house of representatives vote in favor of the u.s. freedom act? i ve got some issues about the detail of the act. it s amazing, there was a consensus. nsa still needs access to this metadata. it s a question of where it s kept. this maneuver means it will go without that access for, what, 72 or 96 hours? it probably won t make a difference, but then again, it might. so you re troubled by it? yeah. on the other hand, does senator paul have a point, because three weeks ago a court of appeals ruled that the patriot act does not authorize this kind of bulk metadata collection and that the program, the specific program, is illegal. right. so, senator paul claimed that it s unconstitutional. now, the controlling legal authority there is a 1979 court decision that says, indeed, metadata is not, repeat, is not constitutionally protected. we have no reasonable expectation of privacy there.
house passed bill. i don t think there s much doubt about that. he was trying to give the president all the authority he had before. not just some of it. but he had a house problem because 200 republicans voted against mcconnell. i get that but that does not mean that the president has been on this issue an effective advocate with congress. he hasn t been and when it comes to these issues which are a little out of phase with the way he campaigned he s not good about it. it s funny to blame him for the fact that mitch mcconnell cannot i m not blaming him for that. i m sorry. i thought you were. i want to ask about isis and the split inside the democratic party. a center for the new liberal foreign policy think tank came out with a series of essays and points this week which were critical of the way president obama is conducting the war against isis. they called it failing. they said he needs to find a new
it s why i have been so accessible to the press. i have now answered probably close to 500 on the record questions in three weeks since i launched my campaign. let s talk about some of the issues. i ll ask you the 501st question. you oppose common core education standards. one of your reasons for that has gotten some blow-back. here it is. the argument for common core is frequently, oh, we have to compete with the chinese. i ve been doing business in china for decades. i tell you that yeah the chinese can take a test. what they can t do is innovate. they re not terribly imaginative, entrepreneurial, that s why they re stealing our intellectual property. the fact is, china is on track to lead the world in science and technology research by 2019, more important, the u.s. ranks 30th in math literacy and 20th in reading literacy. aren t we falling behind not just china but the rest of the
she s not answering questions. most do say moving forward is what we need to focus on. she can t continue with in strategy. there s a certain point where you have to engage with people who don t agree with you on every issue and talk about issues not necessarily on your agenda that day. things happening in the world, and on the news. with o malley and sanders, you ve seen both of them gently nudge her. you saw o malley there. sanders has been pushing her to take a position on trade. i m interested on what hillary clinton does in relation to sanders and o malley. so far she s generally ignored them. if they get more aggressive going after her, did she respond? i think that puts her in a tricky position. another troubling story in politics this week the indictment of house speaker former house speaker denny hastert for allegedly paying hush money to a student that he had some involvement with back before his political career in the 70s and 80s back in