things like judicial appointments. yes. because remember the whole fight and the whole reason harry reid finally felt pushed to this decision was because for the first time, maybe not the first time in history, i won t speak for the historians, but certainly in recent memory, the fill bulser was being used not to block a judicial nominee on merit. right. but to just say we think there are too many people on the d.c. circuit court and the reason we think there are too many people really, because we would not be having this debate if romney had won the presidency, is because the d.c. circuit is the most powerful circuit in the country and makes decisions on the administrative choices of the obama administration. i want to talk about the d.c. circuit and the mel watt nomination. just in thinking about power, though, this week, also reminded about what power looks like on thursday night when the saints, you know, whooped the falcons. that said that was from my
started to think of where he wanted the country to go, that he reversed course. it s definitely a tradeoff. i have to agree with you, julian. i think for someone who was obsessed with the power and the instruments of power he absolutely would have done something like the nuclear option. harry reid grabbed power in a way sort of crying out, coming from the republicans. what will the senate democrats and the obama administration do with this little bit of power? not a lot of power but some marginal power that they have. quite frankly, i think the obama administration is going to spend most of its time looking at what it can do administratively, not in congress. even after this filibuster reform, you have a congress what s gridlocked on the farm bill. the farm bill is one of the pieces of legislation rightly or wrongly that has usually been a strongly bipartisan bill. yep. so we re not just talking about filibuster reform. what it s really going to impact for the obama administr
lbj, instead of existing in the true state of equality, many of rus living in a police state where brutality and violence are committed against american bodies conveying that some of those bodies still don t belong. joining me from washington, d.c., is eugene o donnell, a professor of law and police study at john jay college, also a former officer at the nypd. at the table, alan jenkins, the executive director of the opportunity agenda, also raul, valerie, and maya are still with us. officer, these stories, they do begin to feel like they re indicative of a set of police forces around the country who just seem incapable of doing the work of protecting and serving and instead are in this almost military relationship with communals. am i get eing that wrong? you re not. i think the police are just overused in america. the criminal justice stm is too broad, too much power, too many crimes, too many offenses, punishments are too harsh and
call schooling his vice president, hubert humphrey, on how to use the art of political persuasion to convince congress to pass his bills on education, health care, and poverty. joining me now is someone who knows a lot about moving the levers of washington power, texas style. former republican senator from texas kay bailey hutchison, who s currently a cnbc contributor and senior council for the law firm bracewell and giuliani. nice to see you. thank you, melissa. good to be here. i m interested in getting your response to what happened in the senate this week and whether or not you see this rule change around the filibuster as honoring the best of what the institution is meant to be or whether or not it actually undermines what the institution is meant to be. well, melissa, i feel very strongly that it would undermine it will undermine what the senate has been able to do over 200 years. and the reason is that the senate operates very differently
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