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At midnight. roving wiretap authority for the fbi to track terror suspects and a lone wolf provision. kentucky's rand paul says he won. >> the court has said that this bulk collection of all of our phone records is illegal. from here on out beginning this week the government will not collect your phone records in bulk. i think that's a huge victory. >> reporter: but a temporary one as the senate is expected to pass a house compromise in the coming days. >> so now what in the senate are they coming back today? tomorrow? what? >> they voted last night 77-17 on a preliminary vote on that house pa...

>> you awegree phil? >> when the u.s. government comes in to syria, we'll give you weapons to fight each other. your goal oust president assad. if you're going to use weapons against assad we prefer not. in these complex situations, 25 years of government you've got to really -- got to reduce complexity to simplicity. that's if we don't share the goal of ousting assad with moderate syrian oppositionists they'll be confused and not know where we stand with them. >> question to you, fran. do you think the american public is less secure today because some speects of the patriot act lapsed? >> i d...

In authorities is as short-lived as possible." let's take a look at exactly what has expired. the so-called lone wolf provision allows agencies to monitor people believed to be acting alone and not directed by a terror group. the white house says it has never been used. >> the roving wiretap provision has also lapsed. it lets investigators tap any phone of any terror suspect without needing a new warrant. and the most controversial is the data collection which let the nsa get phone record of millions of americans and keep them for years. any new collection has stopped. but any open investigati...

A few days. the nsa's collection of phone records goes dark, so does the roving wiretap authority to track a target as he switches phones, perhaps one phone to another to avoid detection, and the lone wolf provision which allows investigating individuals who are not linked to a terror group. again, you said it could, it might not. how seriously is the former head of the nsa, former head of the cia, how seriously does this jeopardize our national security? is the country potentially in greater danger of a terrorist attack because we will not have these capabilities? >> absolutely. and why would...

Community policing and human trafficking, but i thought this would be a good opportunity before we break for the weekend to just remind everyone that on sunday at midnight a whole bunch of authorities that we use in order to prevent terrorist attacks in this country expire. now, fortunately the house of representatives was able to put forward a piece of legislation, the uss usa freedom act that received overwhelming bipartisan support and what it does is not only continue authorities that currently exist and are not controversial -- for example, the capacity of the fbi for our other law enforc...