votes for pelosi for speaker. and we can work together. or you we can clash. i think he still tried to sort through the wreckage of the midterm elections and come to some kind of strategy in dealing with the new democratic majority in the house. he is the dealmaker in chief. and he wants to practice the art of the deal here. sounds like. that is one way of looking at it. but it is still, there is not, doesn t appear to be complete strategy because on the other hand, you have the president really forcing the democrats hand into launching investigations against him. first, by firing or ousting attorney general, jeff sessions and replacing him with matt whitaker. someone has been very critical of the russian investigation and somebody democrats really want to investigate for that reason. they are forcing democrats has to come against them even as he dangles this possible bipartisan nirvana in the next year. jon: in the meantime nancy
and i would say with respect to minority. kevin mccarthy facing off the democrats here in the senate scare people, he was effective and the house, that we hope they in his message and now we are against freedom caucus will decide that they want to able to help people in the co-founder jim jordan. proper way. now politico is reporting that and the administration said play a constructive role an put that was their goal, by sending president trump has urged kevin up a roll of accomplishments troops to the southern border. mccarthy to strike a deal with it was meant to be a deterrent. jordan perhaps appointing him rather than spending all their it worked! time launching investigations. which is the same point of for a leadership post. mike emanuel has the latest. i hope that will be the spirit wanting a border wall. president trump s been talking we see out of the house of about immigration since day one. reporter: good afternoon. representatives because i know here in the united s
other problem that nooet cateo was on last night that the constitution requires that the principal officers of the executive branch agencies must be senate confirmed officials. like rod rosenstein. and sally yates in the past. traditionally the deputy attorney general if that position were vacant at the justice department the solicitor general has served as acting attorney general. robert bourque when he was assistant general served as acting attorney general when richard nixon fired the attorney general. senate-confirmed people should lead executive branch agencies not a political appointee that the president stuck in there. phil rucker, from the white house perspective the white house is gearing up now as the democrats are taking over and the democrats are have a challenge here to moderate their language, focus on as nancy pelosi did infrastructure going forward not just on investigations, but the battle lines are clearly drawn. they are, andrea, and it s clear that the d
he is basically getting ready for a major confrontation. that s right. i do think there is a reality check in order. the republicans did weapon size the house intelligence committee. devon nunez was sort of an attack dog. i m not sure the senate intelligence committee will be in the mood for launching investigations into whoever he thinks is leaking information. he would like to talk about dianne feinstein during the run up to the mid terms as somebody who leaked information. he was accusing her of leaking information in the brett kavanaugh hearings. my guess is that you will have chairman after chairman on the republican side in the senate who are just not going to be in the mood for that sort of thing. i think that is bluster for the president. one thing he tweeted about is the mueller investigation. obviously, we did not see robert mueller was laying pretty low in the run up to the mid
important to me and vote for me. not every one in his orbit agrees. just about every one no matter what they think, they are definitely worried about the house but the president himself can be quite optimistic. you were talking about the possibility of the democrats getting the house. they start launching investigations. they have the power of oversight. the power of subpoena. has the white house begun speaking about that world and how to handle it, how to address it? in are preliminary discussions as to how they could proceed in terms of battle plans. in our interswru tview with the president, he s dismissive of that. he said we ll be ready. he said to further ashley s point what he saw out there and he really pegs it to the kavanaugh hearings. he believes that s the moment where things changed. republicans were so out raged how he was treated even though he eventually won and is now on