We will begin this morning with the city of detroit and your thoughts on the federal bailout for them. What is your take . Michigan residents, we want to hear from you let me begin with detroits mayor who was on the sunday talk shows and was talking about the prospects of a federal bailout. [video clip] i know the president has a lot on his plate. This will add tremendously to that. We are not the only city that is going to struggle through what we are going through. There are over 100 major urban cities having the same problems we are having. We may be one of the first. We are the largest. The way absolutely will not be the last year so, weve got to set a benchmark in terms of how to fix the cities and come back from the strategy from this tragedy. Governor rickan the nationn face and he was asked the city with the city be asking for a bailout. [video clip] expect one. The state cannot be allowed the city of detroit. Is not just about putting more buty in the situation Better Services
On the floor, the pentagons budget bill is expected with an amendment on the nsa, syria, and egypt. One an amendment could curtail the nsas ability to collect telephone and other data. We want to get your reaction to that provision. Host remember, you can send us a tweet or post your comments on facebook host let me begin with the New York Times story. This piece host we want to get your take on this. What do you think about this amendment the house is expected to vote on later this week . It was introduced by a republican in the house. I want to get your take on it. Host a little bit more from the New York Times this morning. It says host the senator spoke at the center for American Progress yesterday about this program. Is a liberal progressive think tank here in washington, as many of you know. And we covered his speech here on cspan. Here is a little bit. [video clip] at this point i think weve gotten in front of us some very serious questions. ,hat happens to our government our ci
Galesburg, illinois. Today he is in jacksonville, florida. What is your view of his Economic Policy . That is our topic as we go to the newspaper. You can see the phone lines there. For republicans and independents you can also make a comment on our twitter feed or Facebook Page finally, you can send an email pan. Org. Cs want to hear your views. Here is the front page of the Chicago Tribune lead story this morning is a local angle. se is wall street journal take a little bit more of the president yesterday from knox college. I am here to tell you today we are not there yet. We all know that. Not there yet. We have more work to do. Even though businesses are creating new jobs that have broken record profits, nearly all of the income gains of the past 10 years have continued to flow to the top 10 percent. The average ceo has had a raise of over 40 percent since 2009. The average american earns the same or less they have since 1999 and companys tire remain holding back hiring those that
The section 501 of fisa. That is no record of the actual conversation of the content that is recorded or collected by the National Security agency. The nsa has not been acting outside of its authority. The Metadata Program is carefully designed with program layers of oversight by all three branches of government. This is precisely where our government ought to operate. With input from article one, and article two and article three of the United States constitution. It is our duty to discuss the legal balance. We shouldnt be misleading the American People into thinking the nsa has been acting illegally. There is no program in the United States government that is as carefully monitored and overseen as this program is. Thise extent that some in chamber wish to review or provide more protections, we should proceed through debated legislative process, so the full implications for security are clearly understood. I reserve the balance of my time. The gentleman reserves. For what purpose does
Judgment that i would not be responsibly carrying out my oversight powers if i did not press intelligence issues to clarify what the nsa director said repeatedly about the data collection. So i decided that it was necessary to put the question to the director of National Intelligence and i have my staff send the actual questions a day in advance so that the director would be prepared to answer. The director said the answer is no, the nsa does not knowingly collect it on millions of americans. After the hearing, had my staff called the Directors Office on this matter and urge them to correct the record. Accordingly, the office decided to let this inaccurate statement stand. My office made it clear in my staff said clearly that this was wrong and unacceptable to leave the American People misled and we continue to warn the public about the problem of surveillance law over the following weeks with the june disclosures. Now, given after those disclosures, there has been an effort by officia