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Enforcement may have had a connection or two between one of the actors and other terrorists. but because the connection wasn't deep enough or certain enough, they have kind of let that investigation slide. i've heard several people comment over the past couple of days that the fbi doesn't have enough people on the streets to follow up on some of the leads. i think i understand what the problem is, but i don't think the fbi really takes advantage of over 700,000 men and women in the state and local level, over 12,000 police departments to share that. we're never going to build up the fbi so the...

To god forbid tomorrow morning there is a paris attack in the upd, the first question everyone's going to have is why didn't we know about it and why didn't we stop it? >> senator marco rubio taking a swipe at the expiration today of the government's bulk data collection program as the u.s. and the world face an increased terror threat. and it's time now for our sunday group. fox political analyst brit hume, former democratic congresswoman jane harmon. fox news chief washington correspondent james rosen author of the new book cheney one-on-one, and robert costa from "the washington post." brit...

Fund-raising. the reality is that this bipartisan bill that already passed the house, that takes the bulk data collection out of the hands of the government and puts it with the phone companies will likely pass just with some amendments attached. some senators for example, want to make sure the phone companies are going to collect this stuff in a way that the government can eventually find useful. bottom line, wolf it's going to take some time but we could see a vote as early as tomorrow. >> we'll stay on top of that michelle thank you. let's get more on what's going on republican congressman ...

Mean? it's not just this bulk data collection program but this loan wolf provision it's called. there is a provision that allowed for wiretappings. if that happens, what will that mean for the american people? >> first of all, the loan wolf provision has not been used and so while i think that's important to have in there, i think the bigger concern is on the sort of winding this down instead of having a way to move forward which we have with the raus freedom act. remember the data collection has to stop. it would be much better to have a transition between the two and have a bill passed.

Wiretap wiretap. so if we know there's an individual who where there's probable cause, that that individual might be engaged in a terrorist act, but is switching cell phones we can move from cell phone to cell phone. not a controversial provision. those authorities would be continued. what the usa freedom act also does is it reforms the bulk data collection program that has been of significant concern and that i promised we could reform over a year and a half ago. so we now have democrats and republicans in both the house and the senate who think this is the right way to go. we've got our law ...