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Shgs the, and good to have you here, and how does this standoff affect the united states and the capabilities moving forward. >> thank you for having me on, thomas. america is less safe and we have fewer tool today, and the senate had the opportunity over the weekend to the make critical nsa reforms like we did in the house, and getting rid of the bulk collection, and keeping the tools that we need. i sit on the house intelligence committee and i see that the enemies are plotting 24 hours a day to kill innocent american and not only did we not make the needed reforms wsh reflying blind. >> and...

Down in washington, d.c. no last minute dill on the hill in the post 9/11 surveillance laws. several parts have expired. >> members of the senate couldn't move past the grid lock they could throw accusations at each other. >> james, welcome to the morning. have you been watching this. >> i have indeed. good morning to you. love him or hate him, there is no denying that senator rand paul has emerged as a polarizing senator. the lawmakers failed to renew three critical provisions of the 9/11 era patriot act. including the bulk collection meta data surveillance program the national security agenc...

Allow us to get the job done and do it by the book. also none of the national security agencies whether the fbi, nsa, none of them can go back and say how there has been even one instance where section 215 has actually thwarted a terrorist plot. >> he's right on the fact that the intelligence community review that the president ordered came back and said that section 215 really wasn't very critical piece of -- >> bulk collection. >> yeah, in part because the hay stack that you're creating is so massive that it's very difficult to actually find that needle. they say we need a haystack to begin ...

Including the bulk collection of americans' phone records. >> that would mean disarming completely and arbitrarily basened 0 a campaign of disinformation in the face of growing aggressive and sophisticated threats. that's a totally unacceptable outcome. >> reporter: but that is what happened last night. the programs expired. senator rand paul blocked even an extension of them. >> i object. >> reporter: and he opposes the bipartisan bill already passed by the house that puts the data collection in the hands of the phone companies. he says that's still the same overreach, that there are other wa...

Community, you talk to people who track this very closely, that we're essentially naked now. it's important when you talk about this there is a lot of hyperbowly on both this as far as what it's doing, not doing. for the rand paul folks, this is a big win. it made a statement. they believe that they're going to pass on either tomorrow or wednesday this usa freedom act which will change the way that the bulk collection happens. it will reinstate some of the patriot act provisions. you know you've got to a point where this debate was heated. >> let's listen to a little bit of it. >> people say h...