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Udall, harkin and whitehouse made the majority's case for change. i commend these passionate leaders. they have made compelling arguments for reform. >> for more, let's turn to senator jeff merkley of oregon who introduced the filibuster reform. senator, good to have you with us tonight. is this the ticket to ending obstruction? >> well, it won't end it, ed, but it certainly takes us a step in the right direction. we need to end the use of a filibuster getting to a bill and we need to end the use getting to a conference committee. those are outrageous applications. but moreover, the secret sil...

Change. i commend these passionate leaders. they have made compelling arguments for reform. >> for more, let's turn to senator jeff merkley of oregon who introduced the filibuster reform. senator, good to have you with us tonight. is this the ticket to ending obstruction? >> well, it won't end it, ed, but it certainly takes us a step in the right direction. we need to end the use of a filibuster getting to a bill and we need to end the use getting to a conference committee. those are outrageous applications. but moreover, the secret silent filibuster on a bill itself, the one that you never se...

"new york times" opinion piece calling his former employer togsic atogs toxic and destructive. wolf blitzer is off. i'm candy crowley. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world with. you're in "the situation room." puerto rico isn't often a hotbed of american politics but certainly is right now sunday's republican presidential primary looming. 20 delegates are up for grabs and as mitt romney and rick santorum will be the first to tell you, every one of those delegateses koubt es counts. jim acosta is watching it unfold for us in san juan. you had the opportunity to see ...

Providing funding. when you look at the legislation, what is important to understand is that there has been since 2004 in the on going years since then, more and more scientific evaluations of what the on going medical problems are, and the people first on the scene, and the people who were there at the time. new york city commissioned a study and found there are on going problems and people need help, and there is broad agreement that people need help, and there needs to be funding for it. i am encouraging you to read this for yourself, if you think it might affect you in anyway. if you want ...

To speak their mind about this. >> other rallies are planned today across the united states. in los angeles, they're expecting, up to 100,000 people. but police say it's more like 60,000. you may recall it was 2007 when these protests sparked violence in los angeles when then president bush was pushing for federal immigration reform. a few people even journalists were injured in that. phoenix police are saying they don't expect 100,000 people here today. they don't even expect 60,000, but they are prepared for a large scale crowd if that happens. a real quick update on the bill itself, three f...