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Kentucky and texas is vast, you are right. this is total control of congress in the white house for republicans, something that no one thought was going to happen 90 or 120 days ago and we saw though i would say andrea today with the house republicans the danger of i don't want to say overreach but of not sort of considering political consequences. >> and ann guerin while laying this out, what schumer is hoping on is united democratic senate caucus. he's got bernie sanders and elizabeth warren on one side, and joe manchin on the other. >> yes, right, he has a version of the same problem the re...

What is harry reid's main legacy? >> i think he's the most consequential democratic senator since lbj. he pushed through a very ambitious social agenda. he was ruthless in the use of political power, but unlike lbj, his league see is going to be -- most of what he did was unpopular and he made procedural changes in the senate that will make it easier to get rid of everything he passed, especially in the first years of the obama administration. >> james, the nominees in particular, he blew the filibuster away. >> except for supreme court justices. >> that's going to make it easier for donald tr...

The hillis chuck schumer. one of the most democrats to watch is outgoing president obama who up until this point has been very careful. he's said all the things that an outgoing president is supposed to say in terms of cooperating with the incoming administration. but there's an article in the "new york times" that obama might not disappear after the election the way he may have want to or be intending to. he may be standing up in battle against the administration. it will be relatively unprecedented. i can't remember another time when that's the case. >> his approval ratings are very high. >>...

Swallow. >> yeah. but unless i misunderstanding the nature of that story schumer is not opposing the deal. what schumer is doing is demanding congressional having a vote on it in congress. i think there will be a broad bipartisan consensus. there's long time struggle between legislative and executive. a lot of democrats like all republicans are going to want to have a vote on this deal. president obama is asserting he doesn't need to give them a vote but i think politically he does. whether it's legal or not, politically congress is going to have to sign off on this. i think schumer will win t...

Motivate them to come out to vote. >> and to hang on to senate, and start right there. >> yes. it is short term gain for them, but long term, it makes no sense. and the republicans are well positioned to pick up the senate in 2014 and they don't want to do anything to screw that up. so they are going to go ahead to make it their focus, and yet the longer term prospects are just getting narrower, and narrower, and if they are the party of the o older white people, they can't win at the national level. and perhaps jeb bush thinking of getting into the race is giving them a glimmer of hope, becau...