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Play CBS Video June 19, 2013 | 8:13 AM PDT
FBI Director: Surveillance "has been instrumental" in stopping terror threats
Addressing the role of NSA surveillance programs in stopping terror threats, FBI Director Robert Mueller said, for most of the cases, it "has been a contributing factor - one dot amongst a number of dots - but there are those cases where it has been instrumental."
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Play CBS Video June 19, 2013 | 7:41 AM PDT
Obama: Seek "security of a world without nuclear weapons"
Saying we must seek the "security of world without nuclear weapons," President Obama announced that he will push the Senate to ratify the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty and that America will host a 2016 summit to help secure nuclear materials around the world.
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Play CBS Video June 19, 2013 | 6:55 AM PDT
Obama: America wants to end war in Syria, not escalate it
Addressing the growing role of the United States in the Syrian civil war, President Obama said some of the coverage has gotten "a little over-cranked, in terms of the idea that somehow the United States is preparing to go all in and participate in another war. What we want to do is end a war."
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Play CBS Video June 19, 2013 | 6:52 AM PDT
Obama to Germans: America is not "rifling" through your emails
President Obama assured an audience in Germany that America is not indiscriminately "rifling" through the emails of ordinary European citizens, describing the National Security Agency's surveillance programs as a "circumscribed" system that has averted threats in America, Germany, and elsewhere.
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Play CBS Video June 18, 2013 | 2:33 PM PDT
Bachmann: Did the NSA target the president's "political enemies"?
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., asked during a House Intelligence Committee hearing whether the National Security Agency ever targeted for wiretapping the "political enemies" of the current administration.
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Play CBS Video June 18, 2013 | 1:25 PM PDT
Boehner: After Kermit Gosnell trial, "vast majority" supports abortion bill
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy won't turn women off to the GOP because of "horrific acts" like Kermit Gosnell's.
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Play CBS Video June 18, 2013 | 12:34 PM PDT
Biden: "We have not given up" on reforming gun laws
Vice President Joe Biden said he knows "for a fact" that some lawmakers who voted down a comprehensive bill to strengthen gun safety laws "wonder now whether that was a prudent vote."
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Play CBS Video June 18, 2013 | 12:05 PM PDT
Obama: Afghan-Taliban talks "important first step"
President Obama sounds cautiously optimistic about peace talks with the Taliban in Doha, and insists an "Afghan-owned peace process is the best way to end the violence" in a region torn apart by a bloody 12-year war.
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Play CBS Video June 18, 2013 | 11:46 AM PDT
Boehner: "Maybe" I'll lose my job over immigration reform
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said with a grin that "maybe" he'll lose his job if he brings a comprehensive immigration reform bill to the House floor without the backing of his conference.
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Play CBS Video June 18, 2013 | 11:32 AM PDT
NSA director: Snowden leaks caused "irreversible and significant damage"
General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, argued former government contractor Edward Snowden's decision to leak information about the agency's controversial, top-secret data gathering programs had caused "irreversible and significant damage" to U.S. national security interests, and would ultimately benefit America's enemies.
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Play CBS Video June 18, 2013 | 11:19 AM PDT
FBI official: NSA programs helped reveal subway, stock exchange bombings
Sean Joyce, the Deputy Director of the FBI, unveiled four terrorist plots he says were prevented in large part due to information collected by the National Security Agency's controversial, top-secret data gathering programs, including planned bombings of both the New York City subway system and the New York Stock Exchange.
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Play CBS Video June 17, 2013 | 2:43 PM PDT
Obama, Cameron exercise school spirit at G8 summit
In Northern Ireland for the Group of 8 summit, President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron toured the Enniskillen Integrated Primary School, where they visited a classroom and joined in painting a school banner.
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Play CBS Video June 17, 2013 | 2:23 PM PDT
Obama: We will "consult closely" with Russia on North Korea
xPresident Obama said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had "very productive" discussions about North Korea, and expressed some hope that as a result of Iran's recent election "we may be able to move forward on a dialogue that allows us to resolve the problems with Iran's nuclear program."
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Play CBS Video June 17, 2013 | 2:15 PM PDT
Obama, Putin cite shared goals in Syria
Despite tensions between the United States and Russia on how best to address the ongoing violence in Syria, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting declared their shared interests in "reducing violence" in the war-torn country, even while both acknowledged their differences on the issue.
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Play CBS Video June 17, 2013 | 2:04 PM PDT
Obama previews "groundbreaking" trade partnership at G8 summit
During a press conference at the Group of 8 summit in Northern Ireland, President Obama announced the United States and European leaders are launching talks aimed at forming a $5 trillion trans-Atlantic trading zone.
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Play CBS Video June 17, 2013 | 1:40 PM PDT
Obama: Rory McIlroy thinks my golf game needs "some help"
President Obama joked about his golf game during remarks to Northern Ireland youth in Belfast, name-dropping professional golfer and Irishman Rory McIlroy.
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Play CBS Video June 17, 2013 | 1:35 PM PDT
Obama: Northern Ireland youth inherited "just and hard-earned peace"
Fifteen years after the Good Friday Agreement brought a tenuous end to decades of "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, President Obama came to its capital city to address young people at the Belfast Waterfront Hall, urging them to build on the "bravest" footsteps of their parents.
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Play CBS Video June 15, 2013 | 12:23 PM PDT
Palin rebuts Jeb Bush on immigration: I'm pretty "fertile" myself
2008 Republican vice presidential nominee pushed back against a suggestion from former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., that the GOP should support immigration reform because immigrants are "more fertile," saying it's "touchy territory to want to debate this over one race's fertility rate over another, and I say this as someone who is kind of fertile, herself."
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Play CBS Video June 15, 2013 | 12:07 PM PDT
Sarah Palin slams "Orwellian" U.S. government
"Now more than ever it just seems so Orwellian around here," said 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin at the 2013 Faith and Freedom Conference, telling the audience that the Obama administration is not being truthful with Americans about recent controversies, "but finally around here those scandals are being revealed."
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Play CBS Video June 15, 2013 | 7:21 AM PDT
Obama: "Happy Father's Day"
In his weekly address on Saturday, President Obama wished a "Happy Father's Day" to all the dads in America, saying, "There will never be a substitute for the love and support and, most importantly, the presence of a parent in a child's life, and in many ways, that's uniquely true for fathers."
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