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That there was no discussion with republicans, there was no consultation, and a result of that was just part of the continued grandstanding of nancy pelosi and chuck schumer in the house and the senate where it really didnt actually try to address some of the problems. employment nondiscrimination is something we need to continually address. president obama was not able to get it done. nothing weve seen in legislation introduced is going to rectify that situation. in some of the issues that you ...

Districts. and theyre going to be in play in 2020 and i think nancy pelosi is trying to argue most americans dont want to go to impeachment. please try to protect our incumbents in the house. she wants to control the house in 2020. paul: who is going to win this? >> its sad. i think we could be all losers. i think dans right. the strategy is to criminalize the presidency. paul: without actually -- >> impeachments a serious thing. if you want to do this, impeach. the second thing is, theyre abusi...

Districts. and theyre going to be in play in 2020 and i think nancy pelosi is trying to argue most americans dont want to go to impeachment. please try to protect our incumbents in the house. she wants to control the house in 2020. paul: who is going to win this? >> its sad. i think we could be all losers. i think dans right. the strategy is to criminalize the presidency. paul: without actually -- >> impeachments a serious thing. if you want to do this, impeach. the second thing is, theyre abusi...

Basis, both parties, his party and democrats agreed we will not do that. that is a terrible idea. they rejected his request. >> a president inslee said we need a moon shoot for renewable energy, congress said no, a president inslee wouldnt declare a national emergency. >> not under our understanding of the law because we believe that would be a violation of the separation of powers, and it would be a consistent refusal to honor the decision by congress. this is not like we all of a sudden had an...

He was a hard-fought game. when you have a noncall of that point in time in in the game where things are in the clutch and its time to be decided, it just doesnt sit well. thats not how either team wants to win or lose. >> laura: ben, what do you think about the rule changes are now being debated? i listened to almost nothing but sports talk radio over the last 48 hours. i was upset about a lot during this game. there was a lot of things that couldve gone differently. i dont think the saints pla...

Includes children, tender age children under the age of 5 in need of medical care taking a perilous journey, some of them are already ill. some of them havent seen a doctor in a while. two have died. because of this. and they are turning a blind eye to that i think you cant call it anything but raw politics because all we are trying to do is get together and say, look, we have had some great bipartisan action on criminal justice reform. on the opioid crisis on any number of measures. border secu...

Senate rules requires a procedural vote of 67 yays. a rules change was out of the question. there was another way to lower the bar. establishing a new precedent. >> theres only 44 standing rules of the senate and tens of thousands of precedents. standing rules are the bare skeleton of senate procedure. the rules of the road are givened by interpretations of those rules by precedent. >> via fancy fin nagling, harry reid didnt change the rules. he instituted a new precedent for breaking filibuster...

Other people not able to do it? >> my point is everybody now is able to do it. if the rules change, then the first lady wouldnt be able to do it either. look, its kind of like say the mortgage interest deduction. there are real arguments thats a bad idea. you know, when you fill out your taxes, deduct your mortgage interest, home mortgage interest from your income. theres arguments, sound arguments, i dont know where i fall on that, but there are sound arguments we should get rid of it. does tha...

Just to get neil gorsuch confirmed. he executed what is called as the nuclear option. this is what you alluded to. they lowered the threshold for filibusters in the senate for supreme court nominees from 60 votes to a simple majority of 51. this was not a rules change. this was a bit of a parliamentary chicanery that changed the precedent. the senate does a lot of its business on precedent. what they did with a confirmation of neil gorsuch, they altered the precedent. this door was opened by har...

Votes in the senate. so it is not like the healthcare bill. we have to have at least eight democrats support this in the senate which is why we have been working with democrats from the very beginning. yes, we could have passed a republican bill only out of the house, but it never would have passed out of the senate and then we would have been accused of not being able to function and run the government. so there is a very good reason we been working with democrats on a bipartisan bill and becau...