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Across the finish line. it is looking very shaky right now. you refaelierenced the long night that rand paul had. rand paul looked at the remaining days before the memorial recess and wanted to sort of put the brakes on to say that the issue of bulk data collection of our phone records and some of the provisions of the patriot act that are set to simply be renewed and probably quickly in the senate he wanted a more full throated debate of that so he talked for 10 1/2 hours not leaving the floor....

In the 1920s. he might not have lived the day. think of richard jewell had been a japanese american during world war ii when rand paul two hours into what they are calling a filibuster of the patriot act, lets be clear what hes doing now doesnt fit the traditional definition. he is railing against the nsa and key components of that agencys power, bulk data collection will spir if congress doesnt get to passing an extension by july 1st. capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell in washington fo...

Deadlines tend to get things done here on capitol hill and deadlines with the benefit of a week in their home districts can be very helpful. many, certainly lawmakers who are running campaigns or just want to be visible in their home communities are ready to get out of town, but theyve got a lot to accomplish and both of the items you mentioned trade and the nsa reforms, those are hot topics with lots of controversy. if the president does get trade the way he would like it, it would give him a c...

>> i think the timing is right. i think we could win this. weve got strong support. weve got the committees both the house intelligence committee and also the house judiciary committee have signed off on this. regardless of whether any of these have been found to be unlawful that doesnt necessarily mean that its fully consistent with the text and the historical understanding of the constitution, but the letter and the spirit of the law. >> msnbcs chief legal correspondent and co-host of "the cyc...

Broader context. they have been tracking terrorist plots against the united states since 9/11. there have been 68 of them in the 14 years which comes out to just under five per year. in the first four and a half months alone there have been six. the world is getting more dangerous and its the failed foreign policy of president obama and weakness were projecting abroad. brit is exactly right, we need to destroy al qaeda abroad so they are not attractive to people who are here. thats the foreign p...

Collection. says if congress wants to be able to do this, they need to explicitly pass a law that forces telephone companies to do this or not. where are you on this? are you willing to pass a specific law that allows for bulk data collection, whether held by the phone companies or the government? >> i think heres the thing. the president, the house and a number of members of the senate believe that we need to change that program. the way to change it is simply to go to the pfizer court for a qu...

All 50 states they have some potential isis follower they are following. do they have the resources to deal with this? is it the type of threat we should throw even more money at? >> well, i will tell you this. if they dont have the resources, they just have to come to the president and congress and they are going to get the resources. i mean, this is a matter of prime defense of the homeland. it would come first. director comey has said in their 56 field offices, they have investigations in eve...

>> okay senator, also another potential to 16 candidate weighed this on the bulk data collection suggests its the best thing president obama has done. take a listen. >> i would say the best part of the obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs. the nsa being enhanced advancing this. >> what would you like to say to governor bush now that the courts have deechled the program illegal? >> i think as it gets out across the countr...

The young brothers that were the bombers in boston. we already had some information about them. we werent pursuing the information. and think about the person from phoenix just recently. thats where i am right now, that traveled over to texas to commit jihad. we knew about one of them but we werent following them and pursuing their information. i think we made the haystack so big by searching every americans records that were not spending enough time actually isolating in on the people who have ...

Potential to 16 candidate weighed this on the bulk data collection suggests its the best thing president obama has done. take a listen. >> i would say the best part of the obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs. the nsa being enhanced advancing this. >> what would you like to say to governor bush now that the courts have deechled the program illegal? >> i think as it gets out across the country hell discover not many agree...