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i'm jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. we'll shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-liners, seven, eight, nine, the math remains the same, more evidence the opposition is dug i...

>> it depends how many total. we don't -- we need that answer first. how many people are casting votes today. >> let's say we're voting on tuesday. everybody is on the floor. if two of those people decide they can vote present instead of voting no, does that give kevin mccarthy -- >> that brings it down -- the benchmark down one vote. >> right. >> for every two off the board, it brings down the requirement that the majority requirement from 218 down one. >> if everybody because there's 434 because one passed away, it's 218. because mceachin is already off the board because he passed away, forg...

Have about our institutions being fair. >> you make the point that the united states senate begined as a stacked deck with voters in the dakota having a stronger representation than new york city and new york state in the senate. and then you make the point that the super majority requirement imposed by the senate filibuster can stall wildly popular legislation. then the senate itself decides to stack the deck in an even more extreme way. >> yeah. it is a really, really bizarre situation. the founders, as skeptical as they were about democracy, they obviously created it in the first place. the...

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Against. we always talk about hamilton in 65. federalist 65. and rightly so mr. madison warned against successfully on the floor having grounds of impeachment that would include move administration. i think that's what this debate is all about. the hyperbole, national security which you just talked about, and a clear and present danger. that's another thing in terms of moving this forward. if the president is a clear and present danger, then the trial in the senate, which is destined to come, has to move forward quickly. the framers were very, very concerned about the idea of a truly partisan ...