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. day after meeting with the nation's spy chief, president obama sat down with the lawmakers as he makes new rules on nsa surveillance programs. let's bring in our chief national security expert jim sciuto. what is going on? >> i'm told that an hour is focused on 9 bulk collection of phone metadata. the president has said that there are three other reforms that the president is seriously considering, including making public exactly how many times the nsa queried phone companies. with the decision on nsa reform looming, today the president pet with key members of congress. senator mark udall ...

Rule changes to improve the federal background check system to keep guns out of the hands of those who are deemed mentally ill. the department of justice will work to clarify rules involving forcible commitments to mental institutions. they want to add both in-patient and out-patient forcible commitments to the system that already prohibits felons from legally owning a gun. also, the department of health and human services is proposing a new regulation to try and overcome hurdles and privacy laws with what health care providers can disclose to the background checks system. hhs says simply seek...

Jeff. a lot of this has not been known. we did not know the history of the domestic surveillance programs that were set up in october of 2001 until those leaks started coming out. >> it is certainly true -- >> you would not have known about the metadata program, the bulk collection of phone records, we would not have known about that had it not been for edward snowden. >> there is -- some of it was known, not all of it. it was certainly true, we are having a much richer, more sophisticated, more informed debate about all of this because edward snowden committed these crimes. i have no doubt ab...

Authority. i can understand the argument that there is the potential for abuse by this kind of bulk collection. what is the actual abuse that's occurred? >> well, this is a general warrant. this is what the framers of the constitution were worried about when they said that the government needed to have individualized suspicion before it collected records from the american people. what the nsa has done is they flipped that on its head. they said, we're going to collect everything now because we can and we think it will be relevant to some investigation in the future. >> the supreme court said t...

Do you think unemployment benefits should be extebledded for the un-- extended for the unemployed? tweet me your answers. we will share some of your thoughts later in the show. turning now to the data collection program that continues to make headlines, last week a washington, d.c. judge ruling the program unconstitutional. fast-forward to friday and the news that a new york federal judge is ruling the bulk collection of telephone data is legal. the aclu is challenging the nsa saying it is not giving up with this statement. quote, we intend to appeal and look forward to making our case in the ...