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i'm elen nakashima with the "washington post." not to gang up on you, bob -- >> i knew what i was getting in for. >> thanks. about section 215 bulk collection. and president obama in his january speech made clear that his preference would be to have the government end the bulk collection of phone metadata, and asked congress to work with him on it. it's a year later, still no progress. so what obstacles are there to the administration moving on its own administratively to end that nsa collection of the phone metadata now on its own? i know it would be preferable to have that enshrined in legislation, but why can't he move now to do it? and hopefully congress will follow suit? what obstacles are there? >> i think if you go back into what the president said, he said he would like to end the collection of -- the bulk collection and replace it with something that has the same utility. without the legislative reform, we cannot do something that creates the same operation of utility. >> what exactly are you -- >> well, if you look at th