0 with, you know, the economic commissions and so forth. president has appointed panels to make recommendations and then they go nowhere. correct. did that with the bowles-simpson commission on the deficit. and so, but i think this is a little bit different. first of all you have the public pressure. the public doesn t like, especially the one program that is really the problem is the metadata program, right? the mass surveillance of all-americans phone calls and whatnot. the public that doesn t like that. the president just had a meeting with tech executives at the white house yesterday. they re not happy with it because it is undermining their business competitiveness around the world. you have the pressure from congress, you have a bipartisan coalition, rand paul on the right and folks like pat leahy and ron wyden on the left. that is posing change to the law. the president will have to buckle and make changes in the coming days. jon: do you think he will have to accept the recomm
and by the frontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation.america. i m charles gibson. i m diane sawyer, and it s tuesday, september 11, 2001. ( screaming ) just a few moments ago, something believed to be a plane crashed into the south tower of the world trade center. a plane has crashed into one of the towers. it looks almost like a mushroom cloud. we re trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly something relatively devastating. welcome back to fox news. we have a very tragic alert for you right now. something hit the pentagon on the outside of the fifth floor. a day unlike any other in the long course of american history: a terrorist act of war against this country. president bush saying today that freedom has been attacked by. bush: make no mistake, the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. clarke: president bush said to us in the ba