phones and the ability to track a nonamerican lone wolf. all they claim are essential to fighting terrorists. it would be irresponsible and reckless. we shouldn t allow it to happen. reporter: the house has passed a compromise bill, supported by the administration which would extend key provisions but reform the bulk data program. that data would be in the hands of phone companies instead and would require the government to seek a court order for access. obama. today republican senator rand paul is preparing to get back in the ring, vowing to do all he can to stop the surveillance programs unless changes are made to weaken them. this is a debate about whether or not a warrant with a single name of a single company can be used to collect all the
tonight. three key provisions of the patriot act are set to expire. that would include one which the controversial bulk phone data program operates. this is what collects that meta data telephone numbers, how long a call lasts. it does not include contents of calls. the use of the so-called roveing wiretaps. this allows the government to tap several phones for a person who changes phones frequently. and the lone wolf nonamerican citizens believed to be engaged in terrorism activities but not linked to a terrorist group. they passed a compromised reform bill. that is supported by the white house. that would extend all these previsions but makes some changes to the bulk data program, moving it from the government into the hands of the phone companies. republican senator rand paul vowed to stand in the way today.
administration which would extend the key provisions but would reform the bulk data program. that telephone data would be kept in the hands of phone companies instead and will require the government to seek a court order for access. the head of the washington spy machine! barack obama! reporter: today, republican senator rand paul is preparing to get back in the ring, vowing to do all he can to stop the surveillance programs, unless changes are made to weaken them. this is a debate about whether or not a warrant with a single name of a single company can be used to collect all of the records, all of the phone records of all of the people in our country with a single warrant. our forefathers would be aghast. reporter: unless senator paul unexpectedly gives in, it s likely these programs should be shut down for at least several
records and roving wiretaps for burned phones and the ability to track a nonamerican lone wolf. all powers the administration claims are essential to fighting terrorists. it would be irresponsible, it would be reckless. we shouldn t allow it to happen. reporter: the house has already passed a compromised bill supported by the administration which would extend the key provisions but would reform the bulk data program. that telephone data would be kept in the hands of phone companies instead and will require the government to seek a court order for access. the head of the washington spy machine! barack obama! reporter: today, republican senator rand paul is preparing to get back in the ring. vowing to do all he can to stop the surveillance programs, unless changes are made to weaken them. this is a debate about whether or not a warrant with a single name of a single company
states and who they re talking to abroad, and stop the active terrorism before it begins by fighting them over there rather than being here, and the tsarnaev brothers look, i thought it was cute. hate to say it about something the judge says because he is very smart. when he said they re listen to you and me talk, that s not what the bulk data program does. i doesn t listen in on a conversation of a single person. it keeps a record of a phone number being called from to a phone number being called to and the day and time. so unless the tsarnaev brothers talked to the phone number of some can who is identified as a possible terror suspect they wouldn t have been caught by the program. why is it that the opponents of section 215 feel compelled to exaggerate by saying, oh, they re listening to our conversation? senator paul on the floor of the senate said their listening in to millions of conversations.