enforcement may have had a connection or two between one of the actors and other terrorists. but because the connection wasn t deep enough or certain enough, they have kind of let that investigation slide. i ve heard several people comment over the past couple of days that the fbi doesn t have enough people on the streets to follow up on some of the leads. i think i understand what the problem is, but i don t think the fbi really takes advantage of over 700,000 men and women in the state and local level, over 12,000 police departments to share that. we re never going to build up the fbi so they have an infrastructure that covers the states. i think more information sharing to support the fbi might be one of the gaps that we can close in the future. all right. what about the fact that as a coincidence, four days before the attack in california, the nsa bulk data collection program ended. they still have two years worth of data. they can t get five years worth of data. some have said m
to god forbid tomorrow morning there is a paris attack in the upd, the first question everyone s going to have is why didn t we know about it and why didn t we stop it? senator marco rubio taking a swipe at the expiration today of the government s bulk data collection program as the u.s. and the world face an increased terror threat. and it s time now for our sunday group. fox political analyst brit hume, former democratic congresswoman jane harmon. fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen author of the new book cheney one-on-one, and robert costa from the washington post. brit, it s an interesting confluence of events the bulk data collection program of american phone records, as we pointed out, ran out at midnight last night, just as the state department issued a worldwide travel alert for all americans. what do you make of those two things? well, and there s more to it
to god forbid tomorrow morning there is a paris attack in the upd, the first question everyone s going to have is why didn t we know about it and why didn t we stop it? senator marco rubio taking a swipe at the expiration today of the government s bulk data collection program as the u.s. and the world face an increased terror threat. and it s time now for our sunday group. fox political analyst brit hume, former democratic congresswoman jane harmon. fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen author of the new book cheney one-on-one, and robert costa from the washington post. brit, it s an interesting confluence of events the bulk data collection program of american phone records, as we pointed out, ran out at midnight last night, just as the state department issued a worldwide travel alert for all americans. what do you make of those two things? well, and there s more to it
program before the midnight deadline. they have now lost their authority to collect americans phone records in bulk. some say creating a security risk but others disagree saying this is necessary pause in the program. doug mckelway on capitol hill. doug? reporter: the yes of question of how big after miss we re having with the absents of the collection data program keith alexander former head of the national security agency have both said that as many said 54 terrorism plots were thwarted with the help of this bulk data collection program. president obama used a slightly lower figure, 50 terror plots authority third the under questioning general alexander admitted that those numbers were grossly overstated. as many as only one or two plots were thwarted. senator rand paul the chief critic of the nsa in congress said even that number, one or two terrorism plots thwarted may
fund-raising. the reality is that this bipartisan bill that already passed the house, that takes the bulk data collection out of the hands of the government and puts it with the phone companies will likely pass just with some amendments attached. some senators for example, want to make sure the phone companies are going to collect this stuff in a way that the government can eventually find useful. bottom line, wolf it s going to take some time but we could see a vote as early as tomorrow. we ll stay on top of that michelle thank you. let s get more on what s going on republican congressman matt thornberry of texas is the chairman of the house armed services committee, joining us right now. mr. chairman thanks very much for coming in. you re welcome. do you believe that as a result of the bulk data collection program being suspended at least for now the american public less safe right now than it was what 24 hours ago before that midnight deadline last night? i think we are. it