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Vice president joe biden announces the death of his son of brain cancer. he suffered a mild stroke in 2010 and underwent surgery at a texas center to remove a small lesion. he was 46 years old. a key section of the patriot axocet to ex-fire tomorrow. it includes the meta data collection program that allows the cleanse of our phone data. rand paul says such widespread nsa surveillance violates americans rights to privacy. now back to hannity. welcome back to this special edition of hannity,...

That is we go against labor on trade. we give them something on transportation. >> its interesting that luke just mention had the harry reid and others are demanding action on the patriot act that expires the end of may. i thought it was june 30th. its june 1st the patriot act expires. now you have the appeals to the court on meta data collection. the next couple of weeks will be tense on capitol hill. >> without a doubt. you have this trade deal. if they try to move it forward, im interested to...

In europe, ive just been astonished by the intensity of public feeling. people really are upset about this. when i say people, governments, individual citizens. i would just note that as near as i can tell from with what ive seen today, the proposals that the president is making and that congressman rogers and rupert in the house are making, deal with a collection of meta da data, bull data, about americans phone calls. it doesnt go to the question of spying on foreigners or foreign government o...

Ca cavalier about civil liberties. >> in 2008 he criticized surveillance programs as a violation of civil liberties. his shift is eliciting passionate reactions. saying technologies are reaching too far in americans lives. others saying the president needs to look at things differently now that he is president and not a senator. >> you get wiser when you put your hand on that baseball and the lives of every single american, youre responsible for that. >> what i heard was the president saying if ...

With western allies. i think that is a big part of this audience. europe is a big part of this audience for this speech. some of it also, though, is sort of the civil libertarian wing of the democratic party, you know, candidate obama was very aggressive in what he didnt want to see, an expansion of the security state, surveillance state, things like that. and he doesnt want to be known or seen as the guy that essentially codified the bush national security state. so thats always been a little b...

Intelligence program reap? >> it does an enormous amount of good. its stopping terrorist attacks in the united states. it is protecting the u.s. homeland. and frankly, there are no civil liberties concerns. i havent seen anyones civil liberties violated, no credible claims. i think thats because the programs have been carefully monitored by congress. >> has the administration -- maybe to some extent congress failed to really communicate to the american people the true nature of this program, no,...

Records provision of the patriot act and thats something they have been worrying about and warning about. the answer is, when you read the law. the language of it says the government can collect "all tangible things relevant to an a investigation in these fields." but the data for all americans for their phone records, their numbers and length and duration of their calls and possibly the locations of those calls arent related to an investigation. they precede an investigation. a really good poin...

Taken town some of what the government has asked for. very comprehensive meta data collection. they said search warrants and document subpoenas typically seek the records of a particular individual or corporation under investigation and cover particular time periods when the events under investigation occurred. the orders contain no such limits. they extend to every record that exists and indeed to records that do not yet exists. they said it violates federal law. one of your other con tenldtend...

Agree upon though is senator rand paul is the chief reason congress missed the deadline. supporters on both sides weighed in on consequences as well as pass ago a reform bill in the senate. >> from here on out, beginning this week t government will not collect your phone records in bulk. thats a huge victory. >> section 250 the controversial part of the law that deals with meta data collection has created a lot of problems. >> i think theres exaggeration on both sides. theres education referring...

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