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It without trying to choke off the government in letting it run and do its business, dont you agree? >> so we have to capitulate. >> no, you have to govern. you have to govern without taking the american people hostage. >> isnt governance that you have to have a president thats willing to sit down with both sides and negotiate. >> governance is majority rules and the republicans dont have the majority. >> who has the majority in the house, thomas? >> you have one-third of washington, d.c., again...

Cetera. i think to a large degree with john mccain and chuck schumer and others help, they walked over the brink, they looked over the edge, they didnt like what they saw and all pushed back. thats why we got a deal. >> brad, and then jimmy, i want to get you to respond to my idea. i believe there should not be substantive filibuster reform. i rest that on something a wise man once told me. the senate, quote, is where legislation goes to cool down and get better. jim m jimmy williams told me tha...

We need a president to bring us together, not rip us apart. i hope the justice department does not respond to the ill-advised recommendation of the naacp to continue this controversy. >> chris: i want to cover a different story, which normally would be huge, and that is that harry reid in the senate is threatening to impose a nuclear option, to change the rules not by the normal 67 votes, super majority, but by a simple majority of 51 votes and 100. and this is because hes objecting to the filib...

We need a president to bring us together, not rip us apart. i hope the justice department does not respond to the ill-advised recommendation of the naacp to continue this controversy. >> chris: i want to cover a different story, which normally would be huge, and that is that harry reid in the senate is threatening to impose a nuclear option, to change the rules not by the normal 67 votes, super majority, but by a simple majority of 51 votes and 100. and this is because hes objecting to the filib...

We need a president to bring us together, not rip us apart. i hope the justice department does not respond to the ill-advised recommendation of the naacp to continue this controversy. >> chris: i want to cover a different story, which normally would be huge, and that is that harry reid in the senate is threatening to impose a nuclear option, to change the rules not by the normal 67 votes, super majority, but by a simple majority of 51 votes and 100. and this is because hes objecting to the filib...

>> bulldogs theyre not as organized as your other gangs. they dont have the leadership in their organization. their rule of thumb is, that majority rules. if theres issues on the yard they have to try to resolve, the bulldogs would get together and take a boat, if you will. and the majority rules to go with that, theres no set leader of bulldog. >> if a bulldog has a chance to attack a southern hispanic, its on sight. if they can get away from staff during an escort, a door accidentally pops, an...

Affiliated or they joined together with the intent of not being governed by any other prison gang. >> bulldogs are not as organized as your other gangs. they dont have any leadership in their organization. their rule of thumb is that the majority rules. if theres issues on the yard they have to try to resolve, the bulldogs would get together and take a boat, if you will. and the majority rules to go with that, theres no set leader of bulldog. >> if a bulldog has a chance to attack a southern his...

Which protects staff and inmates. >> these are the heavy duty inmates that we want to get off the yard, because theyre heavily involved in that criminal activity. >> in addition to the prison gangs, the officers in corcoran also have street gangs to deal with, the most violent and unpredictable of all, the bulldogs. >> the bulldog street gang originated in fresno, that group of hispanic population not being from southern california, not being from northern california, they affiliated or they joi...

Anything done. you have to have some level bipartisanship to get anything done. and the house, of course, majority rules. the idea that we have this gang of 32, it is 32 freshmen, democrats and republicans together. we all started making friends back in december during our orientation. and begin talking about the fact that, frankly, congress is totally dysfunctional. i mean the 112th congress got virtually nothing done. so our conservatives was not i agree with this. i disagree with this. it was...

Course, is not an actual senator. this is the actor jimmy stewart in "mr. smith goes to washington." in this part of the movie, he is talking himself to exhaustion on the senate floor in order to block something from happening in the senate. the united states senate lets you do that. it is a rare and weird part of our system of government. in the legislature, aside from a few things that the constitution says have to have a supermajority, stuff like impeaching someone or kicking somebody out of ...