and it s repleat with examples. why because when they saw an obstacle in their path, still allowing the fillbuster to stay in place, they made practical changes to get things done. sometimes on small things and sometimes on really, really big things. like supreme court justices, which mitch mcconnell did, like the bush and trump tax cuts, the trump tax cuts, the recent ones for the wealthy, all on 51-vote margins. senator klobuchar, you have been telling this history in various ways throughout the debate and particularly as the debate has become more and more heatd and focussed on this point. i find myself frustrated by the assertions from senator manchin and sinema that it s never been done before, that there s nothing in history that suggests you can have a 50 vote threshold
his parents said past the statue of liberty, and he came in to save it all those years later. congressman dan kildee of michigan, a member of the house ways and budget committee, and democratic whip. thank you so much for being with us this morning, we appreciate it. thanks for having me on. you are sitting in the state of michigan, your thoughts on the life of lee iacocca, a man who had a big impact on your state. it felt like he was always around and always doing big things. he was a bombastic character, there s no question about that, but, you know, i think the point that was made about the fact that he s an immigrant story, his story of one that people come to the united states to do big things. i think it s a good reminder that there are still people who are coming here who are capable of doing really big things, and lee s legacy, i think is his whole life story, and if nothing else to be remembered for delivering to us the mustang.
information from the administration. when you have an administration that just says no to subpoenas, as though they are, you know, just whispered suggestions and refuses to comply with requests like this, you have your lawsuit, we ll see where that goes, but it seems to me that our system was actually quite dependent on people being honorable people who complied with these things, even they weren t forced to. what recourses do they have that are more extreme than requests and subpoenas, do you need to call on whistle blowers from the irs to step up. do you need to call on states, new york state and others to do things that frankly you and congress feel too anemic to be able to pull off given this presidency and the administration. i think obviously this unprecedented presidency challenges all of these enormous, the fact that a subpoena would simply be denied. the orders to administration officials to deny requests to
president trump plans to hold a campaign rally two weeks from today in north carolina, and it happens to coincide with a highly anticipated event. president trump s rally is scheduled for the same day as the testimony of former special counsel robert mueller before the house judiciary and house intelligence committees. kristen soltis anderson, not surprised by this, the president has made a practice of counter programming. absolutely. recall back during the primary debates on the republican side when he threw himself a separate event instead of showing up on stage. this is something that he does a lot. but frankly, i don t even know that he would need to do a ton of counter programming to get voters attention away from the issue. i mean, what s been fascinating is since the rollout of the mueller report, you haven t seen really big changes in things like the president s approval, things like generic ballot, big political environment questions have not been shaped by the rollout of th
so this is a moral crisis of our time, a part of it at least. so we need to respond to it accordingly. yeah, i think you re absolutely right, professor. there are two more things i want to lean into that you said. julian castro, section 1325, the decriminalizing of the migrant is what basically is happening, and the reason julian castro brought that up is because of the zero tolerance, is because of the separation of family, is because what we have been seeing with kids in cages and one of the things, you know, people have, you know, talked about, people are commenting if we should be going that way, but the problem is there s such bad things, we re such in a hole be this administration that we have to do big things to get ourselves out of this hole. i give him credit for introducing that and talking about it, and having a real conversation at the debate last week, and also you talked about the american public and yesterday we saw protests out there, you talked about it a little bit