the minority some time during 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 reelected a president who carried almost all of the swing states. won by 100 electoral votes. picked up senate seats where the numbers were stacked against us. going back to 1964 numbers, literally, and picked up house seats and didn't win a majority because of redistricting if you look at the additive numbers, all the numbers of house votes for democrats and republicans across the country. it's clear the public wants something done. and mcconnell doesn't want us to do any of these things. that's the importance of making the senate a more functional body. in senate change there on ta one in january. >> yeah, absolutely. the same gentleman you just listened to, mitch mcconnell, the dysfunction of what would