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That from the outset of this discussion. has been in the defense of the filibuster, or the idea of it. the 50 threshold will force a minority party to do a horse trading that's posed to be interview to the -- but the opposite of that has been happening. and with the people who are holding out, and defending the filibuster, can't get that process to happen on their own. it means that the system is fatally flawed. when kyrsten sinema, when she wrote back in june, says that it was her reasoning in developing the filibuster, what was also happening is that now people have to be on the record for a...

New york strong and right now we know after the ag's report he was never new york strong. he was new york wrong and he has to be new york gone. this has been a long, arduous, difficult new york nightmare for our constituents. i was one of the first ones to call for his resignation. i don't think we should allow this governor to resign. this governor has to be impeached. the ag report was comprehensive, it was professional. remember this is the governor who asked the ag to do this investigation and give this report. he said don't make any determinations about the fact, wait, i will be absolved....

Sets a terrible precedent. >> harris: what about the secretary of the navy reaching around to the white house, kind of his own deal on this? we don't know all of the particulars, but apparently he was trying to reach a different conclusion, or a conclusion at all, rather than going to the defense secretary. you talk about protocol and chain of command, he didn't keep it. >> katie: the secretary of the navy has been on shaky ground for a long time. dr. rogan from "the washington post" wrote a very long piece about the details of how he lost the president's confidence, and the confidence of othe...

Checks throughout the system try to keep this guy in line all the way through a ucmj court-mart l court-martial. this is literally like reaching in and freeing criminals. right? if there was -- if you were driving -- >> what the president has a power to do in the siecivilian context as well. >> there are rules of the road. you're not supposed to hit civilians with your cash, not supposed to drive off the road and crash into buildings, not supposed to speed. that's what happened here, he's take ben the rules, thrown them out the window, sending a message to everyone else in the military, if you...

Congressman welch mentioned this, that the president withheld u.s. military aid to ukraine in an attempt to extort the ukrainian president into manufacturing dirt on his political rivals. republicans are pretty much conceding that happened, more or less, but they are arguing that ultimately the aid got released in the end. the ukrainians never announced the investigation trump wanted and everything worked out so what's a little attempted bribery between friends. >> just for the sake of their argument, attempted bribery isn't in the constitution. remember, ukraine got its military aid. it was 1...