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case will be adjudicated in a court of law. white prima circumstances according to them the five african-american cops who beat him to death are racist participants in a deeply bigoted system and that's the narrative. here's the "time" magazine quote. there can be no doubt that entrenched institutional racism lies at the heart of this case. the "boston globe", "black cops kill tyree nichols. systemic racism will be the death of us all." upheld institutional and cultural racism in tyree nichols murder. fake news cnn, "the police who killed tyree nichols were black but they might still...

case will be adjudicated in a court of law. white prima circumstances according to them the five african-american cops who beat him to death are racist participants in a deeply bigoted system and that's the narrative. here's the "time" magazine quote. there can be no doubt that entrenched institutional racism lies at the heart of this case. the "boston globe", "black cops kill tyree nichols. systemic racism will be the death of us all." upheld institutional and cultural racism in tyree nichols murder. fake news cnn, "the police who killed tyree nichols were black but they might still...

Can tell you what's at our disposal and it goes beyond blocking nominees. every authorization, every one of these agencies in the intelligence community, they need a bill, us to write laws that authorize them to do this. they can't pass it out of our committee if they don't authorize that we can start fencing funding meaning they won't be able to use money even if it's appropriated to them, by law, they won't be able to move monies around. they have got nominees obviously to bring before us. they are coming to us all the time to reprogram funds, move money from one part of the budget to anothe...

Stated, to stall executive nominees. the roots of the filibuster are found in the constitution and in our own rules. >> it will change the senate forever. that's not good. >> all right. the were all pretty clear about it back then. asked today by dana bash why the flip-flop, senator reid said quote i have the right to change how i feel about things. dana joins us along with senior legal analyst jeffrey to been. no doubt hypocrisy to go around. in terms of blocking nominees is it really as bad as the democrats are claiming, dana? >> reporter: it certainly is different. they are right about that...

For us. how much -- how worse is it now than it was under president bush or president clinton? >> it's worse. i thought the most striking statistic that harry reid used today was one half of all the judicial filibusters in the history of the united states have taken place during barack obama's presidency. that's a lot of filibusters. president obama has had five nominees to the d.c. circuit, the second most important court in the country. four of those have been filibustered. three are likely now to be confirmed as a result of this rules change. but the degree of the use of filibusters has c...