Can follow this event live on cspan 2. A discussion on the federal judges ruling that said the nsa collection on phone records violates the constitution. This is 45 minutes. Back with James Andrew Lewis of the center for strategic and International Studies. Here to talk about the judges decision on monday, a District Court judge questioning the legality of nsas phone data records. What did he say . Guest he said it was a tremendous intrusion into privacy. It was unconstitutional that the collection of the metadata, greatbills, by nsa, was a risk to the Fourth Amendment and lot legal and not legal. Host what program by the nsa was he referring to . Guest they have a program essentially the phone bill of american citizens. Call, howt who you long the call lasted, where the call might have been. Possiblehem identify targets for counterterrorism or counterespionage. He objected to the fact that nsa, a foreign intelligence body, is collecting intelligence on american citizens. Host how . Gu
Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents and others, 202 5853882. ,end us a tweet at cspanwj post your comments on facebook, or email us. We will get to your phone calls in a minute. Yesterday we learned that three house lawmakers are going to retire. S headline. Itico shaking the 2014 midterm election. Timess headline, three house retirements complicate outlooks for the midterm. Representatives frank wolf from ,irginia, tom latham from iowa jim matheson of utah. They surprise colleagues and voters with their decisions, which came as congress was wrapping up one of its least productive and most contentious years in recent memory. The retirements are not enough to signal a shift in the dynamics for the race and control of the house in 2014, still decidedly republican. It raised hopes among democrats navigating what has turned out to be an unpredictable path into the midterm election. We want your thoughts with this news of the twoyear budget deal passing in the senate. Final passage could h
People, two of them tourists. One of japans biggest banks is punishing top executives for knowingly loaning money to criminal organizations. U. S. President barack obama is facing more questions about what he knew and when regarding the activities of his intelligence agents. A german newspaper says obama found out three years ago that the National Security agency was tapping chancellor Angela Merkels mobile phone. That contradicts reports he told her he was unaware. Nhk worlds noriko okada has more. Reporter the german newspaper is the latest media source to publish details of how the u. S. Spied on german chancellor angela merkel. It spoke to a u. S. Intelligence worker involved in the operation. It says that person revealed the head of the National Security agency informed the president obama in person about the surveillance in 2010. The paper quoted the source as saying obama did not stop the operation. Nearly a week ago, German Government officials said u. S. Intelligence agency ma
Beside the square and crossed over barriers and crashed into a crowd and then it caught fire. Microbloggers posted photos of the incident online. But soon after, the pictures were taken down. Authorities wiped the crash site clean of any trace of the incident. Police keep tienemen square under tight security as close to key Political Institutions and they dont want december strators to gather there. The square was the scene of prodemocracy protest in 1989 which ended in a military crackdown. Police in china have arrested aid man who crashed a bus into police vehicles. Lus hit two officers and damages vehicles. The Police Arrested him at a nearby bus terminal. Theyre still trying to figure out why he did what he did. Three protester faced judges on monday for campaigning against corruption. The three were charged with subverting the nation and government. The defendants pushed for senior officials to disclose their assets. Sympathizers who gathered outside came facetoface with more than
Have to make the way to look at it is lets say it takes 50,000 to renovate or remedy a the property for business. If your business is generating 100,000 a year in revenues, you clearly are not going to come up with 50,000 to make the changes, at least not in year one. But some of it you can do in year one. That percentage is not in a fixed amount. That usually gets 15 of your gross revenues could be assessed as being available to you to make these repairs. They will aggregate that over time, so if you cannot make all your repairs in year one, you can make some, but it may take you three or four years before you have to make the changes, but there is no defense to making the changes. Even if it is a historical building. That is not a defense. When i get involved, it is because 90 of the time, the tenant is the only one who gets the notice, though the notice is addressed both to the tenant and landlord. Next thing you see, you are handed a piece of paper by some stranger, and it is a law