do with military intervention. look, i think work wants drug reform. these issues i think the gop generally is crossways with american public opinion these days. i want to shift to the anti nsa rally. the latest edward snowden revelations has stirred up trouble. has the nsa leaks done more harm than good? i think that ultimately it will do a lot more good than it will harm. the fact that 125 billion cell phone conversations are recorded
agencies run amuck and the once-admired checks and balances studied by johnson school children have become at best secret. a repivot to europe as is an internal u.s. security-freedom rebalancing. richard haas explain. we have a situation where there s lack of adult supervision. we re doing certain types of espionage by our friends which is overwhelmed by the actual cost. the answer is not what the editorial says. reverse pivot back to europe is silly. europe is the most stable peaceful part of the world and we should pivot much more to asia and limit what we re doing in the middle east. there s a pattern whether it s the middle east or asia or europe we re going out of our way to alienate people. what do you make of this latest monitoring, the cell phone conversations with angela merkel? it sounds to me like the
in any event, somebody at a high responsible political level, to determine whether the risk of revelation of that collection activity may outweigh any potential benefit from such collection. i think that s a critical issue. would the u.s. be upset, let s say, if they found out that germany was trying to eavesdrop on joe biden s cell phone conversations? well, if you look at past practice, you know, over the past years, i don t know about germany but there are other just giving that as an example. there are other countries that have engaged in that kind of activity. i have been to countries in western europe where i know that i was spied upon. how did you know? well, i found out later, as a matter of fact. because you were the director of national intelligence? no, this was much earlier. when you were when i was working actually as the deputy national security advisor. to the president. yeah. so were you stunned? were you how did you react? not really
mattress price wars are on now at sleep train. your ticket to a better night s sleep this morning, washington faces more anchor and more embarrassment over reports that the national security agency eaves dropped on the cell phone conversations of world leaders. leaders, pleural. they took out an op-ed responding to all of this. obama s counterterrorism advi r advisers, said that, quo, disclosures have created significant challenges in our relationships. german chancellor merkel is a key u.s. ally and one of the reported tart of that spying.
white house and some of our allies as the reports surface it was not just german chancellor angela merkel s cell phone that was monitored by u.s. intelligence the guardian newspaper is reporting that the nsa spied on 35 different world leaders and their cell phone conversations. chief washington correspondent james rosen is live from washington. so, james, this could all essentially in the end wind up costing the u.s. taxpayer we re learning as well. tell us. reporter: good morning, martha. that s right. the european parliament is sending a delegation here next week to explore, potential legal remedies for nsa spying on eu citizens. among the 35 world leaders believed to have been spied on are as you mentioned german chancellor america americas, french president francois hollande and brazilian president rousseff. a former top official in president obama s first term cautioned that spying on foreign heads of state could be the result of broad intelligence efforts even joint ones with