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Debate. they are gorsuchs -- 51 of the republicans also joined and debate, but you notice, there are 52 republicans and the senate, that's because the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, switched his vote at the last minute so that he could vote with the winning side. that gives him the parliamentary option to ask for a revote essentially and that is what triggers the nuclear option. all a little arcane and strange and has never been done before in the senate. it's also never been done, the democrats or either party has filibustered the supreme court nominee, at least for a nominated justice. an...

Headed that off. in 2013, he struck a few deals to head off a nuclear option before democrats went ahead and finally triggered it. he said both parties are going to come to regret this because you lose the impetus to have negotiations, to have both democrats and republicans get together and talk about these nominees. you're going to have more nominees to the far right and the far left because over the president is, as long as he has control of the senate, he'll be able to get that person done on the strength of his party votes alone. i think both parties will eventually come to regret where th...

The supreme court was the issue that he offered to conservatives during the campaign, vote for me, i'll give you supreme court justices. he is about to make good on that promise, so for them, at this moment right now, this is a big deal. this is also in some ways a victory for chuck schumer, the democratic leader. he's been arguing for mike years, even though gorsuch is about be confirmed, over the long-term schumer going back 12 years arguing the ideology, not just legal credentials should be a big part of these debates. he has now won that fight. democrats have now agreed that ideology matte...

>> jon: they are tallying the votes right now. again, they need 60 votes to end debate. 60 votes to pass culture here. we do not expect that the senate is going to have the 60 votes and that's going to trigger all sorts of senate parliamentary maneuvering that we suspect will end the so-called nuclear optio option. we may have the votes within the next minute or two go to to toy stomach republicans have the votes, it is believed to put judges gorsuch on the high cour court. there wouldn't be senator mccain voting against him, with their? >> senator mccain said he will support the nuclear optio...

Because the time to think about tomorrow...is today. go long. >> julie: welcome back. let's check out what's ahead on "outnumbered" ." >> harris: another big news day. the senate is making history any moment now by triggering the nuclear option on supreme court nominee neil gorsuch.