Systems that are continuing to do what they ve been authorized to do by law. then you have to have the second question, which is should this be legal or can we make improvements here, the surveillance power, the information and ability to control it in the hands of private contractors. a lot of people were surprised through some of the disclosures, surprised to see it in this important way. that wow someone who no longer works for the c.i.a. has this kind of systems operational axis and all the other people who are claimed to be secrets, but maybe aren t secrets, maybe are over-classifying which hurts our protection of secrets this is one of those onions where as you peel it, you think we should have more oversight and maybe the blackwaters and booz allens of the world shouldn t have the final say on some of these questions. if over-classification has been the word of the year before now, then declassification will be the word of the year going
0 should it be? one of the things that the whole revelation has brought up is a discussion, not only on whether this program should be legal, but also whether we should even be, should the nation be up in arms about all of this. i personally think that what the nsa is doing is vital and it s necessary. and as we saw, with president, well then-candidate obama. you look at the statements he s made in the past, he was skeptical of these things. but what we ve seen is a difference between being a candidate, who has maybe 80% of the information and the president who ends up getting i don t like that comparison that people are making it and you re making it in a very nuanced way. because a candidate or a senator has a certain amount of information, you start getting the intelligence briefings every day. you start to have the responsibility of $350 million systems that are continuing to do what they ve been authorized to do by law. then you have to have the second question, which is sho
programs and the syrian civil war are dominating the meetings. allies want answers after nsa leaker, edward snowden revealed the uk monitored world leaders in the 2009 world summit and just hours ago, president obama met with russia president vladimir putin. syria is pissed that putin wants to arm the rebels. we expect to hear from obama and put thn hour. we start with nbc s peter alexander who covers the president, what s happening at the center? [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] that s right. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] . [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] . [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] peter, hold on one second we re, you re coming in and out we re going to come back to you for a second. david nakamora is the reporter for the washington post. the president s approval rating has dropped over the last few days, the why is ovts, a slew of bad news, the nsa scandal revelation, which people do not like. talk to me a little b