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A big change kicked in this weekend you may not have noticed, limiting the governments ability to collect your telephone records, the records of all americans. the so-called meta data. the new procedure was sparked two years ago by edward snowdens revelations of the mass collection system. starting sunday, the federal government is now banned from collecting your phone data, including numbers, calls made and call duration. if agencies want to check on a specific number a request for an order fro...

Less flexible and less agile. we need speed, especially after something like paris, to be able to examine suspect phone numbers and run them through the data base essentially to see whether in the paris example, whether there were any confederates here in the united states. >> but they would have -- they could check their own data base, their own existing data base, they can still use those for some indeterminate period of time but going forward, they wont have this mass collection so they wont ...

Reversed an earlier ruling thats found the nsas bulk collection of millions of americans phone data was illegal. pete williams has details on the ruling. pete, forgive me. i said florida but i dont think i was correct on that. ive got erika on the brain. bring us up to speed about this ruling. >> right. washington, d.c. what happened here, first thing, this changes nothing. okay? nothing is going to change as a result of w457d today. 2013, the end of the year, a federal judge said that the pro...

Server and the thumb drives handed over by ms. clintons attorney. the thumb drive is a digital copy of e-mails lowing investigators to re-create the flow of traffic and identify the source of classified information. >> the digital information they have from the thumb drive and server given the about to see meta data on the e-mails. things like folders and who else got the records. the paper copies are dumb copies of the record and the digital version give them more information. >> reporter: fox ...

And stuff like that. andy hugged me. >> was it a good job bro hug or a consolidation hug? >> it was the hug of somebody in need. it lasted a few seconds. >> we in the theater hand out hugs and hug each other all the time with a complete lack of sincerity. >> it was good theater and what do you think? i dont think people understand these issues. am i right about that? they dont get what this stuff is. >> one of our national security reporters said meta data to me. it occurred to me, you though, i...

>> he did operate center stage figuratively and literally. the sharp comments came from chris christie and rand paul. they sparred over rand paul support for ending the bulk collect of meta data. he was a prosecutor in the years after 9-11 putting terrorists behind bars. lets watch that exchange. >> i want to collect more records from terrorists less records from other people. how are you supposed to know, megyn? >> use the 4th amendment. i dont trust president obama with all records. i know you...

Can be something that folds you into focusing on an individual. but theres too much of that and too many people who will commit terrorism in the absence of travel. its not a real sorting mechanism. >> would you sort through like, the chatter phone calls the texting back and forth what would you focus on? >> el, i think one thing we could do is the so-called met a data which would involve late see you have reason -- the government has reason to suspect that wasey has terrorist sympathies. they co...

Paul wants to do away with the patriot act they want changes. but congress is working on the changes and one is doing away with the warrantless collection of data. >> warrants are important. >> very important. >> jedediah the lapse at midnight gives them the power to go after terror suspects who frequently discard cell phones. so there are parts of the patriot act security will miss. >> i agree. i think rand paul is trying to protect the civil liberties of americans who have the government has n...

Faked the report blamed ukrainian forces for shooting down the malaysian airliners last summer. this is the analysis of the photos provided by russia. a researcher for that group examined the meta data. the digital footprint that shows the source of the photos. the ukraine and western countries believe it was shot down by a russian unit. new fallout from the sex scandal swirling around dennis hastert. wheaton college removed his name from the academic research center after he makes his first c...

Preeminent. so im looking at security. i think, you know if anybody wants to listen to my phone calls, its fine. theyre going to be very boring. be a boring conversation. >> there are a lot of americans who after 9/11 we understood that they were going to be going after foreigners. then it became meta data and they tracked all of us. theyve got somewhere all the donald trump phone call meta data for a long time. the problem is a lot of americans dont trust the government. i dont trust the irs. ...