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Judicial review when it searches that massive phone metadata. thats a big change, a big step forward. but as far as that mass of metadata, its still going to exist somewhere, and the government will still want to search that to try to find patterns to prevent terror attacks. he left open a very big question as to where that data will live. he said he doesnt want it to live in government hands, it creates the potential for abuse. but hasnt figured out where its going to be. could be with the tele...

Require it. its designed to create a higher comfort level in the american population. >> patriot act, section 215 pertaining to the phone metadata collection does expire in 2015, so the battle is brewing for next year. uma, back to you. >> elizabeth, thank you for the update. governor mike huckabee the host of "huckabee" is joining to us weigh in. thank you for being with us. the president announcing restrictions to access domestic phone records but will the n.s.a. click and expand the collectio...

The president asked congress to create a panel of public advocates to counter government search requests. he asked the attorney general and intelligence community to explore moving the data out of nsa control. he also ordered an end to spying on the leaders of dozens of close u.s. allies but he left several questions unanswered, including who will hold the phone metadata, the phone companies or a new third party, and which cases the public advocate would take part in. he did not eliminate bulk c...

Save it all, and access it all, that maybe we can get rid of some of it. some of it may stored with the phone company, some may not be stored at all and there are other ways that we can track terrorist networks. >> theoretically, how do they come up with that? >> i dont know. i really think he was saying lets give this a shot. lets think about this. and i think this is important. theres a mentality of collect it all regardless of whether or not its useful or not and its not just phone metadata. ...

On close u.s. allies. but he left several questions unanswered, including who will hold the phone metadata, the phone companies or a new third party. in which case the public advocate would take part in. the president argued its just too important. >> not only because i felt they made us more secure, but also because nothing in that initial review and nothing that i have learned since indicated that our intelligence community has sought to violate the law. >> reporter: for the nsas most arden ar...

Well know exactly how far the president will go. youll remember the president convened a reform panel. it recommended some 46 changes to the program, but its becoming clear he will not accept many of those recommendations. the headline, the bulk collection of phone metadata will continue and the panel did not recommend to stop it. but there is a record the president will not accept the recommendation that that data be held by private phone companies rather than the nsa. the phone companies didnt...

Democrats, not so much. okay, david. with regard to the president who is set to announce his decision on changes to the nsa surveillance program friday, you, in fact, have written about this in your most recent article, have you heard any details about what the president intends to see? >> reporter: mixed signals. some of the biggest reforms that have been recommended by the outside advisory panel that looked at this and delivered a report in december, probably the biggest was, you know, the n...

. day after meeting with the nations spy chief, president obama sat down with the lawmakers as he makes new rules on nsa surveillance programs. lets bring in our chief national security expert jim sciuto. what is going on? >> im told that an hour is focused on 9 bulk collection of phone metadata. the president has said that there are three other reforms that the president is seriously considering, including making public exactly how many times the nsa queried phone companies. with the decision...

Admitting changes have to be made. he said we may have to refine this further to give people more confidence both here at home and overseas. he got more specific, saying hes open to this idea of moving that phone metadata, all that information on millions and billions of phone calls of americans from the nsas possession, back into private hands of the phone companies. and he explained there may be a way to redesign the program, in his words, to give the nsa information when it needs it, but to e...

Week that the governments time being of the essence is true. thats what the committee said, as they look at the phone mining program, they are not persuaded by the governments argument that instantaneous access is necessary to prevent terror attacks. we dont see the proof its ever happened before. thats got to be troubling for them. >> pete makes a good point. the phone metadata records, slowing it down is not a tragedy. in the scheme of counter-terrorism thats not a critical thing. the question...