you think and when republicans were back in the majority, they lowered the vote threshold to 51 votes for supreme court justices as well. let s bring in phil manningly. do you know if mcconnell is even considering listening to schumer to wait until after the election. i appreciate your chuckle. the short answer is no. he made that statement on the senate floor a short while ago saying there will be a vote in the fall and they expect to have hearings after a selection is made and it is worth noting, the senate majority leader is high on the 25 individuals that are on president trump s list that he said he would pick from. most interesting from the republican side of things in terms of what will happen next, i have one top republican official tell me the full machinery of the republican party is about to kick into high gear. this is obviously an issue of utmost importance for the majority leader and the parry. we re talking millions of dollars in outside money and major pushes on the p
we are increasing the ownership society, doing something good here for the poor. they put a lot of former members of congress on the payroll on the lobbying side and the p.r. and advocacy side in general. that s where newt came in. that s what the folks who worked for are telling me today. this is not the only story in the news about money and politicians. 60 minutes had a story about congressional insider trading and that members of congress were investing in companies where they had privileged information based on what was on the legislative calendar. eamon, i know you re an expert in this one as well. i would like to open it to the panel and say, is this the nail in the coffin? terms of trust? this is the politics as usual people can t stand. this is why herman cain has a shot. people are so entrenched in washington, d.c. and the political nonsense, games.
had two washington political pros with us. one, our own jimmy williams from the lobbying side and mark mckinnon, co-founder of no labels. gentlemen, it is a delight to welcome you back. i am proud to present to you on behalf of our entire community, after just one week, 100,000. i believe it was 105,000, maybe 106,000 signatures and counting. we are pushing for what we call asymmetrical growth. each person tells another person and we re hoping we can actually watch this number in ten clicks work well into the millions. mark, are you surprised by the immediacy of the response? i feel like a guy who stuck a knife in an oil well and it blew up in my face this past week. i m not surprised, and i m excited to see it, dylan. people are mad as hell, and they are not going to take it anymore. i weapons of mass destruction the network movie with the great hour beal s speech and was struck how it relates today. when citizens united, the