ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN: Quickly I want to ask you about the vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act. It’s coming up this week or the House version of it called the Freedom Act. This week in the Senate, all eyes on you. Are you going to filibuster this?



SEN. RAND PAUL: I’ll do whatever it takes to stop it. Whether or not I’m allowed to filibuster is another question. There’s sort of a paper filibuster that you can always do, demanding that there’s 60 votes and objecting, not giving them consent to proceed. That I will do.



So I will do a formal filibuster. Whether or not that means I can go to the Floor, some of that depends on what happens because you’re not always allowed, people don’t realize this, but you have to get to the Floor when the Floor allows you to come.



So whether that happens or not, I will filibuster the Patriot Act and I will do everything I can to try to adhere to the courts. The courts have now said the bulk collection of records is illegal. They should stop immediately.



ALISYN CAMEROTA: If you’re allowed to filibuster, you plan to talk for 13 hours or whatever it takes?



SEN. RAND PAUL: Well nobody can predict how long you can talk, but I plan on doing everything humanly possible to try to stop the Patriot Act.