person next tuesday. we ll see if actually comes to fruition. four more days until you re all al roker s. see you soon. all right, chuck. we will meet in person on tuesday. and as chuck just reported, the president s auto pen signature extended portions of the patriot act, just minutes before those provisions were set to expire. this following a long day on capitol hill. and for that, we go to kelly o donnell, nbc news capitol hill correspondent. kelly, good morning. how did this all go down? reporter: well, it certainly was a long fight and the auto pen signing just caps off how kind of crazy it was. there d been all that drama about flying the actual bill to europe for the president s signature, and they found a more technologically advanced way to do it. so that was kind of a rabbit hole we all went down. but rand paul, republican of kentucky, had waged a long fight to make his argument that some of the provisions that were up for renewal should be changed. he believed that ther