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Into the air. manage if you were a passenger on a bus. the nsas controversial bulk phone data collection program officially powering down yesterday. a top senate laymakers warns the end of the surveillance is putting our security at risk. congratulate rein herridge is live in washington. the program gone for good? >> under new rules the dat tase still being collected but now held by the phone companies and requires court action to clear the database. critics say the system comes at the worst p...

I cant stand here with high confidence when i confront a world that is increasingly dark to me and tell you i have it all covered. >> reporter: as officials were trying to gain support for two surveillance tools they say are critical to investigating potential terrorists. the first the ability to monitor individuals with no noe ties to known terror groups. second roving wiretaps, tracking multiple phones tied to a single person. both are set to expire june 1st and the senate will return to debat...

Snowden has in terms of documents. maybe at some point they would rather have control over the documents and they would rather exchange some punishment for him no longer releasing any more. but, well see. generally speaking, i dont think its possible for them to change. >> jake tapper reporting from washington. jake, thank you very much. another blow to the obama administration spying program and an independent oversight board today concluded the nsa ball collection of data is illegal and shou...