changed. the vote will be tomorrow. that will be the major test vote giving the senators who are in ukraine right now, meeting with the ukrainian officials and dealing with the diplomatic situation over there, give them time to come back into town this afternoon so they can attend that vote tomorrow. tomorrow when that vote fails, that s when schumer will have a decision to make. how exactly will he go about trying to change the senate rules? will he force that vote, or will he decide ultimately back away? because his votes are simply not there to change the rules, and ultimately democrats believe they ll force this fight and try to fire up their base and take this to voters in the midterm elections where they hope this will be a big issue that could drive up voters, but ultimately getting legislation to the president s december sk not going to happen. making it public is what chuck schumer is hoping to do right now. manu raju, thank you so much. as you mentioned, ukraine, b secretar
today that the chief of staff and the staff secretary in the white house are trying to have a new system where all the paper that crosses the president s december sk vetted first, that there are decision memos that account for the pros and cons of different policy options. what s strange about this is how normal it is, andrea. this is how, you know, all white houses in the past have functioned. it s way to make the process kind of work for the president instead of work for the people inside the bureaucracy. and it s intended to bring some order to a white house where policy has often been done an an ad hoc or freelance basis. it s not clear to me if it changes the guy at the top, if it changes his own behavior and the fact this he kind of hates being controlled and kind of likes to show who s in charge once in a while. well, you have to wonder something like the transgender tweet which came as a complete shock to the pentagon which is now scrambling to figure out some way out of this