these states 30% of a kind of like white, rural, aging conservative minority, you know, sort of like controlling and refusing to cede shower or share power with 70% of the country, that s younger and more diverse and more urban, that s a recipe i don t know what happens. it strikes me that blue states that have unified democratic control need to put their money where their mouth is. i agree. the voting system in new york is a disgrace. there s no early voting. when a party has rules rigged to its advantage, it doesn t want to change them. that s a real problem. that s one of the reasons why one party rule in any area is bad, but in this case, what you don t see from democrats, though, is you don t see democrats deliberately targeting republican constituencies in such a manner as to restrict the
he doesn t seem like someone who could be confirmed by the senate. no. that doesn t mean he can t do a lot of damage to the mueller investigation in that short period of time. that s the question, natasha. again, this looks to all the world like a loyalist who only has his job because he s a loyalist, whose paper trail on twitter and elsewhere is a mile long about talking about squeezing the mueller investigation, about it being a witch hunt if it crosses over into finances. what happens now? what does your reporting say it triggers in terms of what happens with rosenstein and mueller and the investigation? well, whitaker is now mueller s boss, right, so he oversees the entirety of the mueller investigation at this point. so if mueller went to him and said, hey, i want to indict this person or said, hey, i need more funds to do this, or, you know, whatever it may be that mueller wants to take a next step on whitaker could feasibly say no.
position where he could receive a senate confirmation if he proves he s not meddling on the russia investigation. it s important to underline the fact that he has been seen by the west wing as the eyes and ears of the justice department. that speaks volumes, this is someone who made his way in his career based entirely on his political connections. he was not even an assistant u.s. attorney before he was appointed u.s. attorney for the southern district of iowa by george w. bush in 2004. entirely because of political connections. he s known as a mover and a shaker and people in the justice department say that he now has managed to ingratiate himself into the trump white house where it doesn t matter if he has the experience necessary. he is uniquely now positioned in a way that trump has wanted this loyalist in the justice department. now he s the one that s ready to serve that up. let me show, there s a law professor, julia, i think from
on and he s a loyalist to the president of the united states who has expressed that he wishes to shut the investigation down. if that s not even the appearance of a conflict then i don t really know what it is. and again it just gets back to the point i was making earlier, this is so central to the basic principle of legal practice and the basic of legal ethics more than anything else. they re flying in the face of it right now. and the rules seem to not apply anymore. our department of justice should be run by somebody who is fair and impartial, who doesn t have an ax to grind, has no preconceived notion, he s taking justice is supposed to be blind, you re supposed to look at facts impartially, without prejudice and fear and make a decision. the problem here is you have somebody now who is effectively our attorney general who has already made up his mind on what the mueller investigation is about. chris, i would even question whether any political appointee in this administratio
for ten years, the oversight responsibility is what you have to do. and so no matter what he tries to do to say to mueller, sorry, you re out, and he might well do that, and people will rise up about it, all of that work is going to come forward. it is going to come forward because the republicans did something. when they were in charge of it they said it doesn t take bipartisanship to issue a subpoena. yup. so the democrats can do it without the republicans. and guess what? the materials will come forward. the truth will out. it will. do you think the politics of the house, when it does take control, how do you think the politics of that play out as that fight obviously is going to escalate very quickly? well, look, what trump has to be thinking about, and republicans that remain in the house have to be thinking about is 2020. in 1974, we had a blowout, a 49 republicans in the house and eight in the senate, because they were assumed to be or