amendmen amendment. dana bash. what s gotten into rand paul? why s he going off on his own his fellow senators, fellow republicans? reporter: first, let me start by saying this is a fast moving story. i was told by a republican that the republicans may have just in the last few minutes agreed to give in to rand paul. but what happened was, he actually sought me out to come on cnn to go off on his republican leadership. he s been filibustering the patriot act all week, extending it for four years because he wants amendments. this morning he came to an agreement with the democrats on two amendments that he was looking for. one of them is what wee talking about, sort of the most controversial here, and that it would require the government to get a court order before reviewing people s gun records. he said at least earlier, that the fellow republicans told him, no, take a listen. the republican leadership is not only opposing miami amendments they re sending out
promised to give his party some trouble, and he followed through on that on this, because he had been filibustering this bill all week long, trying get some amendments to it. and he actually did succeed. he came on cnn earlier saying that he was upset with his own party leadership because he thought they were blocking an amendment to to have a court order before people s gun records were reviewed. his republican leadership relented. if you look at the senate floor, that is what they re voting now there will be another rand paul amendment and then final passage. the amendments by rand paul are expected to fail. they re not exported to pass. but bottom line the senate will probably finish this in the next half hour or so. the house has stayed in to also pass a patriot act extension. so congress looks like it will pass a patriot act. for four more years. before it expires at midnight tonight. they ll make the deadline. all right. dana bash, thanks for the update
terror suspect, it could have dire consequences on our national security. i am somehow to be told that, because i believe a judge should sign a warrant that i m in favor of terrorists having weapons? the absurdity of it. the insult of it. if one argues that judges should sign warrants before they go into the house of an alleged murderer? are you in favor of murder? now paul wants a series of amendments, one of which would exempt gun records from patriot act investigations. now here s where things stand. the senate voted this morning by a huge margin to cut off debate and move to a final vote. but under senate rules that can t happen for 30 hours, unless rand paul agrees and the deadline is 11 hours from now. we ll keep you posted. now to a high-profile murder trial in florida. there were some tense and heated moments today in the murder trial of casey anthony.
murder? paul wants a series of amendments, one of which would exempt gun records from patriot act investigations. here is where things stand. the senate voted this morning by huge margin to cut off debate and move to a final vote. under senate rules that can t happen for 30 hours unless paul agrees. the deadline, remember, continue hours away. we will keep you posted on where this goes. sound effect today is a daughter s heartfelt defense of her scandalized mother. the tv network telemundo spoke with jackie roso whose mother mildr mildred baena is schwarzenegger s housekeeper. we ve gotten plenty of details. rsos says we don t know mildred baena. doesn t matter what any newspaper says or anything because, you know, i know my mom and, you know, her friends and her family, we all know her.
catherine herridge explains that this time the renewal fight was led by democrats. reporter: senate majority leader harry reid had freshman republican senator rand paul in his cross hairs. fine for an amendment to protect the right not ofarm citizens but cover it up. reporter: it was a republican not a democrat who was one of the most vocal hold of out of renewing provisions of the patriot act. paul backed the amendment he said would make it harder for investigators to go through gun records. i m somehow to be told because i believe a judge should sign a warrant that i m in favor of terrorists having weapons? the absurdity of it. insult of it. reporter: that is not to suggest democrats were silent on the produce have to allow law enforcement to monitor communication of terrorism suspect. search business and financial records, as well as those who are not linked to a known terrorist group. the so-called business provision allows records to be