United States Senate play far too many games with a piece of legislation critical to the National Security of the United States and Civil Liberties of the american people. We start the hour with nbcs luke russert on the hill. Luke, what is in these changes that the house really objects to here. Reporter well what they say is on may 13th they passed a bill usa freedom act with 338 votes that was overwhelmingly bipartisan. This came after months much painstaking negotiations and the senate has no right to do away with the legs lagz because they screwed up. Rand paul called his bluff and Mitch Mcconnell got left with nothing to show for it. The issue really at hand and hear this from republicans privately, mcconnell was working on trade legislation before the memorial day recess he knew where we stood and how the heck are we backing down from legislation that had 338 supporters. Now theres an interesting question the First Amendment mcconnell put forward it just went down. Now there are three more going to be put forward. If any one of those gets the 51 votes to pass then that legislation would be deemed changed and the house would have to decide whether or not to accept those changes. As what you put up on the screen and aides i spoken to privately, they do not want to change this bill. They say in the time it would take to change the bill means the nsa program would go dark. If there is a problem, put the legislation forward and lets try to work on something in the next few weeks after the fact so we dont keep these programs dark anymore. If one of these amendments passes, it will be fascinating to see what the house mood will be but to have mccarthy at the backing of john boehner say to Mitch Mcconnell cant do it cold water, its stunning and i think it shows you on this one the brilliant tact tigs Mitch Mcconnell had a misplay here. Luke russert, thanks for that analysis. Chris coons is voting for the usa freedom act. Senator, youve said the freedom act is not perfect, why are you voting for if you think its not perfect . Im voting for it because this is the first real chance to make substantial changes to the bulk collection program. While still extending some of the strengths and counterterrorism capabilities that we do need to go forward as the conversation just a few moments ago reminded us this is a real moment of failure for Republican Leadership in the senate. I think the fact that the house came together in a big bipartisan vote to advance usa freedom act was a positive for the house and the fact that we were playing last minute games right up until the memorial day recess folk ug s on other bills and trying to jam this bill a clean reauthorization of the patriot act through rather than the usa freedom act was a significant tactical misstep by Mitch Mcconnell. Its my hope that all of the amendments up today will fail, that well ultimately pass the usa freedom act because doing so will make some progress in improving the Bulk Data Collection Program and show we can come together in a bipartisan way and make revisions long overdo. Senator, you say some progress and certainly legislatively this bill deals with the Data Collection thats been so controversial and tries to make that secret fisa court more balanced or fair. But as you know it doesnt deal with the way the nsa misled the public and congress to some degree. It does not deal with the controversial way the nsa seem to be freelancing, spying on even our allies without telling the president which upset a lot of people. What else would you want to see change here with regard to how congress regulates the nsa . Well theres a series of steps proposed both in legislation and in hearings that i think would be strong moves forward but ill just remind you when i first got here five years ago, and we took up these issues the last time the patriot act extension was considered and i was one of a handful who voted against it these issues dbts get any hearing at all. I choose to take this as a step forward. I agree with you that more and stronger and broader controls over how these authorities are being used are needed but frankly in a Republican Controlled Congress to get to a place where the house is overwhelmingly voted for some significant reforms, i think is a step forward and we in the senate should simply take that and enact it into law before we put at rest some of the things essential to protecting our country. It is pretty remarkable there. Thank you so much for your time today. 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Different people tell different stories the commission put together of some scholars and law professors intelligence officials suggested that the Dragnet Program had not resulted in any successful clearly successful circumstances of blocking a terrorist action. That doesnt mean that our other methods of collecting information are necessarily equally as successful but it is not clear that the dragnet collection of information that we gathered is working. However, the flip side of that is we cant know what we dont know. We do know that once we have an individual we can identify we have through the dragnet, the possibility of looking to all numbers that person called and all other numbers that others have called down the line. You hear different stories. Professor, this is an interesting week for following this because its the first time these powers have every expired since 9 11. And of course laws arent like milk or yogurt dont usually expire at all. This was delivery drafted after 9 11 because they wanted the Congress Said a cooling off period to help reassess. And as you know and many of the viewers will remember, thats not what happened in 06 and 2011 treated as a deadline got to do it no real reassessment. What do you make of the fact that this time the deadline has hit and unlike the past times seen as a deadline that had to be avoided were getting a debate and looks like today some change in the reform. Why is that . Certainly you have degree of public support thats far beyond whats ever been before. Some people say the public now has a. M. Mnesia about what life is like after 9 11 and people have a more balanced perception on what the risks and dangers are with regard to bulk Data Collection. At least were having a significant debate. I do not claim that the collection of information like this is necessarily of the constitution. I do think we need to think more seriously than we did after 9 11 far more seriously. Thats a good point. Professor, talk about how we would be thinking about this differently given where the mood of the country is at you think right after 9 11 when all of this came about, we wouldnt be debating this. Really how were feeling at the time, were feeling uneasy and with the rise of isis talk about the impact of that as laws were debating where they stand in terms of how the country is feeling . Well i think there is at least for some parts of the country there is an awareness that the possibility that isis has foreign fighters that may have passports that will allow them entry into the United States raises a number of concerns that have not been present over the last couple of years. Theres probably a Greater Public awareness of the possibility but theres also Greater Public awareness that we ought to criticize our Data Collection processes so that this is the kind of debate we ought to be having at least were getting a more realistic balance with regard to privacy and security in ways we havent had it before. That is rare good news from washington. Thanks so much for joining us. Now well get right to 2016 politics. Hillary clinton has been quietly campaigning for president. She holds small events and keeps a fairly light schedule and only president ial candidate at this point yet to do a single sit down tv interview. That is changing however this month. She Just Announced her first big Campaign Rally will take place a kickoff at Roosevelt Island in new york and shes way ahead of potential rivals in iowa and National Majority says shes not trust worthy and favorable rating hit the lowest level since she was first lady and facing a challenge from socialist democrat Bernie Sanders who even clinton supporters says bring key issues to the table. Heres al franken on msnbc last night. I support hillary for president , i thnk she would make a great president but good for bernie. He had several thousand people out in minnesota, my state the other day and he is raising issues that need to be raised. For more we go to a man who knows president ial Politics Former Party chair and president ial candidate, howard dean endorsed Hillary Clinton. Thanks for being here. I have thanks for having me on. You hear al franken say it and folks say it rach elmaddow making the case this is good for the party and democracy to have the issues on the table. Does that imply that some of these issues that bernie is raising, taking on wall street progressive approach to taxes wouldnt be on the table with a standard Hillary Clinton candidacy . I think that is the implication but its not true. When hillary announced as she did at town meetings and thats in fact exactly what she talked about, is income inequality. Shes been talking about child Early Childhood issues since she got into politics 35 years ago. So i think all this does is sharpen, sharpen her views and her views dont really actually need sharpening and gives her a platform. I think it is good for the party but i also think its going to be good for hillary. Youre obviously a vermonter i am. As ari said jumped in the race officially last week. What do you think about bernie and he seems to be the person who is not hillary catching the most fire on the democratic side right now. Do you think hes the best alternative . Im not looking for an alternative . I have my president ial candidate, Hillary Clinton, i think shes going to win the whole thing. Heres what bernie brings to the race, ive known him a long time. First of all, hes incredibly authentic. This is what hes been talking about this issue for 40 years. Secondly, he is not a dirty campaigner, which is nice when you have primaries. That can get disinstructing and drive up peoples negatives. Hell stick to issues and pretty articulate person i think hell being a plus to the campaign as a whole. He enjoys talking to the media and at times questions them right back and tries to have a debate. As ari was pointing out, hillary does not have a Good Relationship with the press, does not like to speak to the press. Why . Is it some people are saying shes above it all, already a shoein or afraid of making gaffes . I dont think its either one. I dont trust the press. You simply cant trust them. They will write stories before they come and talk to you and look for quotes and fill them in and disguise reporting as opinion. You see the same thing with the president , the president is resented by the press, well that press brings it on themselves. They take on additional jobs getting your name on the front page of your paper is a very important job for you and thats what your editor wants. I know people who have admitted that the editor told them what to write and then they go out looking for quotes. I had a guy used to work telling me they were going to say i was an insider trader if i didnt get mif last ten years of tax returns to them. Hillary clinton shes running for president , might not want to deal with russia either and not trust them this is going to be part of the job. She will when she gets around to it. Shell do it on her timetable not the presss timetable and thats driving the press crazy and im on hillarys side. You can certainly trust us for here. Campaigners come and go what can hillary do to be a better campaigner . I think its going to be perfectly apparent to people when we get into the election its a good thing bernie and Martin Omalley are in the race. When shes on stage debating them, thats going to help her. Shes a person in my view who can best manage this country. Shes a great manager, we need a good manager as president next time. We need somebody with Foreign Policy experience and despite Lindsey Grahams protestations he knows nothing about that experience is clear and potential to manage do you think shes a good campaigner . I think she is a good campaigner but the problem is that the last time she ran there was this aura of inevitability and she has a particular problem because she has her own political career. Bill clinton is the most extraordinary politician that ive seen in night lifetime and i think hes the most extraordinary politician that goes back since franklin roosevelt. She has to run her race not bill clintons race and thats what shes going to do this time. I like exactly what shes doing, talking to small groups of people and getting her points out and driving the press crazy, they are complaining and moaning and groaning. Theyll get over it. It will be on her terms and i think thats fair. Youve got roosevelt on the mind and so does she and shes launching this kickoff at Roosevelt Island. Stay tuned. Howard dean thanks for being here. Thank you. We do look at breaking news in the sports world just days after winning reelection fifas president resigns. And behind the scenes of the cover story actually literally breaking the internet. Literally. Internet broken today. Literally. From the man who spent a lot of time with bruce and Caitlin Jenner and the cycle rolls on for tuesday, june 2nd. Stay with us. Two airplane fuel gauges. Can you spot the difference . No . You cant see that . Alright, lets take a look. 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