writing committee to, of course, the oversight committee, elijah cummings is going to be in charge of that. the president s nemesis on the democratic side, maxine waters, is going to be in charge of the financial services committee. and of course the intel committee and judiciary. it goes on and on and on and on. and so that is something that the president knew right away, knew leading into election day was going to be a total pivot for him, a total change from how he was dealing with congress before. never mind the inability to get even basic parts of his agenda passed through the house, even as a selling point to their constituents, it s not going to happen now. when i had congressman jerrold nadler, democrat from new york, on my sunday show, on state of the union in all likely he ll be the chairman of the house judiciary committee. he said they re going to call matt whitaker, the acting attorney general, before his committee and demand that he testify about all sorts of
so a good year and potentially in the house, even bigger than what happened in the wave of 2006. and remind us, dana, how significant it is in the house of representatives for the democrats after january 3rd to be in the majority because they can do a lot of things they couldn t do in the minority. it s like everything because in the minority in the house, you re virtually powerless. you can go on tv and make noise, but you don t have the subpoena power that the democrats will have now in a really big way. and they re trying to work out now amongst themselves just how to manage that. but it s not that they re not going to use it. in committee after committee from ways and means to tax writing committee to, of course, the oversight committee, elijah cummings is going to be in charge of that. the president s nemesis on the democratic side, maxine waters, is going to be in charge of the financial services committee. and of course the intel committee and judiciary. it goes on and on an