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Have cooperated and glad to think about the compliance but of those members who have chosen not to, it's notable that those three congressmen, i'm talking about perry and jordan and mccarthy, they haven't given you a privileged base reason as to why, just talking the closest you can get is this request rye separates core constitutional principles. what do you make of that excuse? is it pretextual and fishing and hope you run out the clock? >> it's just political. when you think of the cast of characters that we're talking to here, you know, these are folks who are going to do the president -- ...

Decisions we want to make. if our colleagues choose not to participate, that's something that we'll have to weigh and consider moving forward. but i will just say broadly, look, for every kevin mccarthy or scott perry or these individuals who aren't talking to us, there are dozens of individuals who are. we've had almost 400 interviews so far. we continue to piece this puzzle together and to make significant investigative progress. >> that's really good to hear and reassuring because the american public does deserve transparency and members of congress should obviously endeavor to provide that...

Political doctrine is very squishy and subjective to decide the question was too squishy and political for the court to decide. historically, of course, the court, and lots of constitutional questions have come up with tests. they could have come up with a test for this that has a very high bar, something we saw in the census case, adverse intent to cut down on impact of individual voters. of course, the constitution, in the original constitution doesn't mention the right to vote, gives it to states to essentially implement. i think it is very unfortunate the idea we're going to go back to ger...

The current state of affairs that they're recognizing that there is no longer a choice, if you will, between just getting along or reforming. we're going to have to reform the rules in order to have the senate have any chance of addressing the big issues america faces. >> as you look at it as a student of politics, you're now a united states senator, what is a proper use of a jimmy stewart type filibuster where one guy or woman goes out there and basically holds the floor as long as their physical ability and their moral strength holds? >> when you have an issue that you feel so profoundly con...

Basically holds the floor as long as their physical ability and their moral strength holds? >> when you have an issue that you feel so profoundly concerned about that it threatens core values or core interests of your state, core constitutional principles, then to stand up and be heard and make your case before your colleagues and the american people, the jimmy stewart-style filibuster is completely appropriate. >> and so you don't believe -- if you force them to go -- i'll get to jonathan in a minute. if you force them out there, you don't expect they'll use the -- read the bible or read the ...