What we are interested from hearing from you, will these proposals install confidence . Here is how you can reach out to us this morning. It is social media is available to you as well. Heres a listing of some of the proposals released yesterday by the president at the press conference at the white house. They include the appointment of a Civil Liberties and privacy advocate. He argued cases and challenge the governments edition before the court that some of the reasons why these proposals came about is highlighted in the New York Times this morning we want to get your thoughts on the president of the United States looking to put more information out there and reviews of the Surveillance Program that the United States program operates, hoping to install confidence of the American People. If you want to give us a call or comment, here is your chance to do so talkinghe president about the reasons for the reforms. [video clip] i am mindful of how these issues are seen overseas. American leadership depends on american democracy and american openness. What makes us different from other countries is not simply our ability to secure our nation, it is the way we do it, and open debates and democratic process. In other words, it is not enough for me as president to have confidence in these programs. The American People need to have confidence in them as well. That is why over the last few weeks i have consulted members of the congress who have consulted this issue for many different perspectives. I asked the privacy and Civil LibertiesOversight Board to review whether our values come into attention. The numbers will be on your screen. This is richard from massachusetts, independent line caller . Independent line. Caller good morning. They do anything they want. They tell you a little bit of what is really happening. They have been doing this for years. Air is no way we can find out. I even tried to find out what the cia budget is, they say that is confidential. How can a budget be confidential . We pay taxes. I do not trust the government one bit. Everything is secrecy in this country. We have free people. What would instill confidence in these types of programs . Caller the only thing that can be done, in my point of view, i know you cannot tell us a lot of some kind of picture of what is really happening. They hire people for the cabinet get a private company in there and find out what is wrong with the system. Are talking about the idea of the president wanted to put more confidence gather more confidence about the Surveillance Programs. Let us go to mike. He joins us from philadelphia pennsylvania. My only comment is that a lot of these things need to be one of the main places i have a concern about government availability online, the government in general has not transition quickly enough to protect the liberties that we enjoy in the real world as we do in the virtual world. To instill confidence in the American People, one of the things i would do, it would have to be the Judicial Branch to extend the Fourth Amendment to things that happen online. I think americans understand that government protecting their privacy would go a long way in restoring their confidence, in any of the institutions in general. You think about this idea of the government knowing what is going on phone or internet wise . Absolutely. I do not think it affects my behavior. I am just a normal citizen. I definitely do think the government could be listening. Would find my conversations their industry very interesting. I do not think they are showing enough that there working to defeat terrorism, as well as protect Civil Liberties. I think they just need to show that they care about Civil Liberties. Us fromleman joins tulsa, oklahoma. The government surveillance does not have any credibility because of the irs scandal. A Government Agency has information on people if you think the Obama Administration any information on their political enemies, that is all about politics. That is the misuse people are concerned with. The terrorist Surveillance Program is a good program. The problem is an administration has lost all credibility with the American People, unless you are a socialist. That is the big issue. From the Washington Post, good morning from massachusetts, democrats line. You are talking about the president wanted to install more confidence in Surveillance Programs. Caller i think people should be confident with what the government is doing. Do not question it. Host why not . Caller surveillance is necessary in todays world to keep people safe. Stephen joins us from utah, independent line. Caller i heard the president say that the government is not listening to your phone calls, i believe that. What they are doing and what they can do is they can record all of your phone calls and they will go in there and do a search of it they can do a keyword search and pull up all of your phone calls just by looking at the one area. The voicemail is emailed to me as a text file. At is one thing they can do and they are going to be doing it now. They are going to be checking on everybody. Host as your confidence level, how would you define that . Caller very little. It reminds me when they talk cannothe 666, when you do anything without approval. Host are there steps the government can take to improve that confidence . Can as far as i far as i am concerned government turned a 10 commandments into tent inconvenient truths. Chairman mike rogers put out a statement the president is making a series of reforms is today. Why andce is the reason trying to get more confidence from the American People. We are asking you about that concept. If you want to join us on the phone this is stephen from massachusetts. Caller i am grateful for the president to come out and say that we are not being our calls are not being surveilled. Im thankful for a government that protects me from al qaeda and terrorists. Of these intelligence and gathering information can be used to aware the public. People want to say they know what the government is doing, they dont even work for the government. When the government says theyre doing something for my own good, i have faith in my constitution to believe that something is being done to protect me from some foreign country that wants to take me over. Host when it comes to the reforms the president proposed, a good step as far as putting out there how these operations these Government Programs are operated . Keep theink that will governments activities from going too far . Carefulthey have to be what they do, of course. At least they are heightening the awareness of people. People blow it out of proportion. It is all you hear about. I did not believe it is going on at all. I really dont. That people are going to get caught for something they do wrong. They should be caught. That is my feelings on the whole thing. Host that is stephen from massachusetts. This is from the wall street journal, here is donna from indiana. I just dont have confidence that possessing and having this kind of information and this much information i think the temptation to abuse it is far too great. Amount of given the money and how it influences our politics. Host anything in your mind that could change that . Caller probably not, especially given how so secretive they are about everything. I do not think so. Completed have to do a on help which the are how much they are classifying. Host more transparency, then . Caller much more. I do not think they are willing to give up that much transparency. Yesterday,resident talking about transparency issues. We have a tape from yesterday. He talked about the Intelligence Community and how they will attempt to make Surveillance Programs more transparent. [video clip] we can and must be more transparent. Ive directed the Intelligence Community to make public as much of these programs is a cam possible. We can go further. On my direction the department of justice will make public the legal rationale for the collection activity under section 215 of the patriot act, the nsa is taking steps to put into place a fulltime Civil Liberties and privacy officer, and release information and details of its mission and authorities oversight. The Intelligence Community is creating a website that will serve as a hub for for the transparency. This will give americans and the world the ability to learn more about what our intelligence communities does and what it does not do. The president from yesterday, off of twitter. It edwin chorused in saying Edwin Christian saying republican line. Fact that the of cover meant the government does monitor your telephones. We both received texts from Homeland Security saying that they are monitoring our phone calls. All of these credit all of these people that think the president is protecting you, how come we cant protect our own borders . Host what about the proposals he listed yesterday . Caller that is more lip service. That is all we have ever gotten. He will tell you what you want to hear them and walk away and , thatese drones out here is how he gets away with it. Host to recount some of the proposals listed yesterday. New talks would go on with congress to revise section 215 of the patriot act joanne is up next, sterling, virginia, democrats line. There is ahink couple of issues. I think president obama has gone in the right direction as far as making the court had more adversarial. Got we lost focus as far as the balance between security and upholding the privacy of the constitution. Thisthink obama has got absolutely correct. There has to be leadership in congress. If youre depending on just one directives, make then it ends with the president. This has to be long this has to be more longterm. We can go back to having complete privacy and security and still live in an internet world, that is over. Pandoras box is open. I do think we have to be very there has to be complete leadership from congress in ensuring that this oversight, independent oversight. Twitter and Washington Post this morning this is donna from illinois, good morning. The gal from virginia said it very well. What i have garnered from all of these calls is that many people do not listen to what is said by the president or whatever newspaper. They have an idea. I think it is closemindedness. This president is doing very well in answering all the questions and all of the categories. There is a willingness by this to see through all of the problems and react or act on correcting problems. Most inat stood out your mind from what the president said he e said . Mosley it was the problem was security and the lack of security. Congress can enact a body of knowledge. Especially with computers now. Host joy from twitter and he up next from the republican line. Andy is up next from the republican line. Caller it is amazing people are so conditioned to love big brother that they are willing to give up privacy. Privacy is based on the biggest lie of the mall, nine 11. Want to talk about. The fact it makes people uncomfortable does not change the fact. The top part of the building does not crush the lower part without slowing down. I get it makes people uncomfortable. How many of our freedoms are we going to give up before we democrats line, jim. Caller i have absolutely no confidence in this program because i have no confidence in our government. Sooner or later it is going to be corrupted. Going to start using it for their own purposes and taking away more of our rights and more about privacy. They should be targeting al qaeda directly. It is not a good thing. Host the business section of the New York Times this morning, taking a look at email services it says the shutdown of two small providers on thursday illustrates why it is so hard for a for Internet Companies to challenge jason from ohio, independent line, good morning. Go ahead. Caller that is exactly what i was thinking there. There is absolutely no transparency whatsoever and i do not think this cop this topic ifld be discussed as of now it wasnt for whistleblowers like Edward Snowden. They would still be behind closed doors on this and the American People would have never found out about it. Host what should we do Going Forward . Caller government needs to tell the truth. Wouldve they been doing exactly up until this point now . Agenda ir future what if their future agenda is with the program . We go to and on the republican line. Have a feeling about i am sureillance they have done it for a long time. There is a lot of people that i to that the need maybe need to be under surveillance. Idiots get on facebook and put everything on their life on their. I think it is absolutely ridiculous. Dont usesume you facebook. What about cell phone or computer use . I use my cell phone and that is fine. I know it can be picked up. There is nothing in my life that i do wrong. Host you suspect this might be going on a long time. Do people have the same stocks you do or are some ok with the practices they have been hearing about . What about those you communicate with on this issue . With, the people i work some of them probably go along with it but there are some of that would with probably not like to be surveyed. Host because caller their past life. Host we are going to hear from another. This is from maryland on our democrats line. Before you start, why dont you turn down your tv so you can talk with us. One more time, go ahead. We will go to tom. Jabari, democrats line. I think not trusting a government is more of a trend than a problem. Mysterious is dealing with terrorism, it is more complex than people think. It is not like going to war with the country. Is a a corporation, it program. When you go to war with terrorism, they can be anywhere. Conversation,our it cannot be as important as innocent people dying. Host can you expand on that he e on that . Caller most people do not even have any evidence to show that they know what they are talking about when they say that the government is doing stuff behind our back. On ourhat is jabari democrats line. The previous caller mentioned Edward Snowden. A story out of mclean, virginia this morning, saying nancy is up next from illinois, go ahead. For the hypocrites out there, i remember speaking with liberals when the waterboarding subject was in the news. They were firm on we have to remain american, even if we have to be true to who we are, even if it means giving us a leg up on the war on terror. Now the same people are willing to be absolutely unamerican and add surveillance to this level on on americans. Boston, theys in did not catch those two guys, even though there were so many signs out there. If you are willing to give up your freedom and have your life looked at to this extent, quit drinking the koolaid. You are all being loyal to obama, youre not being loyal to america. Host dennis off of twitter i want to point you to our Newsmakers Program that will appear sunday at 10 00 a member of the Foreign Affairs committee did and some of the discussions with reporters, he talked about russia and the nsa program that attracts mated data about american phone calls and emails. Heres what he has to say. [video clip] the fact is we have approved the following of terrorist communications from overseas. Even those communications that go into the United States. When it comes to phone calls of every single american, which is what we are talking about, they do not need to keep tabs on everyone of us and what we are doing in order to support a terrorist attack. Host newsmakers takes place tomorrow at 10 00. Guest is a member of the Foreign Affairs committee. Independent line, california. Caller one thing a lot of people are overlooking is is that i do not know if president obama or even many people in our government can really vouch for what is going on with these programs. A lot of these programs are being conducted with private corporations. A lot of these people are private contractors. Some of them are transnational agents. If any abuses being taken place, where is the oversight going to come from . Host how much should there be e caller should there be . Caller there should be enough for american citizens to have recourse. Host off of Facebook Bruce is ill and worse is from illinois on the democrats line. Bruce is on the democrats line from illinois. This is more open than it has ever been. The irs, checking on Tea Party Groups, and Tea Party Groups taking their name from people willing to destroy are pretty to avoid paying taxes, that would cause a reaction to me. Are going to try to avoid taxes and maybe we ought to look at them. Host from twitter up next is bill from illinois, republican line. Good morning, go ahead. Caller i have two comments, one about transparency. We have no transparency about benghazi or the irs, why should we believe we should get transparency about the nsa. This is absolutely ridiculous. They are going to take obamacare , and they have done all this to different people within the irs. What if you do not want to pay your fine . What is the irs going to do to you then am a to come back and do it . I would like to see obama and all of these phony scandals, i would like to see obama stand before the families of the people wh