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congress. and some of the republicans who had been most eager to work with democrats on legislation, for example, lindsey graham. he may be in a tough re-election campaign in a tough primary race back home, but he s been one of the few to steck his neck out and say, for example, i ll work on immigration reform. he has said since the change has taken place a couple hours ago, that this is going to be a disaster for cross-party relations. john mccain, who has been of late willing to work across the aisle, has said the same thing. so really is going to be interesting to see how and weather that really plays out because on the flipside, you have the democrats leadership saying, how could it possibly be that much worse than it is now? if you are going a few republicans are going to obstruct, okay. you re obstructing now, so this the best that they say they can do in order to get the senate wheels moving at least in some part of the system, and in this
never been more frustrated with washington, and one of the reasons why that is is that over the past five years, we ve seen an unprecedented pattern of obstruction in congress that s prevented too much of the american people s business from getting done. all too often, we ve seen a single senator or a handful of senators choose to abuse arcane procedural tactics to unilaterally block bipartisan compromises or to prevent well qualified patriotic americans from filling critical positions of service in our system of government. at a time when millions of americans have desperately searched for work, repeated abuse of these tactics have blocked legislation that might create jobs. they ve defeated actions that would help women fighting for equal pay. they have prevented more progress than we would have liked for striving young
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the supreme court, but the circuit courts and on down. and you re able to put folks in there that are liberal or conservative depending on your presidency, but we should also say that minorities have used these nominees sometimes, not because they re against the nomnay, but because they need something. lindsey graham recently started a thing where he said, look, i m deg to put a hold on all nominations until they give me more benghazi information. right. so it s leverage. so why would you do that? he said it s the only leverage i ve got. it takes a powerful tool away from the minority. not just a blocked nomination, but to get stuff done. that s what the president said. he said, look, some of the filibusters is just to gum up the system. it s about politics and to your point, it goes both ways. always a pleasure. you can watch candy each and every sunday on state of the union, and jeffrey toobin, appreciate you as well. let s toik to talk about this,