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>> there is good news op the senate intelligence report on torture and that is that no one in the government knew anything about torture before the cia got into the torture business. they didn't have a well trained cadre of torturers ready to go, and so as senator rockefeller described it yesterday, they made everything up on the fly. the 123459 report indicates that the torture program was ineffectual and involved much more torture than anyone previously imagined and that it was a cesspool of corruption. a former military psychologist was given $81 million, instantly making him the highest pa...

Once he got to washington he stayed low profile. so a lot of people thought michael bennett was going to lose that u.s. 123459 seat to the republicans in 2010. but then the republicans nominated this guy. they nominated ken balk to be michael bennett's republican opponent. and it turned out that was a terrible idea for the republicans even in a blood red year like 2010. in 2008 and again in 2010 colorado anti-abortion activists had succeeded in getting onto the ballot a really radical anti-abortion ballot measure. it would make all abortion criminal at any stage in pregnancy and for any reason...

He is not, i don't think, going to get what he thought would be the result which is a demand for single-payer national health care, socialized medicine let me switch subjects to something you wrote about. harry reid and democrats killed a filibuster on nominees. it had been there for, what, 100 years. >> well, this only inflames -- will will this only inflame part russian intentions and change actually the fundamental function of the u.s. senate? >> the u.s. senate is becoming very much like the house now. the majority rules. and the minority can eat sand. i think that this manassas the presid...

That and i think they will judge in favor of ted cruz this. the fact that we have done this out of principle. we have done this in harmony with the american people and in response to the overwhelming cry for relief from this really dangerous bill, a bill that has put at risk a lot of things we hold dear in this country. that is what we're standing for. this has nothing to do with us. this has everything to do with the american people and where they stand on this issue. martha: legislatively the next step would be to send this back to the house, if all goes as is expected, and that would mean t...

>> they could have marked them up and they didn't do that. >> but i thought he just said budget. matt, you just said budget. the reason there's no budget is because the right wing in the senate is what the reason is. and you know that. >> here's what we're asking for. we would like to skip the trickery. we would like to know where all house members, all senate members stand on this bill that the president himself says is not ready for prime time. that's what we're asking for. >> i believe -- >> they want to know where these guys are. >> the speaker of the house has called for a vote on those v...