Top House Democrats served warning to the Trump administration of what investigations it can look forward to as soon as the new Congress is sworn in in 2019. Reps. Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff, the incoming chairs of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, unveiled some of those plans in interviews over the weekend, with Nadler saying that Donald Trump’s shady acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, would be first on the hot seat: “Our very first witness on—after Jan. 3, we will subpoena Mr.—or we will summon, if necessary, subpoena Mr. Whitaker.”
"He's totally unqualified," Nadler said. "And his only qualification seems to be that he wants to be — that the president wants him to be the hatchet man to destroy the Mueller investigation."
For his part, Schiff signaled investigations into Trump’s efforts to punish his media critics, including his attempt to block AT&T’s acquisition of CNN’s parent company and his push to get the U.S. Postal Service to raise Amazon’s shipping rates since Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. ”This appears to be an effort by the president to use the instruments of state power to punish Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post,” Schiff said.