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Responsible action to protect the country. >> well because of senator rand pauls actions there was a delay on the senate floor taking up this house bill reauthorizing patriot act making some changes. because of that theres now a scramble. and the department of justice released this saying the national security agency will need to begin taking steps to wind down the bulk telephone metadata program in anticipation of a possible sunset in order to ensure it does not engage in any unauthorized colle...

Privacy to suffer. that time is now. and i will not let the patriotic act, the mon unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged. >> nearly nine hours later, rand paul is still on his feet on the senate floor, challenging the patriot act which will expire on june 1st unless congress extends it. the justice department today released a memo saying that the national security agency has to know by friday of this week whether the patriotic act is going to be extended. that statement said quote, after may 22nd ...

Think scrapping it all together would be a huge mistake and we will be back here in months or a year and there will be an attack and people will say where were you to prevent this. >> and as congress is known, we are up against the deadline for these provisions to expire june 1, not only that justice department sent a memo talking about this could pose problems may 22nd, toll, saying the national security agency will need to take steps to wind down the bulk telephone metadata program in anticipa...

Federal judges ruling that the nsas collection of americans telephone records is legal. the legal adviser to nsa leaker edward snowden appeared on "meet the press." >> this district judge is not just disagreeing with another judge. hes also disagreeing with the presidents own hand-picked advisory panel. that panel, which included a former top-level cia official, a former counterterrorism adviser, concluded that they had seen no evidence that the bulk telephone metadata program had been uni e uni...

Numbers. little bit confusing, but one hacker i spoke to is actually optimistic about the pin numbers not being compromised hopefully. fingers crossed. >> zain asher, thanks. good to see you. its getting pretty confusing when it comes to figuring out how the u.s. judicial system feels about the legality of the nsas spying practices. earlier this month, a district court judge ruled that the phone record collection program likely violated the fourth amendment but today, a different federal court...

Paul is still on his feet, on the senate floor, challenging the patriot act which will expire on june 1st unless congress extends it. the justice department today released a memo saying that the national security agency has to know by friday of this week whether the patriotic act is going to be extended. that statement said, quote, after may 22nd, 2015, the national security agency will need to begin taking steps to wind down the bulk telephone metadata program in anticipation of a possible suns...

Need to begin taking steps to wind down the bulk telephone metadata program in anticipation of a possible sunset in order to ensure it does not engage in any unauthorized collection or use of the metadata." lee says the senate should just approve the house act that passed last week. >> this will not only allow us to keep the government safe it will actually i think be more effective than the system in place right now under the patriot act. >> yet other republican senators say the house measures ...