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-- greater privacy restraints. will this amendment pass? rand paul said he expects it to but we really don't know. if it doesn't pass, rand paul is probably going to filibuster on the senate side. a lot of this right now in the debate over the trump dossier, whether or not americans were unmasked going back to the election of a year ago. >> sandra: the house is voting on the controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used with the phony dossier to surveil and abuse the trump campaign by the previous administration and others with a question mark. >> bill: the debate under...

Understood and so i appreciate your patience as i talk through in my opening statement the value of 702 to our intelligence community and to keeping americans safe. intelligence collection under section 702 of the fisa amendment has produced and continues to produce significant intelligence that is vital to protect the nation against international terrorism, against cyber threats, weapons, proliferators and other threats. at the same time, section 702 provides strong protections for the privacy and civil liberties of our citizens. today, the horrific attacks that recently have occurred in euro...

The democrats have always felt vulnerable on that so it's sort of ends up being the sort of perfect storm that lusz legislation forward. it's not surprising in the house, sandy supplemental bill that they have put together, not a dime was taken out of any of the veteran's funding, for instance, in that thing. everything else got at least a little bit of the nick but cemetery funding or facilities construction for veterans all was held and that was the only part of that that was. >> and the missing link there was president obama. as you said the democrats feel a little vulnerable here. if you g...

American's records is worth filibustering for. this vote will be interesting to watch this morning because we think we have the votes. all night long republican and democratic leadership have been twisting arms and trying to bribe people to change their votes. we think we'll beat them this morning. >> bill: do you think this amendment will pass? >> i think it will be very, very close. we'll see what happens. also watch them because they need to be held accountable if they pull the vote at the last minute if they think they'll lose. >> bill: let's see what happens over time. take me back to the...