we re kicking off 30 free minutes of political news. we have a decision day at the supreme court, major cases still left undecided. also, china and russia sheltering a u.s. fugitive. will edward snowden get sent back to the u.s.? a very big question. john king is here to break it all down for us. chief political correspondent. john, first let s ask you real quick about the fallout of edward snowden. my wonder is what are the political s wh what s the political fallout for the president with the understanding this is not even over yet? reporter: it s not over yet. let s make that clear, we don t know mr. snowden s final stop. so far, it s embarrassing. personal relationships help you on the global stage. he just had that big meeting with the chinese president in california. beijing can say hong kong is different. hong kong makes its decisions all it wants.
bill as a victory for the nra. yet polls have shown some of the senators that voted against that measure are now paying for it in the polls and some of those that voted for it are getting a little bit of a boost. is this a societal shift on how the public is viewing this issue? i think it s still shaking out, mara. we re still seeing the public absorbing the results of that vote, and they re talking to their members of congress and they re expressing their views. so the nra can celebrate all it wants, but i think there are going to be other people out there like mayors against illegal guns who are going to be taking the issue to the public and saying, is this what you really want? so i think there s still a fight left here, and what the end game is remains to be scene. all right. we ll have to leave it there jill and chip. thank you for joining me. thanks, mara. in today s office politics, alex s conversation with former pennsylvania governor and msnbc
demographic it wants. that s what it s about. i actually agree with alan. it s not really a liberal, conservative things. fallon staked out a little bit of left wing territory there with the attack on mrs. bachmann. which i doubt is an accident. i think people control their shows more closely. fallon is 25 years younger and that makes a difference. i noticed the wall street journal on friday had a piece that says tpal lana youtube video dancing with mrs. obama. they had 3 million views on youtube which is five times the audience of the leno show. this is a reminder that this new media stuff, left or right is a huge tkaoerblgs and i think it helped drive the audience and helped convince nbc that fallon is a better choice, even though i think that just as it s going to happen with matt lauer on the today show the business of kicking out ann curry, when the network looks mean it hurts the
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most people or many people in this country, continues to sort of scale away. and we re talking now about the issues of accessing digital records and facebook giving away whether they should give away worpass words and you thin this is a strad off. i think society gets the government that it deserves, that it wants. me, walking around london, i like the cameras. on the airplane, i like the fact that everyone is being scanned. i like that security is up, it makes me feel better opinion how much difference it makes? i don t know. but we do get the government we deserve. we have ask editor this in a sense, of our government. jonathan, rob, obviously, when you look at the analysis of the effectiveness of the money we spend, it is unclear that what we spend on homeland security with rapiscan, the way