There is zero appetite in the Senate right now to get rid of the filibuster. This is something Trump has been calling for for a long time, including in his first term. He started really calling for it again as the shutdown was dragging on.But in reality, those calls only really facilitated the fact that Republicans felt even more of a need to try to resolve this stalemate in another way. And that is ultimately what happened. They did give some minor concessions to Democrats.They agreed to allow a floor vote ...

walk us through some of her other major legislative achievements. >> I'll tell you a funny story about the Affordable Care Act when it was going through the House of Representatives the first time and I wanted to write a story about all the things Pelosi had done to carry that legislation across the floor on her back. And by that I mean she had really uh negotiated with the factions of her caucus.You know, there were a lot of fights over that internally and she got all the votes lined up and I wanted to do ...