Of the committee and cover site site government oversight reform in key best issues including benghazi fast and furious and irs targeting controversy but his book is sub six the real stories behind the headlines from the congressman who exposed washingtons biggest scandals. Host welcome to booktv. Im former congressman, former chairman of the house government reform and Oversight Committee tom davis and we are here today to discuss a book by the retired chairman of the house government Oversight Committee, darrell issa called watchdog and watchdog tells about basically your political history but also a lot about the investigations that you underwent as the chairman of the committee and is the minority member of the committee from the troubled asset relief, and nature sing for readers to gray davis recall in california and the behindthescenes story of how that came about and was financed and a little bit of chairman tom daviss time in there too. Guest i think you learned from my mistake
Gore. Guest i sure am. Host i like the story of the recount, a horrendous time of taking on the issue. It was one thing after another but the biggest one is when you were running against Carly Fiorina. I see what you are doing and up against. You are running and i thought now that we have seen Carly Fiorina running for president , you kind of put it away in that. But the moment when she got caught on air talking about your hair from the people are into these issues men wouldnt have to deal with. Guest its interesting and im glad you brought it up because it is an amazing lesson for the people watching this. Things happen that you dont expect. I was running in 2010, and Carly Fiorina was considered a toptier candidate. She had millions of her own that she had gotten when she got her golden parachute and got fired for hewlettpackard. She had millions of dollars to throw into the race and it was neck and neck because we were in the deepest recession trying to help the president in the sti
You get a little bit of leeway, so you can pretend people are in fifth grade. And dont use sarcasm. Its not funny. Its just snarky. Some people are really good at sarcasm. Theyre rare. And you typically come off as a jerk. And no one is going to read you if they feel like youre insulting them or agreeing with them right off the top. Now, im going to go through this fairly quickly, in case everyones got a question. But bill buckley, founder of Young Americans for freedom, one of the original conservative journalists and one of the most successful he founded National Review in 55, Young American freedom in 1960, conservative party of new york in i think 64, right after Barry Goldwater got his butt kicked, ran for mayor of new york, a very liberal place. When asked what the first thing he would do in office was, he said id demand a recount. He founded firing line, one of the longest syndicated talk shows ever and is celebrating its 50th anniversary next week . I dont know, silver . Whats
Congress support donald trump . Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. We will get to those calls and a minute. Twitter orto facebook. Paul ryan addressed reporters yesterday. This is what he had to say. [video clip] to pretend we are unified without actually unifying, we go into the fall at half strength. We need a real unification of our party, after a tough primary, that will take effort. We are committed to putting that effort in. I want to be part of that process so we are at strength. Afford to lose this election to Hillary Clinton, to keep the obama agenda going. We have to go through the effort and process of unifying. You have been vocal on your history of policy. Need to hear from him to endorse him . Werese are conversations going to have. I do not know him. Inet him once in person 2012. We had a good conversation in march. We need to get to know each other. We are enjoying the fact we have a chance to meet with him. The speaker of the house wall also meet with
Trey gowdy was asked, can you blame Hillary Clinton and he did not say, he he said he would leave that to others to draw conclusion. , tofar it moves the needle begin is it that far. Issue of the larger Hillary Clinton and her credit ability and trustworthiness, especially towards the military, that is a weak area for her going into the Fall Campaign. Absolute. The trustworthy issue on this was the email thing, wasnt it . Did you hear anything about the emails . They did not really get into the emails. What if they will bring that back. After james comey, the director wanted to process and decided that he cannot prosecute but that any reasonable prosecutor would not prosecute the case, does that kill it . I think there are still some buzz in congress and can we investigate the investigation and that kind of stuff. I did not hear that part of the trustworthy question tonight. Im wondering what else they will bring out about that. Steve you also cover the congressional races in one of th