promise to reform government surveillance programs. we may have to refine this further to give people confidence. i m going to work hard on doing that. we have to provide more confidence to the international community. we can find better balance and mass surveillance. the president suffered months of blowbacks edward snowden s revelations last summer the nsa collecting personal phone records on every american and spying on world leaders including allies like angela m. he s called in tech experts. many from house and senate that cover ideological spectrum who urged him to throttle back the collection of metadata on a bulk level. i hope he listens. reporter: he s deciding whether to accept recommendations from independent review that include storing personal data with a third