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Surveillance program and what the white house will do when the laws enable the bulk collection of data expire sunday night. we're about to hear from president obama himself on the matter. i want to get right to cnn's michelle kosinski at the white house. michelle, the president warned that this law expiring could have dire consequences when it comes to national security but have they provided any evidence of this or is this just potentially the surveillance state making a claim for more power? >> reporter: right. that's the tough part. the white house has ramped up its rhetoric over national s...

D.c. this meeting started an hour ago. what is the white house's plan to salvage these sections of the patriot act that the president insists are absolutely critical to national security? >> reporter: right. we will hear from the president today on this. this is maybe no surprise to anyone truly down to the wire and this is the white house's last push. they've been contacting members of the senate. they've also been ramping up their rhetoric almost trying to shame members of the senate into keeping these parts of the patriot act up and running that are set to expire. one of them of course is t...

Occupation. >> he was taking -- and he was taking this out at first in chunks of $50,000 and when the banks noticed, in ten. >> not a lot of people can do that even people with wealth. >> absolutely. >> we'll see what he says if he does come out publicly and say more about this indictment. thank you very much lynn. great pleasure. developing now on capitol hill the clock is ticking on key provisions of the patriot act vet to expire sunday at midnight. the senate is planning to return to d.c. for a rare sunday session to try to reauthorize a number of government surveillance programs newing the...

>> well i'm still, i'm one of the republican voters that's very frustrated. we were told if they got majority we'd get changes, we haven't. i would like to see them fighting for domestic energy production federal land federal waters harder to reign in the epa. harder to invest in our military and shrink the size of the federal government before it swallows our economy and turns the american dream into the european nightmare. so i'm one of those frustrated republican voters who gave them the majority in the senate kept the majority in the house, we'd like to see more results. you know this is a...

1st in addition to the bulk collection of phone data. one is collecting information on businesses and hotels and bank records which is used 180 times a year. the white house says there are other ways to get information, but those are limited and secret. there are wire taps for people who keep using cell phones. the white house says there is no other authority that would allow investigators to track those people. and lastly the lone wolf provision. this is talked about a lot. it let's them wire tap and track people who have not been linked to one terror group. this has never been used and it on...