the logjam. this was the first step. people go, it doesn t do this. it doesn t do that. it s not called the last step. it s called the first step. we will get to all these other issues, but you had to make it safe. i m going to say something that i have to be honest. donald trump shocked me and a bunch of people by doing the right thing on this. people thought because from my point of view he s been wrong on 99 issues, he could never be right on one. on this issue, every time people made a prediction that donald trump was going to sell us out, turn on us, wasn t going to use political capital, he came harder. and as a result, it is now safer for people in both political parties to speak honestly. we know this system is not working, and donald trump has got to get the credit. he stood up. obama did it first, and now trump s done it. but he did have support of many republicans. there were a few hard-liners like tom cotton and mitch mcconnell. and they got crushed like little bugs
dying and being affected by it and having to serve time for it, and now all of a sudden, it s an issue. how does this work? look, i think that is a very fair point that when there was an addiction crisis in the black and brown communities, they said throw these people in prison. now there s an addiction crisis in poor, white, rural communities, they say give these people help. but the reality is now you ve got common pain in all these communities, and now we finally have some common purpose to begin to do a better job. listen, this is like the 1959 civil rights act. people think about, no, no, 64, 65. first you had 1959, which broke the logjam. this was the first step. people go, it doesn t do this. it doesn t do that. it s not called the last step. it s called the first step. we will get to all these other issues, but you had to make it safe. i m going to say something that i have to be honest. donald trump shocked me and a bunch of people by doing the right thing on this. peo
will have to make good on their promise to invoke the so-called nuclear option to it gorsuch through. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell not mincing words about what he intends to do when gorsuch faces the full senate. what i can tell you is that neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. reporter: the nuclear option will change senate rules so that a supreme the score nominee will only need 51 votes to get through, rather than the 60 established under long standing senate rule. this will be very bad. judges will become more ideological because you don t have to reach across the ice to aisle to get one vote any longer. it s so unnecessary. reporter: today gorsuch s nomination advanced on a part line vote out of the senate judiciary committee, the last step before reaching the senate floor, giving democrats an opportunity to sound off on the
overheating, overexerting. you were having the time of your life. jack schmitt and ron evans never flown before. i said you come this way once. enjoy. they did and i did. yeah, we did a little singing, the merry merry month of may in december. i was strolling on the moon one day in the merry month of december no, may. may. it was a natural response to our environment. the thing that is more nostalgic to me, the last step. i started up the ladder. i looked down at my final footpri footprint. i knew i wasn t doing back. so i m started up the ladder. i was looking for that proverbial freeze button. i wanted to keep this moment going. when i left the surface of the moon, on the way up, if my long