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Embers of bipartisan that are not there very much to begin with. >> but in the senator more than anywhere else, right? >> and in the senate youve seen bits and pieces of it, like in this sort of pledge on the intel committee to get to the bottom of it or the notion that the senate would be kind of the deciding factor on a real health care bill that could actually pass. but when it comes to nominees, this ship seems to have already sailed. >> i want to get your take on this but first, becau i wan...

This is a rules change but not without precedence. >> right. it would take away the 60-vote threshold any senator historically has been able to impose an option to matters being brought up on the floor. they needed 60 votes to move forward or was considered filibustered at this point. that was the rule for everything in the senate. as mike mentioned a few years ago, the democrats changed the rule and said that lower court nominees, you would need a simple majority vote and also for executive bra...

Into the future? once senate precedent hasnt changed, does it change forever? >> its not going to change back any time soon, that is for certain. this has been part of a steady erosion we saw beginning in 2013 when democrats went nuclear for nonsupreme court nominees. it continued last year went republicans did not give merrick garland a hearing and left democrats very sore about that. now what is going to happen this week is democrats just got their fruit [boos] 41st vote to uphold the filibust...

Process leads the senate republicans to abolish the 60-vote threshold. lets be frank, the majority leader has assured us he will abolish this threshold. i dont agree with that approach, but like it or not, that is the reality. on thursday, the full senate will participate in whats called a cloture vote. its one of the senates many long traditions. though many americans may not know exactly what it means, it means that we are done debating. and we are ready for the final vote. and almost always a...

Them about whether the filibuster is going to be around. i think for a lot of voters this is not something that they think of as particularly productive. why do we have a 60 vote threshold? isnt this whats preventing stuff from getting done? i think it will be very easy quite frankly. >> you look back 30 or 40 years in the senate, you had liberal republicans and conservative democrats, lots of both of those. so you had the actual -- >> you had gangs. >> as opposed to the bipartisan -- what you h...

Thursday. its going to be very confusing to watch. because when they get the nuclear option, what you think youre seeing is going to be the opposite, the people that want to have the nuclear option invoked will be voting no. whereas those that dont will vote yes. so its going to look opposite. you may see democrats go down to the floor, try to hold protest motions. youll see a lot of back and forth. once we get to that point, youll start to know that this is ultimately the vote to change the rul...

Need to move forward. subway terror attack of explosion ripped through the metro train while vladimir putin visits the city of st. petersburg. ten people are dead and dozens hurt. whos behind the bombing. >> going along, the u.s. is read d i to go it alone like this weeks naval exercises. what options does the president have in i am wolf blitzer, you are in "the station room." >> this is cnn breaking news. breaking news right now, senate democrats have the vote to block neil gorsuch unless or un...

It means that mitch mcconnell will have to go nuclear this week. he will have to change the rules if he wants neil gorsuch confirmed. >> jenna: he would have to change a precedent in the senate to allow this to take place. if that precedent is changed, and republicans are able to vote for gorsuch to go to the supreme court, what are the ripple effects of that? >> lawmakers are concerned that if this happens for the supreme court nominee, they will be growing pressure on mcconnell to get rid of t...

You heard people like pat leahy and ben carland about opposing the vote even if they oppose judge gorsuch. its possible i suppose you could have enough democrats to allow us to get to a vote and they reach the 60-vote threshold and then gorsuch is approved in the traditional way. at is the same time you had harry reid signal the lowering of the threshold would come and he said this. he went out and made this declaration. its not as new as democrats are pretending it is. >> shannon: he pulled the...

Gorsuchs nomination. >> in light of judge gorsuchs record i do not support his nomination. >> approval must be by more than a razor thin majority. >> credentials are not enough, not enough for the supreme court. >> my conscious will not allow me to ratify nima jort leaders nomination. >> i cannot support this nomination. >> after this, republicans came to the podium slamming democrats of playing politics. all they would need to put judge gorsuch on the supreme court is a simple majority, 51 vote...