thing here. nancy pelosi in all likelihood will take the gavel in early january. would you agree on that january 3? if so, as a party now, what do you talk about in terms of advancing your own agenda as opposed to going after the president when you have that authority in the house? well, i think we have to focus on an economic agenda. we do have oversight responsibilities but that cannot be the principal focus of the congress in january. we need to talk about the things that people worry about sitting around their kitchen table. economic issues, pension security, healthcare costs. if we don t focus on those things we ll be making a big mistake. bill: we ll see what happens. dan kildee, thank you for your time. have a great holiday and come on back. the democrat from flint, michigan. julie: that was the democratic side. next hour we ll get reaction from the republican side. house majority whip steve scalise is the headliner today and will join us.
until wednesday. john barrasso remembers him as a kind and generous man saying everyone got a smile and handshake. senator barrasso is our headliner today and joins us from capitol hill. your memories, senator, of bush president bush 41 so similar to what brit hume just described, a very gregarious and friendly man but it seems that sometimes that did not translate to the american people at large and that may be what cost him reelection. do you agree? if so, why was that? it is interesting and i think it translated very well to anyone he was with in person but maybe not as well on television. brit was talking about that run-up to the war against saddam hussein and the troops at thanksgiving. one of my operating room nurses was a solder on the ground there when president bush was there on that thanksgiving and
time. the president talks about it. if you can t give them what they re looking for they ll blow you off and charge you with a crime. that s the president s lawyer talking and they re trying to establish a narrative. bill: was corsi talking there. again, i have confidence in bob mueller and i have to have confidence in this investigation until proven otherwise. and i think if people are telling the truth, they will be fine. and that s the way i felt when i was the attorney general and that s the way i feel as a private citizen. if, in fact, the objective here is to get people to lie, to purposefully set perjury traps i do str a problem with that. bill: nice to have you here. tell the truth. sandra: we ll have more on this with former assistance u.s. attorney andrew mccarthy, our headliner today and will join us next hour. new findings on why an indonesian airplane went down moments after take-off.
and headliner today. how are you doing, sir? special day being the headliner, right? good morning to you and welcome back. first on whitaker. we ll go through three tointion. first whitaker. the white house argues he is in a temporary position and you can appoint somebody up to 210 days in a temporary position and you could argue beyond that. you say what to that? i think the statutory arguments against whitaker are quite weak. he does meet the conditions of the statute. there is an alternative succession statute that people are saying that rosenstein must be the acting attorney general. i don t think that s necessarily that clear. but having said that, i think there is a compelling argument to make under the appointments clause. the appointments clause says if you are attorney general and want to exercise those powers you need to be nominated and confirmed and makes it silly that you have tlooug all that unless you say someone is acting. so there is some legitimate
in. but progressives, to josh s point in your last segment, were 0 for 9. so is the party is the democratic party going to go that way? is it going to go the bernie sanders/elizabeth warren way or trying to find a star who somehow can capture at least some of the middle? i think it s a fascinating question and a real conundrum for the democratic party. bill: great stuff. terrific coverage to you and martha and the whole team. sandra: now that the mid-terms are over. will we see a shake-up in the president s cabinet? former press secretary sean spicer is the headliner today and joins us live next hour. first kellyann conway on the results. tells you a lot about my president and my boss. he tends to make trends. he doesn t repeat history, he tends to defy it. - [narrator] the typical vacuum head has its limitations,