end mass surveillance. reporter: the president has suffered months of blow back since edward snowden s revelations last summer that the nsa has been collecting personal phone records on every american. and spying on world leaders, including allies like germany s chancellor angela merkel. he s called in experts, tech company leaders. and in the past few days, key members of congress. there were many members of congress there from both the house and the senate who cover the ideological spectrum who urged him to throttle back the collection of meta data on a bulk level. i hope he listens. reporter: he s deciding whether to accept recommendations from an independent review commission that include storing personal data outside the government with a private third party, probably phone companies, and requiring the government get a judge to approve access. a public advocate to represent americans privacy rights when those decisions get made. and that spying on foreign leaders get high-l
unveil how he ll keep his promise to reform government surveillance programs. we may have to refine this further to give people more confidence. i m going to be working very hard on doing that. and we ve got to provide more confidence to the international community. we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance. reporter: the president has suffered months of blowback since edward snowden s revelations last summer that the nsa has been collecting personal phone records on every american. and spying on world leaders, including allies like germany s chance lar angela merkel. he s called in experts, tech company leaders. and in the past few days key members of congress. there were many members of congress there from both the house and the senate who covered the ideological spectrum who urged him to throttle back the collection of meta data on a bulk level. i hope he listens. reporter: he s deciding whether to accept recommendations from an independent review commission that
collection of data on a bulk level. i hope he listens. reporter: he s dieding whether to accept recommendation from an independent review commission including storing data from outside of the government with a third-party possibly phone companies and requiring the government get a judge to approve access. a public advocate to represent americans privacy rights when those decisions get made. and, that spying on foreign leaders get high level approval. we have many countries with common interest. having a more thorough process to look through that and don t do it just because there s an opportunity to do it. reporter: balancing security and privacy is a tricky political question and critics are bound to be unsatisfied. we can t continue to refer to ourselves as a free country when the united states government is collecting information on virtually every telephone call made in america, getting into people s emails, focusing on the websites that certain people are
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