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Yes. i still continue to stand behind the commitment to keep america safe and by conducting lawful intelligence collection. when i was referring to meta data, i was talking about the meta data program that the usa freedom act has now changed in fundamental ways. you should recall i voted for the usa freedom act and i understand its restrictions, its restrictions on efforts by all of the u.s. government to collect information. >> but you wrote in op-ed since the passage of the law. so after the l...

Is two things. number one, it ended the governments bulk collection of phone me that data of millions of law abiding citizens. the second part is critical. it strengthened the tools of national security and law enforcement to go after terrorists. >> this is not just the most capable. it is the most sophisticated terror threat we have effaced. we need more tools not less. that toolle we lost, the meta data program was a valuable tool we no longer have at our disposal. >> kim, two formidable debat...

It nice, thomas. >> katy tur doing a great job with the rolling stones with a background band there and with the trump campaign. now to nbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki. you have been looking into manager that came out of the mouth of ted cruz. >> a headline this morning that maybe the cruz campaign didnt want but richard burr republican from north carolina, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee and said theyre looking into whether ted cruz released any classified ...

>> its a sad couple of days with the tragic events in san bernardino yesterday and the obviously the fbi hasnt made their /@4x ial determination. it looks like the main suspect may have been radicalized in some way. yesterday as it was happening, president obama said this about the issue ofk gun control. >> for those who are concerned about terrorism, some may be aware of the fact that we have a no-fly list where people cant get on planes. but the same people we dont allow to fly could go into a...

Between hillary clinton and florida senator marco rubio as well. worth noting these results are not within the margin of error, which is just over a couple of percentage points. so thats just how tight they are. caitlin huey burns is here. lets start with those two. in particular senator rand paul. 10 1/2 hours on the senate floor, the filibuster against the government watching us through its huge meta data program, nsa. hes gotten a lot of attention recently. >> some of the most interesting deb...

That one of the programs disclosed by edward snowden in 2013 is illegal. the opinion for the unanimous three-judge panel, second circuit u.s. court of appeals, reads as a harsh criticism of governments argument that a massive nsa program to collect in bulk the domestic phone records of millions of americans is lawful under section 215 of the patriot act. the judge wrote "we hold the text of section 215 cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, it does not authorize the telep...

Way. yeah. you dont have to look at me like that. there are worst things than an attractive woman touching your body. ill go. join the nation that sees you as a priority. ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ today for the first time, a high level federal court ruled that one of the programs disclosed by edward snowden in 2013 is illegal. the opinion for the unanimous three-judge panel, second circuit u.s. court of appeals, reads as a harsh criticism of the governments argument that a massive nsa...

On the agenda. well see how much of it comes up. todays meeting comes a day after a federal judge ruled the nsas call tracking program is most likely unconstitutional. judge richard leonov the district of columbia, appointed by president bush, departed from a 1979 supreme court decision that said, "people have no expectation of privacy many the records of their phone calls, not the content, but the actual idea that the call itself was made. this is what judge leon wrote. the almost orwellian tec...

Any systemic changes that i had a problem with. but as the speakers pointed -- paul ryan pointed out, i believe the score on this will actually reduce the deficit. and that is a move in the right direction. >> yeah, and i was speaking to some democrats on the senate budget committee today, and they have said that. i think the numbers seem to bear that out from what we understand. it is new numbers. i think the piecemeal votes, people can debate that out. i do want to turn to the nsa surveillance...

Somewhere kind of happy with the aftermath of his leaking. >> whatever you think of edward snowden, hes started a conversation in the country. the leaks he provided led to -- have led to lots of newspaper articles. they led to a vote in congress in which the majority of the democrats in the house said they wanted to stop this nsa meta data program. snowden has certainly had impact. well never know what hes thinking every day. were seeing this conversation continue to go. a lot of politicians are...