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Lookie, lookie. what we got here? >> that is not what's in the prompter. >> i'm mara schiavocampo. last time you tried to dodge me. >> i did not. >> last time i was here you called in sick or something. we're together today. >> no. mara schiavocampo, haven't had a chance to sit with you at the desk since i started abc. i know something came up last time you were here. my goodness, good to have you. >> good to be back. >> thank you so much. we got breaking news overnight here. >> the government a short time ago lost its authority to collect the bulk data, your phone records. they lost the abili...

Shgs the, and good to have you here, and how does this standoff affect the united states and the capabilities moving forward. >> thank you for having me on, thomas. america is less safe and we have fewer tool today, and the senate had the opportunity over the weekend to the make critical nsa reforms like we did in the house, and getting rid of the bulk collection, and keeping the tools that we need. i sit on the house intelligence committee and i see that the enemies are plotting 24 hours a day to kill innocent american and not only did we not make the needed reforms wsh reflying blind. >> and...

Years, the national security agency is not collecting your phone data but that will not likely last very long. the acquisition of the bulk data turned off on sunday because the senate allowed key provisions of the patriot act to expire. six out of ten americans want them to renew the surveillance program. many are saying senator rand paul is putting his ambitions to be president above national security. >> even the authors of the patriot act say that the patriot act in no way gives authority to the president to collect all of your phone records all of the time. >> we shouldn't be disarming uni...

They're not giving us the exact location. of the 2,000, 1,000 distributed to the iraqi, the u.s.-led coalition holding on to the other 1,000 for now, perhaps for that reason, wolf? >> barbara, thanks very much. the plug has been pulled now on a key government terror tracking program. at least for now the part of the patriot act that allowed the nsa to collect bulk data on millions of phone calls expired sunday putting one republican presidential candidate right at the center of a huge political firestorm right now. let's go to the white house, correspondent michelle kozinski has more what's go...

Nothing is a silver bullet. that 10 problem people like me have explaining this to the american people because intelligence is fundamentally boring. it is not what you see on the evening television. it is piece by piece, thread by thread. you give up threads. it may not make a difference for a while but it might and over the longer term i'm willing to major that it will, indeed, make a difference. as you pointed out we are more at risk today from internal actors than we have been at any time since 9/11. >> there seems to be a debate how effective and how useful the programs are. let me put thi...