Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131110:13:31:00
The interesting thing is if you go back to the 1996 vote, there were eight republicans back then who voted for it. this tells us something about the evolution of the party. look at the names like william cohen went on to work for the clinton administration, spektor left the republican party, john chafee's son left, jim jeffords left the party, mark halfy was an extremely liberal republican. it is like back then in today's politics, most of the names would be democrats. now we're talking about trying to get into conservative republicans, like jeff flake, dean heller, rob portman, pat toomey, th...
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