to perfect strangers. and i loved whattel noer said. he has learned to ask so many people teach them how to grieve. that is a great story especially on a morning like this. the reason we originally asked you to join us is those provisions of the pariot act that are due to expire at midnight tonight. now one scenario would be to pass the freedom act. pass the house easily. the other is that you try to renew the pariot act. they are not due back in session until tomorrow. the expiration of these
instead of just letting it expire. so there s good reason to try to get this done before midnight tonight. it is pretty crazy situation when you have two republicans one wanting the pariot act to stay in place. both from the statement state. it s like a two-man kentucky derby and the rest of us are sitting in the middle. i m hopeful that cooler heads will prevail and will be able to get this done. knowing everything you know now would you say that we re likely to see the pariot act expire?
at that convention. beau biden is dead at the age of 46. still ahead we will be returning to europe for more on the condition of john kerry. he is expected to be flown involved in the next stage of high level negotiation. and next we will turn back to politics. the senate gearing up for a rare sunday session. just hours left to save key provisions of the pariot act. we will ask senator amy when she joins us next. .and takes the wheel right from your very hands.
security? this is my new friend charlie. we have been talking and talking about how he would feel in doing that and would you be willing to give up privacy? i would be willing to give up a little bit of privacy to keep the pariot act. reporter: what made it interesting is you said your answer would have been very different pre9/11 and post. it showed us we were vulnerable and we need whatever we can get to catch these things before they happen. reporter: so you don t mind in the nsa is going through your phone records, e-mails just to make sure you re clean and good? they have that information anyway. they can get that anyway. want to bring in a couple from phoenix, arizona. talk to me a little bit about how you feel about this. the question you are asking people would you be willing to give up some of your privacy for security? i would, yes.
many public backers. you could say that tlc is sort of tarnishing themselves in this case considering they haven t jumped on the opportunity to make a decision. they are in talks to possibly create a spin-off show with some of the older married sisters. returning to one of our top stories, senate lawmakers will be on the hill this weekend to vote on the controversial pariot act and sections of the act are set to expire sunday including the provision authorizing the nsa s bulk data collection of millions of americans. how is all of this going to play out? it s our topic of the day which is live for you to weigh in on. we are outside of 30 rock with more. francis? reporter: would you be willing to give up privacy for