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Way to end the collection of bulk data, the capabilities should stay. the man who leaked startling information about nsa tactics will hold a town hall. this is the second session open to the public. new developments in the governor chris christie investigation. aides to dawn zimmer have been questioned by the fbi. she has been accused of holding back sandy funding. meantime, the governor resumes his public schedule today with an announcement on education. a discovery some 3,600 years in the making. archaeologists have discovered the tomb and skeleton of a previously known fay row, they s...

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...

Protections for people living outside of the u.s. and reuters reports he will ask that bulk data not be stored by the can government and expected to call for judicial approval every time the database is searched. with us now from washington, we have former director of the nsa and cia now a principal at churchhoff groove, the retired general michael hayden. >> thanks so much, general. i must knadmit. i'm confused by the president's continued -- i wouldn't say it's a two-step. more like a three-step or a four-step. you run against a program when you're running for president. you say it's a moral...

Protect the privacy of americans while at the same time in case of a terrorist threat, they will have that option to go there and search it. >> well, can't they lay it out for us a little more clearly? the president talks about the need for vigorous public debate. he gives a tip of the hat to the fact that we've not had this public debate. in the early part of the speech he says i'm not going to talk about edward snowden and then proceeds to talk about edward snowden and the fact of the matter is we wouldn't have this public debate but for the revelations of edward snowden. we're going to have...

Way we are storing this metadata is not the best way to do it, but he didn't seem to say, okay, this is precisely who should be holding the metadata, whether it's the telecommunications company, telecommunications companies or whether it should be some sort of third party group or pseudogovernment entity. it's going to be interesting to see how we solve that dilemma and who is going to house this bulk data. i want to get to that point but i first want to react to this speech. the speech began with really a bouquet of roses, and in my view that's really not where it should have started. it shou...