Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131122:05:13:00
The republicans said, no, we can't take it, you will not be allowed to add those three nominees. but you see what the grey pie is there on the pie graph. 390 republican, 390 democrat, that grey part, that's how many vacancies there are right now on the federal bench, 93. so think about that for a second. if the republicans had given in on those three judges or even given in on just one or two of those three judges, i'm telling you, we would not be where we are right now today. that would have let the steam out of the democrats' fury. that would have made the democrats' rage on this issue calm ...