process that they are only two possible results, that the senate will confirm this nominee or the republicans will use the nuclear option to change the rules of the senate are dead wrong. that is a false choice. if this nominee cannot meet the same standard that republicans insisted upon for president obama's supreme court nominees, 60 votes in the senate, then the problem lies not with the senate but with the nominee. the answer should not be to change the rules of the senate, but to change the nominee. >> jon: adam, you well know it was harry reid who changed the rules of the senate. it used to take 60 votes to agree on just about anything in the u.s. senate, then harry reid changed the rules and lesser nominees, federal judges, appalachia just and that sort of thing can be approved with 51 votes. now all of a sudden, chuck schumer says it's very important we maintain that 60 vote threshold, what is going o