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Forward. and recover from that hurricane. tell me about the congressional relief task force. you're work with, i know, republican representative joe barton. what sort of things are you doing together here? >> well, you know, first of all, i asked joe barton, hey, can we sit down as democrats and republicans, we haven't done this -- in fact, officially, we haven't done this in the last 12 years i've been in congress. he agreed. we put everybody together. everybody was there, both senators cornyn and cruz, we sat down with sylvester turnen, the mayor of houston. we talked to him with governor ab...

The aisle. i know that. senators cornyn and mcconnell and those folks. the rank and file on that republican side clearly would like regular order. u6 seen it growing. we're up to 12 or 13 senators that don't like the reconciliation. when does leadership acknowledge that? >> when the republicans have a vote that they lose. if the vote that is called on this skinny approach loses and at that point they have to decide what the alternative is. do nothing and watch the healthcare system that we currently have face problems that we know exist and need to be resolved and solved or they're going to st...

Met with majority leader mcconnell and the staff spearheading the nomination will also meet with senators cornyn, grassley, hatch and garner. with him on capitol hill i think it's a good time to talk about the confirmation process. neither of the justices that president obama nominated were subject to the 60-vote threshold of the filibuster. they received support because republicans despite political and philosophical differences viewed them at qualified and judge gorsuch should receive the same fair treatment. also this morning, the president met in the roosevelt room with representatives of ...

I've heard some evidence on that subject, so i do not have a legal opinion about the case. have not studied the details of it. >> just to be clear what i was pressing you on there was the use of the hitching post which is a disciplinary measure that has been abandoned by every state but alabama it was used by the stocks centuries ago and tr struggling to me that it continued without challenge. and to address ways in which our criminal justice system is broken and the disparagement of incarceration that has happened over the last 30 years. we wrote about the importance of balance of criminal ju...

Overwhelmingly for to move this debate forward. you look at them and there's three probable nos. senators cornyn of texas, mcconnell in kentucky and probably the nrse chair jerry moran who split kay mpoliticall to do it. >> i voted to proceed to the bill. i think it's important for us to address the issue. i think the status quo is completely unacceptable. i think where i end up in the end is going to be dependent upon what the bill looks like at the end. >> rounding out the senate math when it comes to where reformers get the 70 votes, there's kentucky senator rand paul. i call him a caucus o...