Krauthammer: Rand Paul's Filibuster "A Stroke of Political Genius"
The "Special Report" panel reacts to Sen. Paul's ongoing filibuster.
Baier: Rand Paul -- on the senate floor continuing his filibuster. Yeah, he’s talking about a lot of things today -- just noticing he wolfed down a Snickers and some jelly beans. Doesn't look like he's going anywhere anytime soon -- What about Rand Paul and he's obviously raising his profile. He said to be considering a run for president.
Stoddard: Well and this is an interesting -- everyone loves a filibuster in Washington this is – Everyone loves regular order the fact that he's going to stand there, and go through this is quite impressive he's actually done a good job if you've listened to him is pretty articulate and prepared.
He actually at one point did say it say does not so much about filibustering the nomination of John Brennan so much as it is, as he said, a request to get the president to say that no Americans will be killed, if they're not engaged in combat, and that is unlikely to happen.
I don't think that this effort to codify that drone policy that Charles is talking about and that Eric Holder the attorney general talked about today it in his testimony saying that eventually that the White House is gonna try to come up some steps to create some transparency and it's not gonna happen while Rand Paul is standing there.
But he is going to be remembered for this. And I think that's why he did it.
Baier: At the same time, Steve, the president is having dinner with seven other Republicans that won’t be joining the filibuster -- nine others have so far, including the Democrat we told you about earlier, Ron Wyden. What about the politics of all of this and how this all plays out?
Hayes: We are at this fascinating moment where the president has exported law enforcement techniques overseas -- that's why we didn't have access to the Benghazi suspect because it was focused on law enforcement. And he's bringing counter-terror measures from overseas, at least in theory. I think it's a good moment for Paul. I think he made strong principled arguments even if you didn't agree, he clearly knew his stuff.
Krauthammer: Stroke of political genius. He will be remembered. This raises his image and he's completely sincere about this. I think I think he will be – This will be a moment that people say launched him as a national figure.
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