while european you re pea a eur against u.s. claims that everybody spies. you re in the situation room. sebelius got a drilling today. president obama got out of town. he just gave a spirited defense of his health care law this boston where former rival mitt romney signed a very similar and successful massachusetts law less than a decade ago. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash is standing by on capitol hill, but let s begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the president said he s responsible for obama care s flaws, but he also said that romney care also had a slow start. reporter: that s right. as you said, the president traveled up to boston to make those comparisons between his health care plan and mitt romney s health care plan. he was talking about the bumpy rollout. there were some bumps, but not as many in romney care.
they re saying? everybody spies, anderson. it s a question of the degree to which they spy, how appropriate the targets are that they select and the invasiveness of that espionage. there is lots of costs and benefits to spying on allies, including the pact if they find out you re going to destroy the relationship of trust you build up between the allies. what the united states system of espionage is is a some unlike anybody else in the world does. mass bulk spying on the part of tens of millions of its citizens and tens of millions in the world. economic espionage, nothing to do with terrorism and spending a full decade listening to the personal conversations of one of its closest allies, sure, other countries spy, but nowhere near to the extent or what the invasiveness or cad callism of the united states government and that s why it s become so controversial. glenn greenwald, appreciate you being on.
security, but instead is for the purposes of commerce and trade and other advantageous behavior. no difference in the eye iz of the law and terms of protections? no, i think there would be considerable differences. we know that everybody spies on us commercially. fair if it s about terror and not fair if it s about business in it s the nsa doing it. i don t believe him and i don t trust him. he is a radical ield las vegas who would never have released these if they were against cuba or china. you want to read what he thinks of me, he calls me deranged. i read that. and i put it on the back of my book because i m proud of my enemies. he did a good thing by publishing this material. but don t trust him when it comes to judgment. he does not have american interest at heart. if you have time, if you could stay put. happy to do it.
author of the novel hell or richmond. so should chancellor merkel be teed off, colonel? angela merkel has distinctive background raised up in east germany. everyone was spied upon. she is aladies and gentlemen to it bill, everybody spies on everybody. within the last 48 hours, the german new york post broke the story, said the german their cia, nsa wrapped into one, spies on americans, our phone calls, email, instant messaging, and the german spy chief didn t deny it he said oh our program is not on the scale of the americans. the french, the former french counter intelligence chief up until last year, bernard sounds italian but he is french. said he was amused that the french as in casablanca so shocked about all of this. because is he a were toker counter intelligence chief. he said everybody spies on
author of the novel hell or richmond. so should chancellor merkel be teed off, colonel? angela merkel has distinctive background raised up in east germany. everyone was spied upon. she is aladies and gentlemen to it bill, everybody spies on everybody. within the last 48 hours, the german new york post broke the story, said the german their cia, nsa wrapped into one, spies on americans, our phone calls, email, instant messaging, and the german spy chief didn t deny it he said oh our program is not on the scale of the americans. the french, the former french counter intelligence chief up until last year, bernard sounds italian but he is french. said he was amused that the french as in casablanca so shocked about all of this. because is he a were toker counter intelligence chief. he said everybody spies on