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Who is the leader of the republican party at this point four years ago? paul t -- it wasn't anyone who ultimately ran for president. >> i understand newer point. who is the leader -- i understand your point. who is the leader? when hillary clinton speaks, is she not the leader of the democratic party? >> no, she's not. it's a combination of chuck shummer and nanci pelosi and younger democrats who are coming on the scene and speaking on a platform to help people -- >> jason: name one thing the democratski are going to try to drive forward. >> remember donald trump said to the black community, s...

Legacy? >> i think he is the most consequential democratic senator since lbj. he pushed through a very ambitious social agenda. unlike lbj his legacy will be essence. he made procedure rule changes that will make it easier to get rid of everything he passed in the first years of the obama administration. >> and the nominees in p particular -- >> and for supreme court justices. >> it will make it easier for donald trump to get his through. >> yes. ironically is to make it measurerable for the next four years. >> what reid did is to make life miserable for chuck shummer.

Smithsonian and so, this bill is a monstrosity, on top of that, the estimates of the costs of sandy between 30 and 50 billion dollars, this is minimum 10 billion and double the actual cost of the storm. so republicans should have had a better plan going forward in terms of explaining why they weren't doing this, had the scaled back bill ready to go so they couldn't be blamed, but boy, this is a mess of their own making. >> megyn: what do you make of it, simon. the republicans at least darrell issa came out and he said this isn't speaker boehner's fault, it's the folks who stuffed all that pork...

Steadily worse because of things like at this time president today -- >> how did you justify -- i guess you are not the right person to ask this, but in terms of the disclose act tdoesn't apply to everybody. certain groups are exempted from the campaign finance. the sierra club. the nra is exempted. i don't know if unions will be or not. if this is supposed to clean up and have transparentsy and get campaigning under control money-wise, why are these groups exempted? >> have you people like chuck shummer with millions millions d millions in campaign money he has raised. and they don't want to ...