BALDWIN: All right, here we go, breaking news. I'm Brooke Baldwin from New York. Here's what we know right now. A huge win for Edward Snowden, the NSA phone tapping program that he revealed to the world in those multiple leaked documents has just been ruled as a constitutional violation. So this federal judge saying the surveillance program, quote, "infringes on the privacy enshrined in the Fourth Amendment." Let's talk about this, how this came to light, Evan Perez, our justice reporter, and Jeff Toobin, senior legal analyst on the phone with me here in New York. But Evan, first to you, start at the beginning, what's the back story, how did the suit come to life?</s>EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE REPORTER: Well, Brooke, this is a very limited ruling, but it has potentially far-reaching consequences. The ruling has to do with the NSA's program that collects data on nearly every phone call made in the United States. They call this metadata, which is information such as the number called and the time of the call and so on. The government says that the NSA's program is legal in part because it's overseen by the secret surveillance court, the FISA Court, but now this federal judge in Washington, Richard Leon, said the program may be a violation of the Fourth Amendment which prohibits unreasonable search and seizures. The judge only limited his ruling to four people who sued who claimed it violated their rights, but this also could mean that anyone could sue to prevent their information from being collected by the</s>NSA. BALDWIN: OK, so Jeff Toobin, let me bring you in because Evan is saying limited ruling. Tell me what that really means and he also mentioned that the further reaching implications of this ruling from this federal judge.</s>JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST (via telephone): Well, it's limited, but it is a very, very bad ruling for the Obama administration. One of the key arguments against Edward Snowden's disclosures has been that he never disclosed anything that was shown to be illegal.
Judge: NSA Phone Surveillance Unconstitutional