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Say, oh, look, there was a filibuster once upon a time in 1968 against justice abe fortus. he was already on the court and it was a situation where he was picked, they basically picked on him because of some specific things that were going on with the white house, some specific policy issues. paul: he was appointed lbj was going to elevate to chief justice. >> right, exactly. you know, these situations are not at all analogus, if we go now to have a 60 vote standard for republicans, you know for...

White house officials reportedly aided nunes in reviewing that intelligence, we are back with dan, kim strossel and so, kim, you talk today chairman nunes at length this week, what did he tell you about this story? >> well, i think whats important that we understand about this story is that he went, he viewed these documents and what they essentially proved, you have dozens upon dozens document that is contain information about trump transition officials, some of the people, names in them are st...

Will never meet with the freedom caucus. these two groups of people are at each others throats. i think it constitutes a third party inside the congress, its like fascist, its like italy. [laughter] >> they set themselves outside. theres nothing they can do thats positive. all they can do is block things from happening. paul all and yet, kim, without them, lets say they have 30 members, we dont know exactly how many they have, thats enough to kill any bill because they only have a majority of 22...

Filibuster once upon a time in 1968 against justice abe fortus. he was already on the court and it was a situation where he was picked, they basically picked on him because of some specific things that were going on with the white house, some specific policy issues. paul: he was appointed lbj was going to elevate to chief justice. >> right, exactly. you know, these situations are not at all analogus, if we go now to have a 60 vote standard for republicans, you know for sure that republican -- de...

In 2013 he did that. the supreme court ruled in 1982 that the senate had within its power to do except that any motion like that itself could be filibustered. harry reid is the guy who changed the filibuster that his been used since 1837. its the senators reason for being, its what distinguishes him from being more than house members. but he did that and now we are at this point and now the stakes are so high both for neil gorsuch and president trump and for the republicans that there is no opti...

Theyll be an opportunity for the democrats to invoke closure, we will see where that ends. itll be really up to them how the process to confirm judge gorsuch goes forward. paul: joining the panel this week wall street journal panelist and deputy editor dan, washington columnist kim and editorial board member collin levy. only two democratic senators say theyll vote for gorsuch, and most of the rest of the democrats not all declared but the vote count against him is mounting. whats the democratic...

Will never meet with the freedom caucus. these two groups of people are at each others throats. i think it constitutes a third party inside the congress, its like fascist, its like italy. [laughter] >> they set themselves outside. theres nothing they can do thats positive. all they can do is block things from happening. paul all and yet, kim, without them, lets say they have 30 members, we dont know exactly how many they have, thats enough to kill any bill because they only have a majority of 22...

Aided nunes in reviewing that intelligence, we are back with dan, kim strossel and so, kim, you talk today chairman nunes at length this week, what did he tell you about this story? >> well, i think whats important that we understand about this story is that he went, he viewed these documents and what they essentially proved, you have dozens upon dozens document that is contain information about trump transition officials, some of the people, names in them are still masked, meaning, they are not...

Theyll be an opportunity for the democrats to invoke closure, we will see where that ends. itll be really up to them how the process to confirm judge gorsuch goes forward. paul: joining the panel this week wall street journal panelist and deputy editor dan, washington columnist kim and editorial board member collin levy. only two democratic senators say theyll vote for gorsuch, and most of the rest of the democrats not all declared but the vote count against him is mounting. whats the democratic...

Nominees. in 2013 he did that. the supreme court ruled in 1982 that the senate had within its power to do except that any motion like that itself could be filibustered. harry reid is the guy who changed the filibuster that his been used since 1837. its the senators reason for being, its what distinguishes him from being more than house members. but he did that and now we are at this point and now the stakes are so high both for neil gorsuch and president trump and for the republicans that there ...