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We will also enable communications providers to make public more information than ever before about the orders that they have received to provide data to the government. this brings me to the program that has generated the most controversy the last few months, the bulk collection of telephone records under section 215. let me repeat what i said when this story first broke, this program does not involve the content of phone calls or the names of people making calls. instead, it provides a record of phone numbers and the times and lengths of calls. meta data that can be queried if and when we ha...

The effective immediately that the nsa will need federal surveillance court approval before accessing that bulk phone record database. it's all part of a speech the president and his team are working on into the night for this event that starts in about three hours. more than six months since former nsa contractor edward snowden started leaking the details of the government's massive surveillance programs, president obama is poised to make some changes to the ways washington spies on the world. >> we can and should take steps to make the activities we engaging in order to help keep america saf...

Base except if there's an emergency. the 9/11 transformation was one about coordinating information about the left hand and right hand knowing what each other are doing. that's not implicated in the decision to have a court review when there's no exjent circumstance and it was a sound decision by the president. >> chuck todd and chris and i were talking about how defensive the president was, not defensive in a -- but how much he defended the program. and is not abandoning the mass collection. as long as the mass collection is going to continue and he's only putting up the issue of where it is ...

For that reason, the new presidential directive that i've issued today will clearly prescribe what we do and do not do when it comes to our overseas surveillance. to begin with, the directive makes clear that the united states only oh uses signals intelligence for legitimate national security purposes, and not for the purpose of indiscriminately reviewing the e-mails or phone calls of ordinary folks. i've also made it clear that the united states does not collect intelligence to suppress criticism tore dissent, nor do we collect intelligence to disadvantage people on the basis of their ethnici...

Collected in this bulk collection of metadata. >> that's actually not true. >> what i wanted to ask you, though, is a little bit different than that. you've already said you don't see this as being particularly effective. do you think we should get rid of the bulk collection altogether? would you be satisfied with anything short of that? >> yeah, no -- i think in our constitutional tradition, you don't vacuum up indiscriminately information about people who aren't even particularly suspected of wrong doing. >> julian, let me ask you -- and one other point on that, why do you think if the admin...