Patriot act expire at midnight. cnn national correspondent, sun land saw sraury joins us now. it doesn t look likely they will void a lapse, and they are at this hour not a clear way for this. when the senate comes back into session at 4:00 p.m., senator rand paul vowed to do all he can to stop the surveillance programs unless significant changes, he says, are made to weaken the government surveillance powers. he tweeted this out yet. quote, there has to be another way, we must find it together so tomorrow i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. senate majority leaders office says we will pass legislation today and it s not clear what day they will work to pass the legislation it will be in likely
lots of prayers and thoughts going on to that family today from a lot of people. meanwhile, senators are returning to capitol hill this afternoon. they need to take up the fight over extending the patriot act. key provisions of this act expires at midnight. they don t have a lot of time. debate is set to begin at 4:00 p.m. eastern, one minute after the white house begins shutting down the nsa s controversial bulk collection of phone records. now republican senator and presidential hopeful rand paul is vowing to end what he calls the nsa illegal spy program. just hours ago, he tweeted that americans, quote, have a right to privacy and it must be protected. cnn national correspondents sunlen serfaty is joining us now. how likely an agreement could be reached before the midnight deadline? reporter: i think it s pretty likely. just as the senate is supposed to meet this afternoon, the national security agency will have to shut down parts of the
Example, to be talking about essentially unilaterally disarming an important national security tool at a time when i ve never seen the threat level higher. nbc s kristin wilkinson at the white house. walk us through what s happening in congress, and are you hearing anything from senator paul s camp about his trying to delay the process again? reporter: senator paul says that is exactly what he intends to do. in a statement he says, i will forethe expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. opponent like paul argue that it is a violation of civil liberty. proponents argue that these programs are necessary to track and protect against terrorists. look here s what is at issue, alex. it is second 215 of the usa patriot act. it essentially gives the government the ability to sweep up the phone records of millions of americans. this was the provision that was exposed by nsa leaker edward
He has said he has vowed to stop these surveillance programs unless there is significant changes to weaken them. tweeting this out yesterday, there has to be another way. we must find it together. so tomorrow i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. another republican senator on state of the union had a prediction where this was all going. i do believe we have the votes. so at this point, i think the question is not really about whether we ll get this passed but when. it will happen either tonight or it will happen on wednesday or some time in between them. really within that 72-hour window we are going to pass. the house passed usa freedom act. reporter: while he believes that the senate will pass that house bill the pass forward in the senate at this hour is not clear what they will do when they convene at 4:00 p.m. today. most likely looks like there will be some sort of lapse,
After the white house begins shutting down the nsa s controversial bulk collection of phone records. now, republican senator and presidential hopeful rand paul is vowing to end what he calls the nsa illegal spy program. just hours ago, he tweeted that americans, quote, have a right to privacy and it must be protected. the travel ban on detainees is set to conspire today. in other words, five former high ranking taliban officials could be free to leave qatar and even join the violent work. cnn s anna kornin has more for us. reporter: grave concern that the five released from guantanamo bay from beau bergdahl a year ago may soon return to the terror field. they have been living in qatar the past five months and able to
Data away from the government and have it be held by the telecom companies. they re worried this bill doesn t give them the assurances they need that the data will be there when they need it to be. they may they ll try to move on some kind of maybe amendment or try to change the bill. the problem is there s no way that they re going to be able to get that legislation passed through congress and to the president s desk before the midnight deadline. so this program is expected to sunset. absolutely. it will expire and go down for a while. that s for sure. there s another problem. that is in the form of senator rand paul who said yesterday, i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. will he be able to do this? senator paul has said he doesn t want to allow senator mcconnell to expedite a vote on the usa freedom act or to allow votes to extend the patriot act by a few days. that s exactly what he did a few weeks ago. and you know he hinted friday in south carolina
We re dark and heaven forbid we ve got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who was engaged in dangerous activity but we didn t do so because of inaction in the senate. well the senate will return from recess to hold a rare sunday session in an attempt to reach a compromise before the midnight dead aline but that may not be easy. senator rand paul in a statement today said tomorrow i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. on tuesday, secretary kerry will meet in paris with his international counterparts for the latest meeting of the global coalition against isis. it comes at what can only be described as a low point in the u.s. led mission with isis seizing major territory in iraq and syria nearly unopposed by the forces on the ground. joining me is a career counter terrorism officer in the u.s. navy and intelligence agencies and one of the foremost experts on al qaeda and its affiliates
Means that any program that was started before the expiration date could continue but the other programs they ve voiced concern about like lone wolf roving wire taps still an option to continue them and the government has not said they won t continue them under the grandfather clause. to the information that s been collected what happens to that? that s interesting as far as the bulk collection program. the nsa said they are not going to wipe the servers. they re just going to turn them off. they can t destroy the information as there s a lot of lawsuits obviously hitting the government for using this information, violating bill of rights and constitutional rights of american citizens and actually a res press servation order that s valid that requires the government not destroy that because it s evidence. for people who want to prove their case. ali, come see us again. thank you so much. thanks for having me. a programming note tomorrow on meet the press meet the can cats,
Government the ability to sweep up the phone records of millions of americans, opponents like senator rand paul say it s a violation of privacy rights. paul blocked that measure or any amended version of that measure in the senate last week by arguing against it for more than ten hours and today, he is digging in his heels vowing to do the same thing tomorrow. here s what he released in a statement, he says, quote, i believe we must fight terrorism and i believe we must stand strong against our enemies but do not need to give up who we are to defeat them. we misnot. there has to be another way. tomorrow i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. there you have it from senator rand paul. the white house and even republicans say that paul is just trying to gin up support for his presidential campaign. they say these provisions are key to protecting the nation to fighting against terrorists and they also point to the fact
Alex that it a compromised measure passed with broad bipartisan support in the house and paul is refusing to back that. what do we expect to happen tomorrow? no one is sure. it seems unlikely the senate will reach a compromise. even if senators can reach some type of compromise agreement, the house is not back in session until monday which means it is very likely that key parts of this legislation will, in fact, expire. i ve been talking to senior administration officials who say that the programs are so vast they are so complicated that they ll have to start dismantling them tomorrow afternoon and the program will be shut down by about 8:00 p.m. tomorrow evening. alex? okay. . it s quite extraordinary right now what s going on. thank you very much. kristen welker from the white house. other news, a religiously charged rally in phoenix friday night attracted a sizable crowd and heavily police presence. on one side of the street a group of anti-islam protesters armed with guns wavin