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To make the at this times we -- activities we engage in in order to help keep america safe and americans safe more transparent. >> reporter: the president is expected to weigh in on one of the most controversial programs, the bulk collection of american's phone numbers. even one member of the white house's own nsa review panel have called up constitutional. >> it leaves information about americans that could be abused in awful ways. >> reporter: a senior administration official says the president will call for those phone records to stay at the nsa temporarily, but he will seek input on congre...

Feel most strongly about this. and i frankly don't think they are -- i know they are not going to be entirely satisfied by the president's speech. i don't think they are going to be much satisfied unless he were to end bulk collection of data, for example. and i don't think he is going to do that. one thing, i think, really ought to be in his speech and i'm not sure it will be, is, you know, we are not allowed to know how the fisa court interprets our laws and that, to me, is just outrageous and should be outrageous for a president who is a constitutional law professor. ignorance of the law is...

Need for further secrecy. we will also enable communications directors to make public more information than ever before about the orders they have received to provide data to the government. this brings me to the program that has generated the most controversy these past 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. metadata, that can be qu...

On. we know they finally did kind of admit that this bulk collection didn't disrupt 50 terror events. there was one case involving a person giving a few thousand dollars to al shabab where maybe they would have found it harder to track that guy down without this program. but i don't know if that's enough of a track record to justify keeping millions of people's phone records for five years. >> so is your opposition to this about the efficacy of the program if it were more efficient, then would you be more comfortable with it? or are you really focused on, this is not what america's supposed to...

Internet. uproar at home and abroad led the president to lead an expert reform panel and now he'll announce which of their recommendations he'll accept. snowden accomplished much of what he was fighting for a point he's been none too shy to point out. >> the conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regular late it. >> reporter: jane harman served on the house intelligence committee for eight years. when you look at what snowden be inthe ended to do, expose this, right, to the glare of the publi...