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The anti-lynching bill in the 1920s. in 1957, senator strohm took it to the floor speaking for a record of 24 hours. the longest filibuster in senate history, 60 days almost to derail that landmark, civil rights act. 1983. jesse helms, the senator dropped his filibuster, declaring martin luther king jr. day a federal holiday. is a filibuster worth voting rights for millions of people? bipartisanship just for the sake of bipartisan? thats how we are divided tonight. america is divided. everybody ...

Equality, basic human rights for nearly my entire life. he was recently seen on the house floor speaking in favor of impeachment. >> when you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something, to do something. our children and their children will ask us, what did you do? >> news of his diagnosis sent shock waves across the country, triggered an outpouring of support over social media, house speaker nancy pelosi telling the congressman that generati...

His word and we go back to the pattern set in the clinton impeachment, there were all kinds of witnesses. several depositions taken. and the idea of bringing in new witnesses to continue the evidence-gathering process, even in the middle of the impeachment trial is exactly what happened back in that trial. so if lindsey graham really wants that, he may want to coordinate more closely with the white house because im sure thats not what they want. whether its done in person and in the clinton impe...

To put that coalition together because evers has their own best way of doing it. you have to find a way to do it that brings a coalition together with a majority of the house and a majority of the senate to pass it. i look forward to giving the senate that opportunity to make additional reforms. >> so what will the senate do? how will the senate treat this bill? is there a working group that is -- thats already been established as weve heard, again, right now thats jim clyburn, the assistant dem...

Iran will not allow the shia city in the south to be sieged, shia populations to be attacked. we could see iran coming in, too. absent effective american action to stop these guys in their tracks, at least throw them back to the sunni arab area until we figure out what to do, this will degenerate into a regional cataclysm. >> john mccain was on the senate floor speaking angrily about it. lets take a listen. >> its time that the president got a new national security team. >> weve got another beng...

Anti-semitism. you did not see him on the floor speaking. >> stonewalled, what does that mean? stonewalled means you dont talk. >> he is saying the administration has not coughed up the administration proving that in fact chuck hagel was in the pocket of north korea. >> ah. >> so he didnt get the information. >> so he is still pushing this line? >> he said what else can i say? i suggest he should come out there and say he is sorry. >> by the way, i agree with you on princeton doesnt guarantee yo...

Which is going to happen anyway, what is his geopolitical theory, what about afghanistan, on a whole host of things. they could have -- they didnt do any of that. >> i agree. lets assume they didnt do the right job. with the bad job they did, this guy cruz, there is an outside possibility that he doesnt know anything about the mccarthy period, that he has no idea, his staff if theyre watching now, please show him movies of what mccarthy did, the way he sat there like this guy with that same look...

Throughout the last two years. do some democrats not like that? yes, i think that is the case. i frank liam not enthusiastic about the compromise being talked about today. >> would you vote yes on it? >> well have to see what the final product is. but i think we need to get to compromise. we need to move forward. nobody wants to go over this cliff. going over the cliff is economically harmful to the united states of america, to the growth of jobs in america, and to the middle class. we dont want...

And how to fund the government for the next two years. >> mcconnell is on the floor speaking. were going to go to the floor live now. >> senator flake and senator collins and many others who have been working across the aisle to help resolve the impasse we find ourselves in. when the democrat filibuster of the democrat funding bill ends, the serious, bipartisan negotiations that have been going on for months now to resolve our unfinished business, military spending, disaster relief, health care,...

Nancy pelosi, eight hours she was on the house floor speaking, demanding a commitment from paul ryan to hold a vote on dreamers after they get their funding issues resolved and on the right, deficit hawks have come out swinging against the deals price tax, watch. >> quite frankly, i am astonished that the republican party seems to be a party of big government in this day and age. >> the priorities in the bill, i hope the speaker will man up and decide that we in the house can also have what mitc...