minister-- the minister of the government in hawaii in washington dc, the speaker of the house thomas reid who was an ardent opponent of annexation and ardent opponent of america over the empire, the speaker had been routed and in the process of abandoning their opposition longtime skeptics in the us house of representatives said the vote against the annexation of hawaii have become like voting against a war resolution while america was under attack. briefly, the greenhouse inflated senator lodge is hope to round up a genuine two thirds vote in the senate for a treaty of annexation reflecting-- there's a little more here i have to read. reflecting a concern for both the dignity and constitutionality of the method of annexation. after large and the others except-- assess the opposition the treaty that had been awaiting a vote for ivan years was discarded for good. when the senate proponents moved for passage of the house resolution the opposition responded with a filibuster. of the session was supposed to be over soon and they hoped to talk to resolution to its-- skipping for the resolution

. >> without relitigating clarence thomas, harry reid was the one who -- the option to change it from to 50. >> with the 60-vote margin. >> that's right. >> the lower courts, not the supreme court. >> i know, but he started that. and we warned about it then. all right, it's going to come back to bite you guys. and here it has. but, look. the implication about this whole corroboration and that someone can just smear someone and there's no presumption of innocence, you cannot sit here and say that you believe that something happened to dr. ford and then make the allegation that, well, it was a smear and that they just came out of nowhere and she was a political pawn used by some political operative, democratic operative, to take out a good man in brett kavanaugh. you can't have it both ways. this is cover. it's a cover for people who just think that they would rather put the political partisanship of a supreme court nomination ahead of women in this country who have experienced sexual assault. you cannot say you legitimately believe her, but think she was mixed up and didn't know who he

david: harry reid started that whole process of getting rid of the filibuster rule. >> you could say this started with bork and thomas, then it was garr lan and kavanaugh. david: a lot of game to go around. >> a ping-pong ball. the court suffers in interim. remedy, unanimous decisions out supreme court. count it. you will start to see a lot. just a prediction. i think i know where their heads are. david: we have videotape. we'll hold it. andy napolitano. susan: back to the markets. papa john's surging closing up nearly 9%, following "wall street journal" report that activist hedge fund trian capital headed by nelson peltz considering taking over the company. this is months after its founder john schnatter made racist remarks during a conference call. we'll follow the story and bring you any updates when you see it. david: florida in a state of emergency right now. we have a live update on the hurricane officials are saying could be the most destructive to hit the panhandle in decade. >>> he said he wasn't going to let our farmers down. now he is following through. what big change president trump is making for the agr