you might say wait a minute, if democrats don t like him, couldn t they decide to filibuster the nomination? we heard so much about filibustering. if you filibuster, they need 60 votes to get something done. that used to be the way things worked, but that s where this man, harry reid, the outgoing senate leader comes in. a couple of years ago, president obama was having trouble getting positions for judgeships. the democrats led by harry reid invoked the nuclear option and said no longer can you filibuster these things. now on nominations for cabinet spots for most judgeships it s 50 and not 60. after the last election, they have 51 right now. still one race left in louisiana. the republicans are probably going to win that. they are going to have the 50 votes they need if they stay and want to confirm jeff sessions to be the attorney general.
views online. gasp ton proves no one can do push-ups like him. he did it. well madonna is defending herself after creating a social media firestorm over altered images used to promote her new album. it s all part of our weekly roundup of entertainment stories with kim serafin, senior editor at in touch magazine. kim, thanks for joining us a lot to cover but want to start with madonna s troubles her latest troubles. she s getting a lot of reaction on social media to those altered pictures she posted of nelson mandela and martin luther king jr., talk to us the latest on that. you know troubles for everyone else. for madonna it s more publicity. she is very strategic, of course yeah this is maybe not the kind of publicity she wants but more publicity for her album coming out rebel heart and did post these fan created pictures that were meant to look like the
too far, to leave on principle. no one leaves government because no one leaves politics on principle. everybody is in this game. the country believes it, they re in it to feather their own nest. gates wants to write a book. other people want political power, whatever. we seem to have lost the idea of politics as something where you owe the country first. in the meantime, we have all this information coming out. i want to move on to new jersey governor chris christie getting some support from republicans, john. some. but not much, i might add. i think that in the four days since the revelations, the biggest story of it is how muted most republicans are. both in new jersey why? in new jersey, they don t like him. okay, even the republicans don t like him, and they re afraid of him. he has steam rolled over a lot of republicans. isn t the, john, they re seeing a guy who embraced president obama during the last week of the election, during their hurricane cleanup. he s a modera
of what you think about him politically, and a lot of people on the left don t like him, but ed gillespie if romney is smart enough to let ed gillespie come in and put in a professional that knows how to run a presidential campaign, if they give ed the power, i think you ll see issues like this start to go away. well, i just think the conversation is naturally going to move on to different topics. we have been in about a month and a half and two-month period where something comes up and we are talking about the war on women. that said, if democrats were crafty, and i think some of them are, maybe, but they would use st strategically to try to reintroduce this. when you say war on women, are you talking about abortion issues? i don t want to use the word one woman because i think it s loaded. but there s been a series of