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There was a lot more energy and focus was paid by some in congress as well as in the media on issues that, while important, are not the highest priority of the american people and they are not scandals. >> all right. so what about phony scandals? how do you define them? jim, the president keeps repeating that line. are the media going along? >> i think it's the jedi mind trick. however, there are some strange eruptions of curiosity. in fact, for example, cnn's jake tapper reportedly, quote, dozens of cia operative, right there in benghazi last year. that was sort of out of the narrative, right...

Doubt that -- that more than the intelligence community would have known about that. >> senator jeff merkley of oregon. thank you for explaining that. you have been more clear than anybody else commenting thus far and i think you made news here tonight by being so clear. thank you for being with us, sir. >> you're very welcome. thank you. earlier this week on this show, john stanton, from buzz feed, the guy with the big eyebrows and goatee, skull rings, he said one member of the united states senate was playing a jedi mind trick on the whole country. the evidence for that hypothesis is coming ...

Senate, obviously marco rubio has been tip of the spear here for the republicans in terms of trying to come up with a bill that republicans can support. early on that meant him going on conservative media and lobbying conservative media host. they should also support this, they should not whip this vote from the conservative side against republicans and hold it against them. in the last couple weeks we've seen marco rubio doing sun servetive media hits where he's talking the bill down, saying it's a bad bill, floating the idea he would vote against it himself. john stanton was here saying we s...

Colleagues saying, oh, i have all of these concerns, we may not be able to pass it. they get a few additions to the bill, couple tweaks. he can then come back and say, look, i was very concerned just like you were and we were able to make some changes, the best policy we're going to get, so we need to get behind it and hopefully -- and the reformers, you know, position that would help bring enough republicans along. you know, they should be able to get 60 votes or close to 60 votes in the senate, i think, in the end. but after that, it's difficult to see a path forward. >> since this is anothe...

Votes. they thought it was going to pass. even republican senator lindsay graham said today they had the votes that it was going to pass, they got 60 votes, but marco rubio, who is supposed to be the great republican champion of this issue says, no, it is not going to happen. he's counting and he cannot count to 60 on this one. this is the one policy they want, the one thing they are geared up to actually even talk about and everything. and it too is now falling apart? joining us now is the great john stanton washington bureau chief at buzz feed. mr. stanton, thank you for being here tonight. ...