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A last-ditch effort to try to stop president trump's nominee for education secretary. it's 2:00 a.m. but democrats are still on the senate floor. they're taking part in a 24-hour talk-a-thon to try to scuttle betsy devos' confirmation. two republican senators have broken from their party and say they will not vote for devos. democrats say they may have a third unnamed republican who is also ready to vote no, which would block the confirmation. without that third republican, though, vice president mike pension will cast a tiebreaking vote. >> senate republicans are confident devos will win conf...

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I'm thomas roberts. a lot is happening this hour in the nation's capital. former president clinton is meeting with president obama. they're expected to cover a wide range of topics and you know that the tax compromise is going to be coming up. speaking which have right now on the senate floor, bernie sanders of vermont has barely stopped speaking since 10:30 a.m. not a true filibuster, but really a one man talk-a-thon to rail against the tax deal that he says is wrong for the country. let's listen in. >> you have a problem all over the country that you have jobs out there, good jobs, and those...

Different for you. >> oh, absolutely. i know it's going to be a transition. >> you played the first seven years of your career in a place where you pretty much got unconditional love. how much more pressure is going to be on you to win now that you're part of this super team? >> it's not a super team right now. >> so have media organizations and especially espn gone utterly overboard over one basketball star's big fat contract? hours after the lebron-a-thon i sat down with mike wilbon, the "washington post" columnist and co-host of espn's "pardon the interruption" at our old studio down the ha...