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Collection. says if congress wants to be able to do this, they need to explicitly pass a law that forces telephone companies to do this or not. where are you on this? are you willing to pass a specific law that allows for bulk data collection, whether held by the phone companies or the government? >> i think here's the thing. the president, the house and a number of members of the senate believe that we need to change that program. the way to change it is simply to go to the pfizer court for a query, permission to go to a telecom and get that data. the question is whether the telecoms will hol...

All 50 states they have some potential isis follower they are following. do they have the resources to deal with this? is it the type of threat we should throw even more money at? >> well, i will tell you this. if they don't have the resources, they just have to come to the president and congress and they are going to get the resources. i mean, this is a matter of prime defense of the homeland. it would come first. director comey has said in their 56 field offices, they have investigations in every one. it takes 30 agents to surveil one person. it's an amazingly intensive personnel issue. havi...

>> okay senator, also another potential to 16 candidate weighed this on the bulk data collection suggests it's the best thing president obama has done. take a listen. >> i would say the best part of the obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs. the nsa being enhanced advancing this. >> what would you like to say to governor bush now that the courts have deechled the program illegal? >> i think as it gets out across the country he'll discover not many agree with him. i think most americans think you shouldn't have your reco...

The young brothers that were the bombers in boston. we already had some information about them. we weren't pursuing the information. and think about the person from phoenix just recently. that's where i am right now, that traveled over to texas to commit jihad. we knew about one of them but we weren't following them and pursuing their information. i think we made the haystack so big by searching every americans' records that we're not spending enough time actually isolating in on the people who have shown some proclivity to attack us. >> okay. senator, also another potential 2016 candidate wei...

Potential to 16 candidate weighed this on the bulk data collection suggests it's the best thing president obama has done. take a listen. >> i would say the best part of the obama administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs. the nsa being enhanced advancing this. >> what would you like to say to governor bush now that the courts have deechled the program illegal? >> i think as it gets out across the country he'll discover not many agree with him. i think most americans think you shouldn't have your records collected. now the second ...