Senator Rand Paul Joins America's Newsroom- May 22, 2015

to find out today if the patriot act is history you know so what will replace hanging in the balance the fate of all that bulk data collection from your phone calls and text messages and emails best

thank you for coming back here two American heroes realism you had a big week you've been the crosshairs of a lot of people are

you going to win or lose on this if you I think the American people are with me on this we had over a million people that Iran Paul dot com signing

up and saying enough's enough we're tired of the government collecting our records without a war without a warrant that is specific to an individual without

a warrant that has suspicion so I think we're winning the battle whether we're gonna win the legislative battle still up in the air but

I think even within Congress the vast majority of people now believe that even those who support the patriot act say

that the patriot act does not give justification for the bulk collection of all Americans record the the

second highest court in the land also says now but this program is illegal so I think we should do everything I'm gonna continue to filibuster until

you stop you know grammar and then there are revisions on table two here today patriot act in the

former Attorney General Michael Casey was on a Neil Cavuto yes and he he really lines you up and knock you down and we should listen this reactor watch

answer apparently is quite a lot there are people who are concerned about civil liberties who don't understand that the that

the NSA data book data gathering programs has nothing to do with civil or rand Paul is willing to exploit that lack of knowledge for his own purpose because he wants to add fuel to

his Republican %HESITATION presidential aspirations exploitation calling you off the wall what's

your reaction you know I think that kind of just the bill of rights is %HESITATION he may think that's popular it might be popular inside the beltway but

outside the beltway people do still care about the bill of rights one of the things that happens that does affect people's civil liberties under the patriot

act is that ninety nine percent of the time one of the sections is not being used for terrorists that is actually being used for domestic crime they

promised when they passed is that all this is we need to lower the standards we're gonna get rid of the constitution we can't rule have

constitutional protections for terror some of that I can accept but the warning was that eventually this will be used on American citizens for

other possible crimes section two thirteen of the patriot act over ninety nine percent of the time is being you for

domestic crimes we gave up on the constitution without even really understanding what we're going to hit here I'm trying to get it back Peter

king says you're putting national security this so so maybe that's the case react to this if

the patriot act die I'm if you were to win your art are the American people safe return I

high level intelligence community advisors and supervisor and when I asked him can you get more information with a traditional constitutional

in a in a period of fear sort of lose what we're fighting for the young men and women that I know that have risked their lives overseas I've

done so to protect the bill of rights if we give up on the bill of rights in this period of fear I think we've done the wrong thing and a disservice to the memory of the soldiers who fought so hard for our country two