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Joining us this morning from los angeles. He is from George Mason University law school, the founder of the National Security both for area thanks being here this morning. Jamil jaffer, we will start with you. Theave a conversation about usa freedom act and what congress has to get to and reauthorized. Tell us first what the usa freedom act is and why it was passed in the first place. Caller sure, well, bill, you aspiringe are three provisions in the usa freedom act that would be rubberized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Reauthorized by the legislation if it were renewed by december 15. Somewhere he added years later your specifically, the provisions expiring now are one that allows the government to identify and surveil terrorists who do not have a proven connection to a foreign power, and the second is called the wiretap authority, that gives ability to follow suspects when they switched their cell phones or emailed address rapidly to avoid surveillance. And th