manage service appointments and find answers to your questions. you can even check your connection status on your phone. now it s easier than ever to manage your account. get started at xfinity.com/myaccount so tomorrow night at midnight sections of the patriot act including the one that allowed the nsa to begin to collect bulk data on american citizens are set to expire. president obama yesterday said if the act expires the country could be at risk. i don t want us to be in a situation in which for a certain period of time those authorities go away and suddenly
actions. we know from the densefense s side we ll hear that it is his opinion that james holmes is legally insane. the jury will have a wealth of information, seeing his journal and they ll of course it will be up to them to decide whether he is guilty or not guilty and if he is found guilty, whether he should face the death penalty. thomas? jacob rascon thank you. this sunday at midnight sections of the patriot act, including the ones that allowed the nsa to collect bulk data is set to expire. frances rivera is back out on the streets to get reaction from our bing pulse question of the day. what are people saying? are they willing to give up their private information for the sake of security? reporter: the majority of the people we re speaking with say yes, in this day and age, post 9/11 this is the world we
bipartisan bill called the usa freedom act which essentially is a edward snowden-inspired reform to the way the nsa collects phone data passed earlier this month 338 sorry, 338-88. one thought that after that passed so overwhelmingly with the support of the house gop leadership that it could move to the senate and face smooth sailing. however, mitch mcconnell, the senate leader has been opposed to this. he wants to reinstitute the status quo nsa part of the patriot act in terms of bulk data collection. this reform bill would all the bulk data under the umbrellas of the phone companies, not the government. anyway, when this reform went forward, it got 58 votes, not you have no to break the 60-vote threshold. they have to find two more votes and they ll try to do that tomorrow night. in terms of what happens, if, in fact, this does expire june 1, they ll put the mechanisms in
would be that those senators woo are standing in the way of that will come to the conclusion that is not in our national security interest and work with us to get the agreement to move forward. but we have sunday to do that. and hopefully, you know we will find at agreement. you will be back with your colleagues in 48 hours. question here. if you do not work this out, did you believe americans are less safe or not? look, i think that for sure when these program laps you will not bow collecting this information. there is a gap. it doesn t mean the bulk data out there available to be searched would be lost. we have a gap and it is important to not have a gap. i do think it is critical that senators come together and those standing in the way of getting this done stop using procedures and allow the senate to do their will and move forward. you have been on a story we
lapse in these programs could prove significant, because once the plug is pulled from them what the white house and other officials are saying is that seasonally it will take four days for them to be back up and rebooted. this all comes down to a fight on capitol hill. a few weeks ago the house passed a bill with 338 votes and a bipartisan manner it was an edward snowden inspired bill that got rid of the nsa s ability to collect bulk data. it went back to an old system that seasonally the phone companies would have to do that themselves and the government would have to get a warn to the access those. that was stopped by misch mcconnell who thought that was too extreme of a change. he thought he could play his hand and perhaps get some of the old measures kept intact. he was not able to pull that off. and then in the middle of all this rand paul somewhat spurred by his desire to make this an issue in his presidential campaign held a filibuster saying that he does not want the house bill