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>> there's not unanimous support in either party. one the shenanigans from senator paul, this passed a year ago in the house, bipartisan and they couldn't get it done in the senate. >> what should the president be doing now? he wants the bulk data collection lone wolf collection all this kind of stuff, he wants to make sure that it continues. >> i think he's going to get it. i think the people are working behind the scenes as i understand it to get the results sooner rather than later. i saw your report from michelle kosinski i think it will be the next couple of days and that will be good. >> the president's approval numbers in the new cnn poll that we have rating how he's handling the isis threat it's down to only look at this, 32% approve of the way the president's handling the war against isis 63% disapprove. that's a disturbing number if you're with the president, right? >> well i think it's a disturbing number but important to understand that polling the not security afternoon you end up with people who disapprove of the entire idea of being
martin o'malley have been trying to attract. what has she said about immigration? she has come out even before these guys were rung saying she wants a full and equal path to citizenship for immigrants and protections for the parents of dreamers. same-sex marriage she says it should be a constitutional right. she is already shifted trying to keep together this obama coalition of the lgbt hispanic americans, african americans and so on. >> does the rand paul strategy on the nsa surveillance, that politically smart on his part? >> it depends who you ask. the rand paul say yeah, this is the coalition we're trying to knit together. we want independence. we want libertarians, even some democrats could vote for us in new hampshire. they're raising a lot of money off of this wolf off of his appearance on the senate floor here. but lots of people who thought that rand paul was really a more serious candidate who had some
less safe and what's more i think we're less safe today than we were four or five years ago because we have increasingly been tying our own hands, limiting our ability to gather information and that is the key way that we find out about and stop terrorist attacks. >> you totally disagree with senator rand paul? >> yes, and i think it is wrong for anyone to play politics with national security whether you're a senator running for president, or whether you're the president, and i'm reminded president obama threatened to veto a defense bill that came out of our committee 60-2 because he wanted to use that as leverage to increase spending on epa, irs and other domestic issues. both ways are playing politics with the feds are wrong. >> don't you think senate rand paul is sincere, he really believes this is a violation of americans' privacy? >> i have no doubt -- i can't
none of them will be rand paul's changes, right? these are republican endorsed changes perhaps that maybe lengthen the period of time from when the bulk data collection is handed over to phone companies. but not rand paul's changes. so what is the real change? >> thank you very much. ryan guys thanks very much. this is an important day here at cnn. cnn turns 35 years old today. in fact this hour exactly 35 years ago, cnn began reporting the news. anderson cooper is back with us right now, taking a look at some of the remarkable stories all of us have covered over the past -- i've been here for 25. you have been here for 13 years. anderson tell us a little bit more about some of the work that you're most proud of. because i know you're very proud of the coverage that you and our team did in haiti. >> yeah i would certainly say haiti, hurricane katrina, the tsunami. i think cnn has this extraordinary ability to marshall global resources on a big story like that. and send teams from all around the world.
it's coming at the expense of the national security and civil liberties of the american people. >> reporter: yet the white house still won't say definitively if the american public is at greater risk because of the lapse. it won't give examples of times these programs worked calling them important tools that have yielded information, not found through other means. >> we need to be as vigilant at possible. >> reporter: the war right now at home is political. republican senators slamming paul's rhetoric. >> some of those facts have been misrepresented and i listed some quotes from what senator paul had said that simply are not true. obviously, he is running for president. >> reporter: even today the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell tried to collect the unanimous votes necessary to move forward and vote on this issue possibly as soon as tonight. again, he was blocked by rand paul. the thing is this ultimately will likely pass but probably with amendments p certain senators want to see things to
>> in the white house you were communications adviser to the president. the criticism is he really didn't do enough to convince congress to extend the patriot act. if it was so important to u.s. national security why wasn't he more vocal? >> i think there's criticism of this administration and congress and this one is particularly unfair. this say problem created by one senator from kentucky which happens to be the home state of the senate majority leader a problem a democratic president can't fix. he's made the case i think it will get resolved eventually. it's unfortunate senator paul decided to play politics and raise money while doing this. it's unfortunate but that's really something that is a problem, this could have been solved a long time ago but mitch mcconnell fumbled the ball. >> it's not just rand paul. patrick leahy opposes it as well.
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 posturing, and
>> reporter: graham barely scratching 1% in most polls knows he has a tough hill to climb. cnn is told he's running primarily to force a debate within the gop on foreign policy. >> those who believe we can disengage from the world at large and be safe by leading from behind vote for someone else. >> reporter: the not so subtle dig at rand paul graham's chief foil particularly on national security. for months the two have exchanged long distance barbs and graham was caught rolling his eyes last month at paul talked. >> tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection. >> paul's headline-making filibuster temporarily stopped the government's data dragnet program which graham and most other republicans call essential. it was a welcome contrast for graham. >> so little by little we've allowed our freedom to slip away we allowed the fourth amendment to be diminished. >> reporter: paul is have
at least parts of the patriot act even though several key spying programs have expired due to senate gridlock and politics. the obama administration is pushing for quick action. let's go to the white house. our correspondent michelle kosinski is standing by with the latest. >> reporter: started with a storm over how best to protect our national security and privacy, and now of course it has also become a political storm. you have senator rand paul claiming victory now that these parts of the patriot act actually did expire for now. but as a result he's taking a verbal beating from some within his own party calling his tactics political posturing, and fund-raising. >> people here in town they i'm making a huge mistake. some of them i think secretly want there to be an attack on the united states so they can blame it on me. >> reporter: kentucky's two senate republicans at odds. >> the senate will be in order. >> reporter: over allows parts of the patriot act to lapse
now because some aspects of this are no longer being used or do they have some sort of plan b in business right now to make sure that they're not unsafe that the american public is still secure? >> look i know you know the people that try to defend america are working their tail off every day to do that. i do think at this moment in time we are less safe without this data collection. we've talked intelligence experts all over that say this is a piece of the overall intelligence gathering puzzle we use to defend the united states of america. so i think the senate's going to do the right thing and put something back in place, but i have no doubt that today we are less safe because of this. >> on this issue, it's an important issue, you and senator rand paul totally disagree? >> this and many other issues sure. >> talk about other ish you are as as well. a quick break. much more with congressman adam kinsinger, when we come back. super poligrip seals out more food particles. so your food won't get stuck and you can enjoy