the next term, could you live with the rule changes that are being proposed? >> i could. after elections, the public thinks things should happen. it's clear the public spoke loudly. they this year. they re-elected a president who carried almost all of the swing states, one by 100 electoral e votes. picked up senate seats where the numbers were stacked against us in term of the number of senate seats on the ballot. going back to 1964 numbers literally, and picked up house seats and didn't win a majority because of redistricting, if you look at all the numbers of house votes from democrats and republicans across the country, so it's clear the public wants something done and mcconnell doesn't want us to do any of these things and that's the importance of making the senate a more functional body so that we can confirm judges. there's so many empty judgeship, that could be doing the people's