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Change the rules, so hes making this exception. senator warren is right, theres no principled reason why if youre going to make an exception here you couldnt make it on other things, such as voting rights. hopefully -- its a weird thing thats happening but hopefully this is at least a modest step forward towards rules reform. it is things like this, its the small steps, its things like senator cotton just driving senators crazy that sort of build momentum for reform. thats the way that its happe...

They want to bring back a talking filibuster, by that put the onus on the opposition, those doing the filibuster to show up, get to the floor, sustain their filibuster as opposed to the majority to break it. but theyre not in favor of a carve out in the sense we get from reporting, they see it as sort of a slippery slope in terms of rules reform. create a carve out for election, voting rights, another constituency, immigration advocates will say we should have a carve out for our interests, too,...

Realm of possibility. but i think what youre going to end up seeing is what is going to get 51 votes. because at this point i think everyones on board theres got to be some changes. so my sense is that something is going to pass. now, at this point theyre also talking about passing it with 2/3 and having it be a bipartisan deal and the democrats and republicans come together and say this is the wire going to do it and if that doesnt work then they go the constitutional option and they get that m...

>> i dont know. i dont know if thin knows, to be honest. i dont know if theres a hard vote tally. i know the people that are engineering this want to keep this very secret until they think they have the votes. i dont think they have them now. i think thats what that means. i dont think its outside the realm of possibility. but i think what youre going to end up seeing is what is going to get 51 votes. because at this point i think everyones on board theres got to be some changes. so my sense is ...

To be some changes. so my sense is that something is going to pass. now, at this point theyre also talking about passing it with 2/3 and having it be a bipartisan deal and the democrats and republicans come together and say this is the wire going to do it and if that doesnt work then they go the constitutional option and they get that majority. i think something is going to pass in terms of rules reform. the question is, its like the same story with the public option and financial reform, what c...