the senate floor. but is he among those who enjoy is he building a following? what s interesting is that when you look at senator paul and his strength a couple of months ago before he announced that he was running for president, was that he said he wanted to expand the republican party, expand the tent take republicanism and conservative ideology to those who haven t voted republican. but that suggests he has been off message. a lot of his policies about reigning in the bulk data collection and nsa overreach are popular among a majority of americans, he has to figure out how to not get off message, not make these controversial statements that daniel alluded to, particularly blaming republicans for creating isis and try to again go back to that strategy where can he appeal to growing the republican party instead of just relying on the
tonight. senator please suspend. please take your conversations off the floor. thank you, senator. the people who argue that the world will end if he wants it he ll get 30 hours to debate the bulk data collection that lapses at midnight.
head of the nsa and cia who set up the metadata program after 9/11. general, welcome back to fox news sunday. thanks, chris. senator rand paul says he will force the expiration of bulk data collection at midnight tonight through various parliamentary maneuvers. in fact, he can only force the expiration until wednesday at the latest. here he was on the senate floor the week before last in the filibuster explaining his objections to this program. here he is. it s sort of an end run that has gone around the constitution, gone around the fourth amendment, to collect information we ve actually said should be illegal to be collected that way, but we re doing it because we ve done an end run around. general, what do you think of what senator paul is doing, forcing the expiration of this program? i think it s really unfortunate. there s a bit of a political consensus right now that nsa needs access to metadata.
obama, for all that beau biden achieved in his life nothing made him prouder, nothing made him happier, nothing claimed a fuller focus of his love and devotion than his family. just like his dad. we re going to take a pause. can we bring up that live picture of the senate floor? here s what we just learned. it will lapse at 8:00 p.m. eastern. even though the debate is going on and the cloture vote is open. 77 votes to 17. it s now passed the senate. it needs to go back to the house. they are not going to reconvene tonight and that is why the bulk data collection of americans, their phone records, phone numbers, length of phone calls,
data collection and having bulk data collection replaced with a more targeted investigative tool is going to leave us vulnerable and got a lot of support on this including the director of the nsa, admirable rojgers, who agrees this would protect us. what we need to do is pass the house-passed bill which was passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority of 338 votes to 88 votes a couple weeks ago. senator mike lee, thank you so much for your time. we greatly appreciate it. thank you. we are still waiting to hear a date and location for beau biden s funeral as condolences from the white house to the capitol and, quite honestly all across the country are pouring in. the son of vice president joe biden, as you probably know now, passed away saturday night after losing his nearly two-year battle with brain cancer. he s being remembered as a dedicated public servant, soldier, husband, father and