in the "crossfire" tonight, senators bernie sanders and john hoeven. it's been an incredible day on capitol hill. the founding fathers realized your opinion changes when your relative power changes. filibusters helped make the u.s. senate what they called the saucer that cooled the hot coffee coming from the house. that was by design. as of today, that's changed forever despite earlier warnings from three prominent democrats i'm sure you're going to recognize. >> if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse. >> the filibuster is far from a procedural gimmick. it's part of the fabric of this institution we call the senate. >> so this president has come to the majority here in the senate and basically said change the rules. do it the way i want it done. >> you know, senator sanders, when i listened to the president today expand, and you were honest a few minutes ago and said probably you would expand the elimination of the filibuster. in moments of passio

landrieu: senator hoeven has joined us.he's been particularly forceful on the issue of basements in a state that doesn't have an ocean anywhere around it, but has some serious flooding challenges, and i would hope the senator would take a minute to explain what he's been telling us and how important this particular piece of this bill is for the basement situations in your state. mr. hoeven: madam president, i'd like to thank the good senator from louisiana, very pleased to join in this colloquy with my cosponsors in this very important legislation. this is about affordability of homeownership. the american dream is about homeownership, always has been, we need to make sure that continues. it is about fortunate but it's also about -- affordability but it's also about getting it right. if we're going to reset flood insurance rates we need to get it right. this affects people across this great nation, it affects their ability to own and continue to own their own home. we need to make sure as we make this transition -- which we

senator hoeven, you have been voting to repeal the affordable care act. on the republican side of the aisle, we know that there is indignation around the ac a. tore used to be a call repeal and replace. do you feel there is any real movement on the right to formulate a viable alternative? first of all, it is great to be here and great to see you. joe and i worked together on many issues. he is a good guy to work with. question,e to your from the viewpoint of our side of the aisle and most conservatives, this is really a law that does not work. it needs to be repealed and replaced. it takes us to government run health care. individual should choose their own health care, their own health care providers and their own health care insurance. it should not be a system where everything is final and government and government exchanges. it is a fundamental disagreement and how health care should work in this country. >> do you think there is momentum to develop whatever that alternative is? >> i do. it is based on competition and choice. i think it goes to things

followed by a discussion with joe manchin and john hoeven. >> mrs. johnson love to show off her home. the guest of the ranch would informally gather here in the den. various heads of state came to visit. we have a few things that speak to her connection of the room here. she wanted to highlight the native american heritage and the hill country. we have a small collection of arrowheads. she had an eye for copper and collected various items and ideas from various friends. she gave a tour of the house in 1968 that was filmed. she spent a lot of time here at the ranch. it provided such a respite from all the turmoil from washington, particularly later in the presidency. they could make the connection back to the land of this place they valued though much. like lady bird johnson, monday night live at 9:00 eastern. also on c-span radio and c- span.org. on thursday, president obama announced that some people could keep their health insurance even if there plans to not meet all of the standards of the health care law. he also talked about the implementation

. -- welcome senator hoven senator hoeven. >> i have been on the building, we are just on the wrong sideays, what i have said the delay. i am not asking for delay in implementation. i'm saying don't put a crime or a fine to this piece of legislation until january 1, 2015 so we can work a transitional year. if you're truly wanting to be there to be constructive, is a working. of time. we will get through all of this. program not have the they intended. it might have to be tweaking changed a little bit. we can do better than what we have done. i am more in a constructive, positive mode trying to fix things. as a governor, that is what we are expected to do every day. >> numbers were lower than they had originally hoped. you had been voting to repeal the affordable care act and various pieces of legislation recently. on the republican silo -- side of the aisle, it is good to see camaraderie. we know there is great indignation is probably the best word around the aca but there used to be something called repeal and replace. the you feel there is any real to have an the right viable alternati

in the crossfire, senator bernie sanders who vote fold today's rules change and senator john hoev hoevenlple country or hurt? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm newt gingrich on the right. >> i'm stephanie cutter on the left. two senators who voted on opposite sides. before we bring in our guests, let's go to cnn's dana bash. dana, can you put the so-called nuclear option in plain english for us? it's kind of complicated. >> >> reporter:, and what it means in practical terms is unless one of president obama's nominees is truly controversial, he or she almost surely will get confirmed, as long as democrats are in control of the senate. the reason is because what democrats did is they changed the rules so that instead of a 6 on-vote threshold for nominees to get through to overcome a filibuster, it is now a 51-vote threshold, a simple majority. the reason it's called a nuclear option is because the shoe is not always on this foot. democrats, as you well know, stephanie, are often in the minority, not just the majority. this could come back to haunt them w

jennifer west hoeven is here with great advice. >> because there's always somebody, right?ody looks. so, we want to talk about what do you do when you get the super awkward money questions you think are totally offensive, but you don't want to act like that at the dinner table? >> i can't wait. >> look at that rock. how much did you pay for that? >> so what would you say if you weren't tongue tied? it's normal to be tongue tied. but if you weren't, if you were just breezy, maybe you could try something like this. >> uh, no, thanks. i'm not totally comfortable with that one. >> so a lot of people think just asking about money is bad manners. i really disagree with this, because really it's asking about money that helps you learn all the different ways or possibilities that you could be managing your money. so there's a lot to learn out there. so the thing is, ask about money, but do it sensitively. she could try it like this. >> you don't have to answer if you don't want to, but i was just admiring your ring and i was just wondering about how much you paid for it. i'm actual

hoeven: in north dakota we've got a lot of farmers and ranchers. theythey run a small business and they're being hit very hard by obamacare, like other small businesses across this country. a rancher contacted us. his name is wayne and he ranches there. it is an area where we have a lot of cowboys a tremendous rodeo. they compete nationally and they have great livestock herds there. but he writes, and he says, quks i'm not one to get too upset about things but this really has my mad. we go to a letter a few weeks ago that said they were dropping our policy. i i have paid my own insurance for years and years. when i got that letter, it just hit me because somebody in washington decided i was too stupid to figure it out if my policy was right for me or not. i don't pay a lot of attention to politics, but usually what gets decided in washington doesn't slap you in the face like this law has with me," he says. l "i've gone on healthcare.gov and used the estimatorhey >> i have gone on health care.gov, and i had used the estimators that they have directe

. >> senator hoeven? >> that's the work i've done to support our men and women in uniform and our military and the great work they've done. and joe and i worked together on veterans and some of those things. so the work i've been able to do on behalf of the military, families and some of the vets that come back disabled and then trying to hire a vet. those kind of things. >> we worked on student loans. >> yeah. >> working that problem. it was governors, former governors that sit down, work together. we can tell you -- we made all the mistakes you can make. give you some of our experience. that's what we've asked for, but very few people -- >> what do you mean we've made all the mistakes you can make now? >> made a few. but we've learned from them. we're growing and this country's got to come together. the thing that bothers me more than anything, i'll tell all of you this, i see sometimes politics more than not trumping what's good for our government, what's good for our country. and when politics trumps