up, going nuclear, and he is rewriting the senate rules. that s what the mainstream media will say. doesn t that double up the risk of his agenda? they could turn around and say if you try filibustering tha legislation stuff, what if we just eliminate the whole process? ed: speaking of goinge nuclear, steve bannon tonight who is not really said anything publicly is going nuclear on the media. among other things, telling the new york times, the media here is the opposition party. they don t understand this t country. they still do not understand wh. donald trump is the president of the united states. the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut to just listen for a while. what you think about that? i think it would take a true optimist to believe that the elite media is going to keep its mouth shut and listen. it s a nice idea. a very sobering column yesterday
ed: you know this will be a big deal. donald trump is blowing things up, going nuclear, and he is rewriting the senate rules. that s what the mainstream media will say. doesn t apple up the risk of his agenda? they could turn around and say if you try filibustering the legislation stuff, what if we just eliminate the whole process? ed: speaking of going nuclear, steve bannon tonight who is not really said anything publicly is going nuclear on the media. among other things, telling the new york times, the media here is the opposition party. they don t understand this country. they still do not understand why donald trump is the president of the united states. the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut to just listen for a while. what you think about that? i think it would take a true optimist to believe that the elite media is going to keep its mouth shut and listen. it s a nice idea.
of the ones i just read, and there are certainly several others, is there one or two that you re most optimistic you re actually going to see happen, you re going to sebring about change and the way things are done? first and foremost is internally in congress is to have that filibuster reform so they can break the logjam and deadlock that s occurred in the institution of the united states senate. that seems like one of the toughest ones. yes. but they can be established in the first day of the session, as we know, with adopting and embracing the congressional rules of the senate with two-thirds as the senate report. having two majority leaders, senator lot and senator daschle, having embrace those proposals, advance them. to remove the filibuster on the motion to proceed. that doesn t mean you couldn t have a filibuster on the legislation stuff or amendments, but also guarantee amendments. the amendment process has broken down internally in the united states senate which is supp