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Affiliation -- she asked me to keep her committee assignments, and i agreed. she's independent, that's how she's always been, i believe she's a good and effective senator, and i'm looking forward to a productive session in the new democratic majority senate. we will maintain our new majority on committees, exercise our subpoena power, and be able to clear nominees without discharge. translation, senator sinema has pledged her vote to chuck schumer for majority leader, which means that the democrats will indeed have, as expected, a 50 seat majority, working majority in the senate. that means th...

Republican to democrat in a 50/50 senate. thereby creating a 51 seat majority for the democrats. with that stunningly dramatic announcement in burlington, vermont, democratic senator tom daschle instantly went from being minority leader to majority leader of the senate, and all republican chairmen of the senate committees were instantly replaced by democratic chairmen of all senate committees. we had seen party switches before in the senate, but never, never to instantly change control of the senate with a party switch. alabama's democratic senator richard shelby switch parties to become a rep...

In his signature style, Lawrence O'Donnell goes into depth on the latest news developments and offers his take on the political stories driving the national...

Of heart, about the special master, she had no choice, the court of appeals took that choice away from her, and they said she got a deeply wrong. i think it's interesting, because it's in the larger context of donald trump's legal strategy, more generally. judge cannon was the only win he's had in court in many, many months. he loses time and time again, including in the united states supreme court. it's difficult, really, to articulate how much of a loser he's been in court. but i guess one way of thinking about it is, i'd rather bet on the houston texans winning a game, than on donald trump ...

He was switching parties to the winning side. senator shelby was able to preserve his committee assignments in the deal that he negotiated for his party switch. now, after 28 years, as a senate republican, on top of his first eight years as a senate democrat, 88 year old richard shelby will finally be retiring from the senate at the end of this year with republicans still stuck in the minority in the senate. early on friday morning, washington was abuzz with what appeared to be another very dramatic party switch in the senate, just days after senator raphael warnock's reelection in georgia gua...