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Includes children, tender age children under the age of 5 in need of medical care taking a perilous journey, some of them are already ill. some of them haven't seen a doctor in a while. two have died. because of this. and they are turning a blind eye to that i think you can't call it anything but raw politics because all we are trying to do is get together and say, look, we have had some great bipartisan action on criminal justice reform. on the opioid crisis on any number of measures. border security should be a nonpartisan issue that is met with bipartisan solutions. but if you are not even ...

Senate rules requires a procedural vote of 67 yays. a rules change was out of the question. there was another way to lower the bar. establishing a new precedent. >> there's only 44 standing rules of the senate and tens of thousands of precedents. standing rules are the bare skeleton of senate procedure. the rules of the road are givened by interpretations of those rules by precedent. >> via fancy fin nagling, harry reid didn't change the rules. he instituted a new precedent for breaking filibusters on all nominations except the supreme court. >> under the precedent set by the senate today, nov...

Other people not able to do it? >> my point is everybody now is able to do it. if the rules change, then the first lady wouldn't be able to do it either. look, it's kind of like say the mortgage interest deduction. there are real arguments that's a bad idea. you know, when you fill out your taxes, deduct your mortgage interest, home mortgage interest from your income. there's arguments, sound arguments, i don't know where i fall on that, but there are sound arguments we should get rid of it. does that mean that if you believe in those arguments you should not take the mortgage interest deducti...

Just to get neil gorsuch confirmed. he executed what is called as the nuclear option. this is what you alluded to. they lowered the threshold for filibusters in the senate for supreme court nominees from 60 votes to a simple majority of 51. this was not a rules change. this was a bit of a parliamentary chicanery that changed the precedent. the senate does a lot of its business on precedent. what they did with a confirmation of neil gorsuch, they altered the precedent. this door was opened by harry reid in the fall of 2013 as nuclear option 1. he lowered, changed the precedent, the threshold fo...

Votes in the senate. so it is not like the healthcare bill. we have to have at least eight democrats support this in the senate which is why we have been working with democrats from the very beginning. yes, we could have passed a republican bill only out of the house, but it never would have passed out of the senate and then we would have been accused of not being able to function and run the government. so there is a very good reason we been working with democrats on a bipartisan bill and because we must, until the rules change, that is the environment we will continue to operate in. the demo...