mcconnell will need a democrats if he's going to try to pass something outside of democratstion, whichilibuster, so mcconnell will have that problem in a way that paul ryan did not. john: stick with the rhine-mcconnell thing, mcconnell was chilly to trump during his rhine, ryan was openly hostile towards trump. was openly hostile towards trump. there seems to be almost like a weird bro-mance. talk about the different relationships and those two big figures on capitol hill. >> your assessment is right. mitch mcconnell was quiet for the general election. on trumpd commenting when asked, and when he was forced to, he would say as little as he could get away with. paul ryan made it a point to convey that he was uncomfortable with a lot of things that donald trump was saying and talking about in the presidential campaign. that is changed. there are areas where there could be significant tension, because ryan is cut from the traditional limited government conservative school of thought, and trump is not a limited government guy. a $1 trillion infrastructure package. the more he pushes on the

the 56 to 43 vote came after 30 hours of debate during which senate democratsts tried to dely tillerson's advancement. all republican senators and three senate democrats -- north dakota's heidi heitkamp, west virginia's joe manchin, and virginia's mark warner -- voted to support tillerson. the vote on tillerson's actual confirmation is expected later today or senate committees are wednesday. also expected to vote today on jeff sessions for attorney general, betsy devos for education secretary, rick perry to head the energy department, ryan zinke to head the interior dedepartment, and tom price e to head the department ofof health and human seservices. congngressman prprichas s been a mamajor proponent of the republican's planan to repeal te affordable c care act. yesterday, hundreds of medical students staged a die-in outside fox news to protest the repeal of obamacare. president trump says he will announce his pick to replace late justice antonin scalia's seat on the supreme court later today. there appear to be three front running candidates -- judge neil gorsuch, judge thomas hardiman,