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We'll know exactly how far the president will go. you'll remember the president convened a reform panel. it recommended some 46 changes to the program, but it's becoming clear he will not accept many of those recommendations. the headline, the bulk collection of phone metadata will continue and the panel did not recommend to stop it. but there is a record the president will not accept the recommendation that that data be held by private phone companies rather than the nsa. the phone companies didn't want to hold the data, they're fearing lawsuits. the court reviews searches of the data. he als...

Democrats, not so much. okay, david. with regard to the president who is set to announce his decision on changes to the nsa surveillance program friday, you, in fact, have written about this in your most recent article, have you heard any details about what the president intends to see? >> reporter: mixed signals. some of the biggest reforms that have been recommended by the outside advisory panel that looked at this and delivered a report in december, probably the biggest was, you know, the nsa collects all phone metadata from all conversations of americans across the country. a wide sweepi...

. 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 ...

Admitting changes have to be made. he said we may have to refine this further to give people more confidence both here at home and overseas. he got more specific, saying he's open to this idea of moving that phone metadata, all that information on millions and billions of phone calls of americans from the nsa's possession, back into private hands of the phone companies. and he explained there may be a way to redesign the program, in his words, to give the nsa information when it needs it, but to eliminate or at least reduce the potential for abuse. that was really one of the most significant r...

Week that the government's time being of the essence is true. that's what the committee said, as they look at the phone mining program, they are not persuaded by the government's argument that instantaneous access is necessary to prevent terror attacks. we don't see the proof it's ever happened before. that's got to be troubling for them. >> pete makes a good point. the phone metadata records, slowing it down is not a tragedy. in the scheme of counter-terrorism that's not a critical thing. the question is with this other oversight and process suggested in the report, how much it will slow down...