they re not giving us the exact location. of the 2,000, 1,000 distributed to the iraqi, the u.s.-led coalition holding on to the other 1,000 for now, perhaps for that reason, wolf? barbara, thanks very much. the plug has been pulled now on a key government terror tracking program. at least for now the part of the patriot act that allowed the nsa to collect bulk data on millions of phone calls expired sunday putting one republican presidential candidate right at the center of a huge political firestorm right now. let s go to the white house, correspondent michelle kozinski has more what s going on. reporter: wolf even today mitch mcconnell tried to gather the unanimous votes together to possibly move forward and vote on the issue tonight but once again, he was blocked by rand paul. the white house meanwhile keeps urging the senate to act in the name of national security calling this an unnecessary risk but the white house still won t go so far as to say the american
george w. bush s homeland security advisor. fran the poll shows americans think congress should renew the surveillance program, yet 67% disapprove how president obama s handling the government s surveillance of u.s. citizens. is part of the problem here that there s a lot of confusion, what is part of the program, what isn t part of the program? that s right, wolf. look when the president is advocating for congress to take legislative action he becomes the educator in chief. it s really incumbent upon the president, cabinet officials and administration to educate the american people who will then put pressure on members of congress to why this is important. so they haven t done a very good job of explaining why rand paul s position is positively ridiculous when he said today, hire for agents. the fact is, even if the federal government hired more agents the techlt el krmplt o not going to hire more team and the notion you can quickly and effectively write ow subpoenas, get the
president disagrees with him. now paul wears that as badge of honor. his aides insist it s helping boost his popularity in states like iowa and new hampshire. but here in the first primary state of the south south carolina wolf this is obviously rich with military traditions and the kind of do whatever it takes mentality seems to be a more resonant. and people like lindsey graham are pushing that. thanks very much dana for all of that. joining us gloria borger our senior political correspondent brianna keilar and new york washington correspondent and cnn political commentator ryan lizza. how does lindsey graham s formal entry into the race sort of shake up this republican contest? well it does. talk about great timing for a muscular foreign policy candidate as dana describes him. you have the nsa surveillance debate. you have the iran nuclear talks. you have the question of isis looming over the country.