they decided the senate would go to overbusiness. >> that was october 1968. so long ago we didn't have c-span, we had senate sketch artists like it was a cameras banned from the courtroom situation. it was the last time a supreme court nominee was filibusters. the last time it was tried, the sam alito nomination, supported by hillary clinton and barack obama, they attempted to filibuster alito's nomination but 20 democratic senators wouldn't go along and that effort failed so the last time they were able to pull this off was '68. is it going to happen again? can they pull it off? prior to tonight's announcement about who the nominee would be for the supreme court seat, before we knew it was going to be neil gorsuch republican