howie: joining us from new york, kat timpf. how can he say nothing, then come out playing frank underwood. kat: i watched this several times trying to waynes was going for. it looked like a weird audition tape for a struggling actor. i don t know what he expected. i don t know if people would say wow, i remember him as frank underwood, we should welcome him back. it looks like he put on that santa apron for nothing. howie: it worked in the sense it has gotten 4.5 million views in a few days. if they liked him as an actor and using that skill in a coded
did you? howie: joining us from new york, kat timpf. how can he say nothing, then come out playing frank underwood. kat: i watched this several times trying to waynes was going for. it looked like a weird audition tape for a struggling actor. i don t know what he expected. i don t know if people would say wow, i remember him as frank underwood, we should welcome him back. it looks like he put on that santa apron for nothing. howie: it worked in the sense it has gotten 4.5 million views in a few days. if they liked him as an actor and using that skill in a coded
justice department, et cetera. i think this is part of a longer term campaign for the president to discredit those institutions and ity he thi think he thinks win. curious to see how nancy pelosi and the democrats respond to it. aren t many days left in this congress. in january things change on capitol hill. will that gambit work? it s a political stump and probably an audition tape for many republican congress members who may be looking for a place in the trump administration. they will use it to their advantage. i say it in jest but there s truth in that because we know there s going to be a lot of people leaving. and we know that donald trump likes to see people on tv. so it may be someone s looking for a job, but it really is it s a shame, actually, that this is how the republicans choose to go out. and i do hope that the democrats show up the republicans in doing some very fair, thorough investigations where necessary. and it would be a stark contrast
investigation. back now with our political team. david axelrod, there is no appetite certainly in the senate to send sort of some protection for mueller, it seems, or ask whitaker to recuse himself. well, no, and let s just be clear, the thing that infuriated donald trump was that sessions recused himself. he s not sending whitaker over there to recuse himself. he s not recusing himself. what he said on tv here on cnn, it seems to me, was like an audition tape for the job that he now has. so he s going to be there. i don t think the senate is going to be very active in oversight here despite things that have been said before. i do think that, you know, he has a new reality, which is this house, this democratic house that s coming in, and we ll see. dave assures us that he s not going over there to mess with the mueller investigation, but i do think that there s going to
investigation, matthew whitaker should recuse himself from any involvement in mueller s investigation. congress must take immediate action to protect the rule of law. and the integrity of the investigation. back now with our political team. david axelrod, there is no appetite certainly in the senate to send sort of some protection for mueller, it seems, or ask whitaker to recuse himself. well, no, and let s just be clear, the thing that infuriated donald trump was that sessions recused himself. he s not sending whitaker over there to recuse himself. he s not recusing himself. what he said on tv here on cnn, it seems to me, was like an audition tape for the job that he now has. so he s going to be there. i don t think the senate is going to be very active in oversight here despite things that have been said before. i do think that, you know, he has a new reality, which is this house, this democratic house that s coming in, and we ll see.