in a moment. i wanted to start with russia. the president has been updated continuously on the situation in russia. what can you tell us from there? reporter: well, the nse officials we have been talking with, karen, are pointing out there are a number of cooperations and efforts, joint efforts, with the russians on counterterrorism. those efforts got stepped up after the boston marathon bombing. of course, the two alleged perpetrators in that attack coming from chechnya. but at the same time, the statements say they would welcome a closer counterterrorism effort with russia as the olympics approach that seems to suggest that not all the cooperation, not all the assistance the united states has been offering, has been accepted. right. to the health care numbers. while impressive, not ideally where the administration had hoped they would be at this point. so what is the sentiment coming out of the white house? it seems to be a little muted at this point. reporter: well, i think th
i keep going back to where the story first broke in its latest it ration, madeleine albright saying i know that the french spied on me and tapped my phone, so, a lot of this does happen. i think that most people understand that it happens, but ordinary people have not been aware of the massive extent of it and i think again, you can go to the extent of it and the particular areas that are being looked at. for instance, it was widely reported yesterday, eric schmidt spoke to cnn and said this is a massive overreach by the nsa. he said you have to go off to counterterrorism effort, but and he said that in order to get details on 300 people, you don t have to get every single phone record of 320 million people.
our money and the markets tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern. be sure to join erin burnett outfront tonight. thanks, jim. a former federal prosecutor became deputy attorney general as he stepped up counterterrorism effort. his appointment comes as the obama administration deals with spreading fallout over its national security policies, including government surveillance operations, if confirmed by the senate, which is about a sure thing at this point. comey will replace mueller after a dozen years. and there may be fresh hope for sergeant beau bergdahl who was captured in 2009. he s thought to be held along the border of pakistan. the state department says look
because it was the one year anniversary of the killing of ubl, saying that s kind ofoff, don t worry, we have things under control and then the a.p. uncovers evidence that not only is there chatter, but there was an attack planned, another underwear bomb that the cia can it foil, but it was under way. and they believe the white house is trying to tamp down that their taf, too. it was reported so that the administration could take credit for successful counterterrorism effort. here is an assignment for reporters. the white house says we have prosecuted twice as many national security leaks as all prior administrations combined. somebody out to get their list of prosecutions and put it out on a chart what the prosecutions were for. i bet it will show leaks that were detrimental to the administration politically as opposed to which prosecutions have they undertaken for leaks that matt administration look good.
and most people believe it is more up and beyond two individuals or two brothers going awry. there are more people of that gone through the process that we should be paying a lot more attention to. that s the peculiar thing about t fbi missing this one and having been it happened off by the russians. maybe i would have missed it too, if i got sent up there, i don t know. but the fbi did a bang-up job after the bombing in making the arrest and making things safe. i give them enormous credit for that. but the fact it fell through the cracks is somewhat not somewhat, it is alarming. everybody is cheering the fbi on, the men and women doing these things a lot of this is homeland security. a lot of this is the counterterrorism effort. it s not all the fbi s responsibility to do all of this. we have a homeland security department with 250,000 people in it. why weren t they sent out? why was the fbi sent out and not homeland? when you starting to outside of the united states you sta