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The people with preexisting conditions, the people that need help. our goal is to ensure that everyone has better access, better options. we want people to be empowered to make the best health care decisions for themselves. its important for all of us. for all of us its personal. >> i want to start off by saying happy valentines day to my wife, jana. im sure shes watching this on c-span. look, our promise to repeal and replace obamacare is about two big things. first, it is about rescuing peop...

That have really good ideas about how to put the control of health care decisions back in the hands of patients and focus on lowering costs. its exciting to see that weve listened to americans and were actually doing the hard work. this isnt going to be some bill written in the back room like speaker pelosi did before she brought the bill to the floor and it was voted on by people who never wrote the bill. this is being worked on by all of our committees in jurisdiction in public view. you can w...

Representatives. as a political matter, if mitch mcconnell wanted to further activate an already activated democratic wing, boy did he ever do that. >> she then took to facebook and had something like 2 million views which she would never have been if she had just been on c-span. thats the upside for you guys. mitch mcconnell says she was impugning the character of jeff sessions. should he be held for things he might have said 30 years ago? >> well, the whole point of a confirmation process, and...

Slightly different spot than elizabeths was, but, yes, basically the answer to that is yes. >> the senate majority leader mitch mcconnells statement on senator warren last night included the words nevertheless, she persisted, and thats becoming a rallying cry for warren supporters. hillary clinton, for example, tweeted about that among so many others. you and three of the other supporters, once again, this is thehill hillary rodham clinton tweet. she was warned. she was given an explanation. nev...

Planned. lets go live to washington and bring in zach work, managing editor of cnnpolitics.com. you know, i wonder if this was a tactical error by the gop. now, because what would have been something that played out on c-span to maybe not even a sound bite on evening news has become a big story. >> a big story and something that democrats are going to use, i think, going forward. its certainly something that elizabeth warren is going to raise her profile. she already had quite a profile but this...

I spent 15 years of my life investment banking and that community will tell you elizabeth warren is public enemy number one, and her policies calling out fat cat ceos held the american economy back, but the fact that elizabeth warren can stand up today and say i am the woman that was silenced. did mitch mcconnell give her a gift and create her campaign slogan of 2020? >> i think the thing about this that is incredible is that more people are reading the coretta scott king letter criticizing jeff...

Wanted to make it understood that we are not going to sit by and not act on their actions. so the white house clarifying were not going to not act in response to iran. youre on notice. what does this mean? tonight a spokesperson for centcom in the middle east told "the guardian" newspaper, quote, we saw the newspaper as well. were waiting for something to come down the lane. weve not been asked to change anything operationally in the region. so thats one of the things that happened today. the na...

And the abe forit is a nomination to be chief justice, that fell apart. >> forit is a lost, the vote was on cloture on forcing members to stop talking and to decide whether to confirm forit is a or not. they ended the filibuster and the clerk announced the result 45-43. that was two-thirds of the senate present. they decided the senate would go to overbusiness. >> that was october 1968. so long ago we didnt have c-span, we had senate sketch artists like it was a cameras banned from the courtroom...

They decided the senate would go to overbusiness. >> that was october 1968. so long ago we didnt have c-span, we had senate sketch artists like it was a cameras banned from the courtroom situation. it was the last time a supreme court nominee was filibusters. the last time it was tried, the sam alito nomination, supported by hillary clinton and barack obama, they attempted to filibuster alitos nomination but 20 democratic senators wouldnt go along and that effort failed so the last time they wer...

C-span, we had senate sketch artists like it was a cameras banned from the courtroom situation. it was the last time a supreme court nominee was filibusters. the last time it was tried, the sam alito nomination, supported by hillary clinton and barack obama, they attempted to filibuster alitos nomination but 20 democratic senators wouldnt go along and that effort failed so the last time they were able to pull this off was 68. is it going to happen again? can they pull it off? prior to tonights a...