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The bulk collection program expires june 1st. paul gave up the floor after about 10 1/2 hours. but a few other speakers had joined in on the effort. six of the worlds biggest banks have been fined billions of dollars, what the u.s. attorney general calls a breath-taki breath-taking. theyre all pleading guilty to criminal charges of conspireing to manipulate the exchange rate of the u.s. dollar and the euro. bank of america has to pay a fine and the swiss bank, ubs, faces a fine for rigging int...

That one of the programs disclosed by edward snowden in 2013 is illegal. the opinion for the unanimous three-judge panel, second circuit u.s. court of appeals, reads as a harsh criticism of governments argument that a massive nsa program to collect in bulk the domestic phone records of millions of americans is lawful under section 215 of the patriot act. the judge wrote "we hold the text of section 215 cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, it does not authorize the telep...

Section 215 is set to expire next month unless a bill is passed to reauthorize it. patrick leahy of vermont and mike lee of utah released a bipartisan statement that reads in part, "congress should not reauthorize bulk collection program that the court has found to violate the law. we will not consent to any extension of this program." this, of course, is the program that raised red flags for senator ron wyden who back in march of 2013 asked director of national intelligence james clapper this ...

Collection, is an admission that we didnt really need to hold on to these records to begin with, as reason magazine says, the program was essential until it became dispensable. >> yeah, and this is sort of the point that senator ron wyden, a critic of the bulk collection program, was making today. which is that for years, weve been told or i guess for months since the revelation, that these were absolutely critical to combatting terrorism. that you needed to three hops. that you couldnt wait for...

Stuff. the department of better technology, thank you. a judge has issued a ruling on the nsas metadata collection program. surveillance on your phone call data could be affected. the judge says the nsa its controversial bulk collection program is legal and justice reporter evan perez joining us now. this is a big deal. >> well, yeah, its a big ruling. we have two judges of equal rank coming to opposite conclusions. this judge today in new york in a lawsuit filed by the aclu has found that the...

Joint leadership, the joint command of keith the head of the nsa. the president has said he wont do that one. >> investigative journalist glen greenwald broke the story, published it so far. he joins me tonight along with senior cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin. glen, what do you make of these recommendations? >> its extremely important especially in the wake of the federal court ruling earlier this week that found that the bulk collection program is unconstitutional or likely. so now you have a...

44 past the hour. live look tractor-trailer capitol hill in washington, d.c. here with us now from capitol hill, former nsa director and former cia director, retired general michael hayden. general, good to have you on board this morning. ill read from the "new york times" to touch off the conversation, talks about the ruling, a powerful rebuke of mass surveillance and in part it sthas. the ruling by judge leon, who was nominated to the bench by president george w. bush on september 10, 2001 was...

>> critics say he launched his 10.5-hour speech to launch his campaign running shoes and all. he did make it painfully clear he divisive this issue is. even within the parties. here are the options that the senate could consider. a five-year kleenex tension of the existing bill favored by senate leader mitch mcconnell. this option is actually the least likely to see a vote. a better bet is the house-approved usa freedom act. that overwhelmingly passed the house last week. it would move data stor...

American politics the excesses of the security state, the overreaction to 9/11. a lot of people were thinking in those terms that theres an opening for them. the republican party specifically but the general public has moved a little bit more in a hawkish direction when it comes to foreign policy and heres rand paul making a stand that a couple years ago we would have seen him making and now its more risky. >> if nothing else rand paul gets the attention on some of these very important issues. i...

Agencys bulk data collection of americans phone records. president obama says a handful of senators is stalling the legislation. presidential hopeful senator rand paul says voters are urging him to fight back against the governments bulk collection program. well have more on this later in the show when former assistant fbi director pomerance joins us. the promised counterattack by iraqi forces against isis in ramadi hasnt materialized. isis is using the time to dig in and there are growing que...