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So this recent invention of this level of controversy we decided was best left alone by just leaving us where we were -- >> so you now believe harry reid make the right decision? >> no, i don't think he should have broken the rules. but that's the precedent on what we call the executive calendar. and the supreme court is part of the executive calendar. >> are you comfortable in ten years we might not have a filibuster anymore, because someone else may replace you and continue down the slippery slope? >> i don't think the legislative filibuster is in danger. it's a longstanding tradition of the...

In support of their decision to nuke the executive calendar extends to the entirety of the executive calendar and not just to the non-supreme court nominees. >> all right. again, democrats would disagree with that, but i think we've run the course on this subject. >> hold on, hang on. >> can i ask you one question. >> i've got to respond to that. >> i don't want to lose you on health care. >> democrats would respond differently but you ask them what they said just a few weeks before the november election, this last year. they were already signaling that they were going to apply this in the con...

Disingenuous. three and a half years later to have regrets about the fact that they nuked the nuclear calendar is not a reason to confirm judge gorsuch. >> they regret that they made that move because it didn't allow them to filibuster some cabinet hey pointes but the fact is you're absolutely right. they did it first. the question is now are you willing to go there? it sounds like yes. i'm curious why you're not willing to say that you would support the nuclear option. >> just to be clear. i have an overall policy of not signaling in advance of a particular procedural move in the senate exact...

Intend to get him confirm. we will get him confirmed one way or another. >> one way or another means yes on the nuclear option if you have to go that way. >> it means we're going to get him confirmed. >> nuclear? >> it means we're going to get him confirmed. >> no matter what it takes. >> there are a number of routes this thing could take, and -- and i -- i believe that he will be confirmed at the end of this. i'm not sure exactly what procedural route, but he's going to be confirmed, and when we talk about the nuclear option we have to remember the democrats nuclear -- went nuclear on the exe...

Nuked, it takes only 51 votes to close debate on a nominee. that is based on the rationale that they used at the time which extends to the whole of the executive calendar. >> you would be the first one to do it. again, i'm not arguing you shouldn't. what goes around comes around in politics. i mean, the democrats may have made this bed in 2013. i just still don't understand why you won't admit that you're going to do something that hasn't been done before for supreme court justices. >> yeah, okay. so, first of all, one. reasons why i'm not that you canning about exactly what we're going to do,...