i wanted to deploy the harry reed nuclear option because i think actually the rules -- the way harry reed interpreted them is right. the senate filibuster rule does not apply to executive no, ma'am nags. the rule is very clear. it says legislative calendar. nominations are on the executive calendar. it's actually a separate calendar. the rule, as written, never in my mind -- it was always custom that they applied it to a nominee, but it never actually did. what harry reed did was went out and said we're going to apply it to all nominations, except supreme court. there's no -- that's just making up the back of an envelope. the bottom line is if it's all nominees -- it should be all nominees or none. i think there's plenty of precedent for republicans to say, look, the rules changed back in 2013 when harry reed did this. we're going to apply it to everybody, and that's what's going to happen. >> i -- the first four questioners were senators grassley, feinstein, hatch, and leahy. i added up their combined ages. 324 years old. they looked it. i think if you want to cross-examine someone a

like that without senator harry reed in the stop to who had put a anything yuca related, that way to get be some back rolling through the senate. ut any nevada senator, even dean heller, who's a republican, would oppose that pleasure put se they believe it was on them and without their input. host: all right. our republican line from gray, louisiana. ronald. caller: hey. hi, how are y'all doing this morning? comment on the coal output. as being in louisiana, i can relate to the gas output. the control of the drilling has and we ot of jobs here, are -- especially in the -- particularly depend on majority obs and the of jobs, i would say, high-paying jobs. as, you know, the people over virginia, around that area with the coal, so i complaint. nd their trump's got and high deficit, trillions of he needs to pay back. t seems to me that if they would stop with the nuclear building of these things is so if they do nd so have allowed that, it would be a loss of agedy and life as it was in japan and back ago. and russia area. lots of loss of life. we only have a few seconds so i want to give

we miss harry reed. chuck schumer has big shoes to fill. let's do a moment of zen.ts activism and nancy pelosi won the week, defeating the overturning of obamacare which was the guiding principal of republicans for seven years. it's amazing that that was overturned and that's done. so i agree with that. let's do some things here. i have to give a shout out for it to the students at howard university. they're getting a google on. they're getting a satellite campus in silicon valley that's going to train students from that historically black college do coding that. wins the week because that brings people jobs. we like our kids to get jobs because that's the whole point. the other person who won the week, jason. whether he is being aqua man, this is just for myself. he 2001 week. let's play the new justice league trailer. >> the aquaman. >> again i can buy him electronic body parts. he's a sigh boring. >> you worked probably move. >> whoever you're looking for, it's not him. >> is it batman? >> there it is, your moment of zen, dc come mix will not be set aside. does i

. >> well, you know that what mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, he can do what harry reedyears ago. he can change the rules, do that so-called nuclear option so only 51 votes are needed to confirm a united states nominee for the supreme court. that is potentially very likely. >> i hope not. i hope that mitch mcconnell will think twice before doing something as short cited as that. i think we should all keep in mind that the supreme court is the highest court in the land and that person should have a 60 vote minimum requirement. as i said as opposed to bare minimum of senators who will be voting. that is not representative of what we should be doing for the supreme court nominee. >> senator hirono, thank for joining us. >> thank you. >> we're all following important developments into the investigation into civilian deaths in iraq. both u.s. and iraqi officials are looking into allegations that more than 100 civilians have been killed in recent air strikes and in mosul. one -- in iraq not very far away from mosul. bar barbara starr is at the pentagon. what's the latest. >> t

the democrats did this back in 2013 under harry reed.ugely critical of him then and the democrats have suffered for that rules change. but this time the republicans may do the same thing. that's why mitch mcconnell is saying confidently that gorsuch will be confirmed and they're under the hope that somehow they can force a change to a candidate they can like a little bit more. >> right now unclear entirely exactly how this is going to end up going down. great to see you, tom, thank you. >>> president trump today laying down a new threat. threatening democrats and some republicans who don't get on -- if they don't get on board with the obama replacement plan. well, then he's going to come after you in the primary in 2018. let's talk more about this with democratic congresswoman barbara lee of california. thanks so much for joining me. >> my pleasure. >> the president said friday after the health care bill effort failure that he wanted to work with democrats to get it done. he even said so at the dinner with senates. today he's now threate

we didn't write it in harry reed's office on christmas eve. this bill was worked on for a year. this bill wased on from january to june last year so we can offer our constituents and the american people our agenda. we ran on it through the election and have trabs translated it into legislation. ese two key components defederalize entitlements, putting a cap on. i that is something conservatives have been talking about and dreaming about for decades. repeeling another entitlement, obamacare, its mandates, its taxes, replacing its with republican free market health care tax policy. if you told me 10 years ago this is where we would be, i would think i would be in a dream. i would be doing back flips. to conservatives who have been fighting for healthcare reform, this is so exciting. members realize this is a chance, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. naturally people are saying i would love to have this in there. i would love to have that in there. that's the process that we're going through. what people are learning is that reconciliation tool is pretty tight. there is a l