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reporter: now the white house knows they have got to speak out on the surveillance program, specifically on the privacy concerns. that is hurting the president with his base. liberals have been speaking out saying he is not speaking forcefully enough on behalf of privacy. the thing about the millenials that helped elect the president and reelect him last year. these are young folks, some techies, very much on facebook and social media and they want to hear the president speaking out. we ve seen recent poll numbers suggesting he is losing some of these millenials. this is the reason why. jenna. jenna: we ll watch this port of the story. ed, thank you. jon: for more on the latest developments let s bring in bob cues act managing editor of the hill. the president will meet with the privacy board that nobody ever heard of before, bob. should we take comfort in that? well it shows that the administration is playing defense here. president obama ordered attorney general eric holder to ....
Washington post and the guardian there are fewer checks and balances on the nsa than u.s. officials previously said, jon. jon: we re learning more and more every day about all of this it seems. jennifer griffin, thank you. jenna: as jon mentioned at the top of the though the president is making new moves to calm the rising waters of the nsa spying scandal. he is meeting for the first time with a privacy oversight board create ad few years ago in fact. chief white house correspondent ed henry is live in washington with more on this side of the story. hi, ed. reporter: great to talk to you jenna. you re right. president is playing both sides. critics on the right saying was not speaking outs for fully enough on behalf of nsa surveillance programs. a couple days ago in germany we heard him give a vigorous defense how the surveillance programs have disrupted dozens of terror attacks. now he is facing heat on the left as well because of privacy concerns. so he is meeting with his priva ....
Bipartisan, and without a doubt he s stood up for what he s believed in on several occasions, but i also think that people have to understand that if we want the kind of security in this day edge age with the technology that exists there s going to be some real questions about what you re going to allow. the white house acknowledging some issues within its base. he put out the message to the folks at the net roots saying we don t always agree but i trust you will tell me about it. how are the liberals within his party? they are upset about it and you have seen the president having a meeting today that the white house announced late last night with his privacy board that was supposed to launch a conversation. it was something creative after 9/11 but has not done much. when you talk about the balance between civil liberty and security, they are going to start this conversation. jim is right, the comey hearings could be used as a way to talk about this. he says he was open to the de ....
In this particular program, it applies to foreign citizens, the program does, not the fourth amendment. i ve seen this program operating in realtime, when i was a member of this privacy board. and i saw the careful scrutiny that each person involved in the terrorist surveillance program, when they approached the line of encroaching on the fourth amendment rights of american citizens, they pulled back to the point where there were so many checks and balances within that agency, where i was watching the program, i sometimes wondered whether we were missing evil terrorists because of concern about privacy and civil liberties. here s my problem with this, i don t disagree with almost anything the three gentlemen just said, however, what i do find disconcerting, when you look at what happened with the irs, it comes down to trusting the government and the people that work in it, doesn t it? i m not sure after what happened with the irs, that trust is still there, the way it was. let me go ....
Program does, not the fourth amendment. i ve seen this program operating in realtime, when i was a member of this privacy board. and i saw the careful scrutiny that each person involved in the terrorist surveillance program, when they approached the line of encroaching on the fourth amendment rights of american citizens, they pulled back to the point where there were so many checks and balances within that agency, where i was watching the program, i sometimes wondered whether we were missing evil terrorists because of concern about privacy and civil liberties. here s my problem with this, i don t disagree with almost anything the three gentlemen just said, however, what i do find disconcerting, when you look at what happened with the irs, it comes down to trusting the government and the people that work in it, doesn t it? i m not sure after what happened with the irs, that trust is still there, the way it was. let me go to steve, you have a ....