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Security collection program. the two month process, he announced, must result in the end of government bulk collection data. end this dragnet. joining us now is glen greenwall. im sure there were many unanswered questions for you today. did any part of the presidents proposals satisfy you? >> i thought there were some positive steps, such as putting an advocate at the fisa court ending the governments ability to hold on to meta data, some restrictions on spying on foreign leaders. t the real pro...

Big question left unsaid, whos going to control this meta data, could congress decide to put it back in the hands of government? well wait to see if president obama answers that question, but, of course, chris, hes also answering a public that has been very skeptical of this program. they have said they want to see changes, so part of what hes trying to do is tamp down the concerns from the domestic side, but also the international side, the international community concerned about this program, ...

Second, we will reform programs and procedures in place to provide greater transparency to our surveillance activities. and fortify the safeguards that protect the privacy of u.s. persons. since we began this review, including information being released today, weve declassified over 40 opinions and orders of the foreign intelligence surveillance court, which provides judicial review of some of our most sensitive intelligence activities, including the section protecting individuals overseas and t...

Citizens. there has been a lot of pushback in france and spain where they dont want this surveillance over their phone calls. the second would be to appoint an advocate for privacy issues for fisa. it seems like the, the fisa boards job to determine whether the evidence outweighs any privacy issue. the third one is that the data should be held by the phone companies instead this multi-billion dollar building that is built with taxpayer dollars in utah. >> the third point you raids, the idea what...

Meta data program, that we can use a month traditional approach of going to the telephone companies when we have reasons to believe a number is connected with a terrorist plot. similarly i think hell layout steps to bolster confidence both at home and around the world that the eavesdropping were doing is focused on the bad guys, the people that mean to do us harm. those involved in terrorist plots and there is no desire nor intent to gather the communications of innocent people. so i want to hea...

So its not necessary to do it now. and by doing it now, we do run the risk of iran walking away and -- >> you worry about giving the iranians an excuse to work. >> i do. i do. and i also worry our partners, key to the sanctions, will view us as the one driving an end to the negotiative process. >> all right. lets go to the nsa. you were a part of the intelligence committee folks, brought in, a bipartisan group, brought in. a little bit of a briefing. what did you learn? what should we expect to ...

Voted out in the house and senate? >> very difficult. very tall order for a very dysfunctional congress, which is why i think the president is going to need to go as far as he can through the executive process. a lot of these things can be done. the restructuring of the meta data program, in significant part by the executive acting on its own. >> so you guy as bystander by -- >> we shouldnt -- >> you shouldnt be, but probably. all right. thank you for your time. thank you for coming in. up nex...

Shockingly the n.s.a. wont confirm or deny anything. joining us is fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. what do you make of all of that crossing talk? >> this seems to be getting worse and worse. the spying seems to be far more massive than we thought it was when edward snowden revealed it in june. heres the back story. last week senator bernie sanders, independent/socialist from vermont, sent a letter to general alexander who we just saw, the head of the n.s.a., saying just...

Senator paul wants to bring decisions out to the open, take it to the supreme court, with a massive class action suit. >> we now have several hundred thousand people who want to be part of this suit to say to the government and to the nsa, no, you cant have our records without our permission or without a warrant specific to an individual. its kind of an unusual class action suit in the sense that we think everybody in america who has a cell phone would be eligible for this charglass act suit. >>...

This day and age we dont communicate with two tin cans and a string, so the problem, gregg, we -- our privacy -- >> it would be better than most services. >> our privacy rights need to catch up. it doesnt mean we lose our expectation of privacy. >> judge pauly found no evidence that the government has used any of its meta-data for any purpose other than disrupting the terror attacks. and the presidents own presidential panel found the same thing, there is no evidence. >> that is the other point,...