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Perhaps, collect, but not wittingly. >> that is, as we now know, completely untrue. in fact, the nsa is collecting bulk data on millions of americans in all sorts of ways. now, underneath bluster of congressman king and the senator is one of the most fascinating high-stakes ideological battles within the republican party, pitting the maximalist wing, including john mccain and lindgy graham on one side, against a rand paul wing that's far more skeptical of foreign intervention and the size of our country's national security apparatus. this fight will move from its rhetorical phase to its legisl...

But not wittingly. >> that is, as we now know, completely untrue. in fact, the nsa is collecting bulk data on millions of americans in all sorts of ways. now, underneath bluster of congressman king and the senator is one of the most fascinating high-stakes ideological battles within the republican party, pitting the maximalist wing, including john mccain and lindsey graham on one side, against a rand paul wing that's far more skeptical of foreign intervention and the size of our country's national security apparatus. this fight will move from its rhetorical phase to its legislative phase as co...

Democratic party and the libertarian wing of the republican party against this and the key recommendations of this committee, especially that the dragnet under surveillance stop you need a court order to look at any particular person's phone data is going to have to be adopted. by the way, this all expires t. legislative authorization expires if 2015. if it is not changed in this respect, it will not be extended. >> so that's, the reporting on this, liza, has said the most consen us the recommendation from the pan sell that, no longer can the government store all of this sort of bulk data on p...

Like if the local police department said we're just going to break into your house, steal everything out of your files and out of your records because someday we may need it. everybody would be in an uproar. the same thing electronically. i got the response when we criticized them. we're going to be careful, protected these records. bologna. this is the same nsa that couldn't protect their greatest secret from a 29-year-old subcontractor who stole them out, marched them off to russia and has been letting them out every other day with embarrassing revelation to the united states. no, they can't...

Authors of the patriot act in 2011 now you're proposing to ban nsa from collecting bulk data among other things. can you pinpoint the moment you changed your mind about this government surveillance programs and decided these programs needed to be curbed? >> i never really changed my mind. i thought in the patriot act i pushed to make it a lot tighter than it was. i joined with conservative leader of the house dick armey to put sunset provisions in. that's one of the reasons we now have this debate because it forced the congress to review it periodically. but we've reached a point where this se...