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 going on. reporter: wolf even today mitch mcconnell tried to gather the unanimous votes together to possibly move forward and vote on the issue tonight but once again, he was blocked by rand paul. the white house meanwhile keeps urging the senate to act in the name of national security calling this an unnecessary risk but the white house still won t go so far as to say the american