Right now as we speak the Senate is deliberating on the FISA amendment reauthorization

that's the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act this is what it looks like in the

news if anybody hasn't been paying attention this is coming down to

the wire as we speak right now take a look a key law on the fight against terrorism is

in limbo as a group of GOP lawmakers attempted to block the bill Monday, but could not get enough votes to win.

Now the bill heads to the Senate.

FISA allows the government to gather information on foreign nationals who it believes could be compromising American security

and be able to do it without a warrant.

The White House and national security experts

they say that FISA is critical to protect America's national security. They say that FISA is critical to protect America's national security.

They say that without it, we would lose vital information about threats to the homeland,

threats to America's infrastructure, information on Russian war crimes, supply chain information,

bringing deadly drugs through the US border, and much more.

Failure to reauthorize 702 or gutting it with some new kind of warrant requirement would be dangerous and put Americans

lives at risk.

There isn't technically a warrant for those communications and that is the problem that some of these members have.

They think that there is something that is unfettered and we know that there have been hundreds

of thousands of times that this has been used for Americans.

There are times when Americans data could be at risk and so that is really the concern that some lawmakers have had within the course of the debate.

Almost 300,000 violations of that where they spat on Americans and that's not what it's about.

They are allowed to spy on Americans without a search warrant, ma'am.

That's a clear violation of Fourth Amendment.

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