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Yesterday as he laid out a number of proposed reforms at the nsa. wikileaks founder julian assange ridiculed the president's modest proposals as quote, embarrassing. cnn chief national correspondent jim sciutto has a closer look at how the president is trying to balance civil liberties with national security. >> reporter: responding to months of spirited debate sparked by the explosive revelations of edward snowden, today the president told americans what he would do and not do to rein in mass surveillance. >> the power of new technologies means there are fewer and fewer technical constraints ...

Who knows? it appears that maybe that lobbying from john roberts and the judge he picked to do the lobbying, worked here. critics of the fisa court also wanted to take the power to appoint judges out of the chief justice's hands, but according to today's speech, it seems like that's not going to happen either. this was a big consequential speech from president obama today, that will change some of the ways the nsa operates going forward. the president announced that the bulk collection of telephone metadata will continue, but intelligence officials will now need to obtain specific approval fro...

The business of collecting this data on americans. but then later on in the speech, he kind of walks it back. and i'm not so convinced that he really wants to stop the massive warehousing, collection, and retention of american's bulk data. >> this is how i've been tracking this debate, and james clapper said this to our colleague, driandrea mitchell, basically, we collect everything, we need to have it all. and then we put it there. it's in the library. and then the constitution requires us to go to a court to get a warrant to take the book off the shelf, right? >> right. >> and i think the qu...

States of america is kept on file by the government or some other entity, i think you're talking about a clear violation of the fourth amendment. >> reporter: do any of the changes make us less safe? >> if these programs were stopping huge terrorist attacks, you know, maybe they should be more -- there should be more concern. but the fact is these programs are not. >> reporter: you do have critics on both sides, supporters of bulk collection are worried that this judicial review process will take too much time and that might compromise terrorism investigations. they are encouraging the preside...

Say they purge them when they realize they don't need them. this has to stop, and it's not going to be obama who does it. it's going to be that bipartisan group of republicans and democrats like ron widen of oregon who make it stop. >> easier said than done, right? to your point rand paul was saying the president's pitch today, you like your privacy, you can keep it, but the reality is, you really can't. i think the worry is, when the government makes a promise that all that data we have been collecting and putting on hard drive somewhere, we'll just release it. all i know is that data never g...