this is why superman works alone. i m batman. nice coat. forget there have been bad batmans out there over the years. val kilmer, i didn t remember him. good morning, friday, august 23rd. on set washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay who i gave her a cold. she s upset. we re sharing everything. guys, be careful. okay. don t overshare, please. drugs here if anyone touches them. always be in england. can i just say, does every boy grow up dreaming of saying, i m batman? i don t know. it s a funny joke. every boy doesn t grow up. that s good. oh! oh. discuss that also. pulitzer-prize winning historian jon meacham. pulitzer-prize winning column t columnist, msnbc political ans list, can we shorten the title please, eugene robinson and vice president and executive editor of msnbc.com richard holt. he s also the author of the book the message, the reselling of president obama. and that s all we have time for this morning. back to
on markets now. dagen: do you have to be surfing the internet to get on twitter? connell: off tv and what is going on he does. when it friday night announcement, try to sneak by s and you can t do that in this day and age. always watching. they accused the nobody read this saturday piper. connell: don t read any day, always on line. dagen: nicole petallides is at the stock exchange. nicole: i still like a good piper. let s talk about what we are seeing for the dow jones industrials, great week for the bulls seeing a lot of green, triple digit gains, the dow jones industrials up 51 points, that accounts for 1-third of 1%. tech is under pressure for the tech heavy nasdaq but on the dow jones industrial average a majority of components will into the green. intel had an upgrade today, overall we have gotten economic news, as good as anticipated but the trend to the upside continues, oil and gold falling back, gold down $13.5 at the moment. connell: all the big news is twitter
revelations about the nsa surveillance programs. the agency has the ability to monitor up to 75% of all u.s. internet traffic. i mean, that is just incredible. 75% of my traffic to steal a joke from one of our producers is a lot. imagine that from the entire country. it can retain written content in e-mails and filtering domestic phone calls made over the web. meanwhile nbc news reports the nsa still doesn t know exactly how much information edward snowden took from the agency saying officials are, quote, overwhelmed while trying to assess the damage. snowden s leaks have also raised a question of how the media investigates and reports on the intelligence community. the guardian s glenn greenwald spoke about that last night. all the best reporting over the last 40 years involves journalists having classified information. the pentagon papers, illegal warrantless eavesdropping program. if you want to start criminalizing that, it means you re asking as a citizen to be kept ign
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