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He's a nominee. she has to be able to speak about a nominee for attorney general. >> give me a break. >> this was abuse of power by the republicans, bringing up rule 19. >> -- senator sessions and that's why she was censured in the way that she was. it's within the responsibility of the leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell to do what he did, and i think he did the right thing tonight. >> then you can't nominate senators for cabinet positions. if you can't speak openly about them, then you can't nominate them anymore. >> okay, we have time for one more. mitch mcconnell on the senate floor, he ...

Has done is it's just made democrats more emboldened to continue to fight the trump cabinet nominees and also the trump and republican agenda. >> leigh ann, thank you. with me, a member of the intelligence committee and homeland security committee. nice to see you. >> great to see you. >> the issue, what happened last night with elizabeth warren, would you have shut her down? >> it's not a matter of shutting her down but build comedy again. a rule affectionally called rule 19, you can impugn another senator directly or indirectly. there had been about six hours of debate about jeff sessions al...

After the election, looked him right in the eye and i said i hope you understand every day this is going to be a war. this is going to be a war to delegitimize your government. it's going to be a war to get you off track. get you on the defensive. get to you say stuff out of anger and then say ah-ha see, i told you so. get you to be tied up in knots in the legal system so you can't see straight. the democrats are going to play the same smash mouth politics that they believe they were embarrassed by over the last year and a half by trump. steve: revenge, in other words. brian: or could be reven...

>> thank you for having me. senator bernie sanders joining the chorus of democratic support for elizabeth warren, demanding an apology from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for silencing her last night. senator you went on the floor and read some of coretta scott king's letter, so did senator udall, both democrats. i don't understand why you were permitted and elizabeth warren was not. the distinction she had been warned and was violating this rule 19 which doesn't seem to be applied when republicans criticize democrats on the floor. >> andrea, i think that's exactly the right question...

Widow who was opposing jeff sessions nomination for a federal judgeship back then. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell when objected and had senator warren silenced. >> mr. sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. >> mr. president -- >> the majority leader. >> the senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from alabama. i call the senator to order under rule 19. >> mr.president, i am surprised that the words of coretta scott king are not suitable for...