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Outraged privacy advocates. here is how it will go down if nothing reached. 4:00 p.m. federal government will instruct phone companies to stop collecting this data. four hours later instructions from the government will do that becoming irreversible. that collection can resume 24 hours after congress renews the program. attorney general loretta lynch warning lawmakers they need to hurry up. early this morning on new day, white house secretary josh ernest echoed that. here is what he had to say. >> the president directed his national security team to work in bipartisan fashion with members of c...

Any other secret reinterpretations of our laws must be brought to light. jobs it is to protect your family, my family from the next terror attack, you say it's a mistake for us to retreat at this time. >> well, that's true. but i have to stand with rand on this one. you know, what the intelligence community has not done either openly or apparently in confidential briefings is point to it a single instance in which this bulk data provided the basis for an investigation. in fact it's too much data. they're collecting so much information and such a huge database that it becomes useless. if you tr...

Data and also the patriot act as a whole. did rand paul kill one or two of those things? >> well that's a good question. you're right. it is an extraordinary scene but it wasn't unexpected. republican leadership had been saying a that they were going to try to defeat this house passed bill. that bill that passed the house with 338 votes. that would have moved the collection of bulk data from the government and put it into the hands of the telecom companies. they thought once they had defeated that bill it would pressure the senators who had opposed any kind of short term extension to go ahead ...

It to be to do even simple things to find common ground on even simple policy proposals. this policy proposal is extraordinarily complicated and has significant consequences for the national security of this country and for the basic civil liberties of the american people. >> reporter: the white house is not ruling out president obama's signing a shorter term extension if congress can work it out. >> thank you, mike. i hope you can enjoy a good weekend. a new report that claims no major fbi cases have been cracked using bulk data collected by the nsa but those same agents say it's valuable in ...

Statutory authority that congress gave them under the patriot act by collecting this bulk data. in that sense all the court was doing was ratifying the view of the bill's view of the bill's own authors. what the effect was and the answer to your second part of the question was isolate mitch mcconnel. i was going to say mcconnel thought by reauthorizing the thing clean it would in effect -- >> change the program as it is. >> this ruling means if you enacted it clean, it creates a conflict between a court decision and the fiza courts view of statute. it would in effect undermine the authorizatio...