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Tonight. three key provisions of the patriot act are set to expire. that would include one which the controversial bulk phone data program operates. this is what collects that meta data telephone numbers, how long a call lasts. it does not include contents of calls. the use of the so-called roveing wiretaps. this allows the government to tap several phones for a person who changes phones frequently. and the lone wolf nonamerican citizens believed to be engaged in terrorism activities but not linked to a terrorist group. they passed a compromised reform bill. that is supported by the white hous...

Administration which would extend the key provisions but would reform the bulk data program. that telephone data would be kept in the hands of phone companies instead and will require the government to seek a court order for access. >> the head of the washington spy machine! barack obama! >> reporter: today, republican senator rand paul is preparing to get back in the ring, vowing to do all he can to stop the surveillance programs, unless changes are made to weaken them. >> this is a debate about whether or not a warrant with a single name of a single company can be used to collect all of the ...

Records and roving wiretaps for burned phones and the ability to track a nonamerican lone wolf. all powers the administration claims are essential to fighting terrorists. >> it would be irresponsible, it would be reckless. we shouldn't allow it to happen. >> reporter: the house has already passed a compromised bill supported by the administration which would extend the key provisions but would reform the bulk data program. that telephone data would be kept in the hands of phone companies instead and will require the government to seek a court order for access. >> the head of the washington spy...

States and who they're talking to abroad, and stop the active terrorism before it begins by fighting them over there rather than being here, and the tsarnaev brothers -- look, i thought it was cute. hate to say it about something the judge says because he is very smart. when he said they're listen to you and me talk, that's not what the bulk data program does. i doesn't listen in on a conversation of a single person. it keeps a record of a phone number being called from to a phone number being called to and the day and time. so unless the tsarnaev brothers talked to the phone number of some ca...

Wanted -- one of the first things she said was how she wanted to get money to politics. the problem is that you can't do that unilaterally. you've got to win first. i think she's realized that such is the scale of money against her. and such is her ability to raise money. she's got to pitch in and make her super pac gets some support. so yeah there's a slight hypocrisy in it, but it's hard to see what else she'd do. >> the other big story in politics today, the federal court overruling the nsa surveillance program. with you're from in the u.k. there's debate over how much surveillance to have ...