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But every republican voted to make this rules change, drawing a line in the sand saying they will not take 60 votes, they will just do it with a majority threshold. before he left, he did step asaid. you were on the phone with chairman nuneunes today. he said he was stepping down, what did he tell you? >> the chairman told me that he is going to remain chairman, but he and his attorneys are dealing with this ethics complaint about how he handled classified information. and while he is handling that he will step away from the russia probe. this comes amississippi concerns from rank and file rep...

Agenda that includes passing a measure to prevent a government shutdown. the senate is set to make an historic change in voting rules that could alter the way the chamber does business in the future as republicans look to confirm supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. ahead of that rules change, senate democrats took to the chamber floor once again last night, protesting a final vote on gorsuch. it is set for tomorrow. but today senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is said to invoke the so-called nuclear oak to bypass the filibuster of gorsuch. that requires a number of procedural votes that ...

What does that mean? >> it means folks on capitol hill, especially the defense hawks like senate armed services committee john mccain, are probably jumping for joy. i actually did talk to a few house members on the armed services committee, republicans, who said, you know, this is -- this is probably the best time for this to happen given what's going on with susan rice who's seen as somebody -- who was the press set sore to current nsa mcmaster. she's seen as being political and this is not a political job. especially given what's going on in the world right now with north korea, we have syri...

Confirmed. the way in which the curse is in the hands of the democratic minority. during the course of the week we will find out exactly how this will end but it will end with his confirmation. let's bring in jeff mason now. the president of the white house correspondent. is this more of a bluff by majority leader connell or a rules change could come back to bite each party. obviously the power can change every two or four years. it will go from one party into the majority in the is something that republicans have to keep in mind. that said i don't think he's bluffing i think that is something...

>> we hope that her praise leads to additional support and her support. it's hard to the find any reason except for obstructionism to see why fellow democrats in her caucus have not been able to join them. >> reporter: but mccaskill offered this warning should justice kennedy or ginsburg or breyer leave the high court in the next couple of years. >> so they pick another one off the list and they bring it over to the senate and we say, no, no, no, this is worse, and there's not enough votes to confirm it. they're not going to let us do that too long. >> reporter: the so-called nuclear option wi...