in the pre-process they will be involved with overseeing the procedures that we use. in the post, though, the courts will evaluate every individual case, the r.a.s. test, as it occurs. and that just doesn't happen now. so, we have, again, to reiterate. we have the f.b.i. going to the providers, gathering this information. we have to pass the r.a.s. test at that point and then the courts will oversee that post. and that will be done very quickly also. we also want to deal with some other issues. those issues will be transparency. we think it's very important that the public know how important and what the mission is of our intelligence communities and how they work with our military to save our country from terrorist attacks. so i'm going to stop now and, mr. chairman, you want to take over? >> we'll open this up to any

this program. passionately believe that this program saved american lives. believe it was legal. it was overseen. it was passed by congress. now, the review committees that got to section 215, no one found any illegal activities or misuse. so we know that the program served its purpose, was legal and had the proper level of oversight. now, it did create discomfort with americans. and we knew one thing when we walked into this negotiation, that if we were going to continue the ability to protect americans against foreign terrorists making efforts to call into the united states, we a program that accomplished that. and let's begin by how regot there, is that after 9/11 they found that one of the gaps in our ability to protect the

companies now who have this data already, that we will be taking a warrant, the f.b.i. will be taking a warrant, giving it to the phone companies and then we will -- they will have to pass what they call the reasonable ar tick labble suspicion. if there's a terrorist at a safe house in yemen and that terrorist, known terrorist to us, calls the united states, then that would be the r.a.s. test that we would need in order to get the warrant to the phone company -- get the information. what's more important and what's so important in our country, which makes our country so strong, checks and balances, is the court will be involved in the process. in the pre-process they will be involved with overseeing the procedures that we use. in the post, though, the courts

under at we will ban section 215 is the use of fisa to collect bulk electronic communication records, email, metadata and internet metada tark the use of fisa to collect bulk sensitive records, library records, firearm sales records, tax records, etc. and we can go into more detail in the questions period. but that is a primary concern of both the average americans who were concerned about the government holding large quantities of phone metadata. again, no content, no names. but just the metadata. we think again we've found a way to do that. and we can explain it later. i want to allow my ranking member to have -- make a few