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Proposing for guns, for gun reform, background checks for everybody, 91% support. and that is that number that is consistent across polls. the big "new york times" national poll on this last month had it at 92%, not 91%. so you can split those hairs if you want. but basically, its kind of unanimous. the "washington post" did roughly the same polling. again, a national poll on these policies. but when the "washington post" did it, they broke it down by party, which ends up being really useful. lo...

What a shame. >> that was harry reid on the senate floor in may saying progressive senators tom youd jaul and jeff merkley who were working to reform the filibuster they were right, he should have listened to their call to reform the senate rules, they wright and he was wrong not to listen to them. they were right and this was today. "progressive senators working dramatically to alter senate rules were defeated thursday when senate majority leader harry reid and his counterpart republican leader...

Routine -- >> rachel, this has to change. its wrong what theyre doing because its never happened before. the republicans just this time have abused the system, and its going to have to change. were going to have to look at ways to change that because there should not be 60 votes in the senate. >> that was democratic senate majority leader harry reid during an interview with me in his home state of nevada in october 2010. this has to change, there should not be a 60-vote threshold in the senate. ...

That they participated in in this last election. we need a grassroots effort to try to support republicans who want to do the right thing. we need to convince them that theres a price to pay if they do the right thing. and weve got to take on the nra to try to debunk this myth that if you cross them theres a political price to pay. in fact, the opposite was true in the last election. the nra barely could win elections around this country. they just arent the force that they once were. >> senator...

Described a number of the filibuster reforms that harry reid agreed to with mitch mcconnell. wow. harry prooed. yeah. this was the day everybody had been wait forget in terms of changing how the senate operates. and if you hear sad trombones, thats why. on election day this year americans voted overwhelmingly to re-elect president obama four more years. that same day people also voted to re-elect senate democrats and to send a large number of them to congress, more than the re z republicans. mor...

59% of republicans. the big kahuna, background checks for everybody, even at gun shows, everywhere? republicans are hugely in favor of that. 89% of republicans want that. what president obama has proposed to do on gun reform is very popular, even among republican voters. when you ask them about the things that the presidents proposing, pretty much republicans think these things are good ideas, we ought to be doing them, they are in favor. and then the same "washington post" poll asked republican...

Campaign turns its campaign apparatus into a political effort to try to marshal support for some of the presidents political priorities, they may try to work on this issue. they may essentially try to turn their campaign apparatus loose on both immigration reform and on the issue of gun reform. do you think that this is the kind of issue on which a grassroots effort like that could be particularly effective? >> its the only way that this gets done in the end. listen, i wish this werent about pol...

Say you know what, america, majority rule should not apply here, this is really important and im willing to explain why and take up time to prove it. that was the whole idea. and nothing has been done toward making that happen at all. it will still be a routine 60-vote supermajority for everything. and this is now it for two years. the one baby, baby, baby, baby, baby step toward actually shifting the burden onto people who want to block majority rule consists today of mitch mcconnell and harry ...