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Who apparently were radicalized years ago, but despite all the metadata collection, they missed it. this is government incompetence, and further, it would not help us figure out whos trying to harm us here at home, and it isnt a plan to destroy isis overseas. so it wont work. i have a plan to help us here at home identify these people, which involves, among other things, making sure that we re-examine all these visa programs, making sure that our investigators have access to every piece of data ...

Data of all the french. yet, they still werent able to see this coming. >> how do you answer senator paul? >> well first, there was an error here in this country two to three years ago where because of the disclosures of a traitor like edward snowden and other things in the media, misrepresentations by elected officials, americans came to believe they were being spy pd on by the government. if someone in our government is unlawfully accessing the private information of americans, they should be ...

Immediate aftermath in september 11 brought two of the most major terrorism cases this country has ever known. what we did this summer was wrong. i said it was wrong at the time. its being proven to be wrong. when we cut back on the nsas meta data collection program and has been destroying the morale of our intelligence officers. we need to rebuild the program and the morale of our intelligence. we need to support law enforcement which this administration hasnt been doing and the fbi director hi...

Section 215, which is the verse sham part of the law that deals with the metadata collection has created a lot of problems. and weve been willing to -- many of us that are concerned about civil liberties as well as security, want to do both. >> do you stand with rand paul are you in this rand pauls camp or are you guys -- >> i think thats too -- >> too what? >> i think that letting it expire, just expire the whole law itself is a problem. but i do believe that there are parts of it and the secon...

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...

About this metadata collection that uses a less than constitutional standard? he said without question you get more information with a warrant than you do through the metadata. when come one commits an act of atrocity theres no question we would get a warrant. but i would go even further. i would say i want to get warrants on people before things blow up. we need to analyze data and try to find out who we have suspicion for so we can investigate their records. i think we spend so much money on p...

We think its wrong for the government to be collecting phone records on every single americans phone calls. we do differ as to the strategy of how to deal with it, and although he and i share a similar concern, i dont agree with his approach and i have taken a different approach here, and i think the usa freedom act solves the underlying problem. >> but let me ask you this finally before i let you go. when this program, the bulk metadata program was revealed through edward snowden, the administr...

Courts have stepped in and said are frankly unconstitutional, like bolt collection of all the cell phone metadata. do you think hes winning that argument in the republican primary, or has he outmaneuvered his opponents? >> thats a good question. andrew mccarthy who is on the opposite of this from rand paul and me and i suspect you, had a piece a few days ago, saying rand paul has won this argument. i think the argument is wrong in his point of view, but broadly in the culture hes won the argumen...

Republicans support, a program that meta data i believe beegan under george bush. >> it exposes more divisions within the republican party. its in that same vein as what ted cruz is doing on the debt ceiling and its also in that same vein of what ted cruz is doing in that its geared towards 2016 and the fight hes taking on in terms of the nsa is something that appeals to a constituency that hes looking to stake out in the 2016 election. >> peter, there are a lot of people on the left who agree w...

Directs director of national intelligence, director of national security agency and fbi. and its calling on the federal court to put an end to the governments metadata collection, to require purging of records that now exist. and what theyre asking for, ashleigh, specifically, is for the court to declare whats known as the mass associational tracking program, unconstitutional, as in violation of the fourth amendment. theyre not asking for temporary injunction, so this is a case that could go for...