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The anti-lynching bill in the 1920s. in 1957, senator strohm took it to the floor speaking for a record of 24 hours. the longest filibuster in senate history, 60 days almost to derail that landmark, civil rights act. 1983. jesse helms, the senator dropped his filibuster, declaring martin luther king jr. day a federal holiday. is a filibuster worth voting rights for millions of people? bipartisanship just for the sake of bipartisan? that's how we are divided tonight. america is divided. everybody in their own echo chambers and it seems nothing

Equality, basic human rights for nearly my entire life. he was recently seen on the house floor speaking in favor of impeachment. >> when you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something, to do something. our children and their children will ask us, what did you do? >> news of his diagnosis sent shock waves across the country, triggered an outpouring of support over social media, house speaker nancy pelosi telling the congressman that generations of americans have you in their thoughts and prayers. former president barack obama adding that i...

His word and we go back to the pattern set in the clinton impeachment, there were all kinds of witnesses. several depositions taken. and the idea of bringing in new witnesses to continue the evidence-gathering process, even in the middle of the impeachment trial is exactly what happened back in that trial. so if lindsey graham really wants that, he may want to coordinate more closely with the white house because i'm sure that's not what they want. whether it's done in person and in the clinton impeachment they decided they didn't want the spectacle of people standing on the senate floor speaki...

To put that coalition together because evers has their own best way of doing it. you have to find a way to do it that brings a coalition together with a majority of the house and a majority of the senate to pass it. i look forward to giving the senate that opportunity to make additional reforms. >> so what will the senate do? how will the senate treat this bill? is there a working group that is -- that's already been established as we've heard, again, right now that's jim clyburn, the assistant democratic leader on the floor speaking. senator? >> look, time will tell what we do in the senate. ...

Iran will not allow the shia city in the south to be sieged, shia populations to be attacked. we could see iran coming in, too. absent effective american action to stop these guys in their tracks, at least throw them back to the sunni arab area until we figure out what to do, this will degenerate into a regional cataclysm. >> john mccain was on the senate floor speaking angrily about it. let's take a listen. >> it's time that the president got a new national security team. >> we've got another benghazi in the making. >> they're 100 miles from baghdad. what's the president doing? taking a nap. ...