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The floor, she had everybody come back down on the majority side and vote on her right to speak even though she blatantly broke the rules. don't give me this high and mighty oh, we're taking awayal the rules and having a list of ideas here. that's what we've been doing all year. i told the group just the other day that you can always judge many things by what you spend time and spend money on. spend time on, spend money on. i've said already this is a impeachment of clock and calendar, and i believe that to be true because we're seeing it tonight. two hearings and a markup. that's all we're do...

These are pending further backwards into the judicial system. but what i would like to ask my friends on the majority side, okay. say we are done with this impeachment inquiry next week. the house passes both articles of impeachment and goes to the senate for trial. does that mean that the whole nexus that means the whole subpoena is gone, are you going to go to court and say it's gone, are you going to dismiss those actions to support enforcement of the subpoenas? if you are following the argument that i just heard, you have to do it. but i doubt it, i yelled back. >> gentleman yields back. i...

The d.c. circuit. there are others that are pending a little bit further backwards in the judicial system. but what i would like to ask my friends on the majority side is, okay, say we're done with this impeachment inquiry next week. the house passes both articles of impeachment. and it goes to the senate for trial. does that mean that the whole nexus of why you are attempting to enforce those subpoenas is gone. are you going to go to court and say it's gone? are you going to move to dismiss those actions to support enforcement of the subpoenas? if you are following the argument that i've just...

Majority side and on the minority side. i think the filibuster on legislation is really important. otherwise what you get is the swings of the pendulum, and, you know, the republicans take full control, there is no filibuster and they decide to privatize social security or do away with medicaid or whatever the democrats take. i think the filibuster in my view, and i've come to this by experience, forces some level of bipartisanship, forces some level of consideration in minority interest. so i think it would be a huge mistake whoever's in charge next time. it'd be a huge mistake for the countr...

Where one side, i don't think would shed a tear if something happened to the other side. how do we bridge that division? >> i don't know that we can, frankly. >> should we? >> where is -- where is the compromise when one side, call it the bernie sanders side of the democratic party, wants -- >> the far left side. that's not a majority side. >> ever more government programs, and the other side, the tea party part of the base of the republican party, remember, they marched in washington with signs that said, we want less. that's a long time since we've seen that. but the point is, when we had th...