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Diego. the nsa's chief said if they had their current program of collecting bulk phone call records in place then. >> we would have known about the plot. >> a privacy watchdog report appointed by the government now rejects that. >> the information was available. they just weren't sharing it. >> the controversial nsa program revealed by leaker edward snowden should not exist. >> it's unlawful in the majority of the board's view and should be shut down after a short transition period. >> reporter: the board says the patriot act doesn't give legal authority for phone records in lucas the white ho...

>> the information was available, the agencies just weren't sharing it. >> reporter: and the board says that controversial nsa program, revealed by leaker edward snowden, should not exist. >> it is unlawful in the majority of the board's view and should be shut down after a short transition period. >> reporter: the board says the patriot act doesn't give legal authority to collect phone records in bulk, as the white house argued, and said the program is a huge invasion of americans' privacy. it's a harsh rebuke on president obama's stance on intelligence gathering. in the wake of the report, t...

Her life. the fetus has fluid building up inside its skull and a possible heart problem. now the latest on the nsa surveillance story. a special panel is urging the president to abandon the agency's controversial phone data collection program, and tonight chief intelligence correspondent katherine hair inning has reaction from that recommendation from the man who started the entire debate >> reporter: web forum sponsored by a group raising cash for edward snowden's defense fund was billed as a question and answer session. on this new report from the privacy and civil liberties oversight board ...

White house thinking it might have been a better idea to bring in some of these tech ceos before the october 1st deadline. bill: that's true. ed snowden, the.?bú nsa expecteo come up at this meeting, how do you anticipate that? >> reporter: well, still some of these tech companies are very frustrated the government has been kind of pressing them to participate in some of these whether it be phone data collection programs, internet data collection programs or federal judge, as you know yesterday, saying that he thinks the phone data collection program, for example, is unconstitutional. it's st...

From cleveland a few minutes from now. also big changes may be in store for national security procedures. the nsa is taking steps to shut down its controversial phone data collection program. more on that in a moment. plus a big victory for obama in the senate this weekend which has approved giving him fast-track authority to finish his big pacific trade bill. no victory lap just yet for the president. that still has to make its way through the house. two members of the house on opposite sides of that issue, they are going to be here later this morning to discuss that issue. also, the demo...