Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171221:12:23:00
Eight years with a sunset. why isn't it permanent? >> i think part of it is two-fold. one is the arcane procedures we had to keep a 50 vote threshold the the other big one, and i reached out to a number of democrat senators and house members, they made it very clear early on they were not going to provide one single vote. >> it's not their fault it has this sunset provision. they didn't come up with this provision. >> it is the byrd rule. it is their fault. eight democrats could have gone and made it permanent. if chuck schumer had just provided eight democrat votes on that one issue. he didn'...