surprised by the scope of the surveillance program. >> i did not know a billion records a day were coming under the control of the federal executive branch. >> reporter: it's part of the growing outcry for the government to make more information available to the public about its secret phone and internet tracking programs, and it's not just politicians, internet giants, google, microsoft and facebook are calling for permission to tell the public what they gave out and lawsuits are threatening, including the aclu challenging the constitutionality of the phone program. suspected leaker edward snowden says he wants that debate. >> the public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong and i'm willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say i didn't change these. i didn't modify the story. this is the truth. this is what's happening. you should decide whether we