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Republican senator called harry reid running a cancerous, cursed leadership, or when ted cruz called mitch mcconnell a liar. i mean, those would seem to be what rule 19 was intended for. they may offer to apply it there. and i think the fact that there's probably been a lot more coverage of the coretta scott king letter because they tried to impose the rule than there would have been otherwise. so it was a bad mistake. i've been here 43 years. i have never known a time when anybody's objected to a letter being put into the record. i've had letters and items put in critical of me. i've made no ...

Republicans used last night to say that senator warren was impugning the character of another senator. now this is a pretty tricky and rather arcane rule called rule 19. and it only applies if you are talking about another senator. you may have heard senators on the floor talking about, say, presidential candidates or other people, maybe members -- even members of the house. this rule specifically says that you can't say nasty things about another senator. so it's supposed to be about the decorum of the chamber. of course, over the years, the senate has seen fist fights on the floor. relativel...

Belonged at the screen actors guild awards. it was only the second time that week that i had been accused of fake tears on the floor of the senate, but i didn't run to the floor to invoke rule 19. >> in fact the language, kasie, that was used against chuck schumer was very tough from some of his colleagues, some of his republican colleagues. you also had ted cruz calling mitch mcconnell a liar on the floor and they didn't take down ted cruz so thwas certainly real reaction to what elizabeth warren did. i don't know if mitch mcconnell wanted this reading of coretta scott king to get a whole lot...

This is a rule they have to invoke as something is going on. so tom udall read this letter earlier. was not stopped. we'll see if republicans take a different tack as this unfolds today. >> kasie, we'll be watching. thanks so much. kasie hunt at the senate. joining me, democratic senator patrick leahy of vermont. a former chairman of that committee which voted 11-9 along party lines last wednesday to advance senator sessions nomination as attorney general to the full senate. senator, thanks for joining me. i want to get your reaction to the silencing of your democratic colleague, senator eli...

To this. they are continuing debate on senator sessions but what democrats have decid to do, and we've seen this now from a number of democrats is going down to the senate floor and read that coretta scott king letter. they are essentially daring republicans to start applying this rule to everyone who goes down and reads that letter. as you outlined it was a letter sent in 1986 opposing senator sessions for a federal judgeship. that appointment was sidelined because of concerns about his record on race. that came back up at his hearing for attorney general. but i want to show you a little bit ...