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Abc's gloria riviera has more. >> there's no further business to come before the -- >> the clock ran out on the u.s. senate and a controversial surveillance program expired. kentucky senator and republican presidential candidate rand paul vowed he would not let it be renewed. >> i'm not going to take it anymore. i don't think the american people are going to take it anymore. >> the agency's mass collection of american phone records falls under the u.s. patriot act and started after the september 11th attacks. the new bill would have stopped that bum being collection but preserved some of of th...

Libertarians when he was a senator. i think he's now had five years of briefings that are terrifying. and he is trying to communicate a balance of the two. i don't think particularly agree with some of his steps he's taken. and i think they're driven by polls and by political pressure. but i understand what he's trying to accomplish. >> you know the president, stephanie, well. is he that conflicted, tore mentalitied inside, or this pressure he's under to protect national security or privacy? >> i wouldn't call it conflict, but i would say he's the first president that's had to deal with these ...

>> kelly o'donnell, thank you so much. do appreciate that. i want to bring in an attorney with the aclu for national security programs. thank you for joining us on a friday afternoon, sir. you guys have filed a lawsuit challenging the nsa's phone surveillance program. what, if anything, do these new revelations mean for your case? >> well, i think these revelations underscore the need for greater oversight over the nsa and greater scrutiny by the courts. the revelations really highlight a few things. first of all, it's really shocking to see how many violations there were of surveillance laws ...

course. opening statements are under way as we speak in central pennsylvania. let's get straight to susan candiotti on the ground at the courthouse in pennsylvania. now, you were just in court, susan. what did you see and hear just now? >> reporter: hala, the prosecutors just wrapped up their opening statements, and clearly the most powerful moment we have seen and heard so far involved them showing individual photographs of eight of the ten alleged victims in this case. single shots of each one of them. smiling as young boys who were, as the state alleges, as young as 8 years old wh...

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