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