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Ryan. >> i talked to you the day after the womens march, which turned out to be bigger than many expects. >> right. >> a show of force that was organic. future leaders, in the democratic party, future leaders for women, who are they and who are you looking to to pave the way for planned parenthood and organizations like that in the future? who are they? >> i think its been interesting to see the power of the women in the senate. we have elected women who are very strong and i think exciting and ...

Get it out of the way. obviously, politics is completely overwhelmed this entire process. all of the norms of the past have been thrown out the window. you can argue if youre a democrat that the garland nomination was the tipping point and if youre a republican the bourque nomination was the tipping point. we are where we are. lets say, for instance, mitch mcconnell were i chuck scmers shoes and he was running the democratic party, what would he do in this instance in my questions is he would al...

What if justice kennedy the next time or ruth bader ginsburg were to step down? that would be a fight the democrats really care about because it would change the balance of the power on supreme court. whether to save the filibuster for then or not has been a calculation. >> that is a calculation. the problem, sam, is that democratic voters are going to look at what just happened over the past year. and feel like that seat was stolen, it should have been merrick garland. they wouldnt even him in ...

Ability to act consistently. >> but, peter, it seems inevitab inevitable, doesnt it? we know where this is going. mcconnell gets 60 votes or gets rid of the filibuster. >> yeah. there doesnt seem to be much chance at this point given what we know that judge gorsuch wont be on the court. the only question how ugly will it be between now and then? it can be pretty ugly. and, you know, youre right. i mean, the democrats are feeling pretty bruised by the last year and the republicans, youre right ab...

There is always an election one year away, you know, that mitch mcconnell need to be very careful. but it seems to me after what happened with merrick garland, democratic voters are going to expect their senators to fight to the bitter end. what do you think? >> no, i agree. a lot of bitterness about merrick garland. you heard the senator from oregon saying this is a stolen seat and a seat should have been filled by barack obama and stole by the republicans who held it open for a full year rathe...

Man of integrity and vision, adding, quote, tom knows how to talk to people. not down to them. he knows how to explain why our partys core beliefs matter to the immigrant family in arizona and the coal miner in west virginia. but senator bernie sanders responded reaffirming his support for congressman keith ellison saying, do we stay with this approach or go forward with a fundamental restructuring of the democratic party? wow. that also could pertain to our next guest and how we move forward. j...

Chairman of the senate judiciary committee declared that supreme court vacancies arising in the midst of a presidential lex should nont be considered until the campaign ended. here is mike pence speaking with pbs yesterday. >> you dont think the senate majority leader mcconnell has to resort to the nuclear vote? >> i hope he doesnt. when you look at those first-term nominations of president clinton and president obama, none of those were filibustered. all received full broad bipartisan support a...

Picks, except for this one final court pick, and took it down to 50 and had obamacare passed by a majority vote, which is going to mean now that republicans will repeal it without 60. we have all seen these leaders backed into the corner where the very thing that used to coo down our government, the 60 votes. it used to be 67. now they always say what do they say is in the saucer that cooled down the coffee. that has been shattered. >> between this and executive orders we have almost become a pa...

Remember. a lot of republicans, presumably many in connecticukentucky, in voted for donald trump on this issue, on supreme court, on controlling the court and having that ninth member be somebody -- that ninth justice be somebody to swing the vote in their favor. this is the critical vote, i think, for a lot of people who put themselves behind donald trump and held their nose about some of the other stuff. but we are now in this, like, this feedback loop of retribution where democrats feel they ...

The other side and each side by the way, is very -- it speaks from where it sits. last year you heard democrats talking about republican obstruction im and now republicans talking about democratic obstructionism. where did sd it end? >> betsy devos bid to become education. two gop senators have announced they will vote against her nomination. >> i believe she is a good person. i know that she cares deeply about the children of this nation. but for the reasons that i will explain, i simply cannot...