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The White House on Wednesday released a Web video touting the immigration stories of West Wing staffers, the latest push from the administration as the Senate begins debate on a comprehensive reform package.

The video features members of the White House staff who were either the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves sharing family stories and photos while arguing for the Gang of Eight legislation that reached the Senate floor on Tuesday.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced a same-sex marriage amendment to the immigration reform bill currently under consideration in the Senate.

Recent revelations about the National Security Agency's top-secret phone and Internet surveillance programs and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups are leaving voters skeptical that President Obama is doing a good job protecting constitutional rights.

According to a new poll released Wednesday by The Huffington Post, 45 percent of Americans say that Obama is doing a poor job protecting Americans' constitutional rights. By contrast, 15 percent say he is doing a "fair" job, 23 percent say he's doing a "good" job, and 11 percent say he's doing an "excellent" job. 

Americans are also skeptical of the White House's argument that Obama has struck the right balance between civil liberties and national security. Three in 10 agree with that assertion, but a third of Americans say Obama has erred too much in the direction of defending against terrorism, while 15 percent say the president is too concerned with protecting civil liberties. Nearly a quarter of those surveyed say they don't know.

“My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate," Edward Snowden said.

An Ohio man was charged Tuesday with crashing an SUV stocked with bullets, knives and machetes into a post outside the White House complex and then jumping the fence at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the executive mansion.

According to a court affidavit obtained by CNN, 32-year-old Joseph Clifford Reel attached a wood block to the accelerator of a driverless Jeep, which then crashed into a light post outside the White House around 3 a.m. on Sunday.

Inside the SUV, officers discovered 100 rounds of .45 caliber ammunition, 100 rounds of .22 caliber ammunition, eight knives and two machetes. No guns were found in the vehicle.

Bloomberg’s latest efforts could threaten the Democratic majority in the Senate.

King said reporters had an obligation "both moral, but also legal" to avoid compromising national security.

Snowden fled to Hong Kong before the revelations about two top-secret National Security Administration surveillance programs went public.

Forty-nine percent said they view the former president favorably with 46 percent saying they view him unfavorably.

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Tuesday defended secret National Security Agency surveillance programs, saying that they did not amount to "spying on the American people," and they prevented terror attacks.