John Thune: “We are all about getting health insurance down, making it more affordable to more people.”

I mean I can't defend anything that guy says or does.

And I think at some point it becomes a decision of what can you get the votes to do.

If the result is only achieved by nuking the legislative filibuster, we don’t have the votes to do that and so that’s not a — that’s just not a realistic option

If you look at Maine, in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Iowa, in Alaska, you know, it's the Indy voters, it is the middle of the electorate, and we are not talking to them when we are arguing with each other over whether or not to eliminate…