thanks sotch. great to be but. >> the next two speeches in our supreme court special include harry reid then minority leader harry reid deevending the use of the filibuster and saying that the senate has no constitutional obligation to vote on the president's nominees. then mitch mcconnell in 2008 july of that year saying that senate dracts ought to confirm more bush nominees before the president leaves office. here we have two speech that is seem at least somewhat at odds with what those two leaders are saying today. what was different back then and what does this tell us about the process as a whole? >> what was different is quite simple is that each of these senators one had the word minority in front of his title now majority. and the other had majority and now it's minority. and what makes it so dramatic is that it what it shows is that in the last 30 years, really since the bork era, which was where this -- where these wonderful clips began. ideology has become important. and divided governme

i mean, i don't understand why the republican party hates obama sotch.hey make more money under him than nebraska. hillary clinton. nebraska else it's going to be indicted? no. crooks don't indicted crooks. bernie sanders wants to give america away. cruz. green eggs and ham. donald trump is playing the race card. it's not about black and white. it's about rich and poor. an i don't mean guy whose have made a million dollars. i'm talking about 10 billion dollars. i just think america's got it wrong. thank you. >> george the race card in this election. >> this has been for sure one of the most interesting elections as it comes to race. is the 're seeing republican party frankly becoming a party of and for whites who feel disenfranchised. if you look at some of the stuff, these protests are happening on racial grounds. and it's increasingly true that i think white people in america are feeling some at least are feeling a sort of demographic pressure that they are becoming the minority. we knew that this was going to sort of rock and change elections going fo

speakers, how much of the world has changed and we can understand why it brought forward the argument but sotch has changed. it is clear to all of us that we need to adopt the posture act and we pointed out this evening that this is not like a light switch or something we can turn on or off and if we decide to move forward with the 67,000 troops, we know we are looking to three to four years to get back to where we are today and that would signal to our potential sad versus areas the wrong message. and the nourget point is how important it is that we have the right-sized formations because that impacts how often they stay and all of this has impacts on families and traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress and serningfer certainly what this country is unified. by enacting the posture act, we are supporting our supporting members and veterans. and the last point and this has been made clear to us by all the leadership in the army and marine corps by preserving the end strength, it has to come with the necessary resources that they are manned, equipped and trained and look towards the mode