uncovered points of both what the president said today and leader mcconnell said today is the unnecessary and dangerous partisan obstruction of president s nominees before the senate. we have historic block damage, unnecessary cloture votes, the deputy secretary hhs took 181 days for him to be confirmed. for what reason? now acting secretary. six of the seven dod folks at the pentagon have been ready since the summer for confirmation. and this is just historic. 65% of president obama s nominees had gone through by now. president trump has 39%. martha: it s a great point. when people do dig into that story and see what s happening and the hours of debate where people are talking about what they did over the weekend just so that they can keep pushing this hours and hours down the road, i think it s frustrating and clogs things really on both sides ultimately. i do want to ask you about steve bannon. you know, when you have steve bannon saying it s a
i want to help protect that. there s two filibuster votes, cloture votes for every single bill that comes up. one at the beginning to get on it and the another one at the end to get off of it. get rid one of the one at the beginning. keep debating it until they get it resolved. the other issue is about time. right now the senate democrats senate democrats are blocking all the nominations coming up not because they can lose the vote, they can t. every one of these nominations is now 51. but they can drag them out to 30 hours of debate because we have 30 hours allotted if the minority chooses to have it. so we ve only been able to get through a little over 50 nominations total of the more than 200 that we have. if the democrats keep slow walking everything demanding the 30 hours of debate, for every single person, it will be 11 years before president trump gets his staff. incredible. incredible. look, i m all with you on this obstructionism coming on the left. i watch it every single
numbers look bad. they don t seem to have that courage unless they e. don t believe it i have got to bring to you this last element. that is the nominees. for the longest time the trump administration had been taking it on the chin saying they have been slow to nominate people. now, marc, tell everybody what the real deal is. you have about 48 nominees confirmed. how many are up and what are democrats doing? brian, thank you for the question. we have had 50 nominees confirmed. at this point in the obama administration, there was over 200. so we have had roughly a quarter of the nominees confirmed. of those 50, 30 have required a cloture vote 30 hours of debate to be used. of obama s 200 republicans only forced three cloture votes. what that means is it is a way of delaying and obstructing the agenda of the trump administration. i will give you a perfect example. last week judge nigh was confirmed 100 to zero in the senate. democrats forced a cloture vote requiring to us burn 30 hours
confirmed to me that, you know, despite the vote that mary landrieu cast that woman in that ad would have been able to buy a gun to protect herself. that s why that was so bad. pinocchio again. we got another one. two appear anses here president obama the g.o.p. filibustered 500 pieces of legislation. well, there are were lots of problem with his math there first of all he wasn t really counting filibusters. he was counting cloture votes which can be very technical as to whether or not that is a filibuster or not. most of those cloture votes had to do with judicial appointments, not legislation. and then he was counting all the way back to 2007 when he himself was a senator casting the very votes that he decries when he says filibusters. so it was it was he was off by a factor of at least 10 when he used that number. let me translate for the
that was pretty bad. double downing on the pinocchio is never a good idea. and look what happened. all right. nra ad claims mary landrieu voted to take away your gun rights. what happened with that? well, that was a very provocative ad which showed a woman putting her baby to bed texting her spouse and intruder breaks in. suggestion from the ad was that she was killed because she wasn t able to purchase a gun. but the nra s own lawyers confirmed to me that, you know, despite the vote that mary landrieu cast that woman in that ad would have been able to buy a gun to protect herself. that s why that was so bad. pinocchio again. we got another one. two appear anses here president obama the g.o.p. filibustered 500 pieces of legislation. well, there are were lots of problem with his math there first of all he wasn t really counting filibusters. he was counting cloture