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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: US will meet Taliban ahead of Afghan-led peace process
President Obama said the United States will meet the Taliban for peace talks in Doha, but insisted 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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Play CBS Video June 15, 2013 | 7:06 AM PDT
Sen. Alexander: Dems want "national school board"
In the weekly Republican address, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said, "The U.S. Department of Education has become so congested with federal mandates that it has actually become, in effect, a national school board," pushing for more local control and state-level flexibility on education reforms.
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Play CBS Video June 14, 2013 | 8:03 PM PDT
Gov. Christie joins former President Clinton at CGI session in Chicago
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined former President Bill Clinton at a Clinton Global Initiative session in Chicago to discuss New Jersey's recovery from Superstorm Sandy. Christie discussed Army Corps of Engineers-designed dune systems and how they protected some shore communities from complete destruction.
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Play CBS Video June 14, 2013 | 3:55 PM PDT
Clinton to Christie: "You got both praise and damnation for ignoring political differences"
Former President Bill Clinton and Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., bantered about Christie's Hurricane Sandy recovery plans as well as the political response to his relief efforts
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Play CBS Video June 14, 2013 | 2:32 PM PDT
Ryan: "This is big government assaulting our first amendment rights"
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., explained how the IRS targeting controversy demonstrates the problems with "big government." When he ran as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's running mate, Ryan delivered a similar message along the campaign trail about the threat of a government with "so much power."
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