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Alone a vote. i thought that was wrong also. but two wrongs dont make a right, bill. >> bill: now its february of 2017 and im thinking 11 years ago this guy passed 95-0. >> correct. >> bill: not a single democrat opposed him, even schumer. schumer said judge gorsuch has sided with corporations over working people and most troubling an ideological approach that makes me skeptical he can be a strong, independent justice on the court, wow. let me just say this, bill. i dont know where this was in 2...

About this being their strategy saying we arent getting where we want to go with these nominees. they say they arent getting the information they want and they have ethical concerns. republicans say its nothing but stonewalling. we sped through president obamas nominees quickly. they are taking their ball, going home and saying they arent going the play. >> bill: a lot of viewers and voters can relate to. grassley said he tour east counties in the state of iowa, when will you get your act togeth...

Other. the second day in a row it happened. scott pruitt moves forward in committee. senator grassley, good morning to you and thank you for your time. generally speaking, has the decorum of an otherwise stately senate as we watch judge gorsuch make his way toward more meetings today, is the statelyness of the senate in free fall? what is going on there. >> only because of one senator, senator schumer, the new leader of the united states senate. he is dictating to democrats not to go to their co...

11 years ago he passed 95-0 with no democratic votes against him. chuck schumer was one of those votes in the approval column. just yesterday he put out a statement questioning his views on womens rights and right on down the list. do you think he is playing it straight, senator? he is your colleague. you know him well. >> im baffled by the fact that you could get through for the 10th circuit and circuit court judges are just next to the supreme court. the most important jurists in the united st...

Its still going to be a 5-4 vote. its the next one you need to worry about. so why not let it go? why put us through this? >> what you have here is a politically explosive toxic mix, shepard. you have the trump brand, which is highly polarizing which is what we just saw on the immigration ruling, the hundreds of thousands of people in the streets. you have the pipeline decisions, the opposition to obamacare. you have democrats feeling as if theyre not being heard and putting pressure, schumer in...

Going to be, if you talk not only to joe manchin but a lot of democrats, chuck schumer is going to be far more effective in bringing successful coalitions together to pass legislation that harry reid ever was. harry reid, i think even democrats say he was not constructive in that area. >> i think, again, it goes back to the question we have been kind of talking about all day which is that schumer, given the way in which the resistance to trump is mounting on the left, hes going to be an incredib...

Mcconnell -- >> there are ten democrats in red states up for relex and a bunch of democrats not looking at 2018 but looking at 2020 seeing this as a way to get attention and stand up for liberal, progressive -- >> saw one on tv a few minutes ago. there will be a lot of loud voices in opposition. theyll take aim at his -- hes got a track record, a lot hes written and talked about. the move for chuck shumer is the long game. if he and the democrats decide were going to try to fight and filibuster ...

Branch, gorsuch is your guy. if you are worried as donald trump as president, gorsuch will be tough like scalia. >> everybody trying to define what is a main stream judge, for pelosi, schumer, elizabeth warren, what about contraception, hobby lobbyist. he sided with the big business and church over the individual rights of women. >> be honest, juan. is there someone on that list that democrats would confirm? >> yeah. sure. not because it came from heritage and federalist society. instead of havi...

Lets go along with this, lets do 60, so then when the next comes around we say see shgt we still have the 60 standard. you have precedent within that current senate of a 60 vote threshold. if you fight it and go to 50 now youve blown it for the game changer. >> tough decision. >> no question its a tough decision for schumer. theres a lot to weigh particularly with the democratic base as energized as it is. things like the muslim ban and how much that really has people angered and empowered. weve...

Stop his cabinet or supreme court nominees and they have to get over the fact they lost the election and he is president of the united states and making these appointments. >> bill: i mentioned west virginia, missouri, claire mccaskill has an election in that state. montana, john tester for trump. north dakota, indiana i think was nine points i do recall. wisconsin by a hair, pennsylvania is a hair and you wonder how much that matters? i have to think in the end it could matter a great deal, mar...