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As intense and more people willing to negotiate. these rules genuinely don't work with either side in power in this particular moment. rules are quite weird. most governments in the world function with simple majorities in one house much less three. i think really interesting is what going to happen when one party controls. the senate has been able to get some stuff done relatively speaking. the real sort of wall right now is the republican house. we're not really going to see the real repercussions until one party controls all three branches. >> when are we going to get that? >> could be a re...

A simple majority was not enough. her nomination would have needed 60 votes to prevail at that point. today the senate broke that filibuster with 52 votes after the democrats decided to change the rules of the senate through a method that has been referred to as the nuclear option. and the last few years, and has been contemplated but not used. normally, it take is a 2/3 vote of the senate to change a senate rule. but takes only a majority vote majority vote to overrule a ruling of the senate's pro siding officer which is what they did today. that's this -- that's the senator, they're presidin...

Troops to the south to enforce immigration and made it a moral issue at no small political cost pt the fact jfk couldn't enact legislation owes to a dynamic more characteristics of these times says kennedy historian, his legislative held hodge, saw his reforms as a threat to racial segregation. joining us jon meacham, author of "thomas jefferson the art of power." it's great to have you on the program and talk about history, especially presidential history. what do you make of his assessment that kennedy was a civil rights champion and sort of an unsung one at that insofar as he really laid th...

They did not filibuster scalia. >> from the nuclear option we have the scalia option as republican rejoinder to what harry rooeid did. every piece out side, not only is the supreme court carve out going to go way of the dinosaur. republicans will extend the nuclear option to supreme court nominations to put democratsen a really tough place. if they take back the senate. some people are saying this could be the end of the legislative filmfilm -- filibus. pandora's box has been opened. and the filibuster on nominees was causing havoc, dysfunction, what's to say they could not go further when the...

Holding republican legislation hostage. and also sort of referendum on mitch mcconnell, harry read and their relationship. keep in mind, the last time harry read walked off the brink of the nuclear option because john mccain came to the rescue. mitch mcconnell is beholden to the primary challenge and radicalized by virtue of his rehe election that, that, bipartisan agreements and working together is basically gone. and that is really -- i mean the onus of that is on republican shoulders. >> i had a sad thought while alex was making that good point. which is, the word delibrative its the very l...