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Weekend and they have a proud history of protesting lots of things, and friends that have seen everything in north hampton, told me this was the largest one they have seen there. this one that happened this weekend. there's an incredible amount of them out there. >> those of us who are old enough to remember antiwar protests never thought we'd see anything bigger. >> thanks, my friend. >> so the government is going to stay open now, at least until february 8th. the president has just signed -- just tonight signed the bill passed by the house and senate to continue government funding until febr...

Senate think the rules only allow the majority leader to do it, but that's not a rule. it's just a tradition. every senator is empowered to call up a bill. senators can spend decades and never get a chance to do. she did not just violate one of the traditions of the senate but forced mitch mcconnell to take full ownership of stopping military paychecks during the shutdown. when you watch this video, you can almost feel mitch mcconnell's agony of being suddenly trapped on the senate floor by claire mccaskill. >> this shouldn't take long, but i was most upset when the president of the united sta...

Senate watchers instantly recognized this was something she could not have done on her own. this was something planned by chuck schumer and the minority leader's staff. the minority leader's staff would have had to write what she said -- some of what she said and made sure that was going to take place right after the big vote when no one expected anything else to happen. clare mccalskill usurped the majority leader to call for a vote on something else. and at that time she did something i've seen once on the floor and that is seizing the majority leader's unique power to bring up a bill on the...

Senate made no attempt to pass a bill that could have kept the government open. no attempt to try to get the votes to pass a bill. and instead, the majority leader asked for a vote on a bill that he knew would lose. the republican leader, mitch mcconnell, asked for a vote on a bill that he knew four republicans -- four of his republicans ronald reagan going to vote against. they told him that ahead of time. and they were going to vote against it mostly out of disgust with the way their own party approached this legislation. and so, we got the first shutdown in history of a government completel...