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Section 215 bulk metatada program as it currently exists and establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk metadata. >> the president wants the nsa to get court approval before it can search the database. he wants someone other than the government to hold the records and to pursue calls only two steps removed from a suspected number instead of the current three steps removed. general hayden, given the fact that the current nsa director, ke...

Section 215 bulk metatada program as it currently exists and establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk metadata. >> the president wants the nsa to get court approval before it can search the database. he wants someone other than the government to hold the records and to pursue calls only two steps removed from a suspected number instead of the current three steps removed. general hayden, given the fact that the current nsa director, ke...

Without the government holding this bulk metadata. >> the specifics have not yet been determined and questions still linger where the data 140 be kept. david corn. joy reid, managing editor of the grio and msnbc contributor. i want to start with joy and go quick to david. two questions i got in mind. its all were going get to probably. one, do you have a clear notion? is the government going to keep this metadata? in other words, phone calls made from you to me, from him to her, whatever. should...

Trying to balance the legitimate concerns on privacy, but also the need to continue providing security for this nation. >> so, you know, i wonder, does this mean that theres a victory in this for edward snowden? that if he had not revealed these classified information, that we wouldnt even be at this point? >> absolutely. one of the questions is whether or not any of this bulk metadata is even ektive. the judge if d.c. said no. snowden made this stuff available. why did it take seven years befor...

President. the place where i still fall a little short and i have to say ive read the speech half a dozen times, i listened also to the white house staff who were briefing us and then also your prior guests. i still dont fully understand what they mean and when they talk about not allowing the government to have the custodial capacity of the bulk metadata but yet still want to have the ability to search it and that if it wont sit with third parties, it could sit somewhere else. what are they tal...

When these programs expire, theyve got a clock ticking right now. >> 60 days. >> thanks very much. lets dig deeper. t deputy national security adviser ben rhodes is joining me. caucuses with the democrats saying its a good start but the nsa is still violating the fourth amendment to the constitution. what do you say? >> well, wolf, as the president said, we did not find any instances of abuse in terms of the nsa going beyond what is approved by congress in the courts. what we found is a potent...

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...

Change. the government hasnt decided how its going to move this database and where its going to move the metadata 215 information. theres a lot of details -- the devil is in the details. the other thing we dont know about is the nature of the presidential directive. i suspect its top secret plus. im not sure whether well get a modified version. a lot of what hes telling us we cant know. i suspect he went too far for the intelligence community and not far enough for civil liberties advocates but ...

The next 60 days well review the options for how we map terrorist communications without the government holding possession of this database of bulk telephone metadata. >> well, one option that the president apparently doesnt like is letting the telecommunication firms, companies themselves hold all of this bulk data. i mean, who else could do it? is there a third party? is there an outsourcing that youre thinking about because a lot of us are con us fooed. who might be able to store all of this ...

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...