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Its an important element. we have three elements of our party that are all basically at war with each other. >> and were going to give a victory to edward snowden. those revelations came out in 2013. sense since then weve had the rise of isis. the world is a far more dangerous place. we need our intelligence agencies to have the ability to connect dots. were taking away the dots from the nsa. this is a terrible day for america. we need these programs and we need the white house to explain why we...

And those are tools that we vitally need to continue the overwhelmingly successful record. not perfect but overwhelmingly -- >> not perfect? >> not perfect. >> its been good but the fbi its own inspector general essentially said that they cannot point to a single terrorist act that was stopped because of the provisions of the patriot act that senator paul doesnt want extended. >> i think looking for some piece of information that weve gleaned from the patriot act and making that the center point...

Controversy, but hes been low key all the time and the key is hes always been known as denny or coach. >> so i want to ask this question and i want to sort of tread carefully here because obviously were dealing with -- i mean, the thing about this indictment that is so weird and also tantalizing, frankly, is the fact that the allegation is there was some underlying fraction, he did something to individual a whos known him most of his life that was so awful that has hert was then going to pay him...

Former cia counterterrorism official philip mudd to talk more about this. hi phil. >> good morning. >> this is a troubling story. in the general public we tend to think of the fbi as this sort of big omnipresent operation that has eyeballs on everything at all times. so to hear them say, you know we actually cant get the job done. its unsettling. whats the problem? >> look lets do two points in time. lets do 2005 and 2015. if youre sitting at the fbi in 2005 as i was, think of the al qaeda threa...

Were seeing extreme drought. in fact this area thats flooding here in texas only a few years ago was declared a state of emergency, i think 2011 because there was a major drought there. were seeing that in california. were seeing these extreme events. we also know more and more meteorologists and respected ones including bill nye, in fact i think we have his tweet, are saying there is a link. why is there such debate still even though more in the science community are saying there is a link? >> ...

Start with what joes reportering. the feds say he was paying off a subject to compensate for and conceal past misconduct and theyre citing this time, theyre saying it happened during the time he was a high school teacher and a coach in illinois. they say it was material to the case. what does all this suggest, then? >> its a strangely worded indictment. usually prosecutors are very specific in these indictments. but here theyre saying well, he was a coach in high school when it happened. well he...

Engines they continued, they didnt stop and land anywhere else. "outfront" now, our aviation analyst miles obrien along with our safety analyst david soucie. miles, let me start with you. what do you think happened here? when renee goes to these other examples i think its fair to note everyones been saying planes should generally avoid these kinds of storms these kinds of thunderstorm cells. so this plane didnt went through it engines failed. then they continued on their route when they restar...

Hers is call true and constant friends. senator rand pauls new book is out now, its called taking a stand. moving beyond politics to unite america. we spoke at length about the nsa issue. your critics accuse you of over stating the case. the nsa is spying on all your phone calls and thats not true. it doesnt have cell phone data in almost any case. >> its not what ive said. the nsa is collecting all of your phone records. by connecting the dots they have determined they can determine your religi...

Shows up on a list. when we find that person we want to go back in time and see what they have been dock and who they have been talking to. so do i think its going to directly stop a terrorist attack in real time? probably not exactly the intent of this. it was more about when we do find that suspect, do we know who they talk to and can we connect those dots quickly instead of having it go to a judge and look at forward what theyre doing in the future. >> all right. ben, a great conversation wit...

Everything is perfect except for one thing. >> what did you do? >> the ones with dots on them are the ones i had already put on successfully, but i put purple dream instead of blue dream. >> thats fine. >> are you sure? >> no. erik. >> my question is did you make sure it said -- >> youve got to be kidding me. >> erik, oh, my god. >> people dont realize the hoops you have to jump through, the rules you have to follow. it is what it is. >> [ bleep ] it, move on. >> elisabeth lawrence sent me a tex...