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They got rid of the filibuster for other cabinet nominations. which is why were in the position right now. democrats dont have anybody else they can block. they can block the supreme court nominati nomination. and its a question for both sides, short term gain versus long term gain. in the short term you can get gorsuch on to the bench, whether its going to be by the standard procedure or the nuclear option procedure which lowers the threshold of what you need for a majority. and then its a ques...

Now you can with southwest fares as low as 59 dollars one-way. yes to low fares with nothing to hide. thats transfarency. we have breaking news now on the nomination of judge neil gorsuch. democrats have crossed the threshold to achieve their threatened filibuster with this. >> throughout this process i have kept an open mine.

Hearing in four hours. this is going to set the stage for three days of debate on the senate floor. how and when that debate ends is critical. democrats are ready for endless debate. republicans need 60 to cut off filibuster. they need eight democrats to join on that. we have heard from senate majority leader who says they are ready for the nuclear option to change the threshold to get the up or down vote for gorsuch. >> neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. how that happens depends on our d...

Comment from chuck schumer. neil gorsuch is a mainstream nominee. if you look at his records and rulings and decisions over the year and aba qualifications and the kind of people who have endorsed him both democrats and republicans he is a mainstream nominee. chuck schumer just wants him to be a mainstream liberal come knee. >> shannon: i talked to judge na pal and if they were to step down during president trumps time in the white house if the democrats allowed this to go to a nuclear 51 vote t...

Confirmation process leads the senate republicans to join the majority leader in abolishing the 60 vote threshold. . i dont agree with that approach, but like it or not a number of you have asserted today that is the reality. on thursday the full senate will participate in whats called a cloture. though many thanes may not know what it means, it means are ready for the final vote. all republicans required for us to get to cloture. i am not ready to end debate on this issue. so i will be voting a...

Thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> jon: that is another nail in the coffin, if you will, for judge neil gorsuch jacumba nominated to the supreme court. it appears that an f democrats have come out against his nomination that he will not be confirmed under the traditional, however senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said that if democrats will not play ball and will not vote him into office using the 60 vote threshold that has always be...

>> shepard: bottom of the hour, top of the us in. the senate judiciary committed has voted along party lines to send president trumps pick to the supreme court. the democrats say they have numbers to block it. 41 say they plan to vote no on confirming neil gorsuch. that puts republicans short of the vote they need to advance the nomination. they also have the ability to set a new precedent and lowter threshold to a simple majority of 51 votes. thats what they have been calling the nuclear option...

Most notably now they have reached the number of votes that they need to essentially lock in a filibuster for donald trump supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. that came in the form of the last hour. they reached that threshold when senator chris coons speaking became the 41st senator to come out and say he will oppose joibing democrats and filibustering gorsuch with his support that means that republicans dont have the numbers here to block that filibuster, which pushes this into a nuclear shutd...

Senate have against doing the majority leader in abolishing the 60 vote threshold for cloture on the nomination of a supreme court justice. lets be frank. the majority leader has assured us he will abolish the 60 vote threshold for judge gorsuch if eight democrats do not support him on the senate floor. i do not agree with the approach but like it or not, in number of you have showed us today that is the reality. on thursday, the full senate will participate in what is called a cloture vote. it ...

Frankly democrats could be smarter in republicans too to bring back the old school filibuster where you actually have to talk. right now, you just have to have 60 votes, and i think people would say if you think there is the debate to be had, come out and speak, dont just make it this 60 vote threshold, come out and speak, lets debate. >> jon: going back to my high school civics class for that one. your paper, "the washington post," had an article describing president trump as isolated without t...