taken place throughout the course of the country s history what we re seeing right now at the moment are people still continuing to arrive forming a protest where there are thousands of people would not tens of thousands of people despite today being a national holiday a day of the people still coming out to demonstrate 2 against a number of different grievances people are saying that they re angry over the wages over over other people access to health care and education over a growing inequality in the country and as the demands of protesters have evolved over time we re now hearing calls for the resignation of the country s president but even deeper than that people tell us that they want systemic change calling for a constitutional convention the drafting of a new constitution for the country so again what we re seeing now despite the state protests mostly peaceful protests of thousands of people we are unfortunately once again seeing the security forces police using tear
out here in new york city. joining millions of americans witnessing this extraordinary sight. if you were not excited about this this morning when you watch this actually happening it is a phenomenal site and one that we will not say and might not see to this extent because all the conditions are exactly right for some super super viewing of this today in the next one is not for another 20 years so a short time from now we will be under maximum coverage here in new york city. we are going to get around 90% of the sun blocked by the moon and it is a beautiful spring day. we haven t had too many like this but we ve got great visibility here in new york. so when it comes over new york we re going to get 90% as i said. so the total eclipse past that we are watching sweep across the country is about 115 miles wide and 4000 miles long and it has more than 33 million people who are under that. the last one was about something like two minutes. this one is twice as long it will get
they collect, does that same place? caller: i believe that would be unchanged. the question is where is it going to be stored and what access would we have to it? when you have concerns about privacy and government, they are legitimate because the government has abuse on privacy. you see it through the irs and conservative organizations. that is not even intelligence. the other when you have targ et and the other one host: the security breach at target. there s another one. i forgot the name of the. organizations know more about what we do them what the government knows about us. peter baker and charlie savage report that president obama will not endorse leaving bulk data in the custody of telecommunications form firms. can you explain this a little bit? the national security letters were not something that was given to the review committee to make recommendations on. i am surprised they made those recommendations. we have had the fbi before our committee and we have ha
republicans, (202) 585-3881. independents, (202) 585-3882. tweet, @cspanwj is our handle. you can also e-mail us journal@c-span.org. post story this morning, congress to pass $1.1 trillion spending bill. the first votes on the plan are expected today. 48 hours after negotiators introduced the 1582 page spending agreement. the house is scheduled to vote on the measure today. the senate plans to vote on it around noon today. live coverage on c-span of that vote for the house and tune into c-span 2 for the vote in the senate. here is what john boehner had to say about moving quickly to vote on the legislation. the bill was posted last night. to thehlights went out members offices last night. frankly, if we had time, i would ve i would like to have more time. we are in a situation where the government is going to run out of money. we are going to have to move a short-term cr. i think, under the circumstances, what we re doing is appropriate. host: john boehner addressing conc
you said of baghdad he and and islamic state are now trying to be the new al qaeda, how much indication do you see that out there in lebanon, libya, message ishat starting to resonate. we re seeing an alignment with the united states. have seen individuals, including influential individuals within some of the either oft state some casesnce or in more affinity for the successes that they have had and tactics. situation.ynamic the competition and a queue on the other. a concern we have that perhaps to demonstrate they are the leader they would seek to carry that wouldck establish bona fide. very dynamic situation. i go back to the propaganda points. we focus on the english language propaganda but they are using propaganda and a range of languages across the region. it is not just focused on u.s. or western audiences. obviously an area of grave concern for us so we are watching the situation very closely. lex thank you very much. is to be ahe prize local jihadist group and attac