senator chuck scott all of whom supported the ussa freedom act. do you stand by that vote still? absolutely. we hear law enforcement officers saying they can t get the san bernardino terrorist over the past five years because of that vote. if you look at what that decision did, it s interesting. there were two polls on that debate. on one side you had my friend and colleague senator rand paul who wanted to shut down communications all together. i disagree with rand on that. the other side had marco rubio who had no changes whatsoever. we re safer when they have the ability to read your phone calls and e-mails. is marco rubio a big government republican? he has far too often othagre with hillary clinton and barack
daughters into harms way they need to win with overwhelming force and get the heck out. marco says you made america less safe because of your position on nsa data collection. what do you say to that? marco is a good friend and we serve together. yesterday he wrote a fan taste rancic article and conservative view that said he needs to stop engaging. the attack adds he s running against me are false. what s false? his super pack is spending $200 million. what they re saying is was i supported the ussa freedom act and strengthen the ability to go after terrorist that somehow i m responsible and along with me con seb tifs like tim lee and
make sure the phone companies will collect this data in a usable way. bottom line it will take time but we could see a vote tomorrow wolf. we ll see what happens. michelle thank you. let s get more. joining us in the situation room republican congressman adam kinsinger of illinois who served in the u.s. air force in both iraq and afghanistan. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. where do you stand on this should they renew the patriot act? do something else? how concerned are you? look it absolutely should be renewed. the whole thing? the whole thing. i voted for the ussa freedom act. a fine backup pt end of the day, we can t leave ourselves unprotected. senator paul is postures. i think they believes some of it. getting pointers he s running for president, a as senator he put out a budget blueprint for himself he slashed the united states military significantly. he s 2r50ied to remake himself later hire 1,000 new fbi actsi m