extent we may have forgotten what a committee with teeth looks like because we have not seen an opposition party go after a president in at least a little while. couple years. in a couple of years. but you remember back to, say, the benghazi probe with trey gowdy. it was an incredible power, went on for years. th speaker of the house, they put trey gowdy on that and he went to town. there is a play book. the democrats and house oversight, the democrats on some of the other committees have sent a lot of letters, have asked for a lot of things. they can t get because they don t have the power to do it. but they have their list ready to go. perhaps your story says this and i need to read it and i will, just going to admit that. but it is, it is not unclear all of the things the democrats want to go after. there was a spreadsheet that was that s what i was going to say. it was house republicans that built that spreadsheet, tim.
2008, they all lost along with five other seats held by democrats. this year is a little different. some republicans are openly embracing the president while others will you vote for trump in 2020? you said you think he s going to get reelected. it s too early to say who i ll support. i did say i think he ll get reelected. that s not an endorsement. yeah, i don t respond to tweets. whoever the president is is always an issue in races for congress. and a lot of people ask me, mika, how do you deal with donald trump. when the president does something right i will support it, i will get behind it. if the president is doing something wrong that i disagree with, i will be outspoken about it. so, tim alberto, we showed a handful of republicans in tough races, not necessarily the majority. what is your take on how much these candidates should embrace
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your of north korea. this is a very unstable leader with tremendous capacity of nuclear power. we have to address this national security and address it in a very sirius way. again there needs to be a thoughtful discussion of what is the right strategy, how do we eliminate the danger, contain this very unstable leader in a very important region of the world. thank you very much for joining us on what has been a busy day of foreign policy devepments. appreciate it. i want to bring in my pan to talk about all of this, national political reporter for politico, tim alberto. gies with, guys a lot to discuss here. i want to start with what senator bethune had to say a few moments ago. policy has to be assad has to go. that s the only way to bring stability to that region. secondly there s a lot of
personally accountable for not speaking up. what do you say to your critics? i would say not to conflate lack of public denouncement with silence. where i disagree with my father he knows it. and i express myself with total candor. where i agree, i fully lean in and support the agenda. that s the assistant to the president and of course first daughter ivanka trump responding to her critics. she does speak up when she does not agree with her father. tim and heidi are back with me to discuss that. 66% of americans think that i n ivanka trump is the top influencer in the house. as a reporter, heidi, what does that number tell you? i think it s an impression but i don t see where the evidence of that is. the policy evidence. it s fair for her to say my best leverage over my father is not to get out over twitter and bash