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Data away from the government and have it be held by the telecom companies. they re worried this bill doesn t give them the assurances they need that the data will be there when they need it to be. they may they ll try to move on some kind of maybe amendment or try to change the bill. the problem is there s no way that they re going to be able to get that legislation passed through congress and to the president s desk before the midnight deadline. so this program is expected to sunset. absolutely. it will expire and go down for a while. that s for sure. there s another problem. that is in the form of senator rand paul who said yesterday, i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. will he be able to do this? senator paul has said he doesn t want to allow senator mcconnell to expedite a vote on the usa freedom act or to allow votes to extend the patriot act by a few days. that s exactly what he did a few weeks ago. and you know he hinted friday in south carolina ....
We re dark and heaven forbid we ve got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who was engaged in dangerous activity but we didn t do so because of inaction in the senate. well the senate will return from recess to hold a rare sunday session in an attempt to reach a compromise before the midnight dead aline but that may not be easy. senator rand paul in a statement today said tomorrow i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. on tuesday, secretary kerry will meet in paris with his international counterparts for the latest meeting of the global coalition against isis. it comes at what can only be described as a low point in the u.s. led mission with isis seizing major territory in iraq and syria nearly unopposed by the forces on the ground. joining me is a career counter terrorism officer in the u.s. navy and intelligence agencies and one of the foremost experts on al qaeda and its affiliates ....
Means that any program that was started before the expiration date could continue but the other programs they ve voiced concern about like lone wolf roving wire taps still an option to continue them and the government has not said they won t continue them under the grandfather clause. to the information that s been collected what happens to that? that s interesting as far as the bulk collection program. the nsa said they are not going to wipe the servers. they re just going to turn them off. they can t destroy the information as there s a lot of lawsuits obviously hitting the government for using this information, violating bill of rights and constitutional rights of american citizens and actually a res press servation order that s valid that requires the government not destroy that because it s evidence. for people who want to prove their case. ali, come see us again. thank you so much. thanks for having me. a programming note tomorrow on meet the press meet the can cats, ....
Government the ability to sweep up the phone records of millions of americans, opponents like senator rand paul say it s a violation of privacy rights. paul blocked that measure or any amended version of that measure in the senate last week by arguing against it for more than ten hours and today, he is digging in his heels vowing to do the same thing tomorrow. here s what he released in a statement, he says, quote, i believe we must fight terrorism and i believe we must stand strong against our enemies but do not need to give up who we are to defeat them. we misnot. there has to be another way. tomorrow i will force the expiration of the nsa illegal spy program. there you have it from senator rand paul. the white house and even republicans say that paul is just trying to gin up support for his presidential campaign. they say these provisions are key to protecting the nation to fighting against terrorists and they also point to the fact ....
Alex that it a compromised measure passed with broad bipartisan support in the house and paul is refusing to back that. what do we expect to happen tomorrow? no one is sure. it seems unlikely the senate will reach a compromise. even if senators can reach some type of compromise agreement, the house is not back in session until monday which means it is very likely that key parts of this legislation will, in fact, expire. i ve been talking to senior administration officials who say that the programs are so vast they are so complicated that they ll have to start dismantling them tomorrow afternoon and the program will be shut down by about 8:00 p.m. tomorrow evening. alex? okay. . it s quite extraordinary right now what s going on. thank you very much. kristen welker from the white house. other news, a religiously charged rally in phoenix friday night attracted a sizable crowd and heavily police presence. on one side of the street a group of anti-islam protesters armed with guns wavin ....