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Okay. before we go, a tale of mice and men in today's "shallow end." for all the trouble the u.s. congress is facing now, at least they don't have a rodent infestation. that is the problem facing britain's house of lords. parliament staff say they see mice on a daily basis at the restaurants and bars inside the historic westminster complex. now, they've nixed a proposal to use cats to rid the palace of the problem, opting instead to use poison and mousetraps because that's more humane. the parliament has also established a mice help line which is presumably for people to call about mice troubl...
>> let's get to the news of the day. everybody's talking about this reconciliation method. the first question to you, republicans say this is really illegitimate in this scenario, because the democrats want to use it as kind of an end right now, because they do not have the 60 votes anymore for health care. has reconciliation been used in this way, when they didn't have the full 60 votes before? >> reconciliation has been used a lot. and i would never use the term illegitimate with regard to reconciliation. it was created in the 1974 congressional budget act. it was used the following year for...
1948. he felt very comfortable playing an important role. and it's quite possible vice president biden -- >> we're out of time but republicans can offer unlimited amendments, don't they? >> at the end of 20 hours you can offer as many amendments as you can scribble out. >> fascinating. >> why do i feel like we've just scratched the surface here? >> and now we've introduced a whole new can of worms, vice president of the senate. vice president joe biden popped up. we will have to have you back. coming up, canada gets its revenge against the u.s. men's hockey team. that was a heartbreaker. >> ...
"the shallow end" takes us to russia where a chimpanzee is drying out in rehab. zorah gap hitting the bottle soon after retiring from the circus and moving to a zoo in southern russia. he picked up the habit from zoo visitors. since when can you bring booze to the zoo? he reportedly began pestering passersby for alcohol. now full disclosure that picture we're showing you is actually not zorah but a different champ who drinks beer. i didn't know there was such a problem with that. he does smoke, by the way. this is zorah smoking. that we do have a picture of, or so we did. >> good lord. >> ther...