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Congress doesnt act, it could have grave consequences for the country. joining me former deputy director of training for the nsa. nice to see you. tell me what will happen when the clock strikes 3:59 today and nsa starts the process of shutting down the data collection program. >> what is going to happen is a large portion of the activities that were under section 215 of the patriot act stops. what does that mean? it means that the meta data collection process the idea of getting the phone numbe...

Officials say at least ten people were hurt but thankfully the injuries we are told are not life threatening. authorities lifting a shelter in place order at tufts university in massachusetts. this after police say two young men were stabbed in the neck there. one seriously wounded. investigators say theyre looking for a person of interest. and police arresting former nba player chris gatlin. they said he juggled multiple online businesses for credit card numbers. he played for the nba for 1...

President obama is warning of grave consequences without resolution on the national security agencys massive data collection program. he says if lawmakers dont scramble and you know make a deal by midnight tomorrow a terrorist could slip past u.s. intelligence. sunlen serfaty is following the story for us from the white house. sunland, what are you hearing there today? >> well christi, theres no sign of a resolution yet. one day as you noted before the deadline. the white house is really been ra...

>> all right, nick, thank you so much. we appreciate it. lets talk about lawmakers and the fact that they are scrambling in washington to make a deal as the clock ticks down. to the agencys massive data collection program. the obama administration, as we know, is warning of a critical gap in national security coverage. not everyone, though, on capitol hill is sharing this view. sumlin serfaty is following this. >> good morning, christi. its now about 40 hours before sundays med night deadline ...

Martha: new questions how the federal ruling against the national security agencys data collection program will affect the former government contractor edward snowden, who leaked thousands of confidential documents and got the ball rolling in a lot of ways. he is very proud of that senator rand paul says the case is complicated. while the nsa leaker broke the law, his information did uncover the truth he says, behind this program. here is senator paul. >> it will have to be some sort of punishme...

The government is said to be in charge of most of that airport if not all of it but fighting and chaos continues. >> you could soon find out whether our own national security agency has spied on you. thats according to the investigative journalist who claims he has that information. former nsa contractor edward snowden last year leaked secret documents that reveal vast government u.s. system for monitoring phone and internet data. snowden gave him a slew of those documents last year in hong kong...

An impact. so again, we are anticipating that secretary of state john kerrys meeting with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov will begin any minute now. we will be monitoring it closely, and we expect to hear from secretary kerry at some point later today. >> well be looking for your notes in the hot file and as well with live reporting. thanks so much. more politics now. new reaction today from a key lawmaker to president obamas proposed changes to the nsa data collection program. heres the...

Telephone data which has been stored by the government obviously after the leak from edward snowden, its call the a great city. president obama his to make a statement by now. he gave himself 90 days when he first addressed this. this is what hes come up with as his proposal. it will require congress to pass any new law, but the president put out the following statement. ill read it for you -- ive decided the best path forward is the government should not collect or hold data in this bulk. inste...

Programs, which exist, specifically, to provide family planning services. so the government is already doing these things. to say that now the government cannot do that in the case of four specific drugs and devices for hobby lobby, i think, is a little bit far fetched. start whether taxpayers would object, i would say that thats something that they can take up with congress, take up with their representatives if they object to the way that tax dollars are being spent. >> well, im not sure that ...

American people an unclassified answer to that question that relates directly to their privacy? >> as soon as we can. soon, sir. ill commit to that. >> what would be wrong with 30 days? >> thats fine. >> there appears to be another data collection program that impacts american citizens which the snowden leaks have not revealed. the questions about the leaker, his motives and the classification were held. >> president obama is hitting the road this week to sell some of the ideas he mentioned in t...