themselves for the paycheck. tom foreman with this week s american journey. reporter: when this small tech company began out in kansas, one of the founders, dan carol, knew he needed virtually no permanent staff, just talented temporary workers hired when needed and ready to embrace a new professional mantra. i guess the idea that the job you create for yourself is the most stable job you could have. reporter: he s not alone. one business study estimates there are already more than 17 million americans who no longer work for companies, but sell their skills day by day. that number could jump to 23 million in the next few years. yeah, freelancing is happening everywhere. reporter: at the freelancers union in new york, the founder knows all about it. it is really a phenomenon where people are hard working, and they re just putting together a bunch of projects and they work in fields ranging from being a doctor to a programmer
0 fights for a lung transplant. and now we re hearing she s not alone. the moment the military blew up one of its own. plus, a valedictorian stuns the crowd in the middle of his speech. our father, who art in heaven this young man tells me live why he decided to break the rules. and a man fathers 22 kids with 14 different women. i was just young and ambitious and i love women. he s being sued and even the judge has trouble keeping track. william and johnson, different johnson. we re on the case. i m brooke baldwin. you re watching cnn. you may have heard him, right here on cnn, the president saying, no, the government is not listening in on your phone calls. this is his first response to this outcry over the government data mining story that erupted late wednesday. he took a question on the matter while in california today. and he answered, for nearly ten minutes. here he was, the president. i came in, with a healthy skepticism about these programs. my team eval
0 tropical storm andrea made landfall this evening in florida. that s all for us tonight. anderson cooper starts right now. good evening, everyone. breaking news tonight. it s not just the government grabbing your cell phone records. they are online with you as well. new and frankly stunning reports on just how much they know about your life online. also tonight, a remarkable story. she was a warrior beyond compare. as a navy s.e.a.l. commander kristen beck. now she s showing no less courage in her new life, tonight, kristen beck talks about her new life as a woman. plus, the first hurricane of the season comes ashore. tens of millions of people in its path. a lot to get to tonight. we begin with breaking news. it goes far beyond the government just accessing your cell phone records. that was the first shoe to drop. the second shoe fell late today. they re looking at your internet access as well. plugging directly into facebook, google, youtube, yahoo! and five other big name
secretary chu himself. bill: we re watching hearing trying to figure out what you could accomplish. joe barton, a republican colleague out of texas, correct? correct. bill: he says chu is a fall guy right. he says chu should not step aside, right? i think his interpretation is partially accurate because the white house allowed the e-mail from dan carol as you mentioned earlier that came out in february of this year, that indicated a senior advisor to the president on environment has said that secretary chu thud should be replaced because he is not competently doing the loan guaranties and will create a scandal for the president. so, again, his own inner circle told the president, this man is going to create a scandal for us and we better get rid of him. that probably has given impetus to the president to appoint an outside commission to look at all the loan guaranties which is $37 billion of taxpayer money. bill: a lot of money came out of the stimulus plan in
republican on that committee investigating the solyndra scandal. cliff stearns saying energy secretary steven chu should go. i just think he has failed the test and in my personal opinion i agree with dan carroll s e-mail at this point he should probably be replaced by the president. dan carol is the former obama campaign adviser suggested chu be replaced back in february. former, or cliff stearns is the florida republican who is a member of the energy and commerce committee. sir, welcome back here to america s newsroom. . strong words coming out of hearing yesterday. why fire chu? bill, if anybody listened to the hearing you realize has solyndra fell into bankruptcy, secretary chu failed to sound the alarm. basically most of the questions we asked him he was unaware or would look into it. and when you look at what happened with the subordination where he actually went to an outside law firm here in washington to get an opinion and that law firm initially told him it was not legal f