." >> host: paul kane is that her desk, a senior congressional report at the "washington post" who is covered many critical battles in his years walking the halls of congress to headline of your recent piece, neil gorsuch supreme court nomination is on track to change the senate and further divide the country. explain what is at stake in this nomination fight. >> guest: this nominationon figt fight is sort of unlike any in history because you have this 1i month absence since justice scalia died, and you have a split supreme court basically y for conservatives, for liberals, anthony kennedy is the one swing voter gilbert have a sort of this, the fate of the court at play here but because the democrats are going to go ahead and filibuster gorsuch's nomination we found that outesty yesterday, i have a lease 41 oro 42 now, a couple more probably coming on board. the republican retaliation is going to be to go to the quote nuclear option as the sort of insiders have called it for about ten or 12 years. they are going to sort of blowup the last bit of filibustering you are allowed to do at

later, washington post congressional reporter paul kane joins us to talk about the neil gorsuch supremeination in the senate's use of ♪ good morning. 2017.tuesday, april 4, the showdown of neil gorsuch's nomination escalated yesterday as democrats rallied enough no votes. senate republicans look ready to invoke the nuclear option. the result could change the way the senate does business and move that chamber away from bipartisan cooperation. want to hear your thoughts. it should democrat filibuster judge gorsuch -- -- should democrats

later, washington post congressional reporter paul kane joins us to talk about the neil gorsuch supremeination in the senate's use of ♪ good morning. 2017.tuesday, april 4, the showdown of neil gorsuch's nomination escalated yesterday as democrats rallied enough no votes. senate republicans look ready to invoke the nuclear option. the result could change the way the senate does business and move that chamber away from bipartisan cooperation. want to hear your thoughts. it should democrat filibuster judge gorsuch -- -- should democrats

host: we will revisit this topic with the washington post's paul kane later in the program. will be joined by democratic congressman paul tonko of new york. we will talk about efforts to undo obama era climate policies. chweikert will be joining us to talk about the future of health care. that's all coming up on washington journal. ♪ saturday, booktv is live from the 15th annual annapolis book this double in maryland. our coverage includes a panel discussion on income inequality with catherine eden, author of two dollars a day. deluca.hanie then a discussion on criminal justice. author brian stores with his book, grace and justice on death row. withon, author discussions mark schreiber. hayden author of playing to the edge and american intelligence in the age of terror. thomas dolby, author of the speed of sound. watch the 15th annual annapolis book festival on c-span2's booktv. sunday night on q&a. >> here was a yellow pad where haldeman writes down in the midst of the october 1968, we are going to monkeywrench lyndon johnson's peace initiative. nixon denied it at the time

we will discuss the future of health care legislation and later paul kane will be here to explain the senate's use of filibuster and the nuclear option. coming up this morning on the washington journal. ♪ >> in case you missed it on c-span. quentin watts of the foreign policy research institute had this senate intelligence hearing. of 2015 andhe end start of 2016 the russian influence system sought to outcome the -- influence the outcome of the u.s. presidential elections. -- theyght to sideline were in full swing in the republican and democratic primary season. lieutenant general gina grow so on the shortage of pilots in the military. >> the total force was short 1005 hundred 55 pilots across all mission areas. it should be noted that the cost to train a fifth-generation firefighter to prepare them for their first operational squadron is approximately $11 million. >> nfl wide receiver at a congressional forum on policing and minority communities. >> there are a lot of police that aren't involved in the communities they are serving in or supposed to be serving in. i have this crazy th

and "washington post" congressional reporter paul kane will review filibusters and the so-called nuclear option user to delay key votes. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. economists and, public health officials talk about potential changes to the medicaid program. the conversation also includes access to health services in rural areas and the republican efforts to repeal the affordable care act. the alliance for health reform hosted this forum. >> all right, we're ready. good afternoon. welcome. i'm sarah dash, i'm prest

paul kane of the "washington post." the republican leader who says that once democrats filibuster gorsuch -- the full story at washington post.com. robert from cincinnati, good morning. republican line. will it change the senate? caller: i believe it will change the senate, but i believe that good morning by the way. is the only option they have because all i am seeing from the democratic party on the hill is being obstructionists. trumpoverriding hate for is coming forth to where they will not allow anything that he does to go through. 2013 socrats did it in they should not cry too much about it as the republicans will do it this time. that is my opinion. thanks for having me on. host: thank you. how the tables have been turned between the two parties. daytona beach, florida, on the democrats line, good morning. caller: good morning. my problem with all of this is it will change the senate. do you hear me? host: we sure do. caller: it will change the senate because the republicans, they keep coming up with conservative

and "washington post" congressional reporter paul kane will review filibusters and the so-called nuclear option user to delay key votes. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. economists and, public health officials talk about potential changes to the medicaid program. the conversation also includes access to health services in rural areas and the republican efforts to repeal the affordable care act. the alliance for health reform hosted this forum. >> all right, we're ready. good afternoon. welcome. i'm sarah dash, i'm president and co-ceo for the alliance for health reform, and for those of you not familiar with us, the alliance is a nonpartisan, not for profit organization. we've been around for 25 years, and our mission is to inform policy makers and help policy leaders on the most pressing health policy issues and get you guys the foundations of health policy, the evidence, and the practice, and today we are here to talk about one of the most pressing health policy issues that has been making a lot of headlines recently, and tha

kane or sky fortunately for all of. >> you maybe everybody down in washington a little bit they can come together on a deal rand paul whatf the kraurmz sometimes different than behind scenes. >> rand paul is not the guy going to dry a dale mitch mcconnell, my sense the house is problem you don't threaten freedom members others going to run gains you expect them to sit down negotiate this was a bill that was not obviously with any popular appeal 17% approval rating, and -- a lot of a lot of factors in that bill that would not have been successful in the senate i think a long ways to go, a lot of issues on the horizon. this president probably worse week of any of his presidency not worst pique in presidency but certainly of his presidency this weekend busiest week he has not just china visit he has president egypt today the king of jordan tomorrow, next day, that -- foreign policy visit like that normally takes a week or two to get prepared, you know, let alone china visit you've got three stacked up i would shoot scheduleder if in white house. >> you mentioned a major week for diplomacy as ed pointing out president trump