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There's no day the mining and no content. >> bringing this up to today, we have isis. we have a group radical beyond al-qaeda. a heightened threat level. are you concerned about congress may do what they may alter here in the coming weeks? >> i'm concerned that people who claim to be privacy advocates are going to say that some how this intrudes on people's privacy privacy, when it doesn't, and therefore, persuade congress to abandon the program. that was simply deny us another way of tracking down people like the people who did what they were doing in texas. >> in 2006 president obama signed ...

It takes years and years now. where you used to live we can develop new devices in a matter of weeks. it takes sometimes 10 15 years to develop a new weapon system. >> they've become complacent that it's the status quo. >> it's grown so large, so cumbersome that there is a total lack of efficiency. and we're going after it. you'll see a little come throughess that's a reform bill. a whole variety of ways. >> before you sat down we were talking about this the nsa spooiing ing spying program. it's an overreach of bulk data. do you think that -- do you feel better about our security because the n...

On the patriot act, that's a story that's not gotten enough attention. interesting array of bedfellows layhe and ted cruz. >> doesn't get stranger than that. >> odd right. they're going up against the freedom act directly refeuding the original act birthed out by edward edward snowden about bulk data. if it goes tonight floor, we suppose it will pass. then on the republican party, why is mcconnel blocking the bill that will get republican support, i presume from the leadership that's been reseptember issive. he has to answer why he wants to keep the patriot act status quo. that's an interestin...

To make its pivot to asia. luke? >> and, chuck, a big piece of news coming out over the last day that i think a lot of folks in the united states will care about, as well as some of those world leaders that are hanging out with president obama right now. that is a significant change in policy. the president announced regarding the nsa and how it collects all that metadata and whether or not the government will continue to do that. >> reporter: well, look, here is what we know about the nsa and what we don't. i expect, by the way, in the next 90 minutes the president will be doing a press confe...

The telephone database program. they had presented me now with an option i think is workable and it addresses the two core concerns the people have. number one, the idea of government storing bulk data generally. this ensures that the government is not in possession of that bulk data. i want to emphasize once again that some of the dangers that people hypothesize when it came to bulk data, there were clear safeguards against, but i recognize people were concerned about what might happen in the future with that bulk data. this proposal that's been presented to me would eliminate that concern. t...