the democrats have tried to figure out a way t consolidate support. the dccc put out a flyer saying the comee is asking people to vote for oneandidate cause td her. so is this the type of thing that you had to do to try to get democrats to consolidate behind one possible winner? absolutely. the one of the challenges about all odistrictre in one area dana: let me interrupt you. mitch mcconnell started speaking. let s listen in. he s more importan only 24 cloture votes on nominations. the president made it clear he doesn t intend to sign another omnibus.
administrations combined this senate democrats have pushed for cloture votes, 30 hours of debate for each nominee more than the last four administrations i mentioned before. those are incredible numbers. 250 people are languishing waiting for confirmation. men and women qualified and capable to do their jobs at the department of state. we re about to enter negotiations with north korea. we needfuly staffed departments in order to protect this country. democrats are being obstructionists and its grotesque. bill: i m sorry we re out of times. how is the first lady, what is her condition and updates when she comes home? she was in good spirits yesterday. the president tweeted about it. we wish her a speedy recovering. she has unveiled her be best campaign and look forward to her getting back to the white house and pushing the campaign. i have to say happy birthday to
here where he mentions his former, now, nominee to lead veterans affairs, dr. jackson. at the end you can see, first tweet on the left, bottom line there, jon tester should resign. do you agree? i think we need to one of the concerns i ve had since i ve joined come to washington, the extent to which we go to character assassination rather than deal with the facts, make sure all the facts are out. it s a matter of who can rush faster to the media, to get on tv a tv. if you look at the number of cloture votes we ve had in the senate it s all-time record. we ve had more cloture votes in the senate than in previous terms. let s get back to the question. should tester resign? for the accuracy of information he put out, he should be challenged on that. we owe it to people nominated for positions of the white house to be careful not to just kill their reputation before there s a chance to look at it.
he is saying somebody who doesn t care for michael cohen going and speaking to media sources should the president the president is going to tweet something like that shouldn t he own it and explain it? he owns it. why wouldn t he say who he is talking about? you can read the article. i m sure cnn will be talking about it for the next week. after all, this president needs his new secretary of state confirmed so the chief diplomat can go back over to north korea and elsewhere to sit down and try to denuclearize the korean peninsula which is in everybody s interest. we are going to make tax cuts permanent and get the obstruction in the senate. he has over 100 some nominees sitting waiting for a hearing. you have had more cloture votes on this president than all four predecessors combined. it s crazy. we do talk about it.
cloture votes in the first 14 months of our administration. 17 over the last four administrations versus 79 in the first 14 months of our administration. that is roughly five times the number of the last four administrations combined. senator schumer is essentially weaponizing a senate procedure, demanding cloture votes on nominees that he eventually supports. still forced to go through 30 hours of debate to essentially slow down the senate calendar simply for the purpose of obstruction. even senate democrats have begun to call this out and say it s getting to the point of ridiculous. at this rate the united states senate would take 11 1/2 years to confirm our nominees. 11 1/2 years to confirm our