this moving target. >> the president's plan which called for a third party to hold the phone records or so-called metadata seems to ignore the testify from the experts who crafted the 46 recommendations. >> did you speak to the telephone companies to explore whether they're willing or able to hold the metadata? >> we did speak to the telephone companies about that, and they obviously would rather not hold that data. >> in a statement, the aclu said, quote, the president's decision not to end bulk collection and retention of americans'idaty is largely troubling. and they say the government must abandon its kitchen sink approach. >> if you do the targeted acquisition, you'll have all the information that is relevant to foreign threats or international crime. >> people said to me, why are the europeans so upset inthe europeans tell me they lived it, we haven't. we're headed towards that fascist kind of a construct.