thicker. good morning. good morning to you. two issues here. the privacy and the relationship with russia. let me start what continued to be growing concessions over privacy concern. what is your take on these surveillance programs? i think they are necessary and there are privacy protections built in there and actually i support the program because there are we haven non t gone too far? thousands of terrorists trying to get to us each day and we have stopped most of them but this is an important component to that. there is also the question has been raved in the middle of all this about russia and our relationship. you were in an op-ed recently in the the washington times and i want to read a piece of it. how do you think the snowden situation will ultimately be resolved and what it might mean for america s long-term