What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Would Any Republican Consider Ending the Filibuster? Martin Gold Explains.

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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The legislative filibuster is one of the most important guardrails against the tyranny of the majority that exists in the United States Senate. Despite this critical function, both parties have, at various times, entertained the idea of eliminating the filibuster and with it, bipartisan compromise. Such an act of unbelievable shortsightedness would transform the Senate […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
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0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.5	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:29.4	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.
0:31.2	And I'm Mark Tiesin.
0:32.2	Welcome to our podcast.
0:33.6	What the hell is going on?
0:35.7	Mark, what?
0:42.0	I'm speechless. Everything is going on in Washington and nothing is good. Your sighs get deeper every time you ask the question, Danny. I know it. It's really true.
0:48.0	Well, today what the hell is going on is we're talking about the filibuster. So President Trump is
0:53.3	pushing Republicans to get rid of the filibuster. He President Trump is pushing Republicans to get rid of the
0:55.3	filibuster. He was doing it in the context of the government shutdown, but that seems to have
0:59.2	resolved itself without blowing up the filibuster, but he still wants it. He wants it because he
1:03.9	wants to get his agenda through, and the Democrats are basically not going to cooperate with anything.
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