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Committee staff will go there you that, we ll develop a work plan, and to chase every lead. it sounds like you have not settled on a date for the first hearing yesterday. is that in the works? i ll let the chairman spoke to that, but i would expect in the next few weeks we ll have some sort of public hearing. that seems to be fairly accelerated. let me ask you, congressman. it s our reporting here that the fencing around the capitol that has been, as you know, for those of us who live in washington, a symbol of what s happened over the last six months, is set to be removed over the coming days. isn t something you support? what message do you think that sends to the broader community? i think we re going to be guided by the cap 208 police and ....
The state of maryland also says this. rod rosenstein should have been promoted to that job instead. catherine herridge s live in washington, i m so curious why maryland wants to do the president s job of filling a role. the state of maryland filed these court papers challenging whitaker s appointment as acting attorney general. the legal challenge comes as part of an existing obamacare related lawsuit. the state says that rod rosenstein should be the acting attorney general and that rosenstein is a senate confirmed. on capitol hill, dianne feinstein, ranking democrat on the senate judiciary committee called for an emergency hearing with whitaker and jeff sessions. she does not have the power to schedule the hearing and must rely on the committee s republican chairman chuck grassley. a short time ago, grassley says he has no problem with whitaker s negative comments about the special counsel as long as they remain as a private ....
Quite some time. i flipped two congressional districts from red to blue and we know when voters turn out that democrats win. so this election is all about getting people out to the polls. we have early voting, it started october 12 and runs through november 4 so people right now have their ballots at home filling them out and turning them in. i want to ask youing this we just heard about from donald trump today, he s pledging that if he were to win the white house that he would his phrase drain the swamp in washington and call for term limits from congress. i think some americans would agree with him on that, congresswoman, would you? i do agree with him on that. my idea is and look people that have been asking me for years how do we break the gridlock in washington. my idea is term limits. three six-year terms in the house excuse me, three two ....
Year terms in the house for six years and two six year terms in the senate for a total of 12 years. if you did those back to back it s 18 years in washington. that s enough. so yes to that. what about his claims that the election is rigged? that there s widespread voter fraud? . your own state you have a republican governor so that s been inferring that republican officials would be implicit in rigging this thing. what would you say to donald trump? i don t think it s rigged. i know people are voting but we do need to restore the voting rights act. so we saw what happened with the first election after the supreme court decision and we had chaos in phoenix during that presidential preference primary in march. but i m all over the state of arizona and i will tell you the most common thing i hear is that people can t believe john mccain didn t stand up for himself when trump insulted him. they re just saying to me if he ....