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>> they have to see the bill first. they will go through that process. i suspect during the 20 hours they will offer some amendments they won't have any involvements they will wait until the end and try to delay this for weeks. >> greta: did they have the stomach to drag it on forever? the republicans? >> it only takes one member. you saw jim bunning up until tonight stand on the floor and hold up this unemployment extension. it takes one member who is willing to file hundreds of amendments and continue -- get there's the next guy, the next woman. it isn't one representative citizen for number...

>> they have to see the bill first. they will go through that process. i suspect during the 20 hours they will offer some amendments they won't have any involvements they will wait until the end and try to delay this for weeks. >> greta: did they have the stomach to drag it on forever? the republicans? >> it only takes one member. you saw jim bunning up until tonight stand on the floor and hold up this unemployment extension. it takes one member who is willing to file hundreds of amendments and continue -- get there's the next guy, the next woman. it isn't one representative citizen for number...

Are going full speed ahead with a plan b. reconciliation. that means of course republicans have lost their filibuster as a weapon. do the republicans have a plan b as well? is there anything they can do to stop the democrats? former senator rick santorum joins us live is there a plan b for republicans? >> filibuster is gone. >> greta: that's plan a ask >> that's plan a. they have reconciliation which is limitation on debate there. is no limitation on amendmentments. that's called a vote ram the longest we had in the senate was 90 votes. we had -- what happens there, at the end of all the debat...

You should vote against. here we will have probably maybe hundreds of amendments. >> greta: is there a cut off? >> they have to be jermaine. in the stat -- they have to be germane. in the senate you can get up and offer an amendment on waterboarding on agriculture, doesn't have been to germane to the subof the bill. >> greta: who decides whether it is germane or not. >> the parliamentarian. >> greta: even that is eating up time and wearing down the other side. it is like ahmadinejad sitting there trying to buy time to build nuclear weapons. the same sort of idea. >> i'd like not to make that a...

You should vote against. here we will have probably maybe hundreds of amendments. >> greta: is there a cut off? >> they have to be jermaine. in the stat -- they have to be germane. in the senate you can get up and offer an amendment on waterboarding on agriculture, doesn't have been to germane to the subof the bill. >> greta: who decides whether it is germane or not. >> the parliamentarian. >> greta: even that is eating up time and wearing down the other side. it is like ahmadinejad sitting there trying to buy time to build nuclear weapons. the same sort of idea. >> i'd like not to make that a...