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Local industry there. cruz is against it. trump is a big supporter of federal subsidies for ethanol. that's the first issue. and, you know, i think he might go -- i think the second issue is on nsa reform. we've seen marco rubio and cruz split on this. cruz supported the reforms they made to the telephone metadata program. rubio didn't. i have not heard where trump is on that issue. it's an important issue in terms of national security, which trump has been talking about a lot. those are two spots to watch. >> all right. but let's remember that it was not long ago that trump signed this pledge...

Loretta lynch, the attorney general, just said last week her greatest fear is not another terror attack but rather anti-muslim backlash. of course we should all respect each other, but at the same time we can't let political correctness hamstring our fight in the war against radical islamic terror. >> i want to talk about nsa surveillance because a change to the nsa surveillance program took effect just last week, which means the agency cannot automatically access as much information on americans' dmesing phone calls as before. and of course we remember the debate two years ago as this was rev...

The different national objectives. the french, the turks, the russians, the united states, the coalition, all of them are looking at different targets. it's going to be very difficult to get a consolidated approach to defeat isis when there are so many other players involved. >> that's too bad. lieutenant general, thank you. >> thank you, pamela. tomorrow the nsa is set to end its mass telephone metadata program. going forward, the nsa can only ask the phone company for records on a case by case basis. this comes two years after edward snowden disclosed classified details about surveillance ...

>> if we look at what we're doing and whether it works there are number of programs shown not to work, including the telephone metadata program where after it was revealed by edward snowden, all the claims about its success fell apart. >> they were lying. the metadata collection, the violation of privacy didn't work. >> arealy it's the mass collection. we have thrown a much wider net but what we see in almost all cases is when somebody slips through the cracks there was information that could have been used to interdict those attacks, but it's lost in this sea of noise. we're losing the signal...

Why is this necessary? the program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11. one of the 9/11 hijackers, khalid mindar, made a phone call from san diego to a known al qaeda safe house in yemen. nsa saw that call but it could not see that the call was coming from an individual already in the united states. the telephone metadata program under section 215 was designed to map the communications of terrorists so we could see who they may be in contact with as quickly as possible. this capability could also prove valuable in a crisis. for example, if a bomb goes off in one of our ...