and seats on air force one for campaign contributions? the chinese gun merchants, cuban drug smugglers and russian mob figures were being invited to intimate white house events with the president. today, we are meeting to hear testimony about the white house s failure to produce documents to the committee. chairman dan burton issued over 1,000 subpoenas and launched a flurry of investigations directed at president clinton with very mixed results. when we come back, incoming chairman darrell issa and he ll tell us his approach.
you guys we all know took a shellacking in november, dealing with being in the minority. john boehner will be sworn in as speaker this week and some of you including congressman cummings, i know you were upset about the tax deal the president cut with republicans in december. and there s some democrats wondering if you ll be triangulated like in 95. and then there s in poll from december. who do you have most confidence in? the public said 40% said republicans in congress. 35% said barack obama. only 15% said democrats in congress. congressman israel, you decided after the shellacking to take on the task of the democratic campaign chairman. other than that, mrs. lincoln, how else did you like the play? why did you take on this job and what is your strategy to pull the democrats back when it looks like you ve got a mountain to climb? there s no question it s an uphill battle. i love uphill battles. let me give you the landscape. we need 25 seats to take the house back. 14 seats curre
like you ve got a mountain to climb? there s no question it s an uphill battle. i love uphill battles. we need 25 seats to take the house back. 14 seats currently represented by republicans voted for senator kerry for president and president obama. 61 seats voted for president obama. of the 25 seats we need to take the house back there are 61 of that a democratic presence. second point the republicans at their historic high tide, happened four times in history have they reached the numbers they have now. each time they suffered an average 48-seat loss in the next cycle. why? buyer s remorse. i think that will happen again. some of the centrist democrats in the blue dog coalition you re one of the last standing. bill clinton s reaction after the 94 tsunami was to move to the center and in his state of the union in 95 he did that. this president has a state of the union coming up in a couple of weeks. are you looking for a clinton-esque moment, do you want him to move to the center