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Outraged privacy advocates. here is how it will go down if nothing reached. 4:00 p.m. federal government will instruct phone companies to stop collecting this data. four hours later instructions from the government will do that becoming irreversible. that collection can resume 24 hours after congress renews the program. attorney general loretta lynch warning lawmakers they need to hurry up. early this morning on new day, white house secretary josh ernest echoed that. here is what he had to say. ...

Any other secret reinterpretations of our laws must be brought to light. jobs it is to protect your family, my family from the next terror attack, you say its a mistake for us to retreat at this time. >> well, thats true. but i have to stand with rand on this one. you know, what the intelligence community has not done either openly or apparently in confidential briefings is point to it a single instance in which this bulk data provided the basis for an investigation. in fact its too much data. t...

Data and also the patriot act as a whole. did rand paul kill one or two of those things? >> well thats a good question. youre right. it is an extraordinary scene but it wasnt unexpected. republican leadership had been saying a that they were going to try to defeat this house passed bill. that bill that passed the house with 338 votes. that would have moved the collection of bulk data from the government and put it into the hands of the telecom companies. they thought once they had defeated that ...

It to be to do even simple things to find common ground on even simple policy proposals. this policy proposal is extraordinarily complicated and has significant consequences for the national security of this country and for the basic civil liberties of the american people. >> reporter: the white house is not ruling out president obamas signing a shorter term extension if congress can work it out. >> thank you, mike. i hope you can enjoy a good weekend. a new report that claims no major fbi cases...

Statutory authority that congress gave them under the patriot act by collecting this bulk data. in that sense all the court was doing was ratifying the view of the bills view of the bills own authors. what the effect was and the answer to your second part of the question was isolate mitch mcconnel. i was going to say mcconnel thought by reauthorizing the thing clean it would in effect -- >> change the program as it is. >> this ruling means if you enacted it clean, it creates a conflict between a...

Theres no day the mining and no content. >> bringing this up to today, we have isis. we have a group radical beyond al-qaeda. a heightened threat level. are you concerned about congress may do what they may alter here in the coming weeks? >> im concerned that people who claim to be privacy advocates are going to say that some how this intrudes on peoples privacy privacy, when it doesnt, and therefore, persuade congress to abandon the program. that was simply deny us another way of tracking down ...

It takes years and years now. where you used to live we can develop new devices in a matter of weeks. it takes sometimes 10 15 years to develop a new weapon system. >> theyve become complacent that its the status quo. >> its grown so large, so cumbersome that there is a total lack of efficiency. and were going after it. youll see a little come throughess thats a reform bill. a whole variety of ways. >> before you sat down we were talking about this the nsa spooiing ing spying program. its an ove...

On the patriot act, thats a story thats not gotten enough attention. interesting array of bedfellows layhe and ted cruz. >> doesnt get stranger than that. >> odd right. theyre going up against the freedom act directly refeuding the original act birthed out by edward edward snowden about bulk data. if it goes tonight floor, we suppose it will pass. then on the republican party, why is mcconnel blocking the bill that will get republican support, i presume from the leadership thats been reseptember...

To make its pivot to asia. luke? >> and, chuck, a big piece of news coming out over the last day that i think a lot of folks in the united states will care about, as well as some of those world leaders that are hanging out with president obama right now. that is a significant change in policy. the president announced regarding the nsa and how it collects all that metadata and whether or not the government will continue to do that. >> reporter: well, look, here is what we know about the nsa and w...

The telephone database program. they had presented me now with an option i think is workable and it addresses the two core concerns the people have. number one, the idea of government storing bulk data generally. this ensures that the government is not in possession of that bulk data. i want to emphasize once again that some of the dangers that people hypothesize when it came to bulk data, there were clear safeguards against, but i recognize people were concerned about what might happen in the f...