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The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office is collecting unused cell phones to be repurposed into lifelines for Suffolk County’s most vulnerable residents.

Luu Trieu Tuan Khanh has amassed an impressive collection of more than 300 vintage phones thanks to his lifelong interest in collecting old phones.

One of the questions i asked the white house was, did anyone in president obamas administration query my name? did they look in that database and look me up specifically? did they ask to unmask me? they have these terms that sound like unmasking, how bad is that? it is the same as spying. who would you call, when you call, all of this massive data. they are able to look into it. yes, this is incredibly damaging to the separation of powers. it could damage all americans. >> sean: would that mean ...

Phone collection of americans data. theyre not going to easily -- theres a little bit of a bipartisan support for looking the other way. im having to push very hard to see if anyone is interested in the truth. there are smart people that want to sweep this under the rug. >> sean: i am. tell me who those republicans are off air and we will be sure to bring them on. a serious issue. this is not a joke anymore. thank you for your insight. we look forward to peeling away the layers of the onion on t...

Midnight deadline. but rand paul has vowed to force the phone collection to expire and the senates complex rules allow him as a single senator to do just that, at least temporarily. it certainly is shaping up as a day of drama on capitol hill. well be watching it closely. all the developing updates throughout the evening right here on msnbc and bring you the latest as we get them. right now we return to our regular programming. out of control hoarding. >> you think, wow, why am i doing this? i...

Law or fellow citizen. >> this is a far cry from senator obama in 2008 who critized the surveillance programs as a violation of civil liberties. privacy advocates say new technologies are reaching in american lives and others say the president needs to look differently now he is a president. >> you get wiser when you put your hans on the bienl and the lives of every american you are responsible for that. >> i heard the president if you like your privacy you can keep it. and meanwhile, he will ke...

>> reporter: i think it will be medium, frankly by they will tout this inside the white house as very significant reform. on one hand it is because the presidents officials are suggesting this morning, will say in the speech about an hour from now, basically the government should no longer handle the bulk collection of these phone records that have caused such a storm in part because of revelations from edward snowden suggesting that these nsa programs, whole series of them, not just the phone c...

System. in fact, the u.s. supreme court said last year in a case that its constitutional. >> well, apparently the secretary of state, if the reports from his traveling plane -- hes coming back from asia. if those reports are correct, then hes apologizing. so i guess they are trying to smooth that one over. also wanted to record keep on jay carney announcing that this task force on the nsa and potential abuses has issued its report to the white house. we knew it turned it in on friday. its going ...

Intelligence program reap? >> it does an enormous amount of good. its stopping terrorist attacks in the united states. it is protecting the u.s. homeland. and frankly, there are no civil liberties concerns. i havent seen anyones civil liberties violated, no credible claims. i think thats because the programs have been carefully monitored by congress. >> has the administration -- maybe to some extent congress failed to really communicate to the american people the true nature of this program, no,...

Same type of oversight of their intelligence services that we do. and their government is -- their compartmentalization is much smaller than ours. we have a separate but equal branch of government involved in the oversight plus all the executive branch oversight of our intelligence services. by the way, we have to get court orders for certain activities for phone collection and other things. so you have all of this levels of oversight so you have a big group of people sitting at the table decidi...