maybe if we wait it out it will go away. the path will move on and he can step back in. that s not happened. i think at some point. the trump administration and especially congressional republicans have to figure out a way to get beyond this. to get the result of whatever comes out of this investigation to be seen as credible. it s virtually impossible to have done that with nunes given that visit to the white house and the way he handled it. for that to have happened. this clears the decks a little bit more. i would say, kate, and i ve been using the wither smoke metaphor rather than the centipede. mike flynn resigns after misleading mike pence about his conversations with the russian ambassador. jeff sessions are you accuses himself after misremembering, according to him, conversations he had. now devin nunes the chair of the house intelligence committee steps aside. they re saying he wouldn t. because of a lot thing tied. there s just a lot of smoke here
clearly recognizing it s a distraction. saying in a statement that having nunes on board was a distraction especially in light of the announcement by the house ethics committee that it is investigating whether or not mr. nunes had disclosed any classified information. now, i can tell you, though, kate, yesterday and the day before, you could tell from mr. nunes his demeanor had changed. he had grown a lot more uncomfortable. he would not answer questions at all. he had been repeatedly briefing the press before all this controversy started, but even basic questions about hearing schedules and responding to democratic attacks. yesterday, when i tried to ask him about all those things, not answering any questions at all anymore about this investigation. he was very turs and not pleased to being questioned about the investigation and also the controversy in his statements that have shifted repeatedly about some of his actions over the last couple of weeks. a think a combination of that
any way to explain that this rules change is a good thing that you guys are going to be doing. i think what you can say about it, kate, is it does preserve the 230 year tradition of the united states senate of confirming supreme court nominees with an up and down vote. simple majority vote. vote of 51. what we re having right now is of course the democrats fill busteri filibustering the nominee. that s never happened before. it all got set in motion three years ago when the democratic in the stat basicalv senate basica the rules for a lower court nominee and hinted last fall during the presidential campaign, if hillary clinton had won the election, they were going to go all the way through and do this for the supreme. everyone expected this to happen. nobody is happy about it. frankly. we are where we are. democrats are filibustering.
with concerns from the leadership that this could be a distraction essentially forced him to step aside. guys thanks so much. keeping an eye there. i want to keep an eye on the senate floor. take you back over to that side of the capitcapitol where there important vote that will be taking place. senator, thanks for the time. nice to be with you. thanks kate. i want to ask you, i do want to ask you, let s talk about what s going on in this senate today. they call it, it s called the nuclear option. it s a major major change in how the rules of the senate 6789 it s complex, but it s important. let s start here. will you be supporting the change in the rules today. yes? yes. i will. so from that, everyone from top down has momented this rules change is happening. example, example of we don t want to do this. this is bad. we shouldn t be forced to do this. if that s the a case, is there
got a lot of other things we need to do legislatively concerning the economy and jobs. i think that s where we want the focus to be. in the words of john mccain. you ve got to go, but in the words of john mccain. whoever is going to help change the rules are idiots to do it. noteworthy john mccain is voting to change the rules along with you. thanks for your time. thanks kate. thank you. senator going to vote. let s get over to talk about where the vote stands right now. voting is underway. sunland, where do things stand right now in the senate. reporter: still underway. big headline is the vote is now has reached the 41 vote threshold which means that democrats are successful in their filibuster of neil gorsuch. this was as we had expected. we had known for the last few days that republicans would be unable to reach that magic number. 60. to be able to break the filibuster. things are proceeding as we expected. this is a very, very small win