mr. steve cohen -- steve scalise. mr. scully's: congratulations to you, kevin, and our leadership team. it is an honor to be elected as a republican whip and it is a job i have enjoyed for the last four years and one of the things is i would travel around the country in a lot of swing districts, people love the fact that we have a booming economy. they see how tremendous the success has been for hard-working families. they are seeing more money in their hx, they are seeing wages go up. history was working against us in the house and it caught up. what we need to do is redouble our efforts. one of the things we need to do with the republican minority as we work to earn that majority back is to let people know what we are standing for. those principles that have been driven to work and get our economy back on track and help those families who are counting on us. they want to see this economy continue to grow. a lot of those swing districts you never heard democrats talk about obstructing and subpoenas and impeachment. they talked about being pro-life and pro gun and be interesting if they

mr. whitaker needs to understand that he will be called to answer and any role he plays will be exposed to the public. >> joining me now is democratic congressman steve cohen of tennessee and a member of the house judiciary committee. good day to you, sir. you heard congressman nadler and congressman schiff say whitaker will be held accountable, subpoenaed if he interferes with the special counsel's investigation. what is the first interview whitaker could be questioned about? >> well, i think right now we can question the basics of his appointment and that would be a legal action the senate would have to lead but in january i think we can look into that if he's still there and according to the testimony or statements of lindsey graham, they expect they won't have a nominee until after the first of the year so whitaker will still be around. there's no question but that whitaker was not put in because of his legal acumen, because of his sterling resume because neither have been proficient. he's there because he basically -- he's donald trump's roy cohn, he's a bulldog to go in there and try to do havoc with the mueller investigation, which he talked about o