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Thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> there you have, senator chris coons announcing that he will not vote for judge gorsuch, he will not confirm him. and he also said he's against cloture. so he will not vote for cloture. he said he would like to see more debate on this, so that mitch mcconnell does not invoke the nuclear option. he said it erodes the senate and he would like to see a nominee that can gain support from both parties. ari, it is a bit confusing. he did give a definition for cloture, but explain it to us. >> democrats have achieved the filibuster of judge gorsuch, many peopl...

Disturbing as an american citizen, that mr. gorsuch has been unwilling to answer specific questions. i think this is a very sad day if the republicans use the nuclear option, as you called it. and it's a sad day the parties couldn't come together to have a better process here. >> congressman, do you believe that mitch mcconnell could try to go nuclear to make it a simple majority to confirm supreme court justices? >> well, first let me say the senate is a strange place. the 60-vote rule has been overutilized by both sides. i asked a colleague of mine how do you like being in the senate? he sai...

Their houses for electricity. it would be a big overthrow because people need health care, and that's bottom line. there's no way around it. >> here come the torches and the pitchforks. thank you very much. ari will have more coming up in less than an hour on msnbc on "the cycle." you must watch that. coming up, major developments in the investigation on that downed malaysia airlines plane as the eu finally agrees to get tough with russia by rach easting up sanctions. then, u.s. airlines have halted flights to israel because of worries about rocket attacks. that as secretary of state john ke...

We're not going to let it happen. you heard it here first. d.c. will not finish that thing, and it will not allow this subsidy to take place. >> what is the relief the plaintiffs are seeking, ari? what relief are they seeking? if the plaintiff in this case, the d.c. case, the one that struck down these federal exchanges, is the relief they seek no more subsidies? >> how much time do you have and how bored do you want to get? >> not a lot and not at all. >> it's a lot of stuff to read here. >> yeah, what i would say in a nutshell is they did find a way to argue that some of these plaintiffs wou...

Democrats now have 40 votes to filibuster a final vote. republicans have suggested if they didn't get an up or down vote they could trigger what's called the nuclear option. that strategy would put gorsuch on the supreme court, but it could also destroy the filibuster, as well as harm the consensus building relationship that our founding fathers had envisioned for the body. reports and analysis from new york with our correspondents. chief legal correspondent ari melbor. chris, where do we stand on the democrat's filibuster, and are they ready for the republicans potentially to go nuclear is>> ...