From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, in 2013, Republicans in the Senate warned Democrats

they would soon regret a decision so extreme. It's called going nuclear.

That prediction may prove true this week, as Republicans prepared to go one step further

to ensure the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

It's Tuesday, April 4th.

Wow, this is like we're on a radio show.

I know. That's what we had to do. Don't do that.

Don't ever do that.

My colleagues, Jennifer Steinhauer and Jonathan Weissman.

Are we going to be talking about the nuclear option?

Yes.

It used to be that if you wanted to hold something up in the US Senate,

you had one clear option, the filibuster.

Jennifer, what is a filibuster?

I just want to say one thing. There are lots of ways to hold things up in the Senate

because everything is a 60 vote. Everything is done by unanimous consent.

What I'm going to do is ask unanimous consent. The Senate proceed to vote in relation to the following amendments.

You can hold a lot of stuff up with just one person.

But do you want to talk about the ultimate block thing?

The indefinite block.

Yes. There are many ways to delay, but there's only one way to indefinitely block.

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