Can follow this event live on cspan 2. A discussion on the federal judges ruling that said the nsa collection on phone records violates the constitution. This is 45 minutes. Back with James Andrew Lewis of the center for strategic and International Studies. Here to talk about the judges decision on monday, a District Court judge questioning the legality of nsas phone data records. What did he say . Guest he said it was a tremendous intrusion into privacy. It was unconstitutional that the collection of the metadata, greatbills, by nsa, was a risk to the Fourth Amendment and lot legal and not legal. Host what program by the nsa was he referring to . Guest they have a program essentially the phone bill of american citizens. Call, howt who you long the call lasted, where the call might have been. Possiblehem identify targets for counterterrorism or counterespionage. He objected to the fact that nsa, a foreign intelligence body, is collecting intelligence on american citizens. Host how . Gu
Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents and others, 202 5853882. ,end us a tweet at cspanwj post your comments on facebook, or email us. We will get to your phone calls in a minute. Yesterday we learned that three house lawmakers are going to retire. S headline. Itico shaking the 2014 midterm election. Timess headline, three house retirements complicate outlooks for the midterm. Representatives frank wolf from ,irginia, tom latham from iowa jim matheson of utah. They surprise colleagues and voters with their decisions, which came as congress was wrapping up one of its least productive and most contentious years in recent memory. The retirements are not enough to signal a shift in the dynamics for the race and control of the house in 2014, still decidedly republican. It raised hopes among democrats navigating what has turned out to be an unpredictable path into the midterm election. We want your thoughts with this news of the twoyear budget deal passing in the senate. Final passage could h
Must do ex parte. If you cannot do ex parte, you can send out a partially filled out renewal form, et cetera. Those are wonderful policy changes, however, since this data is a brand new application, its brand new data points, were looking at tax filing status and all kinds of data we never used before in eligibility, we dont have that in our current data files. Therefore, we must ask the family for that new data. And, therefore, we cant do ex parte for this first year for those folks. So its another challenge for work processes and the workers. But once we get through that, i think its going to be wonderful. Great. Well, we would now like to open this up to questions from those of you in the audience, those of you watching us on line as well as people who might be sending in a question from twitter. We have them roaming around the room with microphones. Please identify yourself first by name or affiliation. If you have a direction for one of our panelists versus another, please do so a
Conclude that, but a lot of these guys dont. I asked them if they do it themselves and you will find some and some who dictate. What senatort mccain does . I think it is a missive that he hadnt his driver tweak and he was driving. Eethe had his driver twe while he was driving. To get the hook here. Anyone can jump in. What is a source of news . A columnist, a website, a publication that is the skewer but that you consider essential . I would not tell you. Everyone should follow the iron sheik. Who is a good nonobvious tweeter . Left, the historian. He is great. He is the Chuck Grassley of president ial the story and. What i love about that is that if he is tweeting and historical photo in for from an age where twitter did not exist, you have this clash of the moment. Another thing i was struck by, you will see a rope line of times going by where people look the president in the eye and shook his hand, not doing it like this where they tried to take a self he at the same moment. At the
With a massive snowstorm . It will not only change from rain to snow, but we will also get eyes. Look at all the rain working its way up from virginia northward. It is coming into such cold air and that is why there is going to be such a big storm. You wonder how bad could this thing really be . The blowing and drifting snow is what will make it so dangerous. We are forecasting 8 inches or more in new york. Over a foot in areas of massachusetts. Shouldnt we be a little comforted by the superlatives . What comes after very serious . Zero visibility is not good. Do not travel tonight. That is what we are looking at with air travel. We have seen numerous airport cancellations. Looking at some of the airports in chicago 198 flights cancelled. Newark, 136. Is this going to be a multi day event . It is going to be a twoday event. Most of the weather advisories continue until friday. Combined with the fact that it is a busy travel they. We are estimated between 70 million impacted. It takes a