voting no on kavanaugh compared with the west virginia race where mansion was able to pull out the victory because he did vote for matt kavanagh, this was an important issue for voters and it was the difference between people who were able to keep on and not keep on for many reasons. the question is whether democrats will move to a legislative agenda on where they can work with trump. nancy pelosi sounded like she wanted to do that last night. then you have what we discussed, he understand the basis pushing hard for impeachment proceedings, for investigations that type of approach might help donald trump in 2028, have to figure it out. donald trump was also asked about this and he said he s willing to work with them but only if they don t investigate him. he said if they do, then we are going to go back and forth and it will be on a warlike posture. he doesn t seem to think you can do both things at the same time. other presidents have been investigated by opposition congresses and
he could. chairman goodlad and i wrote a long time ago, we wrote attorney general sessions and said we think there ought to be a second special counsel. i say that to somebody who used to work for the department of justice and wants to see that institution restored to its greatness. i think there ought to be a second special counsel to look at the origins of the russia probe and the way the fbi conducted itself. chairman goodlad and i have been investigating to the extent that we can without a grand jury or compulsory process, we ve been looking at what we can and i am deeply troubled about what the department and the bureau did. i think another special counsel is warranted and i thought that months ago. bret: is there more likely that it happens with acting attorney general whitaker than not? my chances were zero with sessions, not to quote the movie dumb and dumber, i guess it s not wanted a million but it s better than it was with session sessions. bret: you re saying ther
was too naive to believe that was a reasonable thing to do. americans believe law enforcement agencies and police forces shouldn t be rogue, they should have a civilian accountability over them and it s good to have someone in place you can do that. bret: trey gowdy said it s possible whitaker is the person who might be the impetus for another special counsel looking at the fbi. it s one day after the midterms and we are already back into whittling this down into more special counsel s and more controversy. this is generally the pivot where it s got to be. you ve now get a democratic majority in the house, that s a chance for some bipartisanship on both sides. are we going to go down the rathole of having all the expanding probes and special councils, more controversy, or are we going to try to see whether the two sites can work together and do with the american people said they wanted them to do which is to unite and get some things done. bret: americans must have answers immedi
them the enemy of the people. they are at the very least enemy of the president of the people who voted for him. if the president was loaded for bear, he also got into confrontations with other reporters he called one a racist for asking a question. the question was racist. bret: the microphone thing was really i got to go. surprise proposals and the president s news conference. to learn about their medicare options before they re on medicare.
now if you look there, the very tall man that s whitaker. there is good chemistry between the two men, a smile. i thank you and he departs. bret: interesting. let s talk more about the sessions retirement, really firing with south carolina republican congressman trey gowdy who sits on the judiciary and intelligence committees and chairs the oversight and government reform committee. thanks for being here. your thoughts of this news. it was going to happen, i knew it was going to happen after the election. i didn t think it would happen before all the votes had been counted but he s been a proverbial dead men walking for several months now. bret: chuck schumer had a real problem with the acting attorney general, take a listen. our paramount view is that any attorney general whether this one or another one should not be able to interfere with