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Didnt have access to records or information that would have allowed us to identify these killers before they attack. >> senator paul, i know this is -- this has been a very big issue for you. [ applause ] you hear many of your colleagues are calling for increased surveillance by law enforcement. you call that hogwash. why is that hogwash? >> you know, i think marco gets it completely wrong. we are not any safer through the bulk collection of all americans records. in fact, i think were less safe...

Phone records. in light of the san bernardino attack, was your vote a mistake? >> well, dana, the premise of your question is not accurate. im very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the senate and the house to reform how we target bad guys. and what the usa freedom act did it did two things. number one, it ended the federal governments bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens. number two in the second half that is critical. it strengthened the tools of ...

I do want a wall. walls do work. you just have to speak to the folks in israel. walls work if they are properly constructed. >> i know how to build. >> i promise you the next time there is an attack on this country, the first people people$p are going to want to know is why didnt we know about it and why didnt we stop it. the answer because we didnt have access to records or information that allowed us to identify these killers before they attacked. >> i think marco gets it completely wrong here...

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Bush/mccain mantle is probably going to be the one that will take him to account on. >> rubio has to capitalize on that and talk about the bulk collection of metadata that cruz opposed. >> the past is predictive. he killed it in the debate when he was talking about foreign policy the last time. it gave him a step up. >> lets look at ben carson. people havent been talking about him as much this week with all of the surging of trump. it says here he must dem straut a command of issues. okay. not a...

Of cases when we look back at these individuals, somebody noticed a change. >> were hearing that from family members. everybody is saying that. how do you get people to talk about that before it happens? >> what we tell people is alert law enforcement. we are on alert 24/7 and everything that you report will be investigated. we do it in private. we do it covertly. this could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day, but better be safe than sorry. >> let me ask you about th...

Purchase weapons or any of the elements they need for a pipe bomb for that matter. this is nothing but an effort to use this issue of terrorism as another way to try to push their agenda that theyve been dying to push for the longest amount of time and thats gun control. >> to the 2016 race and your race for the republican primary nomination you have been on the attack against several of your opponents, including senator ted cruz about their vote against the metadata program, the nsa program. to...

Doing bulk collection. all bulk collection. also in frances, they have a program a thousandfold more invasive collecting all of the data of all the french. yet they still werent able to see this coming. so my question is, how much liberty do we want to give up for a false sense of security? the government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion everyones phone records in the country, and theyve found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this. >> what ...

Things that does come to the fore, czechuck, is that in a nur of cases when we look back at these individuals, somebody noticed a change. >> were hearing that from family members. everybody is saying that. how do you get people to talk about that before it happens? >> what we tell people is alert law enforcement. we are on alert 24/7 and everything that you report will be investigated. we do it in private. we do it covertly. this could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad ...

And thats what our bill fixes on tuesday. 5,000 of these foreign fighters that have gone to syria and iraq have western passports. and therefore do not have to obtain a visa before they come into the united states. now chris, this is a huge security gap. it needs to be addressed and fixed and the congress understands that as does the white house, and we intend to do that. but if you think again about the majority of the paris attackers having french or european passports, they wouldnt have had t...