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That you need and this is a weapon that you need. >> good kday i'm andrea mitchel in washington. breaking news from capitol hill. kasie hunt joining me after her interview with senator warren just moments ago. kasie? >> reporter: hi, andrea. we talked to elizabeth warren just now about the dramatic events that have unfolded over the course of the last i guess 12, going on 24 hours, when she went to the senate floor last night to protest against senator jeff sessions nomination to be the attorney general. she gave a lengthy speech. she quoted senator ted kennedy, then when on the to quote coret...

The senator will take her seat. >> now after the senate voted, 49-43, along party lines that senator warren violated the arcane rule that no senator can impugn another senator during debate, senator warren went live on facebook and read coretta scott king's letter. she then talks with msnbc's rachel maddow. >> i'm not allowed to speak so long as the topic is senator jeff sessions. >> wow. >> i've been red carded on senator sessions. >> wow. >> i'm out of the game on the senate floor. >> kasie hunt joins us live now. kasie, quite a scene there in the senate last night. explain what's been happe...

A senator from impugning the character of another on the senate floor, but when she continued, mcconnell invoked the rule and said she had been warned but she persisted. this of course democrats immediately seizing on it, arguing that it was sexist to shut her down and as you showed, several male senators on the floor this morning reading that same letter, and being allowed to finish. take a look at a little piece of the conversation we had just moments ago. do you think it impugns the character of jeff sessions this letter? >> yes. the facts may hurt, but we're not in the united states senate...