Wants to do something with immigration. I know he said he doesnt the senate bill or anything like the senate bill on the floor but he has his committee who has reported off some bills. We may not like those bills that but we think when the senate has 68 members of the senate which has otherwise been deeply divided on by partisan lines over twothirds of the United States senate representing the American Public says we need a conference of immigration bill with a path to citizenship. We believe thats a strong indication that the American People want this done and we hope the house acts. We know the votes are there so theres no reason why we shouldnt get this done. If everyone keeps talking and paying attention to the American People let me also say this is not a challenge to the speaker. This is a suggestion and that is why one of the criterion that we established was that it be bipartisan. Everything passed out of the committee of jurisdiction passed in a bipartisan way in the senate. T
President say today what would you have liked to have heard the president say . My biggest concern with the Edward Snowden thing, which he notissed i saying it was it right disclosures and wanted to acknowledge that Edward Snowden tried internally to blow the whistle and remind his peers about weaknesses administratives structure. That is one of the main reasons that he did what he did. He needed an outside perspective. To be honest i do not think our has done structure this very well. Theyd need to acknowledge they should talk to us the whole time. We appreciate the time. We are going to indiana in a moment. If you missed the speech this afternoon, we will have it for you at 8 00 eastern in its entirety. Though ahead. About i had a comment the last caller was talking about snowden, and the president dismissed that kind of. I feel we should be doing something about snowden rather than just let him take asylum in russia. There is not much we can do about it. A stretch of been our relati
Us on facebook or twitter. Finally, send an email. We get to your calls, here is some of the news from overnight. Tom coburn will not serve out the rest of his term. On thursday night that he will not serve the rest to steperm and intends down because of deepening health problems. In his statement, he acknowledged that he is battling a recurrent cancer and will continue to fight for his priorities are in the remainder of his time in office. Both carolyn and i have been touched by the encouragement we have been received, he said. As a citizen, he is convinced that he can best serve his children and grandchildren as shifting his focus elsewhere. He notified aides earlier in the day. Earlier in denied the evening. The decision to resign marks a shift in his plans from an interview earlier this month. He said he had believed he was healthy enough to serve out his term, but acknowledged that circumstances could change. The decision will be made in conjunction with family as to how to best i
President . Guest host we are here with is that the president will breach the spirit of reform while only making minor, incremental changes. Biggeriving the decisions back to congress. Host what are those incremental decisions . Guest he could place new limits on the collection of phone data. That was the most controversial program. That would be around the edges. He will not shift the collection of this data to telecoms. He will introduce new privacy protections. Course, another one of the most controversial revelations from snowden was that we got a he europeans upset could push for some constitutional advocate. Host a lot of the talk and recommendations deal with section 215, what is that . Guest that is the section of the patriot act that the nsa has used to allow them to scoop the president s remarks will be live at 11 00. We have a facebook western post facebook question p osted. What do you want to hear from the president today . Facebook. Com cspan. Lets bring you a portion of
Coverage continues sunday with Lyndon Johnsons november 27 of just to congress and your questions live with robert caro and president ial historian to medina tolly timothy naftali. Jfk on American History television this weekend on cspan3. Discussion on proposed changes to nsa surveillance and foreign intelligence gathering. This begins with remarks from jim sensenbrenner. He is one of the authors of the 2001 patriot act. He is followed by a Panel Discussion beard this is hosted by the georgetown law center. It is about 2. 5 hours. It is my pleasure to welcome you to Georgetown University law center. Today marks the second discussion of the law schools past himt series on it a present, and future of intelligence gathering in the United States. [feedback] october we kept them on Church Committee hearings and look for the origins of the foreign intelligence. Today were going to be focused on current intelligent gathering practices. We will consider them currently before congress that wou