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Heres the thing, philosophically the democrats and the caucus have a variety of perspectives. ive argued, for example, lets restore the filibuster. if you have the leverage that comes from slowing things down, you have to be on the floor giving speeches. its a public act. you did it in front of america and america can weigh in. are you heroes or are you bums. i argued that we should imply the two speech rule that has been in our rule since we were founded as a senate ask still in our rules today...

I think one thing overlooked its possible to force an actual talking filibuster and get back to the traditions of the senate, if democrats want to filibuster this nomination, they should follow the advice of the heritage foundation, rachel bow vard wrote a piece in the hill today she talked about the two speech rule which would enforce a natural talking filibuster. thats what the people want to see. >> elizabeth, your thought on that? >> i think neil gorsuch is going to be confirmed this week bu...

>> secondly, its not all clear to me that thats even going to become necessary. there are a lot of reasons why it might not be. senate democrats could still decide not to filibuster, if they do decide to filibuster, still very possible that well end up with 60 votes. even if that doesnt happen, were still going to confirm this guy without regard to whether theres any need to deploy the nuclear option because we can invoke the two speech rule we stay in the same legitimative day and exhaust the a...

With lawmakers going after its new commissioner calling on him to squash the regulations governing the political activities of some nonprofits. its what some are referring to as the obama administrations anti-free speech rule. >> commissioner koskinen needs to live up to what we told us when we confirmed him, when he led us to believe hed be an independent voice for reform. commissioner koskinen has a choice. he can be a hero like the irs commissioner who stood up to president nixon or he can ju...