John Thune: “At the end of the day, when there is a big vote and a close, narrow margin, he pulls it out.”

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

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

There's still a lot of stuff that's piled up, trying to get through.

try as we did on the House-passed version of it, we weren’t going to get there, and it was the small refineries issue.