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Yes. i still continue to stand behind the commitment to keep america safe and by conducting lawful intelligence collection. when i was referring to meta data, i was talking about the meta data program that the usa freedom act has now changed in fundamental ways. you should recall i voted for the usa freedom act and i understand its restrictions, its restrictions on efforts by all of the u.s. government to collect information. >> but you wrote in op-ed since the passage of the law. so after the law past you said let's get back into the business of collecting all of this meta data and i'm curiou...

Is two things. number one, it ended the government's bulk collection of phone me that data of millions of law abiding citizens. the second part is critical. it strengthened the tools of national security and law enforcement to go after terrorists. >> this is not just the most capable. it is the most sophisticated terror threat we have effaced. we need more tools not less. that toolle we lost, the meta data program was a valuable tool we no longer have at our disposal. >> kim, two formidable debaters there. ted cruz said he made the vote because the meta data didn't go over the bad guys. it wen...

It nice, thomas. >> katy tur doing a great job with the rolling stones with a background band there and with the trump campaign. now to nbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki. you have been looking into manager that came out of the mouth of ted cruz. >> a headline this morning that maybe the cruz campaign didn't want but richard burr republican from north carolina, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee and said they're looking into whether ted cruz released any classified information last night in that debate discussing the meta data program. let's play the clip. this ...

>> it's a sad couple of days with the tragic events in san bernardino yesterday and the obviously the fbi hasn't made their /@4x ial determination. it looks like the main suspect may have been radicalized in some way. yesterday as it was happening, president obama said this about the issue ofk gun control. >> for those who are concerned about terrorism, some may be aware of the fact that we have a no-fly list where people can't get on planes. but the same people we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the united states and buy a firearm and there's nothing that we can do to st...

Between hillary clinton and florida senator marco rubio as well. worth noting these results are not within the margin of error, which is just over a couple of percentage points. so that's just how tight they are. caitlin huey burns is here. let's start with those two. in particular senator rand paul. 10 1/2 hours on the senate floor, the filibuster against the government watching us through its huge meta data program, nsa. he's gotten a lot of attention recently. >> some of the most interesting debates this cycle have happened on the senate floor with rand paul. he's running against washington...