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>> oh, theres a treatment. >> also a reason to be sued? >> yeah. >> how dare you! >> yeah. leave your ass atbe the movie theater. >>ing >>ing the aye got to do with all these feelings inside me, and sometimes this helps. let me have it. greg: all right. mcdonald? hero or jerk? >> how about a little bit of both. half hero, half jerk. greg: who played manimal? [laughter] >> turned into a jaguar. >> no, you know what they say, never meet their heroes. doesnt seem like somebody id want to meet. [lau...

Similar, were going to be like fdr, its such an emergency, aye got to get elected, that turns out not to be true. >> we have to look at the bigger picture, theres a fundamental disconnect between what were seeing on the 24/7 news cycle and the main stream media and white house and the rest of the country. around the country, were seeing congress assumer confidence at a 17-year high. small business confidence is going up. the dow jones industrial average up 11%. we have also seen the president st...

Practices of the senate and the importance of having a full complement of justices on the u.s. supreme court. >> reporter: even as they all voted in favor. >> mr. mccain? >> aye. >> reporter: making clear by weeks end mr. trumps first pick for the highest court in the land will be confirmed. and, wolf, that final vote, all thats really left -- and it is not really up in the air anymore -- should come tomorrow evening. the final swearing in should come on monday. it is worth noting if this rules ...

Certainly clears the way for the confirmation of judge neil gorsuch but it will have ramifications well beyond that? >> reporter: it certainly does. it has some serious implications not only for the way the senate conducts their business and how they potentially forge bipartisan compromise going forward but also for donald trumps washington going forward. >> mr. barrasso -- >> reporter: tonight the senate forcing a monumental rule change clearing the way for neil gorsuch to be confirmed as the n...

Justice breyer. and i didnt expect anyone to ever read it. i think a few people have read it now, probably still not that many. but thats my lifes work, that sort of thing. i care about the law. i care deeply about the law. and an independent judiciary. and following the rules of the law. and thats what commitment i can make to you. i cant promise you more and i cant guarantee you any less. >> what worries me is you have been very much able to avoid any specifici specificity, like no one i have ...

>> its been moved and seconded by acclimation. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? all right. ladies and gentlemen, its my great honor to present the next chair of the democratic national committee, a great friend, champion of working people, progressive leader, visionary, a great american, mr. tom perez. [applause] >> thank you! thank you! [applause] thank you so much. thank you so much. you know, folks, i would like to begin by making a motion. its a motion that i have discussed with a g...

>> aye. >> mr. bruce. >> aye. >> it was a saturday night and it was sort of neier sundown when they voted the first article of impeachment. and the room was quiet. mr. rodino. >> aye. >> peter went in the back and cried. we took it very seriously. >> with that vote, mr. nixon became the first president in more than a century and only the second in all of our history to confront removal from office through the only means provided in the constitution, impeachment. >> i stood by nixon and felt he s...

Calls with world leader. something he said he has to do. senate republicans suspending committee rules to bypass another boycott by democrats and approve scott pruitts nomination to head the epa. listen to this. >> mr. gardner. >> aye. >> mr. kennedy. >> aye. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> mr. sanders? >> no. >> mrs. murray? >> no. >> sandra: nomination passing on a roll call vote with no democrats present, now advancing to the full senate. democrats boycotting votes for nominees of the epat treasu...

Pence to break a tie or even reshuffling their schedule in delaying jeff sessions eventual confirmation, so they can use his vote on another nominee, theyre doing all this, and sparking some controversy. >> senate republicans are playing hardball, taking unprecedented steps to confirm president donald trumps cabinet nominees. >> all those in favor -- >> democrats boycotted scott pruett to lead the epa. republicans pushed forward without them. changing the rules that require democrats to be prese...

>> no. >> franken. >> no. >> coons. >> no. >> blumenthal. >> no. >> corona. >> no. >> mr. chairman. >> aye. >> the votes are 11 yea, nine nay. >> the nomination is approved by the committee. >> shame! shame! >> the nomination of a man who will not protect the vulnerable. thats why we have an attorney general. >> you are now watching, right before that protester stood up, you saw the senate judiciary committee, after quite a scene, approving jeff sessions as attorney general. now his nomination w...