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The bulk collection program expires june 1st. paul gave up the floor after about 10 1/2 hours. but a few other speakers had joined in on the effort. six of the world's biggest banks have been fined billions of dollars, what the u.s. attorney general calls a breath-taki breath-taking. they're all pleading guilty to criminal charges of conspireing to manipulate the exchange rate of the u.s. dollar and the euro. bank of america has to pay a fine and the swiss bank, ubs, faces a fine for rigging interest rates. the biggest penalty falls on barclay's, has to pay $2.4 billion to regulators in both...

That one of the programs disclosed by edward snowden in 2013 is illegal. the opinion for the unanimous three-judge panel, second circuit u.s. court of appeals, reads as a harsh criticism of government's argument that a massive nsa program to collect in bulk the domestic phone records of millions of americans is lawful under section 215 of the patriot act. the judge wrote "we hold the text of section 215 cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, it does not authorize the telephone meta data program." section 215 is set to expired next month unless a bill is passed to reauth...

Section 215 is set to expire next month unless a bill is passed to reauthorize it. patrick leahy of vermont and mike lee of utah released a bipartisan statement that reads in part, "congress should not reauthorize bulk collection program that the court has found to violate the law. we will not consent to any extension of this program." this, of course, is the program that raised red flags for senator ron wyden who back in march of 2013 asked director of national intelligence james clapper this very, very pointed question. >> does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds...

Collection, is an admission that we didn't really need to hold on to these records to begin with, as reason magazine says, the program was essential until it became dispensable. >> yeah, and this is sort of the point that senator ron wyden, a critic of the bulk collection program, was making today. which is that for years, we've been told or i guess for months since the revelation, that these were absolutely critical to combatting terrorism. that you needed to three hops. that you couldn't wait for a fisa approval of the request, that any time like that would be the difference of an explosion ...

Stuff. the department of better technology, thank you. a judge has issued a ruling on the nsa's metadata collection program. surveillance on your phone call data could be affected. the judge says the nsa it's controversial bulk collection program is legal and justice reporter evan perez joining us now. this is a big deal. >> well, yeah, it's a big ruling. we have two judges of equal rank coming to opposite conclusions. this judge today in new york in a lawsuit filed by the aclu has found that the nsa's program which collects data on nearly every phone call made in america is legal. now, last...