bulk phone record collection program. you want to get rid of it all together. put knit the hands of the phone companies. that s not good enough for you. the u.s. freedom act in effect would go back they would go back to what the tradition system was. let me ask you about senator rand paul. in an oped he was questioning if the usa fraedom act expands the pariot act. first of all, senator paul and i kid that we re sort of the founders of the informal ben franklin caucus.
with the white house under fire over controversial data collection programs, the president is promises to limit their reach. jim, what more are we learning about the plans that he s going to propose. reporter: a senior official says president obama will announce he is ending the nsa s bulk phone record collection program as it currently exists. one key thing is that they will node a, quote, journal finding before they can use that information. end mass surveillance. reporter: more than six months since former nsa contractor edward snowden started leaking the details, president obama is poised to make changes to the ways washington spies on the world. we can and should take steps