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The pain of sandy hook as this school shooting was playing out on the news. it's a reminder that the trauma in places like parkland and newtown and aurora, they repeat on days like this when the news are filled with scenes as we're watching out of california. but it's also a reminder that we just can't sit by and do nothing as the slaughter continues. republicans had an opportunity today as news was breaking of the shooting to bring up a background checks bill that has 90% support in this country and once again they refused. >> why not? >> i mean, their excuse today was they didn't have the op...

Replacing obamacare and tax reform, which is in the works. look, i was encouraged by the interview this morning. i was encouraged to see he trusts the negotiating power and trusts negotiating with the president and also the fact that he's not going to let the bickering and name calling and the back and forth get in the way of what he has to do. it was positive he encouraged the president and praised the president for executive appointments and judicial appointments, specifically. >> why is he doing that? >> there's so much tension out there. it's good to let people realize, we are all on the s...

Potential backlash from extremists in your country? >> so, just to echo the sentiments of his royal high ne ness, this is an historic moment for saudi history and for saudi society, as well. but i think it's important to keep in mind that, you know, we -- saudi society has been voefling and leading up to this over the past few years. so women have been gaining access incrementally and systemically across the board, into the public space. and we've seen this, in the labor market, with the femmization of specific retail industries. we've also seen this with executive appointments, the saudi stoc...

Here. does that change everything on capitol hill? it's a party line vote on every piece of legislation that comes up or every proposal that president trump makes? byron york, i've heard of poison's wells but this has poisoned everything. >> yeah. it's gotten bad. democrats tried to filibuster samuel alito. then republicans thought about filibustering sonia sotomayor and elena kagan. they decided not to do it. a lot of people look at this as a slippery slope. in 2013, harry reid invoked the nuclear option, blew up the filibuster for executive appointments other than the supreme court. if it ha...

And judges in general because you don't like the outcome of the election. we came up with a standard they should only filibuster an extra ordinary circumstances, which i think is consistent with what hamilton had in mind in terms of role of the senate, that you expect a republican nominee or republican president to pick someone different than the democrat president because that's what the campaigns are all about. i believe that son myron kagan were well in reason of mainstream -- that's why voted for them. now, things are different. i believe that that vote november 21st 2013 forever changed t...