reporter: it is believed that some of the documents relate to at vice that former former president exchanged with then-first laidty hillary clinton. a decade ago as she was positioning for her own white house campaign, then-senator clinton made a sweeping promise about the records of the clubton presidency: that s one of things the library really stands for. i mean, it physically stands for openness with all the glass and the light, but he wants it to be a place where people come and really study, and everything s going to be available. reporter: well, not quite everything. fox news has confirmed that all concerned parties, including former president clinton and the incumbent president, barack obama, have approved for release to the public a subset of 20-25,000 pages of these secret 33,000 pages of files. that should occur sometime after march 26th. jon? jon: could be a lot of information in those 33,000 pages. reporter: oh, for sure. jon james rosen, thank you. jenna: dramatic
jenna: start with some politics now. brand new polling on the all-important midterm elections. hi, everybody. hope you re off to great day so far. i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. control of congress as you know be for grabs come november. days before the first primaries new polls suggest republicans are in a stronger position than the democrats and the president has a lot to do with those numbers a cbs/new york times poll showing 59% of those surveyed are disappointed with the obama presidency so far compared with only 40% say they are satisfied. when it comes to the job the president is doing. only 41% approve. 51% disapprove. all that could be translating into support for the gop with the poll finding in house races republicans have a slight edge, 42% saying they would vote for the gop candidate. 39% would support the democrat. joining us now, nina easton, senior editor and washington columnist at fortune magazine and also a fox news contributor. ron fournier, senior
u.s. treasury. why the europeans should interpret the nsa s activities more broadly. we, like other nations, gather foreign intelligence because it is in our national security interests to do so. there are real threats out there against the american people and against our allies including germany, including allies around europe and around the world. we also need to balance those security needs against the understandable privacy concerns that we all share. reporter: former vice president dick cheney, however, appearing on the hugh hewitt radio show yesterday called the obama administration, quote, incompetent on foreign policy. gregg? gregg: james rosen, thanks very much. reporter: thank you. patti ann: right now new concerns about safety on the high seas after a pirates kidnapped two american mariners. the attack happened off the coast of nigeria in west africa. u.s. defense officials telling us that armed pirates stormed a
you know, gregg, i think there s a sense in this white house to not bring this president bad news. either no one wants to be the bad messenger, or he doesn t want to hear it on the irs, on the nsa, on james rosen, he doesn t know anything, he s never known anything, and this obama ca carrollout is no different. gregg: andrea, good to see you. thanks. patti ann: two americans kidnapped by pirates and held for ransom, and there are some differences between this latest attack and others. we ll tell you what it says about safety on the high seas. plus, a new clampdown on painkillers at your pharmacy. and a chill in foreign relations after dramatic revelations that the nsa has been spying on some of our closest allies. [ male announcer ] this is pam.
gregg: right now growing tension betwee obama administration and some of our closest allies as we learn that senior intelligence officials from germany will head to the united states for talks with the white house and the nsa in the wake of allegations that chancellor angela merkel, her cell phone was monitored. and a new report from the guardian newspaper that the nsa spied on 35 world leaders. chief washington correspondent james rosen has the latest on this story. hi, james. reporter: good afternoon. gauging the damage this has done is intrinsically tricky, excuse me, as it may be the case that only the nsa knows the true extent of its overseas operations and what further disclosures of varying severity may yet emerge about them. among the 35 world leaders believed to have been spied on are german chancellor angela