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Lobbying for days now. what chances between now and the other vote. senator susan collins, who wants to see changes, the math just isn't there. >> the math is not there. there is only three republican senators in favor of defeating a phil buster and moving on to a vote. they need seven more and i don't know where they will find that seven. some republican senators including mike braun of indiana said it will not get the 60 votes and it will be phil bustered whether or not they agree to the changes in structuring the staff that some like susan collins has back. and it gets to the fact that thes...

Haspel say definitively or not whether donald trump was spied on by the cia? >> rand paul phil bustered my nomination when i was cia director. i find a lot of things that rand paul does inexplicable. >> was that an appropriate question to ask? should gina haspel or the cia respond to him? >> any senator has the right to ask a question. i think if he is really interested in this issue i think cia can provide a response maybe to the intelligence committee. rand paul is not on the intelligence committee. he is not privy to a lot of things that cia does or knows. so this is an issue that i think r...

High prize of words from the senate majority leader he is not commenting specifically on how or whether he is trying to recruit her to run for senate against scott brown in massachusetts. it is a reminder of how much democrats including powerful democrats how much they like elizabeth warren. and how much it will likely therefore cost republicans if they continue to berate her at congressional hearings and call her names as congressman patrick mchenry did yesterday. and if they continue to pledge to phil buster any position to which she is named. speak of phil buster elizabeth warren is not the...

Warren is not the only qualified nominee. republicans are making a big show of rejecting right now. there's president obama eets pick for the ninth circuit u.s. court of appeals. good win lieu rg rhodes scholar. decide being rated unanimously well qualified by the american bar association and despite republican senators prominently complaining that judicial nominees should never be phil bustered. republicans did phil buster his nomination to the bench last week. >> there was a qualitative change on nominations this year when republicans decided to phil buster the nomination of goodwin lui. a p...