there s not unanimous support in either party. one the shenanigans from senator paul, this passed a year ago in the house, bipartisan and they couldn t get it done in the senate. what should the president be doing now? he wants the bulk data collection lone wolf collection all this kind of stuff, he wants to make sure that it continues. i think he s going to get it. i think the people are working behind the scenes as i understand it to get the results sooner rather than later. i saw your report from michelle kosinski i think it will be the next couple of days and that will be good. the president s approval numbers in the new cnn poll that we have rating how he s handling the isis threat it s down to only look at this, 32% approve of the way the president s handling the war against isis 63% disapprove. that s a disturbing number if you re with the president, right? well i think it s a disturbing number but important to understand that polling the not security afternoon you end
martin o malley have been trying to attract. what has she said about immigration? she has come out even before these guys were rung saying she wants a full and equal path to citizenship for immigrants and protections for the parents of dreamers. same-sex marriage she says it should be a constitutional right. she is already shifted trying to keep together this obama coalition of the lgbt hispanic americans, african americans and so on. does the rand paul strategy on the nsa surveillance, that politically smart on his part? it depends who you ask. the rand paul say yeah, this is the coalition we re trying to knit together. we want independence. we want libertarians, even some democrats could vote for us in new hampshire. they re raising a lot of money off of this wolf off of his appearance on the senate floor here. but lots of people who thought that rand paul was really a more serious candidate who had some
less safe and what s more i think we re less safe today than we were four or five years ago because we have increasingly been tying our own hands, limiting our ability to gather information and that is the key way that we find out about and stop terrorist attacks. you totally disagree with senator rand paul? yes, and i think it is wrong for anyone to play politics with national security whether you re a senator running for president, or whether you re the president, and i m reminded president obama threatened to veto a defense bill that came out of our committee 60-2 because he wanted to use that as leverage to increase spending on epa, irs and other domestic issues. both ways are playing politics with the feds are wrong. don t you think senate rand paul is sincere, he really believes this is a violation of americans privacy? i have no doubt i can t
none of them will be rand paul s changes, right? these are republican endorsed changes perhaps that maybe lengthen the period of time from when the bulk data collection is handed over to phone companies. but not rand paul s changes. so what is the real change? thank you very much. ryan guys thanks very much. this is an important day here at cnn. cnn turns 35 years old today. in fact this hour exactly 35 years ago, cnn began reporting the news. anderson cooper is back with us right now, taking a look at some of the remarkable stories all of us have covered over the past i ve been here for 25. you have been here for 13 years. anderson tell us a little bit more about some of the work that you re most proud of. because i know you re very proud of the coverage that you and our team did in haiti. yeah i would certainly say haiti, hurricane katrina, the tsunami. i think cnn has this extraordinary ability to marshall global resources on a big story like that. and send teams from all arou
it s coming at the expense of the national security and civil liberties of the american people. reporter: yet the white house still won t say definitively if the american public is at greater risk because of the lapse. it won t give examples of times these programs worked calling them important tools that have yielded information, not found through other means. we need to be as vigilant at possible. reporter: the war right now at home is political. republican senators slamming paul s rhetoric. some of those facts have been misrepresented and i listed some quotes from what senator paul had said that simply are not true. obviously, he is running for president. reporter: even today the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell tried to collect the unanimous votes necessary to move forward and vote on this issue possibly as soon as tonight. again, he was blocked by rand paul. the thing is this ultimately will likely pass but probably with amendments p certain senators want to see th