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Coincidental or not? i think it s safe to say it caught everyone by surprise, and certainly a lot of people i ve spoken to in the gulf did not see it coming. but what they have seen is this consistent pattern by the crown prince of saudi arabia moving more and more in this direction. he had been moved from deputy crown prince to crown prince. he had been in charge of more issues involving the kingdom including security, the war, the defense in yemen. so if people were predicting some kind of consolidation of power might happen, how it was fwg to look like still up in the air but we got an answer in the past couple weeks. interestingly, to your point, blair, they were probably given some kinds of heads up. no, or maybe they didn t know who exactly the individuals they were going after, the crown prince was going after, who they were going to be. but it s hard to imagine that ....
Understand that he s in the now. i think he did some adjustments in the latter part of this last term for mayor to be in the now and i have some work that i need to do locally, a local-based coalitions that would transcend as he does his statewide runs. you talk about the move from the realtively local to the statewide, but it s almost a move from being the executive, fwg mayor, to being in a legislate. what are the kinds of lessons that a freshman senator now may have to learn that you as a new congressman have had to learn in the house? for me it was important to recognize that i stood on the shoulders of those that have come before me, the pioneers of the congressional black caucus, charlie rangel, cheryl chisolm, because we can draw strength from their experiences and vision and sacrifice, but it s also important to know that in congress you have to be able to work together to get things ....
each careening moment to the next and it s become very boring to have to rereport that every day. what s not boring, brianna keilar, is the incredible rhetoric fwg back and forth between the two parties. i want to gev you two examples. i will credit this quote directly to president obama, he said if that s what boehner needs to climb out of the tree he s stuck in, then that s something we should look at. again, that is president obama, as quoted by a democratic lawmaker. didn t take long for the number two senate democrat dick durbin to come back swinging with what does short term buy us? that buys us thanksgiving in washington. doesn t it also buy us not blowing through the debt ceiling, brianna? at the very least, that s the very least they could do. markets have responded already. the way the white house sees it, ashleigh, do they want a short term deal? ....
well, i m not going to do much different. pretty much our game plan is to let him run his race. only thing i told joelle is just ride him with confidence and i thought he did a good job in that. and pimlico is a bit different, but we ll be fine. tell me what it felt like when the announcer all of a sudden said orb! suddenly orb comes around. how did that feel? well, you know, with me, i kind of knew what was going to happen. you knew at that point that that horse could win that race, when he started to break away. you have to repeat yourself. sorry. just so excited about that moment. you knew, you say you knew what was going to happen. yeah, i knew we were fwg do let him run his race. when he asked him to run, you know, when he made that big move, i knew we were going to be ....
Harris joins me now. hey, john. well, they basically said the 60 vote requirement is still there except for moving things along to the floor. that s a clever line by your colleague, rachel maddow. she may be on to something. she s the aboutest. the other thing i would point out is the choice wasn t doing passing something and having a wealth of legislation and activity take place. if senator reid had made the choice, we are reallying to fwg to have a huge battle over this. i think the likelihood is that this would have dominated the senate s proceedings for the next several months, and also would have created a climate of ill will that would have echoed for even longer than that. i think there s a process issue about filibuster wree ....