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Guys access, then you also give the bad guys access. that's where we stand at this moment. any time something like this happens, it ignites the debate all over again, poppy. >> kimberly, could these tech companies laurie's talking about, the biggest ones, apple, google, could they be forced in any way to hand over this data? would it mean a complete rewriting of the laws? >> well, you know, that's how it used to work. when a court would rule that they had to turn over that bulk phone data to the nsa. because the nsa was looking through that data to see if they took a number from terrorists and...

These are tools, and that there have been incidents in the past where these provided information that other methods couldn't. what they would go so far as to say today, though is that this is political posturing by the senate. here's the press secretary. >> unfortunately what we've seen is a whole lot of posturing within the republican party. there's a lot of politics played on this and unfortunately at the expense of the national security and civil liberties of the american people. >> reporter: lots of criticism there. still, what we know is that this bill will likely pass. it's the one that'...

Surveillance program and what the white house will do when the laws enable the bulk collection of data expire sunday night. we're about to hear from president obama himself on the matter. i want to get right to cnn's michelle kosinski at the white house. michelle, the president warned that this law expiring could have dire consequences when it comes to national security but have they provided any evidence of this or is this just potentially the surveillance state making a claim for more power? >> reporter: right. that's the tough part. the white house has ramped up its rhetoric over national s...

Dangerous sprupgsdanger ous interruptions of tracking if the key provision of the patriot act isn't extended. major intelligence program including collection of bulk phone data expires. go to our white house correspondent michelle kaczynski with much more. what are you hearing there, michelle? >> reporter: what we see, the white house making this push for the senate to act. to keep these parts of the patriot act up and running. calling failing to do so national security russian roulette. an unnecessary risk legal limbo, and saying the fbi's work will be severely impacted. 9 clock is ticking. t...

You will with the fbi, federal authorities and state and local officials. a routine regular call but you can assume all of this is going to be a subject of conversation. alisyn. >> absolutely. we're going to be talking about it a lot on "new day" as well. barbara, thanks so much for that. also new this morning, a federal appeals court ruling on the side of privacy saying the nsa collection of americans phone records is illegal. pressure now building on congress and president obama to either end the nsa program or to change it somehow. cnn's white house correspondent jim acosta joins us live....