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Rule, why are we allowing it? >> robert berg, deceased senator from west virginia, we had a rule that a reconciliation bill that requires 51 votes can only include economic issues. it cannot include anything that doesn't deal with the economy, it doesn't deal with taxes and money. there by crossing straight sta. tort reform cannot be in it. >> it's an administrative rule that can be exchanged by the parties. the other point and i have some sympathy for it, this is a chance to get it right and do it right. tom cotton says why the rush? you get the sense for him it's a bum's rush to push through...

Rule, why are we allowing it? >> robert berg, deceased senator from west virginia, we had a rule that a reconciliation bill that requires 51 votes can only include economic issues. it cannot include anything that doesn't deal with the economy, it doesn't deal with taxes and money. there by crossing straight sta. tort reform cannot be in it. >> it's an administrative rule that can be exchanged by the parties. the other point and i have some sympathy for it, this is a chance to get it right and do it right. tom cotton says why the rush? you get the sense for him it's a bum's rush to push through...

Fact, almost every day, i did a telephone hook-up. by the way, we have to make something really clear here. they say former klan leader or whatever. this was 37 years ago in my life. okay. and -- >> but true. admittedly over a long time period but true. >> it's also true that robert bird was in the klan but a lot of people were friends of robert berg, democrats and republicans. it's really a biased situation. because i denounce -- first i was never violent but i denounce even then violence. i left it because i didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint. i have never supported white s...

Of people were friends of robert berg democrats an republicansch it's really a biased situation. because i denounce -- first i was never violent but i denounce even then violence. i left it because i didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint. i have never supported white supremism yet i read about it. this wasn't a hate group, in fact the european american unity and rights organization was an organization dedicated to true civil rights and stopping the discrimination against people the best qualified people should be engaged and every people have the right to preserve their heritage...

surveillance and drone strikes. martin dempsey told the congressional panel that air strikes might be easier said than done, given the unclear intel against picture on the ground. we still haven't worked through the ramifications of the crime that was the iraq wall. we had small account aeblts moments in 2006 and 2008 which functioned as rebukes of the people who led us into that war. here we are, 11 years after the war started, having what amounts to the first real public reckoning with the full horror of what we unleashed, who was responsible for it, and how we should move forward....