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Casting a vote on who i think would be best to lead the house of representatives in this next congress. >> i'm curious what you thought of fact that many people came to the polls and we asked them questions about the mueller probe for instance. and a plurality said they disapproved of it. only 41% approved of it. are you concerned that democrats will do too much investigating of the president or do you think some account aability is necessary? >> i think congress as you well know, they have the role of legislating in a way that positively impacts our community and certainly my district has sin...

Could fall under the recess appointment. if he did, it would only be through january. whatever power he could wield would be temporary. even temporary power can be very impactful, anderson, including the ability to hamstring. however r, the most concern i think i have about matt whitake reaso r, it's the nature of his temporary appointment. can he go back and inform the president of the united states about what he's learned after being briefed by mueller and his team? will he be able to be a form -- not just when he was chief of staff for jeff sessions but right now, in a temporary capacity. a...

No evil coming to this president. and so, instead of calling this out, instead of having, you know, hearings on it, instead of having the republican leadership throw the flag down on comments like this, we hear crickets. it is totally quiet. there is no oversight function. the republican majority wants to undertake in this congress and why the midterm elections are so important. we finally have to restore check and balance on this government. >> you heard my colleague manu raju before speaking about the legal trouble potentially that the attorney general himself is in with george papadopoulos ...

Opportunity in november. >> we started this whole show asking who will put country over party, like john mccain did. this, you would imagine people would want to know about. at one time republicans want to know what was in trump's tax returns. >> it's basically news clippings, right? every story unearthed by the press the republican majority chose not to do oversight on. second of all, it's awfully vanilla. all like super obvious things in a normal oversight function either party would investigate. >> it is striking they seem to be protecting the president from quite a lot of things. thanks fo...

Trump as a candidate, who wound release his tax returns, co-mingled his business interests, shown nothing but public scorn, he brags about his scorn for the rules, makes for a very soft target for the oversight function donna just described as an obligation of congress. on the other hand, apart from all of the drama, there is the, of course, issue, and the responsibility that elected officials have to have to their constituents about not making it a 24/7 investigation, even though that as discussed, an important piece of this. >> look, if the democrats win, that's still a big if. the democrats...