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im jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. well shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20...

>> it depends how many total. we dont -- we need that answer first. how many people are casting votes today. >> lets say were voting on tuesday. everybody is on the floor. if two of those people decide they can vote present instead of voting no, does that give kevin mccarthy -- >> that brings it down -- the benchmark down one vote. >> right. >> for every two off the board, it brings down the requirement that the majority requirement from 218 down one. >> if everybody because theres 434 because o...

Have about our institutions being fair. >> you make the point that the united states senate begined as a stacked deck with voters in the dakota having a stronger representation than new york city and new york state in the senate. and then you make the point that the super majority requirement imposed by the senate filibuster can stall wildly popular legislation. then the senate itself decides to stack the deck in an even more extreme way. >> yeah. it is a really, really bizarre situation. the fo...

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Against. we always talk about hamilton in 65. federalist 65. and rightly so mr. madison warned against successfully on the floor having grounds of impeachment that would include move administration. i think thats what this debate is all about. the hyperbole, national security which you just talked about, and a clear and present danger. thats another thing in terms of moving this forward. if the president is a clear and present danger, then the trial in the senate, which is destined to come, has ...

In effect we are doing that which mr. madison warned against. we always talk about hamilton in 65. federalist 65. and rightly so mr. madison warned against successfully on the floor having grounds of impeachment that would include move administration. i think thats what this debate is all about. the hyperbole, national security which you just talked about, and a clear and present danger. thats another thing in terms of moving this forward. if the president is a clear and present danger, then the...

Worries about. this is a direct threat to the national security of america. >> in my book, "obstructing justice and under oath" it is a pretty serious offense. absent a vote of the house majority to open this inquiry, and precisely because they didnt want impeachment to be driven by a olfaction, and to me its extraordinary on it pushing this process forward on the approval of the house of representatives. >> the fact is, the constitution text doesnt spell out exactly the procedures that have to ...

This is a direct threat to the national security of america. >> in my book, "obstructing justice and lying under oath are pretty serious offense. the framers had up our system so that you need to get a majority of the house, super majority in the senate precisely because they didnt want impeachment to be driven by a faction, a rogue group of ideologues. its extraordinary they are intent on pushing the process forward without getting the approval of the entire house of representatives. >> laura: ...

Likewise, if the state party decides to disassociate themselves from judge moore in their candidacy and judge moore gets the most votes, the election would be null and void. the only way that a write-in candidate or doug jones would be elected to the u.s. senate would be if one of those individuals, either a write-in candidate or doug jones received the most votes in the race. we do not have a majority requirement in our general election. we only have a plurality requirement. if they receive the...

The south is very different. the guys who took the flag off the south carolina capitol new which way the winds were blowing. thats why they put a two-thirds majority requirement in to get the flag down. haylee cant take it down. they have to have a two-thirds majority vote. these guys knew they were sort of running out of steam on this stuff. the problem is it took this horrible tragedy for the gop to have this internal discussion they have been trying to avoid i think for a long time. it just b...