Number to call is 202 5853882. You can send us a tweet cspanwj or join us on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan, or send us an email. Already many of you are weighing in on this topic on facebook. A couple of comments from josh saying keeping our Young Americans out of pointless wars keep it up, president obama. Bonnie says what Foreign Policy . He has none. Good morning on the sunday. We want to begin with an assessment of where the president is after his weeklong trip that included stops in brussels, the netherlands and italy. Joining us here in washington is fred kempe the president and ceo of the Atlantic Council will stop we appreciate you being with us on this sunday morning. Guest it is a pleasure. Host let me begin with the broader if it issue, the president beginning a significant amount of time in europe, trying to realign our relations in light of what is happening in ukraine. Guest steve, first of all we have got to remember that president s do not choose the moments
Been reprimanded for that. Mr. Bankston, what do you think . Speaking generally we think transparency is critical to restoring trust in the u. S. Internet economy and in the u. S. Government itself. But it alone is not sufficient and that indeed substantive reform is necessary. Cbp supports the bill you have introduced, u. S. Freedom act aand we thank you for it. We look forward to working with you and the committee as it moves forward. Im worried about overclassification. I find oftentimes every administrations been guilty of this. Its easy to classify a secret classify a mistake rather than try to explain it. Let me ask mr. Salgado, are you permitted to tell us whether googles received any fisa court orders . Im sorry, mr. Chairman. I would have to decline that answer until the bills that were discussing today is passed. Is our country safer because you cant answer the question . I cant imagine the country is safer as a result of that. Thank you. That answers my question. And mr. Ban
Been raised company by company reporting that fisa might tip off those were trying to track. But theres a lot of reporting available on criminal surveillance. Is National Security sufficiently different from criminal investigations, we have to have this kind of secrecy . I dont believe so, chairman. No. In the criminal context were often investigating sophisticated organized criminals and in fact sometimes investigating terrorists. And yet weve been able to publish and the u. S. Government has been able to publish very detailed statistics about how the government is using its authorities, both the government as a whole and company by Company Without any suggestion that has harmed National Security. And i just want to take the moment to address this issue of lumping all those authorities together. I think that combining numbers for targeted fisa intercepts with fisa registers, with fisa orders for records, with fisa warrants for stored communications, with all the range of National Secu
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Makers. Stephanie ruhle is on assignment today. Lets begin with the biggest business story of the day, possibly the week. Medtronic is buying smaller for almost 30n billion is in stock. The issue is taxes. It will move its headquarters to ireland and it could free up almost 14 billion of cash now trapped overseas by u. S. Tax policy and overseas profits. With us this morning is bill george, the former ceo of medtronic who is now a professor of management at the Harvard Business school. Also, Bloomberg Tax policy zach is here. He will ask play in the anderence between this deal what sounds similar but i know is different, what we heard weeks ago from pfizer and astrazeneca. A lot of companies this is about inversion. They are switching their corporate domicile to somewhere outside the u. S. Like ireland are doing it to lower their tax rate. 35 , thetax rate is highest among the developing countries. A lot of them want to get a lower rate through an inversion. Medtronic already has a pre