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Belief you ought to get bipartisan vote. were insisting we will have to get the threshold and get minimum bipartisan support to get the threshold. he wont do it. what that means is the president should send us a nominee who can get 60 votes. instead, i suspect the republicans will say, we wont send you another nominee, we will make a change. it will be bad for the court, the senate, bad for the country, in the long run wont even work out well for the republicans. i think theyd be wise to keep it...

The fact that his opposition were all democrat minority members. i think its a shame that were here. im glad that we will be able to confirm the judge going forward. he will certainly make us proud. he will make colorado proud. >> melissa: even folks on the right arent thrilled about this. you had senator john mccain saying further damaging it with what it would do to the united states senate. you also had senator lisa murkowski suggesting it was a trying time to be a lawmaker who prides herself...

Gorsuch does highly unusual things, way out of the ordinary type things the way he describes whats at issue in the case and actual actions and these clust air round areas of womens autonomy to make their healthcare decision, im very troubled by that. >> the last whip count was 44 for filibuster and mcconnell says he has the votes for the nuclear vote to get rid of it. is that your prediction for the next step is? >> probably. lets talk about decoing the launch. heres how i like to say to those t...

Mcconnell. sir, i imagine this is something that you did not necessarily want to do but you are prepared to do because the groundwork for this has been laid years ago? >> yeah, dana. interestingly enough, until senator chuck schumer, now the democratic leader of the senate in effect convinced everybody that filibuster is against executive branch appointments were okay, this is the way we did it. for 230 years, up or down, simple majority votes for supreme court, cabinet, everything, until chuck ...

Pointed out, mr. president, civilians, women and children are paying the heaviest price. this is happening on our watch, on our conscience as well as the global community. i know the passion and emotion that the president has expressed and how this should not be tolerated whatsoever. this threshold of inhumanity and savagery that has been crossed every day is something i know the president will not allow to happen wherever it may be, and i fully support and endorse the president in this issue. i...

But at the end of the day, as you pointed out, mr. president, its the civilians, women and children, paying the heaviest price. this is happening on our watch as well as the global community. and i know the passion and emotion that the president has expressed and how this should not be tolerated whatsoever. and the threshold of immunity that is being crossed every day is something that i know the president will not allow to happen, wherever it may be. and i fully support and endorse the presiden...

Partisan filibuster. >> melissa: as you sit there and talk amongst yourself about the possibility of having to change the rules in response to that, what do you see as the biggest downside? >> well, i think what we want to do is tamp down any notion that theres broad support for doing the same thing for legislature. i think 60 vote threshold is what makes the u.s. senate different from any institution. so its giving people confidence that were not going down that path. you just saw the behavior ...

Mutual respect and continued chinese bad acts jeopardizing the u.s. and the international community. gordon, let me ask you point-blank, how big the threat from north korea is right now. people have mocked their failed missile tests over the years, mocked the leaderment we know the problems internally in the country. how serious is this threat? right now north korea has three missiles that can hit the lower 38 states. theyre based on proven technologies and they probably work. they cant mate a n...

Striking $50 million deal with the nfl. man. all right, now weve got to take you to the senate floor where democratic senator jeff merkley is now on hour 15 of a talk-a-thon trying to delay the nomination of judge gorsuch to the supreme court. nbcs current count shows gorsuch is well short of 60 votes for approval, which means to confirm him, republicans may have to use that nuclear option. i want to bring in connecticut democratic senator richard blumenthal, member of the judiciary and armed se...

♪ >> dana: it was in november 2013 that democrats in the senate led by harry reid forever changed the rules of the chamber by lowering the threshold for filibusters. mr. reid at the time dismissed questions about republicans using similar tactics. >> arent you worried that republican also get rid of the filibuster on the supreme court anyway. >> let them do it? why in the world would we care? we were prying to protect everybody. they want simple majority? fine. i mean, all these threats about ...