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>> i want to thank rand for another 30 seconds because, number one, what hes pointing to is a bill last week that amendment that he voted for that only ten people voted for. you know why? because its not focused on terrorists. someone from taiwan would not have been able to come here as a tourist. this metadata program is actually more strict than what a regular law enforcement agency has now. if a regular law enforcement agency wants your phone records, all they have to do is issue a subpoena. ...

It threatens this nation. we got to be serious. >> we do. senator, significant details were released yesterday explaining farook and enrique marquez plotting going back to 2011. are investigators looking at the possibility that other individuals may have been involved in this plot. right now only the three are known to have been involved. >> thats whats on everybodys mind is how extense ifr of a web might this be. >> its one of the reasons ive been supportive of the meta data program. i cant tel...

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Purchase weapons or any of the elements they need for a pipe bomb for that matter. this is nothing but an effort to use this issue of terrorism as another way to try to push their agenda that theyve been dying to push for the longest amount of time and thats gun control. >> to the 2016 race and your race for the republican primary nomination you have been on the attack against several of your opponents, including senator ted cruz about their vote against the metadata program, the nsa program. to...

Grenades. what could the french police have done? how could one prevent something like this? >> i dont think we have the full story yet. one of these individual, according to reporting, was on the radar screen in terms of someone who is known to the police as being a radical jih jihadi. the problem is you have more of these people out there than law enforcement. >> they had he was a radical but he hasnt committed any violent acts. what do you do? >> its very difficult. im low to criticize them. ...

With your piece in "the new yorker," youre saying, you know ed snowden shouldnt have been necessary to expose a program that you call conclusively ineffective and according to one court illegal. tell me why. >> thats right, brooke. the job of congress and the courts and the president is to figure out what the nsa is doing to make sure its in line with the law. now just rolling back to snowden, we have a chain of events in which an nsa contractor disclosing the existence of the metadata program h...

Documents produces and returned to you, in any way adequate to the task at hand where speed is of the essence is perfectly ridiculous. the administration has not explained the need for roving wiretaps and the metadata program. >> tehc krchlttelcos being the telephone companies. >> and i put blame on rand paul. i wrote to the national intelligence surveillance act including this metadata program and passed overwhelmingly in 2008. those amendments i think could be changed. the house who written a ...

Would-be terrorists. we have the constitution we have warrants. use a warrant, get a warrant. you argue, former assistant fbi director thats not enough. why is it not enough? >> ill also say, he said get a warrant. in the boston case get a warrant. thats fine, but even with a metadata program, you still have to get a court document to look at who owns the records. so poppy, your phone bill from two years ago, thats sitting in an nsa computer right now, if something comes up and they think youre ...

Real video and this is a real threat and this is a multi-front war. not a good time to have our surveillance laws expire. >> with the patriot act. your reaction to this video, bob bear? >> wolf i served two years in tajikistan. and this country in any way succombing to the islamic state, i dont know if this is a true sign of it is very very dangerous. because if you have the islamic state moving up into central asia thats another front and there are not enough russian troops there to deal with i...

Administration has failed miserably in spaining to the american people why the metadata program and many other aspects of the patriot act have been critical in the war on terrorism. bill: john bolton, thank you for your time. out of los angeles. >> thank you, bill. bill: see you in new york. martha: daughter of the late blues legend b.b. king are now suggesting that their father may have been poisoned. how police are responding. bill: this retailer under fire for selling a t-shirt with the ameri...