is 75 they made it an absolute number, 60. that means who want to debate don t have to show up. they don t really want to debate, they just want to paralyze and as that became slowly understood in the late years of the. is 70s and 80s being applied to everything. that s where we re at. massive obstruction. we re having more than 100 blockades a year. this is how the senate has been paralyzed and damaged and number one practitioner of this is mitch mcconal and takes the floor and i would never do this and he has done it. he has led this effort and paralysis and delay has been his calling card and he s still at it today. i m curious, garrett haake was talking about how kyrsten sinema s biggest objection to doing this is that she thinks that once you go down this road, the other side will take it further. she s saying that could happen in the future. that s already happened.
well, and katty kay again, this selective reading of the founding documents, ignoring the common welfare of the american people. we can compare it to world war ii. by the time covid is over, twice as many americans is likely to die. there is a reason you had vaccine mandates in the past and it s not just to protect the individuals but also mitch mcconal. vaccines world to protect everybody. a quick notion of warning, i think there is a feeling here in the states that kind of covid is in our rear-view mirror that we don t have to watch it anymore. i am watching in the u.k., where they have a surge in cases and
going through all of this drama, why didn t they do it in the senate? can you thank rand paul and mitch mcconnell for this. mitch mcconnell blocked any move to bring the house bill into the senate. i don t think he thought rand paul would single handlely set aside the patriot act. that s what rand palm was able to do. we are seeing republicans regroup, do what they need to do next bring this house bill over into the senate t. interesting thing is mitch mcconal and rand paul have had a pretty close relationship. recently rand palm was helpful and mitch mcconnell endorsd rand paul for president. to see this relationship preying now is one of the underlying dramas on the senate floor. it will be interesting to see the shift and what happens with the freedom act. thank you so much for all the information. let s get over to chris. all right.
nomination in 1980 and bolted to endorse barak obama announced this week he may run as an independent correct year for his old senate seat in what state. i know you know this. i know i know this i knew the previous. time. correct answer south dakota. 300 point question. this former senator who lost his seat to a tea party challenger will be awarded a presidential medal. lugger. that s correct. 300 point question. this republican officially filed papers friday to challenge mitch mcconal. matt evan. this week they blocked law professor nina pillard to serve on what. the d.c. certificate. what s the score? susan page 1,200 points, you defeated robert costa, you are the new reigning, champion still
directly. it also features the fact that one of those sweet grandmas died. so, the subtext is, how dare you mock my dead grandma, mitch mcconnell. it has the surviving grandma saying let s do this for thelma, the grandmother that died. it shows she doesn t play and she s not afraid of him and she knows she has a big smile and she talks about what she s going to do for kentucky. she knows this is a very deeply unpopular man on both sides of the aisle. it seems ancient history now, but in a few months ago ashley jud was talking about running in this race against mitch mcconal and the mcconnell team was super aggressive to take her out of the race and put damaging stuff out there about her. try to send a message and saying this is what you re in for. but between this grimes video that we have this week and bevin stepping forward and people were not able to accomplish that. i think, you know, they have