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He's having to contend with the fact they could tap in to his share of support. ben carson is one of those people, who threw a couple of punches at him. carly fiorina has been aggressive in take ogen donald trump the next few weeks and it's different to hit back at someone like jeb bush but when you hit at ben carson and question his credentials and his faith you are not go to get the same response as when you try to try jeb bush to his brother and establishment. >> an iowa radio host tweeted this. if donald trump gets 32% of evangelical vote in iowa on february 1st i will quit my job. not hap...

They are arguing whether this should face a 60-vote threshold through the filibuster process. is there anything more to this than the usual majority leader would like to see a 51 vote threshold and the minority always wants 60 vote threshold. is this standard argument we have heard before? >> as you know, lawrence, having served in the senate, both parties take exactly opposite positions, depending if they are in the majority or minority. when you are in the majority, you want to limit filibusters. when you are in the minority, you regard the filibuster as sacred and not to be tampered. both p...

This election? >> i'm not sure it will by the time november rolls around. >> i think what that chart where it is now, what it did to the ven generic ballot, it shows this was an appropriate move. that holding her accountsable, there was a real argument for doing that beyond just, you know, optics. that there was actually a management failure and it's appropriate for senior people in the public sector and private sector to be fired when things go wrong. it also sheds new light of the filibuster rule so most executive branch appointments can't be filibustered. if there was still a 60 had vote th...

How we proceed from there. >> reporter: take that as not too veiled code to democrats across washington that the proposal, the opportunity to use reconciliation which would change the vote threshold from 60-51 to end filibusters would drop to 51. that happens republicans infuriated. it even has prominent democrats, robert byrd of west virginia, who said it would be essentially a terrible and wrong-headed idea. megyn: a democrat said sit would be an outrage. this is fantasyland. they are not at the point of pushing through a vote on reconciliation. it's all about the senate. there are questions...

Chewy inside. tum tum tum tum new tums chewy bites. as the trump presidency is engulfed by the russian investigation, president trump himself realizes his legislative agenda is in dead serious jeopardy. trump now wants the senate to do awayith its 60-vote threshold for legislation. today he tweeted, the u.s. senate should switch to 51 votes immediately and get health care and tax cuts approved fast and easy. dems would do it, no doubt. well, there's no appetite in the senate whatever to change the rules again after republicans voted last month to lower the vote threshold for supreme court no...