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Later today the 20 members of the senate judiciary committee are expected to vote to send the nomination of judge neil gorsuch on to the full u.s. senate for consideration. brian: that will be the easy part. and then the big question will be will there be 8 democratic senators to join every republican senator and put him over the threshold of 60 votes. traditionally used to coronate any supreme court justice nominee. all expect -- all except the supreme court justice thomas got 60. abby: heidi h...

As the math starts to come into focus a little bit. >> you can see what the math is on the vote, are you going to support or oppose this nominee. it is the other question, the question of cloet sure. you can vote against judge gorsuch and still get out of the way anallow him to go to a full vote in the senate in not doing that. thats the threshold were looking for here. in not doing that you set off another chain of events. >> anything that raised your brows about senator feinsteins comments? >>...

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 plaerly productive. why do we have a 60 vote threshold? isnt this whats preventing stuff from getting done? i think it will be very ea easyquite frankly. >> you had the 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 have now. its a smaller and less efficient h...

Because you can with this nuclear option, and force this candidate through. >> its baltimore a matter of changing the precedent as to whats been done in the past. look, justice thomas and alito did not receive the 60 votes necessary and they are still sitting on the bench. regardless of how he is confirmed, whether it is nuclear option or he does get to the 60-vote threshold, hes still going to be called the same thing at the end of the day. he will be called a supreme court justice and thats th...

The way in which that occurs is in the hands of the democratic minority. during the course of the week, we will find out exactly how this will end. but it will end with his confirmation. >> when a nominee doesnt get 60 votes come you shouldnt change the rules. you should change the nominee. >> was senate majority and minority leader to their battle lines this morning for what could be an historic week in american politics. the chance stop in a court nominee bipartisan filibuster for the senate r...

By making the wrong decision or the republicans are going to win it by going to the nuclear option. sandra: you brought up the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he says, we are going to get judge gosh such -- gorsuch confirmed. >> thats right, you have republican lawmakers who are not all that concerned about invoking the nuclear option. remember dems -- democrats did it to -- for executive appointments changing the supreme court would be one thing. if youre trying to get major policies th...

Presidents administration using the terrifying powers of espionage of the united states government to conduct an intelligence operation against political opponent, before and after the target was elected president of the united states. clayton: perfect summation at that. when you read it in terms, its scary, frightening, whether youre democrat, republican or independent or otherwise, its an american problem. pete: former president obama said thats the threshold by which he would go out and clari...

>> thats the obvious point and totally true republicans dont confirm the senate and may not have been in two years. another inside point is the fact that mitch mcconnell now can talk talking being basic alignment with paul ryan and donald trump on big issues that mitch mcconnell do some of the freedom caucus telling his chamber, his body what to do. sometimes the 60-vote threshold can help the majority leader stopping things before you get to the chamber have been a rational use for not moving f...

Mcconnell shifted the liability to the other side of the aisle. >> well, i can tell you is that neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. how that happens depends on the democratic friends. >> later, chuck schumer made his argument for the 60 vote threshold. >> on the most important of decisions, 60 votes is called for. thats why you get a -- thats how you get a mainstream justice. highly unlikely hell get 60. >> democratic senator joe d donnelley of indiana announced his support of gorsuch this...

Calculation and it comes to the filibuster rule going nuclear. >> twofold. one is theres never been a 60-vote threshold for a supreme court nominee in the past. two members of the supreme court right now, alito and thomas confirmed with less than 60 votes. they had more than 50, the less than 60. they will set a new standard by saying this nominee needs to achieve 60 votes in the, was calling them out on that. the second thing is this will likely not be the last nominee supreme court nominee tha...