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O'reilly. in the miller time segment tonight, let's get to the sage of southern california joins us from santa barbara. miller, your daily radio syndicated program can you hear it from folks all over the country what are they saying to you? >> you know, i would say the most interesting tid bit i gleaned a woman who doesn't call a lot but comments a lot on the site. mary z fine boy who fought for us named andrew. she said the must interesting thing. you have to keep your ear to the ground because people have insights when she said the reason nobody is laying claim to this like they do in the pa...

Jimmy carter was one of the first americans who raise questions about our so-called drone use. he wanted to know what are the legal underpinnings. he did that last june and then again in december it was picked up and put-back down. ron lawton, senator from oregon, and the aclu sued the obama administration. ran paul, to his credit, went to the senate well and spent 13 hours driving home this big issue. >> anita, where were the democrats then in this? why didn't they come help him? >> there were democrats. the reality is that he was filibustering on an issue that the white house had fundamental...

The older i get the more patient i am with them. >> john mccain criticized rand paul. >> marco rubio, all those guys take the senate floor and they didn't defer to the, you know, bigger defense is automatically better republicans. >> i think this is good at two levels. one is, republicans need to get over sitting around passively waiting for their leadership. to have a ted cruz, a rand paul, this is a healthy firm. i think the issue raised was real. conservatives fear big government. the constitution was written to control government, not control the american people. it's perfectly legitimate ...

And then in december it was picked up and put back down. ron wasson, from oregon, raised questions about the so-called drone use. and the aclu sued the obama administration almost back in january of 2010, but rand paul to his credit, went to the senate well, and spent 13 hours driving home this big issue. >> anita, where were the democrats then in this? why didn't they help him? >> there were democrats. the reality is that, you know, he was filibustering on an issue where the white house had fundamentally said they agreed with him and gave him what he wanted which was a very explicit statement...

All immigrant communities. >> let me ask you about a couple of things in the news lately. one has been senator rand paul's filibuster seeking answers on a policy on drone use in the u.s. senator john mccain to a certain extent, lindsey graham came out and criticized that filibuster. and it was seen as kind of an old guard, young turk sort of divide in the republican party. if you had to describe what is going on now inside the republican party, how would you describe it? >> i would say it is a natural process of where there's divergence, people can express their views openly. but that on the b...