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President meets with the president of china in florida. >> bill: well come back on the f-16, thanks from the pentagon there. >> shannon: holding things up on the senate floor staging an all nighter, jeff merkley speaking all night. senate majority mitch mcconnell taking the first step, something john mccain is call ago slippery slope. mcconnell says democrats broke the rules first. >> fair ly recent thing to filibuster, broke the rules of the senate as you indicated four years ago to lower to th...

Dubious agendas. but at the end of the day, its the civilians, women and children, 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 in how this should not be tolerated whatsoever. and this threshold of inhumanity and savagery that have been crossed every day is something the president will not allow to happen, wherever it may be, and i endorse the president in this issue....

Senate democrats are vowing to block this from happening by any means necessary. this can lead to very bitter ani unprecedented confirmations showdown. thats tonights mini monologue. way back in 2013 when democrats were out of control of the senate, then senate majority leader harry reid changed long-standing senate presidents and eliminated the 60 vote threshold that is needed for the confirmation of obama nominees. for three years after that, many senate democrats argued that this precedent of...

We will be voting thursday. were going to get him confirmed by friday. he will be sworn in by the end of the week. i look forward to that. it will be a good day for america. >> melissa: do you worry about the repercussions if you end up having to go nuclear? >> i want to be very clear about something. we have had a precedent thats been put in place since november of 2013. it was put in place by the then democratic majority. on the executive calendar, when were confirming presidential nominees, w...

With appointing a supreme court nominee during an election year. >> i dont think we should be moving forward on this nominee if it was the last year of this presidents term. >> mitch mcconnell has made it pretty clear, theyre not going to vote on this until after the election. >> most republicans agree that it should be brought up after the elections to avoid the politics. >> democrats and their liberal allies say do what we say now, not what we did then. >> back with the panel. the next nominee...

Deeply polarized and divided country and how things have been functioning in the senate. i spent much of my career there working on a number of supreme court nominations. and what we recognize is that every supreme court nominee since the eisenhower administration, with the exception of justice thomas, has received and crossed the 60 vote threshold at some point during their confirmation. so we will be throwing up a tradition in the senate of finding a bipartisan compromise of getting bipartisan...

Republicans invoke the nuclear option, the rare action would change the rules of how the senate votes and of a straight up or down cloture vote, 60 votes to confirm neil gorsuch the nuclear option would lower the threshold to a simple majority which would end the debate allowing republicans and those three democrats to move forward in voting to confirm neil gorsuch. >> let me assure you, on the supreme court midnight friday night. one way or another -- >> they are so stupid they put somebody of ...

"hannity." mitch mcconnell said that judge neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week but many senate democrats are vowing to block this from happening by any means necessary. this can lead to very bitter and unprecedented confirmations showdown. thats tonights mini monologue. way back in 2013 when democrats were out of control of the senate, then senate majority leader harry reid changed long-standing senate presidents and eliminated the 60 vote threshold that is needed for the confirmation of ob...

60 votes. we had plenty of people confirmed. theres no magic 60 vote threshold. as you say, what getting rid of the filibuster here would do is return us to the norm, the status quo before harry reid and the democrats started filibuster george bushs nominees about 15 years ago. i have never been a fan of filibustering nominees. i think it would have been great for bill frist to get rid of it then. i think it would be good to finish it off now, to return us to what in the senates history, has bee...

This is politicized you have no objections against him and this is unprecedent. >> well, we have a lot of substantive objections against judge gorsuch, it has to do with, after reviewing his cases and how he approaches his judicial decision, hes very much in favor of corporations over individual rights. he will fit right in with roberts court and send this court further to the right in ways that will not protect minority rights. >> but, is there any -- i mean, the argument, i think, from republi...