president obama making difficult phone calls and unable to give them answers. reporter: this time germany said it received information the nsa monstered the personal cell phone of german leader angela merkel, signaling the seriousness of the charge, chancellor merkel and president obama personally spoke about the issue on the telephone. i can tell you the president assured the chancellor that the united states is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of chancellor. the united states greatly values our close cooperation with germany on a broad range of shared security challenges. reporter: the white house did not specify, however, if such monitoring had taken place in the past. on monday, it was france revealed to be in the crosshairs of the nsa. the french newspaper la monde reporting from december 10th, 2012 to january 8, 2013, the nsa allegedly intercepted 70 million