president obama flip flopping, changing his tune on the nsa spying program. do his new proposals that he made on friday actually offer protection to americans privacy? let s talk to senior judicial analyst, judge pan drew napolitano. good morning. the president s new proposals do not change the fundamental principle that the government on a massive scale is violating the fundamental right to privacy that every american has and the specifically guaranteed right to privacy in the constitution. the constitution doesn t say all spying is illegal. it says spying on all of us is illegal. sure. so if the government wants to spy on a conversation you and i are having, it goes to a judge and explains to the judge why, in that conversation, it will probably learn of some criminal
comments that were previously requested. just 71 days from now, open enrollment ends, but the wall street journal is reporting most of the 2.2 million sign-up so far are enrolling because their other plans were canceled and only 11% were uninsured before the aca kicks in. new reaction coming in to a another controversy putting pressure on the obama administration. today, lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle were on the sunday talk shows sounding off on president obama s plan to reform the nsa spying program. the proposed changes include additional court approval, a nongovernment agency holding metadata and limiting the extension of data collection. today, michigan republican congressman mike rogers who heads the house intelligence committee said he does like the fact the president defended the nsa s actions as legal. first, the speech was good in the sense that it said, listen, no abuses. legal program. not a domestic spying operation
we really didn t make a decision on friday. what we got was lots of uncertainty and just as my conversations over the weekend with intelligence officials, this new level of uncertainty is already having a bit of an impact on our ability to protect americans by fighting terrorism who are trying to reach into the united states. dallas law maker, one of the lawmakers speaking out after president obama announced changes to america s spying program. did the president go far enough to protect our privacy and national security at the same time? joining us is the former c.i.a. director and nsa director general michael hayden. i saw that you wrote there was a lot to like about the president s speech. what concerns you most? well, brian, what the president is trying to do is to kind of shave points, shave capabilities along the edges of this program in order to make it more politically acceptable here in the united states and he s
and the earthquake was to clarify, not in new jersey. exactly. you know what, as it turns out, it was in new zealand. although, on msnbc, they re now blaming chris christie. thank you, heather. the president of the united states had a big speech 43 minutes long on friday. interesting timing. he s been taking the heat over this obamacare. was this just his opportunity to distract america? hey, stop looking at obamacare. let s talk about spying. yeah, we re doing a lot of it, and i m going to fix it. he was trying his best to appease all the parties. but in the end, maybe he didn t really do much of anything. no, he actually on friday, as you mentioned, on the heels of the gates book and about mounting accusations about security issues with obamacare, he laid out a series of changes he d like to make in terms of the nsa spying program, putting in some hurdles, as some think,
way. rod wheeler, we thank you very much for joining us on this holiday monday. thank you. thank you. all right. now 11 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, do president obama s changes to our country s spying program go far enough to protect our privacy? former nsa director michael