many public backers. you could say that tlc is sort of tarnishing themselves in this case considering they haven t jumped on the opportunity to make a decision. they are in talks to possibly create a spin-off show with some of the older married sisters. returning to one of our top stories, senate lawmakers will be on the hill this weekend to vote on the controversial pariot act and sections of the act are set to expire sunday including the provision authorizing the nsa s bulk data collection of millions of americans. how is all of this going to play out? it s our topic of the day which is live for you to weigh in on. we are outside of 30 rock with more. francis? reporter: would you be willing to give up privacy for
people who wished harm on the united states. reporter: that s what they re saying. the thing is u.s. officials can t point to any one case where these programs saved the day and thwarted terror. if you look at the other programs besides the bulk data collection that are going to expire being able to collect an individual s data bank data hotel data things like that that s used about 200 times a year. officials say, yeah there are other ways to go about getting that kind of info but those would be more limited and less secret. also roving wire taps on people who keep switching cell phones. that s used only less than 100 times a year but officials do say that this is the only way they can quickly and effectively track people like that. also there s wire taps on lone wolves people who aren t connected to any known terror group. it turns out this has never even been used before. and it only applies to people outside the u.s., not american
framers of the constitution. bill: what senator paul would argue, in a time of perceived and chaos don t panic. he s wrapping himself in the beauty of his rhetoric. you can t have a period of time without the tools in place. senator pails also an advocate of gutting the defense budget. he s in fact to the left of obama on both of those issues. if he wants to have a debate he ought to stand up and have the debate and not just block legislation. bill: the i.g. says they cannot point to a single plot that has been foiled thanks to bulk data collection. there is a difference between can t point and would prefer not to make public those that have
campaign trail calling for 10,000 more ground troops to ensure the defeat of isis. ground troops are not on the table. christine. thank you, athena. secret talks in china with afghanistan and the taliban was orchestrated by pakistan intelligence agency. one diplomat called it talks about talks. the goal to get the warring parties to agree to peace negotiations. one week and counting until the bulk data collection expires expires. the white house is looking at what they will examine if the law lapses on june 1st. mitch mcconnell will have a session on sunday night, but it is unclear how legislation can move forward after being defeated in the chamber. another hopeful coming out in hopes of ending the program.
and save the taxpayers and voters from all of expense and trouble of voting and they ll pick a president. we would say they can t do that. they can t do it because it s not in the law. we are sworn to uphold the constitution and the law and it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government. one can t overrule the other two. that s all i m saying we learned that in ninth grade civics but i m convinced ivy league law schools must have not forgotten the lesson along the way. an awful lot of interesting things you ve said in your announcement thank you for coming in today and sharing your holiday weekend with us. we ll see you on the campaign trail and keep asking you questions. all right, chris, thanks. up next with isis growing as a threat. is this any time to shut down the government surveillance program? we ll talk with ambassador john bolton a leading supporter of bulk data collection.