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Public is less safe today now that the four patriot act programs have expired. they refer us to intelligence officials. they also still won t use any concrete examples of how any of these programs helped in the past. they say that national security concerns prevent them from giving away that information, and they say that you know they have used in the past to generate some information that wasn t obtained through other means. what the white house will do freely is criticize the senate. here s this. unfortunately what we ve seen is a whole lot of posturing within the republican party. there s a lot of politics being played on this and unfortunately it s coming at the expense of the national security and civil liberties of the american people. reporter: rand paul is pretty much doing a victory lap over this. the programs have indeed expired at least for now, but the price he paid is that he s taking a verbal beating from even members in his own party, calling his tactics political p ....
The senate floor last night from the two republican senators from kentucky. mitch mcconnell and rand paul. these aren t theoretical threats, mr. president. not theoretical threat. they are with us every day. we have to face up to them. we shouldn t be disarming unilaterally as our enemies grow more sophisticated. the people who argue that the world will end and we will be overrun by jihadists tonight are trying to use fear. they want to take a bit of your liberty, but they get it by making you afraid. they want you to fear and give up your liberty. reporter: in the end by a vote of 77-17, the senate did agree to proceed to debate on the usa freedom act. the bill already passed the house. they would keep the patriot act ....
the people who argue the world will end and we will be overrun by jihadists tonight are trying to use fear. they want to take your liberty, but doing it by making you afraid. reporter: in the end by a vote of 77-17, the senate did agree to proceed to debate on the usa freedom act. the bill already passed the house. they keep the patriot act programs going while reforming the phone data collection program. this sets up a vote for final passage around mid week in the senate. that is because of senate procedural rules and also amendments that may end up being voted upon. if they amend that usa freedom act that passed the house, it will have to go back to the house so they can consider the changes. this is far from over. john christine. athena jones, thank you. more tributes overnight to beau ....
Threats, mr. president. they are with us every day. we have to face up to them. we shouldn t be disarming unilaterally as our enemies grow more sophisticated. the people who argue that the world will end and we will be overrun by jihadists tonight are trying to use fear. they want to take just a little bit of your liberty but they get it by making you afraid. they want you to fear and give up your liberty. reporter: in the end by a vote of 77-17, the senate did agree to proceed to debate on the u.s. freedom act. the bill already passed the house. they keep the patriot act programs going while reforming the phone data collection program that has been controversial. this sets up a vote for final passage around mid week in the senate. that s because of senate procedural rules and amendments. ....
Problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who was engaged in dangerous activity but we didn t do so simply because of inaction in the senate. reporter: even though the white house has not or cannot produce even one case where some of these patriot act programs saved the day, first important tools, just because they may not have cracked any one particular important case doesn t mean they won t be violets in the future and also they say why let any risk come into play here if the senate doesn t vote? i mean, the argument really is that first of all, for privacy. if the senate would vote for this bill the house has already passed on a largely bipartisan basis, to take the hands of bulk phone data collection out of the government and put it in the hands of the phone companies, that would settle that question and wom still protect national security. not all senators including rand ....