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We think its wrong for the government to be collecting phone records on every single americans phone calls and we do differ as to the strategy of how to deal with it, and although he and i share a similar concern, i dont agree with his approach and i have taken a different approach here, and i think the usa freedom act solves the underlying problem. >> let me ask you this finally before i let you go. when this program, the bulk metadata program was revealed through edward snowden, and the talkin...

We think its wrong for the government to be collecting phone records on every single americans phone calls. we do differ as to the strategy of how to deal with it, and although he and i share a similar concern, i dont agree with his approach and i have taken a different approach here, and i think the usa freedom act solves the underlying problem. >> but let me ask you this finally before i let you go. when this program, the bulk metadata program was revealed through edward snowden, the administr...

Because i recognized that this cliff was coming. weve known for four years that this deadline was approaching. and i think the american people are starting to demand more. theyre starting to expect that congress actually moves ahead of the game and stops governing by cliff. the american people deserve better than this, especially when it comes to a program that is an integral part of protecting our national security. >> so how did we get to this cliff? its not a budget showdown. its a national s...

Country to determine whether this was a couple of guys in boston or a national plot. so i think its important that people understand were not talking about the content of phone calls. my concern, and i support the concept of moving the data out of the government. i think thats a good idea from a privacy point of view. my concern is if you move it out of the government and leave it with the phone companies and the phone companies say we will hold that data for a week or month or six months, then ...

>> well, they go further in that they answer a question the president left open yesterday and that is if you take the bulk metadata program away from the government, what do you do with it, who holds on to that data. i think the program should be restructured in a way that the telephone companies hold on to their own data. they do this anyway, and i think we can develop the technological ability to get the information from those phone companies with court approval in the case by case basis where...

Picking it up. we should be able to know what is on the minds of germany and other foreign leaders before we read about it in the newspapers and dont know about it. they are important for our security. >> christian, listen to what the president defined as what he is going to change about this program. >> i believe we need a new approach. i am therefore ordering a transition that will end the section 215 bulk metadata program as it currently exists and establish a mechanism that preserves the cap...

About our private lives. and open the door to more intrusive bulk collection programs in the future. there are -- theyre also right to point out although the bulk telephone collection program was subject to oversight by the foreign intelligence surveillance court and has been reauthorized repeatedly by congress, it has never been subject to vigorous public debate. for all these reasons i believe we need a new approach. i am therefore ordering a transition that will end the section 215 bulk metad...

Precautions we should. we obviously have our military forces deployed in a different way than we did a year ago so they can take rapid action if necessary. but the concern is a broad one. hopefully, well fend off this attack. >> senator graham just told me that he thinks that these threats are yet another reason for those who have been critics of the national security agencies, the depth and the breadth of their intelligence collecting, it should show that that depth and that breadth should stay...

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