Blumenthal today on Capitol Hill telling reporters, essentially that Democrats are ready to make Republicans work for it, as Senator Blumenthal's office told us just this hour.

Democrats know they can't unilaterally stop Trump's nominees from getting confirmed in the Senate, but they do plan to make Republicans work as hard as possible for it.

They can make Republicans use up as much valuable floor time as

possible on each and every nominee, and that's what they plan to do. Slow the whole thing down

as much as they are capable of. Now, that is along the lines of the advice that's been coming from

one of the driving forces behind some of the protests you've already seen this week.

Ezra Levin of Indivisible says Democrats should look back to the Republican playbook from 2009,

just after Barack Obama was elected with a Democratic trifecta.

When Republicans were in the minority and Democrats controlled the House and the Senate and the White House,

he says, think what you will about Mitch McConnell on the Republicans' plan. That was a very effective legislative tactic from a party that found itself in the minority. I'm going to you. What are you watching for in their

actions that you think might really make a difference? It sounds good, Rachel, and I will say,

I think we are in a much better place right now with Senate Democratic leadership and the Senate Democratic Caucus than we were a week ago.

That said, today, today, 22 Democrats voted for another Trump secretary, 22 of them.

So I like to hear from Senator Blumenthal. I like to hear from other

senators that they are starting to agree to blanket opposition. I want to see the votes. I want to

see the votes. And until we see those votes, I think what they're going to be hearing from their

constituents is a demand that they fight back. Hakeem Jeffrey's the Democratic leader in the House.

I was interested.

He put out last night, I think it was last night,

it might have been yesterday afternoon,

a 10-point plan for all Democratic members of the House.

And it had a lot of different things that they're going to try to do

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