senator jeff merkley from oregon, i have to ask you, how are you feeling?i got a little 90 minute nap earlier and some food and i'm feeling better. >> you spoke for 15 1/2 hours last night and you've had 90 minutes sleep since then? >> that's correct. that's right. >> if you start swearing or speaking nonsense we'll cut your mike, sir. >> thank you. my mind's a little clouded right now. >> let me ask you about that clip that we just played which was you responding in realtime to the sort of last minute revelation about judge gorsuch that he's been seriously accused and substantively accused of some plagiarism in his public work. obviously, you had to react to that in realtime with a little bit of time to reflect on that. do you think that is a major issue on his confirmation? >> i don't think it is going to be because the republican majority has their hands over their ears and they're not interested in hearing anything about him that would cause them to shake up their momentum. that's really the way it has been all through this. the fact that we have a stol

that was the end of jeff merkley speech today. hours before that. 15 straight hours of speaking. that is not our most important number of the day. our most important is eight. think about that. he spoke for all that time and yet what he did on the senate floor, protesting the supreme court nomination of neil gorsuch, that's only the eighth longest speech on the senate floor in history. there have been longer speeches than 15 hours and 28 minutes. we want to give you a quick tour of some of the most famous filibusters in u.s. senate history. they start speaking and they stand there and they do not leave. it is quite an accomplishment. this is the fifth longest. you have to go all the way back more than a century. robert la foalette. 18:23. how about number four? a lot of you remember this one. the government shutdown, 2013. ted cruz. he was there for over 20 hours. he red from green eggs and ham at one point. how about number three? back to the 1950s. he held the floor for 22:26. i am standing here right now for, i don't know, two

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the reason this is news is because jeff merkley has been standing there doing this for a very, very long time tonight. we have just learned that apparently he's just getting started. senator merkley is now planning on holding the floor overnight tonight, talking all through the night to oppose the nomination of judge neil gorsuch to the supreme court. he started speaking around 6:45 eastern time tonight. as you can see, he is still going. his office tells us he intends to continue speaking as long as he is physically able. so far senator merkley has spent his time talking about george gorsuch's record, why he's opposed to judge gorsuch and also what he says is the only relevant context in which this nomination is playing out. what he calls the theft of a supreme court seat that should have been killed by president obama's nominee. >> the majority team in this chamber decided to steal a supreme court seat. again, such a theft never, ever has happened in the history of our nation. the majority said we intent to pack the court of the united states of america. there was no principle to the p

moment of national embarrassment is brought to you by the fossil fuel industry and hand off to jeff merkley. >> thank you. i'm honored to be here with this group of five senators who are climate champions fighting for clean water and for clean air , and specifically to take on the carbon pollution that having such an impact. but across the city there's another group. there is vice president pence and secretary perry and secretary zinke and epa director pruitt, and they are standing up right now talking about how they are going to dismantle regulations on carbon pollution. this is a very big thing. carbon pollution is destroying the resources of rural america. it is destroying our forests, our farming and our fishing. the fire season in oregon is now two months longer than it was decades ago. the streams are warmer and smaller because of the smaller snowpack in the mountain. over on the coast, we have the difficulty of oysters being unable to reproduce correctly because the water is so much more acidic because of the burning of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide has become carbonic acid and is

yesterday, i stood with jeff merkley, the senator from oregon.bernie sanders, who i think may come from the very state you are in today. they put forward really a landmark piece of legislation. for the first time, they said we need 10000% renewable energygy. not, we need some solar panels and we need some fracking wells. not the all of the above energy policy that the obama administration favored. instead, finally saying, we are ready to go, 100%. the technology is clearly there. the price of a solar panel keeps plummeting, which is why it is so absurd to watch donald trump try to somehow revive the expensive and dirty coal industry. we are ready to go, and now we have got, i think, what is going to be the flag around which progressives rally. nothing less than 100% will do. i know "washington post" article is headlined "the come to buy the dakota a access pipeline is in another controversy." it details how energy transfer partners, the company behind the dakota access pipeline, has now twice spilled drilling fluids in ohio wetlands this month wh

after 15 futile overnight hours on the senate floor, trying block judge gorsuch, oregon senator jeff merkley joins me. and it looks like he made it. what i learned about barry manilow and it is not what you think it is. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. good evening. i'm chuck todd in new york and welcome to "mtp daily" and welcome to the first real test of president trump's america first foreign policy which now confronts a 1-2 punch. one in syria, the other in north korea. those mean conthe frontations with much larger powers which backs china which backs north korea. and all of this is churning on the day that steve bannon was removed from the national security council. we should warn that you some of the images out of years qua are extraordinarily disturbing. last tweak administration said that ousting syria, president assad was no longer a priority. now he is being blame for carrying out what appears to be a horrific kept weapons attack on his own people. russia said assad is not to blame. today, president trump blasted the assad regime during a press conference at the white

you are right, jeff merkley is still on the senate floor. he'll have to get off the floor about 9:30 because that's when they're set to adjourn and come back into session for today seeing as how he kept everybody up all night. this represents last-ditch efforts on the parts of the democrats to try and slow this down. you also saw reports overnight of potential plagiarism. politico reporting that there were passages of some of the legal works that judge gorsuch did very early in his career that appeared to be lifted from other sources. those defending gorsuch saying it's a little bit different in the legal realm and he didn't lift ideas from people so they say it's not too much of a problem. but it illustrates together this kind of last-minute push on the part of democrats to try and stop gorsuch's nomination. it appears that there is really no way to stop it at this point. mitch mcconnell filed cloture yesterday. that means that he moved to cut off debate. that sets up that filibuster vote for thursday morning and sets the stage for this nuc

jeff merkley has been on the senate since 7:00 last night to protest the nomination.e looking at live pictures of the senator on the floor for over 10 hours just standing there. his speeches and expected to delay the vote today with the debate today or the vote tomorrow. republican leader mitch mcconnell has already said a procedural vote that there is day. >> and now, we are moving forward with the gorsuch nomination for the supreme court that should be wrapped up sometime friday. it appears that says cloture will not be about, but we will find out on thursday. but either way, we will be moving towards confirming judge gorsuch on friday. transfer republicans expected to usher at the debate. but, let's prepare to use the nuclear option to get gorsuch approved. nicole: qaeda on the global market action overnight. shaking off all the news in north korea. north korea. making in japan at the quarter of 1%. hong kong hang seng up half of 1%. shanghai composite index. markets have reopened up 1.5% after being closed a couple days. transfer the ftse 100 in england is up 18 p

eastern time at center jeff merkley talks about the nomination of neal gorsuch to the supreme court, doing anything they can to slow down republicans and their momentum. nothing at this point will stop his nomination to the highest court of the land. >>> we'll continue to monitor those pictures. >>> a santiago prediction from an influential democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman castro telling cnn some key players in the trump camp could be in big trouble for their contacts with russia. castro's comments coming after democrats were briefed on intelligence reports that their embattled chairman devin nunes reviewed two weeks ago. listen to congressman castro sounding a warning to the trump administration. >> my impression is i wouldn't be surprised after all this is said and done that some people end up in jail. >> that's quite a charge. we are told the house intel committee has agreed to call fbi director comey and nsa director mike rogers back to testify again but no date has been scheduled. >> the rhetoric is out of control on both side. the senate intelligence co

this is a live look at jeff merkley of oregon opposing the supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. has been talking since last night. >>> all right. thanks, guys. the traffic alert is canceled but the damage is done. southbound 880 before auto mall parkway a multi-car crash blocking lanes is off the road. backups all the way to highway 92. that's the san mateo bridge. now let's move to daly city. here northbound 280 after john daly boulevard a two-car crash blocking a lane causing not too bad of a delay here. you're moving at 52 miles per hour. just keep in mind there are some roads blocked there and if you are heading into the peninsula here's a live look at the san mateo bridge between hayward and foster city you're moving slowly and that will be about a 25-minute drive between 880 and 101. i'll send it to you. >> thank you, roqui. >>> beautiful sunrise over the bay right now. we have mostly cloudy skies. how about the coast? the fog is now settling into ocean beach. temperatures pretty steady in santa rosa at 45. otherwise, 55 about san jose and the south bay. low 50s right now

jeff merkley still holding the floors of speaking.icture of senate floor where merkley has been speaking out for more than 12 hours. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has issued a dire warning of the consequences as republicans prepare to use the nuclear option. watch. >> will be the subject is eminently qualified nominee to the first filibuster in american history? americans will be watching. history will be watching. in the future of the senate will hang on their choice. maria: let's bring in senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. good to see you. no doubt at this point that the nuclear option is on the table. will be triggered this week? >> as you heard the clip he you rent from senator john mccain has been a senator three or four terms now, he and senator mitch mcconnell don't want to use the nuclear option. the nuclear option is changing a precedent, not a rule. to change her will take 67 votes. they don't have that. to change a precedent, a tradition if you will only takes 51 votes. the tradition is that any s

democratic senator jeff merkley staged a marathon protest on the senate floor overnight calling on republicans to delay the vote on supreme court nominee neil gorsuch this week, this into ongoing investigations into president trump's campaign and russia. >> unacceptable that we're considering this nomination at this moment when there is a cloud over the presidency. >> part of those investigations involved the president's still unsubstantiated claims that president trump wiretapped trump tower. on tuesday the president pointed the finger at the former president's national security adviser susan rice, retweeting the link to a story, suggesting she may have unmasked the names of trump associates picked up during surveillance of foreign targets. >> the evidence to ask for the identity of american citizens is necessary to understand the importance of an intelligence report in some instances. >> sean spicer questioned whether it was necessary. >> it depends on why they were asking and what they were trying to accomplish. >> reports have emerged that russian spies tried to recruit former campaign adv

as kasie hunt said, jeff merkley just got off the senate floor after a marathon session having to do with the nomination of neil gorsuch to the supreme court. democratic senator coons of delaware joins me now. he sits on the jiciary and foreign relations committee. sir, welcome. thank you for being with us. i want to start by talking about what's going on in syria. we've heard the criticisms from the trump administration that the obama administration got us here. it is almost debe sibeside the because we're seeing people gassed and dying on video. what is your advice as to what we do now? >> well, ali, this is yet another tragic humanitarian crisis caused by the murderous regime of bashar al assad. i don't think it is constructive for the trump administration to abandon efforts to try to hold assad to account. i hope secretary of state tillerson, when he goes to meet with putin, won't be inclined to cut some sort of deal where we provide any legitimacy or support for russia's efforts in syria to back assad. i do think that we need to be more engaged. i was one of many here in the sen

jeff merkley of oregon protests neil gorsuch. he has been talking several hours and says he plans to keep going as long as he can. the senate is set to begin voting on gorsuch's nomination on thursday. republicans promise to confirm him by the end of the week. >>> democrats are vowing to filibuster. >>> san francisco's police chief addressed concerns about violence in the ocean view neighborhood after three innocent bystanders were shot. one of them was killed. 65-year-old lian xiu wu was hit and killed on her way to the bus. at a town hall meeting with police tonight, questions that a lot of people asked, what can be done to stop the violence? the intersection where the shooting happened has been a hot spot. >> the killings, it was really, really bad out here. now it ebbs and flows and it is now flowing more than it is ebbing with the recent killings. >> since october, there have been five shootings in the area. >>> tonight, some help is on the way for flood victims in san jose. free cars, the february floods damaged hundreds of

jeff merkley taking to the floor to wage an all night talk-a-thon after mitch mcconnell set in motion a confirmation vote for thursday that is sure to end with a historic fight. as of this morning democrats have 44 votes against gorsuch making the filibuster proof. republicans say they have no choice but to change senate rules to allow for a simple majority. is so called nuclear option. in the chamber they are not happy. here is what senator mccain had to say about those who describe the nuclear option as a good idea. >> i would like to meet that idiot. i would like to meet that numb skull that would say that, that after 200 years at least 100 years of this tradition where the senate is functioned pretty well they think it would be a good idea to blow it up. idiot. no, whoever says that is a stupid idiot who has not been here and seen what i've been through and how we were able to avoid that on several occasions. and they are stupid and they deceived their voters because they are so stupid. >> mccain's comments as quoting that gorsuch failed tos cite source material. they release this

republican senator bob corker and democratic senator, jeff merkley, will join chuck at 5:00 p.m. eastern, only on msnbc. merkley, of course, spoke for 15 hours, more than that, on the floor of the senate in opposition to gorsuch. meanwhile, that wraps things up for me this wednesday. i am katy tur. you can follow me both on facebook and on twitter. kate snow picks things up right now. hey, kate. >> hey, katy. we have tatta lot to cover this afternoon. >>> here are our top stories this hour. syria, was this week's horrific chemical attack there a red line for president trump's? jordan's king abdullah is in town. he and the president are meeting in the white house this hour. much of the focus in their press conference this afternoon was about syria. and tomorrow, quite possibly the most important meeting of president trump's term so far, china's president visits mar-a-lago. trade, north korea, the-o south china sea, all controversial topics all on the table. >>> and finally, president trump defending bill o'reilly after advertisers pull out of advertising. so many big stories this

oregon senator jeff merkley talked for several hours. majority leader of the senate mitch mcconnell is invoking the so-called nuclear option. this means changing the senate rules so that a supreme court nominee can be confirmed with a simple majority not 60 votes. that will assure the confirmation of gorsuch to the supreme court on friday. >> happening today t-the united nations security council will hold an emergency meeting in response to the deadly chemical weapons attack in syria. at least 72 people died including 11 children. witnesses claim the attack which involved airstrikes came from syrian and russian forces. both damascus and moscow denied responsibility. the white house called the attack reprehensible and one that cannot be ignored by the civilized world. >> happening today, philadelphia's new tax on soft drinks faces another legal hurdle. a commonwealth court panel in pittsburgh will hear arguments on the controversial tax. you'll remember it went into effect in january but it's currently under appeal. the money goes toward

oregon senator jeff merkley spoke for 15 1/2 hours in opposition of neil gorsuch's supreme court nomination. he wrapped up this morning and general debate on the confirmation is under way in the senate now. senator merkley's speech is the eighth longest since 1900, just two minutes under huey long's 1935 speech. a vote to shut off debate on the gorsuch nomination is planned for tomorrow, and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he has the votes necessary to change senate rules and confirm judge gorsuch. that's likely to happen on friday. you can watch live senate coverage on c-span2. >>> sunday night on "q & a." >> so here was a yellow pad where he writes down in the midst of the october 1968 we're going to monkey wrench lyndon johnson's peace initiative. this is something that's always been rumored and bits and pieces have come out over the years, but nixon denied it at the time to lyndon johnson and he denied it to david frost and he denied it to his biographers. always said he had never played any role in doing this. >> john farrell, long-time journalist and author of the book "ri

oregon's democratic senator jeff merkley has been talking all night staging his own protest over the republicans' decision to block president obama's nominee from last year. >>> and former national security adviser susan rice is denying allegations that she used secret intelligence reports to spy on president trump's associates before he took office. rice acknowledged that she asked for the names of americans who were referenced in the report. but she made it clear that the policy known as unmasking was a key part of her job and it's not illegal or uncommon. a month after president trump accused president obama of wiretapping him, rice insisted that the new administration was not targeted. >> this is not anything political has been alleged. the allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. that's absolutely false. >> well, rice also denied that she leaked any names. democrats say the allegations are being used to distract from the investigation into russian election meddling and possible ties to the trump campaign. >>> well, i

. >>> happening now oregon democrat jeff merkley is still talking on the senate floor in opposition to supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. while republican majority leader mitch mcconnell has already moved to end debate on the nomination. his extended speech here is not a filibuster and will not delay the eventual voting. but he says he plans to talk for as long as he is able to. he is outlining reasons why he believes gorsuch is outside the judicial mainstream. >> happening today, philadelphia sugary drink tax will be the focus of a court hearing. a commonwealth panel in pittsburgh will hear arguments on the new law. the tax went into effect in january but it is under appeal. the money goes toward funding for mayor jim kenney's universal pre-k plan. critics are fighting the fee's impact on the beverage industry. >> ralph archbold the man who portrayed ben franklin in philadelphia for more than four decades as died. archbold passed away last week at the age of 75. he spent 44 years as the city's official ben franklin. and even shared a birthday, gentleman and 17th, with franklin. as a

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jeff merks rkleyddddddd -- jeff merkley. >> this seat is a stolen seat. kennedy: in the end it's drawnout mitt cal fight worth it for either party? let me bring in my battle-hardened party panel. chris barron is here, founder of lgbt for trump. welcome to the show. charlie, i'll start with you. this gorsuch fight, we heard chuck grassley say don't worry about it. we'll get the votes we need. but everyone has run out of gas. what are the long-term implications if they do? >> i think they are considerable. which is why i don't understand why chuck schumer and democrats want to make this fight over neil gorsuch. problem is nothing * is a very, very good nominee. and if they are going to make the fight over this, they are going to spend a lot -- they are going to waste a lot of their powder they ought to be saving for i think the next nominee who will do more to change the balance of the court and be a far greater threat to democrats. kennedy: now that republicans are going to call the democrats' bluff, i think this is a losing game of chicken long term and s

jeff merkley talking for 10 hours staging all light protests on capitol hill just hours before the senateate supreme court nominee sandra: -- neil gorsuch. no backup from many of his liberal colleagues. >> this seat is a stolen seat. rated by -- being more conservative than anyone who serves on the court. >> mitch mcconnell moving to end the debate on neil gorsuch's nomination pushing them to the nuclear option. >> back in chapel hill north carolina tar heels bringing the ncaa basketball title home. ♪ heather: thousands of fans and carolina blue for a huge rally, the sixth national championship, head goes roy williams says he is going to think on it. i say go. disappointing. >> on to the weather, millions in the path of more extreme weather, dangerous storms moving southeast into the ohio valley. heather: a tornado ripping across missouri overnight terry the roof from this element school scattered debris across the city, the powerful system moving east. >> it has been busy all week because it is spring, you're getting spring temperatures that you see that springlike weather. new members g

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>>> happening now, oregon senator jeff merkley still staging the all-night protest against the nominationf neil gorsu gorsuch. he has been talking for 15 hours now and he says he will keep going as long as he can. right now the #holdthefloor is trending on twitter. it will not delay the debate or votes but it's part of the democrat's effort to bring attention to the nomination. >>> and john kelly says there has been a huge drop of the number of people trying to get into the u.s. from mexico. officials stopped 12,000 last month compared to 43,000 in december, and they say it's because of trump's tough talk on immigration, and kelly confirmed homeland security is considering separating children from their parents if they are caught crossing illegally. >> and they got the guy who has been groping women on muni trains. police identified and arrested him yesterday. the victim posted a photo of the suspect on the next door app and then gave it to investigators. >> the suspect would get very close to the women, touch himself and then touch the women inappropriately, and in one case the women had

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. >> jeff merkley of oregon took the stand at 7:00 last night and until 7:00 this morning.mocrats are protesting the pick to the high court. the filibuster is expected tomorrow. and republicans say they need a simple majority to confirm neil gorsuch. >>> killing obamacare is not off the gop to-do list. they huddled for two hours but emerged with no deal on the health care and the dropping the federal mandates. they used the same words to reporters, progress. paul ryan said there was no timetable but he's optimistic. >>> a man in the south bay who has been waiting for years for his payout. we'll explain and show you how we helped him. new tls nig inlvi a shtinat s >>> new details tonight involving a shooting at a south bay motel last week. a man was shot at the capri motel. the motel had to be evacuated. police say these two men are responsible for the shooting. merlin jones and calvin casttrio. they face charges of attempted murder and robbery and assault. the victim was shot in the stomach but expected to survive. >> a deadly crash in fremont was the fault of a wrong side

jeff merkley felt the -- held the floor for 15 hours to highlight the parties operation -- oppositionorsuch. they accuse gorsuch of siding with corporations over people. the powersays he has to change a filibuster. with ofident is meeting della today. summit hosted by the jordanian king renewed an offer of recognizing israel in exchange for palestinian statehood. condemningsident is what he calls a war crime after a suspected chemical attack in syria. a government spokesman said that france has pushed for an international military campaign against syrian president -- the syrian president over chemical chemical weapons in 2013. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by 20 600 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. bonnie? -- vonnie? presidenten chinese visits president trump in florida, in their first meeting, the two are expected to discuss trade, north korea, and for more we havessues at stake, the former government of washington. he joins me now live from seattle. thanks for joining us investor. -- ambassador. please explain how china see

the part of an air national .uard unit in andrews democratic senator jeff merkley held the floor for hours to highlight the party's opposition to the supreme court nominee neil gorsuch its, accusing the judge of siding with corporations over people. mitch mcconnell says that he has votes to change senate rules and support the immigrant filibuster, a showdown could come tomorrow. syrian and russia denied there was a gas attack that killed at least 72 people. russia blamed the death on the rebels and said the syrian air force bond and ammunitions dump because the rebels were moving chemical reverends from a warehouse. -- chemical weapons from a warehouse. in russia, six people have been arrested on suspicion of recruiting terrorists. no word on if the rest are linked to the subway bombing in st. petersburg that killed 14 people. those arrested come from central asian countries that were once part of the soviet union. authorities said the suicide bomber responsible for the bombing was from the central asian nation of cares extend -- global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600

all through the night into the morning as a protest to the gorsuch nomination, oregon senator jeff merkleyoesn't think he accomplished what he set out to do on his 15+ hours on the floor. >> what i want to do is for the senate to pull back from the brink of this enormous mistake of confirming neil gorsuch, so only if we succeed in stopping this will i feel i accomplished something. >> reporter: things are expected to be very heated on the senate side tomorrow because that's when democrats are expected to attempt a filibuster of the gorsuch confirmation, that's when republicans are expected to stop the filibuster by changing senate precedent which will let them confirm neil gorsuch to the court the following day. the republicans are expected to do this with the so-called nuclear option, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says doesn't make sense to nominate anyone with democratic support because he doesn't think anyone nominated by the president will get any support. >> it doesn't matter who the president nominates, the democratic minority is determined to successfully launch the unprece

jeff merkley in the 12th hour of his speech protesting judge neal gorsuch.row morning. if it fails republicans could invoke what's called the nuclear option to confirm judge gorsuch with a majority vote. >>> and the american woman injured in the london terror attack is meeting with the royal family. melissa cochran lost her husband, kurt, during the attack on the westminster bridge. princes william and harry and duchess kate meeting privately with the families. as well as the first responders. >>> to that ad sparking a lot of outrage out there. critics are calling it tone deaf and linsey davis is here with more. good morning, linsey. >> reporter: good morning to you, michael. 21-year-old kendall jenner is the first model to get a big pepsi ad since cindy crawford in 1992, but that's being overshadowed where many are calling it tasteless saying it takes advantage of serious issues and movements to sell soda. this morning, a new pepsi ad is falling flat, getting a major backlash on social media. ♪ >> reporter: at the center of the controversial soft drink comm

here is a portion of the date from wednesday, starting with senator jeff merkley of organ. -- of oregon. merkley: the most important words of our constitution are the first three words. our founders made sure those words were displayed -- we, the people, in supersized font. so, generations later, we would not forget what our constitution is all about. our constitution was not crafted to create a government making decisions by and for the powerful. it wasn't crafted to prepare a government that would make decisions by and for the privileged. that was the power of the we the people vision. as president lincoln so eloquently stated, a government of, by, and for the people. that is the vision that we have the responsibility of maintaining. and it is a vision that is facing a dramatic test this coming week. a test that affects the integrity of this body, a test that affects the integrity of the supreme court. january of last year, a supreme court seat came open. whicheme court seat for the president had a responsibility to nominate a replacement, a new justice to serve on the court. senate h

jeff merkley concluding his overnight protest against supreme court nominee, neil gorsuch.an speaking at 7:00 p.m. lamb basting his republican colleagues over their refusal to hold a vote over judge garland last year. >>> a vehicle carrying census workers in eastern pakistan. 15 more were wounded. they launched the national census last month. the first in 19 years. >>> south korea urging north korea to refrain from provocation saying it will only make the country face further trouble. it is in response to pyongyang's latest ballistic missile test. a woman at cleveland cavaliers game holding up a sign urging the team to win for her 84th birthday. there is warren buffett at the game. 84, that's the age of interns at berkshire hathaway. that's the news update this hour. carl, back to you? >> sue herera, markets are rallying. dow is up 110. off of the highs for the morning. we are joined by cowan and trading david seeburg. a lot of pots are boiling. macro data and mna. what explains the run-up and the more recent pull back? >> we saw the adp number come out. the futures were up

. >> reporter: with that democratic senator jeff merkley staged a nearly 15 1/2 hour one- man protest the of a filibuster democrats had hoped to launch against the confirmation of president donald trump supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. >> i hope they will consider what their actions would mean for future stream -- supreme court nominations. >> reporter: executive appointments can only get a hold vote if the debate preceding that boat is formally ended. this action called invoking culture requires a super majority of 60 votes. democrats have at least 41 senators who vote no to cloture. in which point the debate becomes open-ended. which is technically known as a filibuster.>> often debates went on for a substantial amount of time. a week, some for many weeks. with no culture petition being filed.>> reporter: this is evo closure requirement is not a hard and fast rule. it could be change by trickling the so-called nuclear option. the presiding officer in this case, mitch mcconnell, will ask for a break for senate -- from senate tradition. and will ask for a simple majority of 5

he says -- jeff merkley from oregon -- senator ben cardin from maryland -- richard blumenthal, a democratrom connecticut -- one more from tom udall from new mexico -- currently according to the latest counts on this vote, four democratic senators are voting for gorsuch in his nomination. the question senators, joe manchin, heidi heitkamp, joe donnelly and michael bennet's. "the wall street journal" with their list. arthur is up next. good morning. caller: you are one of the best ones. you let the speakers get their point across. this is my first call since november. my first want to congratulate president trump for keeping this atheist queen of the status quo, a.k.a., hillary clinton. the precedent is established by gorsuch, it comes time for ginsburg or kennedy to hang up, and that is very likely, the republicans need to announce that this is our nominee, there is nothing you can do about it. [indiscernible] sicknk many americans are of the same political posturing on the grounds of protocol. the trump era will be defined by ask of presidents -- act of precedence. this always dishonest m

. >>> in washington right now, democratic senator jeff merkley is holding the floor staging an all-nightrotest against judge gorsuch's supreme court nomination. he began speaking around 7:00 p.m. last night and says he will continue as long as he is able to. the full senate will debate gorsuch's nomination today and it appear there's will be a filibuster showdown tomorrow. republican leader mitch mcconnell is threatening to use the nuclear option to force an up or down vote without the traditional 60 votes needed to end the debate. a lot of posturing here. it is expected to go that route. >> a lot of posturing. there is a route for them to get through. i was saying earlier in the week this doesn't have as much impact on markets as some other issues that may or may not pass through congress, but it's another reminder of the difficulty that the president is having getting his agenda through. >> everything is a battle. >> despite not celebrating the gains we saw yesterday and softening the praise of them, we still have seen resilience despite this political pressure. that less excitement ab

we want to give you a live look on the senate floor this morning where democrats jeff merkley has beenustering for almost eight hours protesting against supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. he plans to keep going as long as he can. the senate is supposed to start voting on gorsuch's nomination tomorrow. republicans are promising to confirm him by the end of the week. >>> starting today in san francisco, political ad will be taken down from muni's buses, trains and shelters. kpix 5's jackie ward reports. >> reporter: kenny, it was a matter of protecting people's first amendment rights. this one will make riders more comfortable. the board voted unanimousl favor of this new ad policy that bans anything political or controversial. that includes ads people find offensive, harmful or disruptive. years ago you may remember seeing anti-muslim ads on muni. so while the city denounced them, the mta said they could not turn down the ads becaused on content without risking first amendment lawsuits. but this policy change will be adopted today and the changes are similar to what have already