you have to have 60 people to agree to start debate and 60 people to agree to end debate and then when you pass the bill it just takes 51. what i m proposing is taking away the first one. it takes a simple majority to open up debate. debate any issue, topic or bill. if the minority is not heard you keep the 60 vote at the end to make sure we can keep debate going until every voice is heard. that s the heart of the senate is do debates, not prevent us from doing debates. keep the 60 at the end. get to resolution and final passage. we need to change the rules on how we do nominations. democrats have held up the nominations for president trump where he can t get his staff in place. typically a president would have 200 staff brought through senate confirmation. president trump has 50 at this point. it has been this deliberate slow walking of these nominations. we need to stop that so a president can bring their own staff on board. shannon: very frustrating
foreign intelligence and trying to be able to listen in on two groups of terrorists. if terrorist one is talking to terrorist two and talk about assassinating an cam can or getting involved in american something and name an american that information is gathered but the name of the american is blocked out. it will say american person one in all the listing. at some point some individuals will say i need to know who that person is because they talk about attacking them. the f.b.i. will say i need that person unmasked so i can figure out if we need to protect this person. when nunez is asking is why this person needed unmasking. he is trying to get to the bottom of the issue about classified information. how did it get out? did this person have to have the name unmasked? it is not necessarily bad. it is something that happens very commonly as we try to protect americans identity but protecting americans if they face threat. it is a reasonable question to say did this person need to know
now it s important to look at what the connections are because they ve both been developing ballistic missiles for the purpose of using them to deliver nuclear warheads. i think there is every reason to believe there is cooperation on the nuclear front and maybe worse of all whatever north korea accomplishes, i think iran can have the next day by writing a check. a lot of this debate we ve been having over the iran nuclear deal or how to handle north korea ignores the fact we really have a global threat here based on the cooperation between the two of them and the mistakes we ve made for 25 years in both cases about how to handle north korea and iran have brought us to this point. bill: you have are making a case in part to make a first strike against north korea. how do you imagine dealing with the fallout from that? i m not making the case to do that. i say there is one diplomatic piece left to get china to
comments about mexicans and african-americans and women and minority groups in general. the new york times went too far here. they shouldn t have run with that. to write about this administration and jeff sessions in particular on record from as far back as the 1990s speaking out against the values of affirmative action i think is totally on point and an important discussion to have. shannon: to give context he and many other lawmakers talked about it, their concern was they wanted the laws to be enforced in a way everybody would have a fair shake, not it would wind up punishing people. i understand that and we want everything to be as fair as possible. this country has a long history of discrimination against minorities of all types. racial minorities and ethnic minorities and socio-economic minorities. does the trump administration believe diversity benefits all americans. shannon: in this case they
wanted the make sure it benefited asian americans. this is the silliness of all this. what jessica s argument is, there is so much racial bias at yale, harvard, princeton, the hot bed, the center of left wing orthodoxy in our country that believes in some of the silliness associated with the diversity police. this is where we have to go because if we don t have these programs these fine institutions would be discriminating against blacks and hispanics. i find it the most silly argument i ve ever heard. after half a century the country has to ask itself at what point do we start accepting kids into the programs with with the best records no matter what color they are. at some point, jessica, you have to let these programs go.