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There. >> reporter: it certainly is, john. a lot of technical gymnastics the senate will be jumping through today and the kor rog gra fee here is very important. i want to show you how this is all anticipated to go down. in the next hour the senate will convene. an hour after that, this will be the first vote to break the democrat filibuster. republicans do not have the 60 votes they need. they wont get this. this will fail as a small but temporary victory for the democrats here. that will set o...

Got a lot of other things we need to do legislatively concerning the economy and jobs. i think thats where we want the focus to be. >> in the words of john mccain. youve got to go, but in the words of john mccain. whoever is going to help change the rules are idiots to do it. noteworthy john mccain is voting to change the rules along with you. >> thanks for your time. >> thanks kate. >> thank you. senator going to vote. lets get over to talk about where the vote stands right now. voting is under...

Threshold to move forward with the supreme courts nomination. >> on this boat, the ayes are 48 >> today, majority leader mitch mcconnell said he had no choice facing what he called a historic partisan filibuster. >> unfortunately, it has brought us to this point. we need to restore the norms and traditions of the senate and get past this unprecedented partisn filibuster. >> donnelly of indiana, heitkamp of north dakota, and manchin of west virginia. the senates democratic leader complained bitte...

They are going to try to lower the threshold to break a filibuster. that will confirm judge gorsuch to the supreme court. we expect to see fireworks on the senate floor today as long-standing precedent is changed. that is the nuclear option and a final confirmation vote tomorrow with only 51 senators needed or 50 senators plus the vice president, mike pence, if there is some kind of surprise or absence that we dont know about yet. >> jon: peter doocy come alive on capitol hill. thank you. for mo...

Sound like a fuddy duddy here, but what i learned in school growing up and the whole notion of the saucer of the senate that cools the hot passions of the house, that there were differences in these bodies, i think that if we do indeed see us going down this slippery slope and legislation sis invoked, youre going to have a very hard time. what that threshold put in place was an ability to bring people across party lines. to gather some bipartisan consensus. i think that if this new moves on to l...

Nomination. i think judge garland is very, very well-qualified, but i think the democrats have reaped what they have sown here. they have erected clinical obstacles to confirming judges and should not be surprised when they play hard ball that the republicans make the decision to play hardball as well. >> jon: you say that democrats have reaped what they have sown, are republicans going to come to regret essentially abolishing these to -- 60 vote threshold for supreme court justices? >> we will ...

Filibuster but that move expected to fail since it would take 60 votes. that is where the nuclear option comes in lowering the threshold to simple majority of 51 votes. if that scenario plays out, neil gorsuch would be confirmed by tomorrow night forget the red line, bashar al-assad and the syrian regime has crossed too many lines. rob: enough is enough in the wake of these sickening gas attacks. >> i now have a responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it through. rob: how th...

Forward. this is really a very dark moment for the u.s. senate with grave consequences for the nation. >> we know some of your democratic senate colleagues tonight are planning to speak well into the night tonight continuing your effort last night to spotlight attention and try to bring national attention to it, if not slow it down. can you tell us, it looks like the republicans are perfectly comfortable getting rid of the filibuster so-called nuclear option. that means the judge can be confirme...

Republicans are saying and they tried to threaten democrats by saying dont push us to go there because its just going to mean more ideological supreme court justices in the future. is there merritt to that? is that a real concern? >> i think it is a real concern. we have this 60-vote threshold for consensus and president obamas first two nominees got the 60 votes. if there had been a norms aprocess, merritt fwarland who was a cone census pick would have bn tten the 60 votes. the idea of getting ...

This is really a very dark moment for the u.s. senate with grave consequences for the nation. >> we know some of your democratic senate colleagues tonight are planning to speak well into the night tonight continuing your effort last night to try to spotlight this nomination, bring national attention to it and if not, slow it down. can you tell us, it looks like the republicans are perfectly comfortable getting rid of the filibuster so-called nuclear option. that means the judge can be confirmed ...