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Of legislation, which is a nice luxury. in the senate it was designed this way. its the way our founders set it up. senate is supposed to be the cooling off place and as you know, we have a 60-vote threshold here. its just a little tougher. we cannot pass just purely partisan bills here unless were using something like reconciliation, which was attempted in healthcare and may be attempted with tax reform. other bills go through the normal process. as you know its difficult in this environment, a...

To repeal and replace and would do the same now. so i think for those who were voting against it, yeah, they would have a bit of a problem explaining that. >> shannon: what do you make of the president tweeting today about getting rid of the filibuster in the senate. dropping that 60 vote threshold moving forward. bipartisan opposition to that idea. he isnt giving up on pushing it, though. >> there is bipartisan opposition to it. i should mention that weve had trouble getting 52 votes of the 50 ...

Also have democratic senator dick durbin saying this goes too far. how do you find that sweet spot for people who are happy enough to get that 60 vote threshold? i think that -- therein lies the difficulty with washington, d.c. >> harris: you are saying something i hadnt heard interjected into this conversation as much and such a great point. theres no retroactivity or moratorium for when they come to this country illegally. >> antonio: lets say we allow everyone whos been here for 25 years, at ...

Final quick word. is north korea already -- have they crossed that threshold? >> north korea has -- it depends how you define it. you define it as being able to attach a nuclear warhead, which they have, to an intercontinental ballistic missile which they have, create a delivery system then you have crossed the nuclear threshold and we are in an unfortunate new world and thats why i think donald trump is in his rights to talk tough with kim jong un and i have no slightest doubt that mcmaster and...

Marie, i understand the president has to, under the law, basically certify whether iran is complying with the agreement or not. there is mixed signals coming from the administration as to how that is going to go down. what do you think is going to happen? >> well,s the challenge for the administration is that within the 159 pages of the deal iran is technically in compliance. the administration doesnt like things theyre doing outside of the deal. i would argue that the best way to deal with thos...

Is north korea already -- have they crossed that threshold until. >> it depends how you define it, if you define it as being able to attach a nuclear war head, which they have to an ibm, which they have, in other words theyve created a delivery system, then you have crossed the nuclear threshold. then we are going to be in a grave and unfortunate new world. thats why i think donald trump is in his rights to talk tough with kim jong-un, and i have the slightest doubt that john mccain and mr. mcma...

Can be mapped with a drone in a few minutes. but first the data from the drone has to be processed at the universitys institute of medicine. from a jigsaw puzzle of single images a very accurate overall picture of the test area is produced. thats followed by a complex image analysis. and classification into weeds crop plants and soil for example where were growing sugar beet is done with a pixel density measurement using an image analysis program. we measure the number of green pixels between th...

Basically certify whether iran is complying with the agreement or not. there is mixed signals coming from the administration as to how that is going to go down. what do you think is going to happen? >> well the challenge for the administration is that within the 159 pages of the deal, iran is technically in compliance. now the administration doesnt like things theyre doing outside of the deal. i would argue the best way to deal with those other things, like support for terrorism, ballistic missi...

Coming in a close second with twenty percent they are in second but as you mention terry its a painful result for them not quite what they were expecting the left party and the greens retaining sort of their threshold as they had in two thousand and thirteen hovering at just over nine percent for the left party nine point two percent of the votes and the greens managing to go to eight point nine percent the real victims of this election f d p and the f d parties and ill explain in just a second ...

>> jason: heres the problem. the first boats, what people need to realize, the very first vote is a motion to proceed. should they actually debate thi this? >> harris: it will die right there. >> jason: i dont know how any senator can justify voting "no," you can offer amendments and do other things to adjust the bill. the reason they are slamming it in and between september is by law they were supposed to pass a budget by april 15th. they have not passed the budget, when you do not pass the bud...