collects phone call megadata including the numbers of both parties location time and duration. text messages, email chat, and internet browsing history. smart phone app data including google maps which can pinpoint a person's location to within a few yards. maps of people's social networks bank and credit card transactions. and this, mr. president is just the tip of the iceberg. there is undoubtedly much more being done that we simply don't know anything about. further, local governments and other agencies are also collecting information about the movements and the habits of law-abiding americans. when you drive down the street, there are cameras that can take pictures of your license plate there are cameras on street corners, cameras in private buildings, the government knows where you are traveling and how long you are gone. let's be clear. while today we are focusing appropriately on the role of the federal government in issues of civil liberties we must also understand that it is not just the government that is collecting information on law-abiding americans. in fact, the p

the first one, the megadata versus the civil liberties piece.tion of the confinement and control of the taliban five. both of these things are tough choices. and the united states wants things to happen but it's sometimes hard to make the tough call and reduce liberties to make them happen. in the case with the taliban five, we didn't want these individuals in guantanamo but, at the same time, we don't want them released. you're really caught in a conundrum there. we want other governments now to weigh in when, in fact, it was difficult for us to do the same thing. >> i know you don't want to look back when it relates to the decision to trade these five for beau bergdahl but let's talk about the decision to release them into the qatari control. was there ever a reasonable expectation that after a year, these five men would renounce their loyalties to the taliban and that these restrictions and the surveillance could expire? is there a reasonable expectation that will ever be possible? >> well, i think that was the hope, victor. but hope is not a

. >> look at what rand paul is talking about with the fact that you have all this megadata checkion. very interesting topic that's really in the forefront. >> well the administration andrea has been criticized here. house homeland security chair mike mccaul, you just heard from them, he said this is the highest he has ever seen -- he was asked to compare the terror threat now to that of 2001 directly following 9/11. this is one of the highest he has ever seen. he went on to express his concern over the administration's response to these threat levels. basically saying, look at how much funding they're throwing at climate change compared to homegrown terrorists? very critical. >> we're laughing, sandra, but i mean if you listen to john kerry, the secretary of state, he says this is the biggest issue and crisis facing us right now, is climate change. most people would disagree. it is troubling the money we're spending on climate change, to not get into as mccaul also pointed out, these websites that last week fbi director comey said the fbi can't get into. these isis terrorists, you do

national intelligence for some clear examples in which the bulk information collected under this megadataprogram under section 215 was uniquely responsible for the capture of a terrorist or the thwarting of a terrorist plot. they could not provide any. not a single solitary example. nor could they make a case for why the government had to hold this data for so long. and why it needed -- why it had to hold the data itself and for so long. thankfully a review panel set up by president obama agreed with us and recommended that the government end its bulk collection of telephone megadata. i'll admit however and my friend from kentucky has brought this up on several occasions already -- that i am incredibly disappointed that the president hasn't simply used his existing authority to unilaterally roll back some of the unnecessary blanket megadata collection. some have claimed this inaction is evidence that the president secretly supports maintaining the current program as is. that, however, is nonsense. the president has asked congress to give him additional authorities so that he can carry out

collects phone call megadata including the numbers of both parties location time and duration. text messages, email chat, and internet browsing history. smart phone app data including google maps which can pinpoint a person's location to within a few yards. maps of people's social networks bank and credit card transactions. and this, mr. president is just the tip of the iceberg. there is undoubtedly much more being done that we simply don't know anything about. further, local governments and other agencies are also collecting information about the movements and the habits of law-abiding americans. when you drive down the street, there are cameras that can take pictures of your license plate there are cameras on street corners, cameras in private buildings, the government knows where you are traveling and how long you are gone. let's be clear. while today we are focusing appropriately on the role of the federal government in issues of civil liberties we must also understand that it is not just the government that is collecting information on law-abiding americans. in fact, the p