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U.s.a. freedom act which the house overwhelmingly passed last week which would ask the telecom companies to keep the phone records instead of the nsa. senate republican leaders are not convinced it will work or maybe very inefficient so they're pushing for a two-month extension of current lawyer. democrats don't like that. so there's talk of a shorter extension, perhaps one week. the senate majority leader favors to -- two months. >> be a mistake to take from our intelligence community, any of the valuable tools needed to build a complete picture of terrorist nutworks and their plans such as t...

Big headline this morning, isis taking over the ancient city of palmyra. and syria putting more priceless artifacts and a lot of human life at risk. back in iraq the terror group is continuing its push toward baghdad, firming up its grip on ramadi. the u.s. is responding by rushing 1,000 anti-tank rockets to iraq security forces. this according to the "new york times." kentucky senator rand paul with a 10 and a half hour plea to his colleagues not to extend the nsa's bulk data collection program would require an extension the key provision of the patriot act which paul calls unpatriotic. rem...

The national security agency won't be saving records on your calls or e-mails. the president made that clear yesterday. wikileaks founder julian assange ridiculed the president's proposals as quote, embarrassing. our national correspondent joins us from washington with the latest reaction with the reformed proposals. >> these are supposed to reassure americans are worried about potential privacy concerns and while there will be some added safeguards, that controversial bulk data collection program is sticking around. the nsa reforms are meant to reassure. >> the united states is not spying on ...

Excollection of americans records is legal. in this his ruling he suggests the collect of data helps had the government connect the dots. any evidence in this collection has ever stopped one terror threat? >> not according to the president's own review board. they found that there was little evidence to suggest that this was really helpful in stopping terrorist threats, at least this particular program. you know, alex, this is something that's going to be decided on a political level again before it even reaches the supreme court level. the patriot act expired, the provision in the patriot act...