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Obama, "for all that beau biden achieved in his life nothing made him prouder, nothing made him happier, nothing claimed a fuller focus of his love and devotion than his family. just like his dad." >> were going to take a pause. can we bring up that live picture of the senate floor? heres what we just learned. it will lapse at 8:00 p.m. eastern. even though the debate is going on and the cloture vote is open. 77 votes to 17. its now passed the senate. it needs to go back to the house. they are n...

>> you terrorists like al-qaeda and isil will not suddenly stop fighting us. >> president obama if his weekly address urging congress to pass compromise legislation to keep the n.s.a.s domestic surveillance program going. we are back with the panel. brit not only has rand paul promised to force the expiration his words, of the bulk data collection for a few days through parliamentary maneuvers, this week he also blamed the creation of isis on republicans. take a look. >> isis exists and grew str...

>> these are parts of a thread, parts of a fabric. none of these are a silver bullet. this is the problem people like me have explaining this to the american people. intelligence is fundamentally boring. its not what you see on evening television. its piece by piece, thread by thread. youre giving up threads. it may not make a difference for a while. then again, it might. over the longer term, im willing to wager, chris, it will, indeed, make a difference. as you pointed out in your setup, were ...

Course they are posturing. thats what we do with this. the part i think interesting, did you notice the tone of those administration comments from the president and brennan and others? they want to play the somber grownups here just concerned about the security of the nation amid this political squabbling by the other side. thats exactly the tone the dems and as and as minute station want to put forward. they are not the ones who cant agree. >> brian, you want to weigh in there? >> the white hou...

Little bit? we probably are. but if you were to poll most americans, i think they would rather overreach just a little bit here to ensure we dont see the coordinated attacks weve seen in some of the places governor walker mentioned. >> no doubt about it, jeremy peters a new poll out talking about americans by a wide margin supporting drone warfare. americans want to be kept safe even if they sense there is a bit of an overreach. rand paul will have an interesting fight in his own party. >> he is...

Single example of a time or a case when these programs not just the bulk data collection but a couple other things set to expire certain wiretap provisions have saved the day, have thwarted terrorism. asked further, can you at least explain a case where they helped things? the white house response has been that hes cases involve classified material. theyre not going to share those campbells. in our view you think they would have at least one where they could point to something concretes and say,...

Between security and privacy rights public sector and private sector agreement on how we go forward and again, ending the data the bulk data collection. >> we have never gotten this close to seeing the patriot act expire since 9/11? do you think thats because we have so much different concern for privacy and security rights of american citizens? >> the privacy -- the balance between security and privacy and liberty is as old as our country. benjamin franklin said if you dont have liberty, you wo...

Bipartisan bill called the usa freedom act which essentially is a edward snowden-inspired reform to the way the nsa collects phone data passed earlier this month 338 -- sorry, 338-88. one thought that after that passed so overwhelmingly with the support of the house gop leadership that it could move to the senate and face smooth sailing. however, mitch mcconnell, the senate leader has been opposed to this. he wants to reinstitute the status quo nsa part of the patriot act in terms of bulk data c...

Mcconnells compromises to pass. he wants to get rid of bulk data collection. number one, can mitch mcconnell get this through if he wants to? if not, what can he do? number two, what role does rand paul play? our nbc news producer frank thorpe said from aides he spoke to rand paul in theory if he played every parliamentary procedural trick up his sleeve could drag this out until thursday. the administration will say if these programs are dead till thursday, thats a huge lapse in security. someth...

Many public backers. >> you could say that tlc is sort of tarnishing themselves in this case considering they havent jumped on the opportunity to make a decision. >> they are in talks to possibly create a spin-off show with some of the older married sisters. returning to one of our top stories, senate lawmakers will be on the hill this weekend to vote on the controversial pariot act and sections of the act are set to expire sunday including the provision authorizing the nsas bulk data collection...