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50 votes plus pence and hes confirmed. >> 60 votes have been the standard for obamas nominees, it should be the standard for trumps nominees. and heres why we have this standard. we left it in place when we went to a simple majority on other cabinet executive positions when we went to change it for judges at a lower level, but this is the most powerful court in the land. >> senator, you just said that 60 votes of the standard for barack obamas two nominees to the supreme court, neither one of th...

And the democrats in terms of the court seat are saying look, if we just sit here and say, okay, the republicans let merrick garland sit there, and now were just going to roll over, theyre saying, this will happen again and again and again. so the standard view is, wont this make things worse? their argument is no, what will make it worse as senator merckly said, is if we do absolutely nothing after what was done for merrick garland, its going to be a tough time up there. i dont think senator mc...

And this contributes i think to a sense of not wanting to hear the voices of women. im not sure that was senator mcconnells intention, but this has been a gift to democrats in this battle. >> rick tyler, im curious, how does this look to you? does this look like a miscalculation on mcdonnells part? elizabeth warren got under his skin, he overreacted with a political implications now? or is there some strategy here, you see on mcconnells part? >> look, i think that senator mcconnell last night ha...

Where are the boundaries of political discourse? where the fault lines in what the two parties can do as far as pushing to stop a nomination or protect a nominee? thats part of what were seeing here, steve. we may see more of it. thats where you heard marco rubio saying we need to be more careful about how hot it gets on the senate floor. steve. >> rule 19, thats what mitch mcconnell really citing here. senate resume 19. let me read this quickly. no senator in debate shall directly or indirectly...

Senator. where does this that line exist. and violation of that rule. how would you draw that line? >> look at the phrase or rt sentence last night. it was simply it this, cover ret that scott king said that mr. sessions exercised the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by african americans. that was more or less a fact about the conduct that was examined back in 1986 by the senate judiciary committee. and the senate committee did find mr. sessions, senator session...

In the united states senate. i ask leave of the senate to continue my remarks. >> is there objection? >> i object. >> i appeal the rule -- >> objection is heard. the senator will take her seat. >> now what that was all about, mcconnell claiming warren violated the rules or the protocol of the senate by attack another senator. warren claiming, as you heard right there, she was just reading from a letter that martin luther kings widow had written against sessions 31 years ago which when sessions w...