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What do you mean read? i don't have to read anything. it turns out they don't read the bible. they don't read the constitution. >> they don't. they're just trying to be provocative. they don't care -- >> are these people that cheer them think, aren't they thinking. these people running for president making fools of us? >> my big question as i said before about michelle bachmann does she have a staff. does she not have anybody say to you saying that founding fathers ended slavery is a ridiculous statement to make. >> let's watch this. let's recall. the reason there was a republican party. it wa...

With scalia, and she doesn't even know what the constitution had in it. the treatment of slaves as three-fifths of people. that's in our history. explain to me what this woman is talking about. >> i think she's using it as an illustration of -- >> of what? what do you mean, sir? >> the concern today that their children and grandchildren will not have the same opportunities of the american dream, because we've -- >> why are you talking like this? that's how she talks. she goes on this tape, no matter what you ask her, she is go goes on a tape. sal, you know when slavery ended. it ended with the...

Call the constitutional option. that each senate, each congress can create its own rules. and when it's by majority vote, and if it's by majority vote, that means you can destroy the filibuster or do other things through a majority vote. >> not to get too technical. if that was tried, there would be a moment where the republicans would raise an objection, in effect, to proceeding to that, and then the democrats would have to basically move to table the objection, and that's what they can do. the tabling motion would only need 50 votes, but we've never seen this move before, have we? is this a ...

Two-thirds to three-fifths happened under this rule in '75. '75. so, in fact, the constitutional option has been done in the past, and as often happens with rule changes, it doesn't make a huge splash. people don't remember it for very long. most people probably wouldn't know that until 1975 it took many more votes to take down a filibuster and before 1917, you couldn't do it at all. these things change over time, and afterwards it falls into the mists of history and we get used to how it is now rather than how it was back then. >> if the democrats lose the senate, not only will there be -- wi...

Two-thirds to three-fifths happened under this rule in 1975. 1975. so, in fact, the constitutional option has been done in the past, and as often happens with rule changes, it doesn't make a huge splash. people don't remember if for very long. most people probably wouldn't know that until 1975 it took many more votes to take down a filibuster, and until then you couldn't do it at all. these things change over time, and afterwards it faultz into the missive history and we get used to how it is now rather than how it was back then. >> if the democrats lose the senate, not only will there be -- w...