the bill will allow officials to quickly and complete ly review communications here at home and abroad, while we can respect the liberties of americans here at home. so 702 authorizes the nsa to go after certain forms of communications, terrorist communications that, are coming from outside the country to inside the country. and the metadata collection program is information about information. this is the phone up in, two and from, date, time and duration of the call. that is all that is in the database. there is no conversations. there is nothing about your communication or mine. once a number is confirmed to be associated with a terrorist group, nsa can look and see who is that individual communicating with inside the u.s.
people. we can respect the liberties of americans here at home. so 702 authorizes the nsa to go after certain forms of communications, terrorist communications that, are coming from outside the country to inside the country. and the metadata collection program is information about information. this is the phone up in, two and from, date, time and duration of the call. that is all that is in the data base. there is no conversations. . there is nothing about your communication or mine. once a number is confirmed to be associated with a terrorist group, nsa can look and see who is that individual communicating with inside the u.s. people assume the meta data
press, they can say, oh, nicolle, you re bias, whatever, fine, but just think if you weren t around, if any of them weren t around. any of them. even the people that you showed speaking. the thing about freedom of the press is, it s the first thing autocrats want to do in other countries, they want to shut it down. and let people have their say. again, in terms of the let me tell you about the intelligence committee. i was in the congress for a long time. the intelligence committee, you just didn t mess with it. the chairman of these of the intelligence committee, when i was around, you just didn t you didn t do anything that was inappropriate. right. it was like a double secret they were republicans, right? after 9/11, i remember all of the programs that have since become very controversial, but in the months after 9/11, everything from the metadata collection program, remember how political those programs were? all of the democrats and all of the republicans who ran tho
but i think that the fireworks really are going to focus between ted cruz and marco rubio here. i think you re going to see a lot of back and forth, particularly over foreign policy. as you mentioned, the first debate since paris, since san bernardino. it s really at the forefront of voters minds. and marco rubio has been going after cruz aggressively on his defense voting record. so you have both this vote against the usa freedom act, that ultimately ended the metadata collection program, and also some votes against defense budgets, the rubio campaign is saying amounted to show votes. and i think we ve really seen a shift with the events, news of the day, tragedies that we ve seen, away from the more libertarian wing of the republican party. and that had gotten a lot of attention with rand paul previously, possibly coming back to hurt ted cruz tonight. kasie hunt and katy tur, thank you both. appreciate it. we ll be checking in with you, of course. see you later tonight. now on to
be overstated. he spoke on fox news this morning. they say we re safer because of the bulk collection of data. turns out everybody that is objective that looked at it, said no episode of terrorism has been prevented, to case has been cracked. many even in the intelligence community are admitting it is very expensive and really hasn t provided that much useful information. reporter: paul said instead of wasting billions of dollars on this metadata collection program we should be funding more fbi agents to tail real terrorism suspects. many of his gop colleagues agree with that sentiment they fear the loss of that metadata program in the interim. here is senator kelly ayote. as i look what is happening around the world right now we mead to make sure we re protecting americans and not going back where we were before 9/11. reporter: senators are expected to pass a house-passed version. bill which would allow the phone companies to store the metadata.