jon: we may be seeing the beginning of the battle for the g.o.p. nomination as presidential hopefuls take shots at their potential rivals. declared 2016 candidate texas senator ted cruz now criticizing kentucky senator rand paul for voting against reform of the national security agency. what s going on here? jamie is senior editor for the daily caller. kevin is a reporter for the hill. ted cruz, kevin, says this thing only failed by one vote and that rand paul s vote could have put it over the top. take us back to that time and give us your explanation as to what the legislation was all about and why it s such a big deal for ted cruz. well senator rand paul said that the legislation didn t go far enough in correcting the nsa bulk data collection and it actually technically failed by
individuals and not to conduct domestic surveillance, intelligence gathering or any type of bulk data collection. the cia gave fox news a similar statement, bret. continue to follow it, katherine, thank you. things are going frommed about to worse for the secret service tonight. the agency charged with keeping the president safe finds itself under siege yet again for rookie mistakes apparently committed by veteran agents. here is correspondent kevin corke. reporter: critics say it reflects a crumb pelling culture from within. the bottom line is the secret service has to be overhauled. what happened the other day shows we got a ways to go. reporter: the u.s. secret service, charged with protecting the white house, having trouble keeping its own house in order. this as more details come to light about an incident that could tarnish the careers of two veteran agents, george o gill ray is seen seen orsupervisor and seen here, mark connolly, second in command on the president s d
president obama says this: he s shutting down the nsa s bulk data collection. but you have to read the fine print. senator rand paul joins us live next hour to get his take. and jeff dunham is here and he s got a dummy gunderman group. gunderman group is growing. getting in a groove. growth is gratifying. goal is to grow. gotta get greater growth. growth? growth. i just talked to ups. they ve got a lot of great ideas. like smart pick ups. they ll only show up when you print a label and it s automatic. we save time and money.
fbi and others in the intelligence community to insure that in crisis like the boston marathon, terrorist attack, that we have a way of moving quickly to insure there aren t other elements of an attack. how successful was this bulk data collection anyway? were terror plots foiled specifically? well, this is a key issue for everybody to understand. no one program by itself solves a terrorist plot. if you go back to the midarcaisse, the american airline s flight that hit the pentagon 9/11. one of the things the intel community was beat up for was not being able to connect the dots between midar and a place in the ama, so this specific capability was designed to meet that. to meet that gap, mitigate it. and it has been helpful, and the fbi has given some. so some of those were material
there. thanks so much. to the obama administration now set to called for an end to the controversial bulk data collection of phone records by the nsa. it would require the nsa to get a court order to access the data. we are traveling with the president in the netherlands and we are joining her now from near the hague. reporter: senior administration officials confirmed this morning the white house has been working with congress and soon would propose legislation that would leave the collection of americans phone records with phone companies and the storage with phone companies are third parties. instead of nsa keeping data for five years, the phone companies would only be required to keep it for 18 months. in addition, the white house s