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Donald ritie, thank you for ing with us on america history. The senate jority leader i not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . That puzzles a lot of people. We once had a former speaker of the house contact us and say i was the president pro perso ray in the pro tempore but not the majority leader because e speakers of e usee the nate majority leader as their equivalent, their functional equivalent on the senate side. Ofourse the speaker of the house is written ito the constution, and the president pro tempore is. But no mention of a majority leader or minority leader and thats because the constitutn did n ancipatepolitical parts. I think they thoughat it was probably gng to happen, but they didnwant to encoure litica parties. Theyake no provision for it. And for most ofthe history of thesenate we had no jority lead. Om 1789 until 1913 there was noajit leader ofth senate. There re chairmen committees who wld sort of take care of things on the floor, there were th a
To potentially do or Say Something. We saw senator john mccain come out this morning and essentially say he has never seen anything like what happened with devin nunes in his career, and he has been around washington a long time. That, of course, though on the senate side. And so far, on the house side, republicans are sticking by devin nunes. I talked to peter king on his way into the gop Conference Meeting, and he repeated a line from trey gowdy, another member of the house Intelligence Committee. He says, it doesnt matter if he went to waffle house or the white house, its all the same. Peter king added if it had been the house of pancakes, same deal. I am an ihop girl myself. Thats the line of defense from republicans here for mr. Nunes. You saw in the beginning i tried to get mr. Nunes to clarify whether he was considering of recusing himself. He wouldnt answer directly but did say that this investigation would continue to proceed as it had. However, i will say that this week its c
Side and youre the enemy, not the opposition, the enemy. We dont talk to each other anymore. While the democratic field slammed biden for those comments, heres how he responded to the criticism tonight. He was a segregationist. I ran for the United States senate because i disagreed with the views of the segregationists, many in the senate at the time. As i led the Judiciary Committee what i was talking about was the Voting Rights act. I was able to pass the Voting Rights act while when i was a young senator when he was still the chairman. We voted against him and beat him on the Voting Rights act. The point im making is you dont have to agree, you dont have to like the people in terms of their views, but you just simply make the case and you beat them, you beat them, without changing the system. Are you going to apologize like cory booker has called for. Apologize for what . Cory should apologize. He knows better. There is not a racist bone in my body. Ive been involved in civil rights
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Democratic frontrunner joe biden fighting back and refusing to apologize tonight for talking about the civility of two wellknown segregationists. Biden was discussing his long record of bringing opposite sides together to get things done and brought up working with mississippi senator james o. Eastland and georgia senator Herman Talmadge in the 1970s, both segregationists and opponents of civil rights. Biden at one point saying, i was in a caucus with james o. Eastland. He never called me boy. He always called me son. Well, guess what . At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didnt agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today you look at the other side and youre the enemy, not the opposition, the enemy. We dont talk to each other anymore. While the democratic field slammed biden for those comments, heres how he responded to the criticism tonight. He was a segregationist. I ran for the United States sena