Agents. Plus. Im in brazil, the capitol of brazil where the biggest staterun company here is facing corruption allegations at the highest levels. Starting the news hour with these pictures from Eastern Ukraine, showing how potentially come busable the situation has become and these prorussia gunman have continued to ignore orders to leave a government building which they seized over the weekend, barricades there as weapons have been stockpiled and although it looks pretty quiet right now ukrainian soldiers we understand are massing on the outskirts of the city. And the ukrainian crisis straining further relations between the u. S. And russia, a phone call between president s president obama and putin has been described as frank. Obama accusing putin government of supporting armed groups in Eastern Ukraine and asked him once again to withdraw Russian Troops from close to ukraines border, 40,000 are thought to be stationed there. And obama warned putin that russia would incur further cos
Before 1978, surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes was conducted by the president without Court Approval, and the courts have consistently said that the president has authority to undertake such surveillance without Court Approval, where the target is a foreign intelligence threats. , but fisao abuses was created as a compromise between branches to enable that surveillance, but to involve article three courts in the review and approval, and congress, the oversight, creating the intelligence oversight i am going to have to be very tough. You have covered and a normas amount. Im very sure you can pick up any individual questions. Thank you thoma. Jameel . Limits start by addressing a degree of frustration by wainsteinthat mr. Said. When we were before the Supreme Court for clapper last year, the government really did repeatedly said that the assertion that the nsa was engaged in largescale surveillance of Americans International to medications under section 702 was speculative a
Senate Intelligence Committee member ron wyden is our guest this sunday on newsmakers. The senator has been an outspoken critic of the nsa. He talks about the response in congress on including an unsuccessful vote in the house this week to halt the nsa program. At 10 00rs is sunday a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Also a look at the immigration status of a legal immigrants who were the u. S. As children. The house judiciary subcommittee heard testimony this week about the hardships about living as an undocumented immigrant. Leaders are working on a bill to address the status of the so called dreamers. Here onwatch the panel sunday at 10 35 eastern right here on cspan. Interestingly, i think the korean war helped the south s unify themselves in a way that was not there before. Communists came down, they were brutal. A lot of the South Koreans turned against the communists in the north. That sort of solidified their sense of National Cohesion and identity. Kim ilsung waited, i
Stamps. At the Stamp Program was left out of the house bill. We want to get your consideration about those. Oodstamp changes we will find out more about it. Give us your comments as well. Heres how you can do so if you want to reach out to us on social media, on twitter it cspanwj. And you can always send this e mail at journal cspan. Org. This is from an Associated Press story hill here to fill us more is Alan Ferguson is Alan Ferguson. Ellen ferguson. Some of the people on facebook and twitter are commenting that there are already work requirements attached to those receiving food stamps. There are work requirements. What for presented of sutherland is trying to do is he believes there are too many loopholes. There is not enough uniformity and a greater emphasis on work. Think when people talk about work requirements when it comes to people on snap or food stap mps is we are talking about 90 of people recieving benifits and not working. It is a smaller universe than that. Talking abo
Good evening. Tonight there are roaring flames in the equivalent of times square in kiev. Its a scene that may remind a lot of people of Tahrir Square in egypt. And yet this is happening right now in ukraine, next door to us here in russia where the olympic winter games are being held. And russian president vladimir putin, who is putting on such a huge and elaborate display here for all the world to see, is very much a player in this protest that has erupted in ukraine. He may even consider ukraine a part of russia, just as it once was a part of the ussr. But the protesters there decidedly do not. Tonight americans there have been warned to stay indoors. Our chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is here to start us off. Richard, the death toll around 18. And given the pictures, its likely to change . It certainly could change. This is an extremely volatile situation. Its extremely dangerous and extremely important. The government wants to contain this. It doesnt want it to get any