until he became the guy with a 21 hour fake filibuster. if you think your state doesn t like the shut down, consider that virginia has 170,000 civilian federal employees. the new politico poll shows that percentage of virginia s is 62%. 62% opposed to the shut down in virginia. who do they blame? they blame congressional republicans by a 15 point margin. perhaps not surprisingly they do not like the instigator of the shut down, who is ted krus. are you sure you still want to do your event with ted kruz this weekend?
assaults. joining me is capitol hill correspondents kelly o donnell. good to have you here. rand paul and ted krus addition brings kirsten gillibrand within ten votes of the majority. does that give her the fire power and conservative cover to move forward? thomas, there are three dozen senators who have signed their name to this legislation and it is important to have kind of a continued pressure. kirsten gillibrand has been working on this quite some time and have names like rand paul and ted cruz stepping forward. rand paul saying i don t see any reason why a conservative wouldn t support this, that is helpful. others believe the military brass does not believe this kind of a change should happen there is resistance there. some suggestion of taking different steps like not permitting military leaders to overturn a conviction, there s a long way to go yet, but this is getting attention and kirsten gillibrand has been doing the hard work of having private meetings and talking to h
part of the broader gang of eight and they manage to resist any bills that would really as they term poison pills, things that would blow this out. and in a way if you wanted comprehensive, if you want comprehensive immigration reform, yesterday was probably a good day in that none of those amendments made it. there were republican amendments added as you point out. ted krus, texas republican senator has been outspoken about this bill and outspoken in general. this is what he had to say about the committee votes, we ll come back and talk to ruth about it. the majority has the votes on this committee to vote down every minority amendment or virtually every minority amendment if it so chooses. i hope the majority does not take that approach. we have seen that approach in prior instances, and that s not an approach that in my view leads to passing a bill. now there were amendments as