MSNBC MSNBC Live With Hallie Jackson August 22, 2019 14:53:00
We see that word and your eyes glaze other than a little bit. but this is actually really important to the mechanics of how our democracy works. explain why people should care. >> the senate obviously has 100 people, you need 60 votes, 60 of them to pass anything through the chamber. it is consequential because that is a supermajority threshold. it is not in the constitution. 23i8 buster is a senate rule that came about by way of accident, somewhere around a century ago. the rule was made to do the opposite of blocking legislation, it was done to facilitate legislation and this goes back to aa...