be overstated. he spoke on fox news this morning. >> they say we're safer because of the bulk collection of data. turns out everybody that is objective that looked at it, said no episode of terrorism has been prevented, to case has been cracked. many even in the intelligence community are admitting it is very expensive and really hasn't provided that much useful information. >> reporter: paul said instead of wasting billions of dollars on this metadata collection program we should be funding more fbi agents to tail real terrorism suspects. many of his gop colleagues agree with that sentiment they fear the loss of that metadata program in the interim. here is senator kelly ayote. >> as i look what is happening around the world right now we mead to make sure we're protecting americans and not going back where we were before 9/11. >> reporter: senators are expected to pass a house-passed version. bill which would allow the phone companies to store the metadata.