constitution, a judge later found out. and yet 3,000 instances, 2,000 instances not big, except some of those instances involved 3,000 americans whose e-mails or phone calls were then monitored. >> right. and i think we need to make reforms to prevent that from happening. in fact i'm working on an initiative to do exactly that. so there's a distinction to be made between the collection of raw data, right? nsa having exactly what the phone companies have. and what's the test? what's the standard for the nsa being able to search or query that data? right now you have to have a reasonable suspicion that that phone number was involved in terrorist activity? nsa can get that unilaterally. you do not have to get advance notice from the fisa court. i propose before they do any kind of query, any kind of search, they have to go to the fisa court. and at that step in the process, we also have what's considered a citizen's advocate to take the