The battle is open between Trump and his Democratic enemies

The Whitaker's appearance was questioned until Thursday night after the Democrats voted to give the Judicial Committee Jerrold Nadler, New York, the ability to assign Whitaker if he did not answer questions or did not show up. The confrontation was defused only when Nadler said he would not bring the summons to appear at Whitaker on Friday.

But, reflecting the deep animosity between the Democrat-led House and the executive, he threatened to send Whitaker back to the committee for a closed session. Outdoor Depot – Although Whitaker is in danger of losing his job in a few days, William Barr should be confirmed Attorney General next week.

Acting Attorney General's performance seemed to illustrate apparent contempt for executive power

Whitaker often seemed to be playing for a president who was checking on television appointments, rather than seriously trying to respond to Questions. At one point, in an intervention of a witness rarely seen before, he reminded Nadler that the time allotted for questions had expired, thus risking the anger of the almighty president, who was laughing at the # 39; impertinence.

Despite the Democrats' impulse the Whitaker refused to say that the Mueller probe was not a "witch hunt" – Trump's favorite phrase – although he insisted that he did not interfere with the special council.

In another installment of Trump House Democrat inquiries, another committee tried to force the president to reveal his tax returns, after defying the tradition of the 2016 campaign by refusing to do so.

. Michael Waltz, a Florida Republican, told CNN that the survey was a symptom of "investigations on the president" (1965).

But Ways and Means Subcommittee Chair John Lewis said the Democrats were steeped in the meaning of the mission.

"We must do what is right, we are called to do what is right, we have been chosen, we have been chosen," Lewis said.

New York Democrat Representative Tom Suozzi told CNN's Erica Hill that Democrats must follow "a very delicate line" between true Congressional oversight and a glut of exuberance.

"You are on a good balance," said Suozzi.

"You can not go to the end you ignore your supervisory responsibilities.And you can not go all the way to become political and you will go after the president because it belongs to a different party. "

In Washington, the goal is:

The fights of 2020 are warming up

Outside the capital, Democratic activists are eagerly awaiting a different future , while their party's presidential candidates are conducting the most intense campaign of their nascent race so far this weekend.

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey was in Iowa Friday, while his colleague, Senator Kirsten Gilibrand of New York, went to South Carolina. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend, in Indiana, was also in Iowa, while Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who is thinking about a race, was directed to the first state of New Hampshire, the first state of the country,

. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, hopes to avoid any controversy over her Native American heritage when she formally begins her campaign in her home country Saturday.

On Sunday in Minneapolis, the overcrowded Democrat group could have another competitor with Sen. Amy Klobuchar was preparing to announce her intentions to her country of origin.

No matter who gets out of the pack, Trump is already waiting.

His speech on the state of the Union was a response to a political moment while he was besieged on many fronts. – not least, a duel on its border wall and government funding before the deadline set next Friday

but it was also a bold statement of its campaign strategy for 2020.

The President indicated that his run for reelection, along with his 2016 strategy, would be based on an incendiary rhetoric on immigration aimed at his base.

"No problem best illustrates the cleavage between the American working class and the political class that's illegal," said Trump in an appeal to his blue-collar constituents in the South and the United States. of the industrial Midwest.

The president said that he was going to associate his populist rhetoric with claiming to have achieved the most impressive economic renaissance of recent decades. [19659002] "Our economy is dynamic and our economy is thriving like never before," he said in his speech, which also aimed to position Democrats on the path to a far left: "Tonight we renew our determination that America never wants to be a socialist country. "

The President's attack on Democrats for adopting" socialism "was a sign that the GOP would seize government programs on climate change, higher education and health care, advocated by rising stars like rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, to try to scare the swing state voters.

The media and conservative opinion pages were full this week of criticism of the Ocasio-Cortez co-sponsored Green New Deal, demanding a fundamental remodeling of the economy to eliminate fossil fuels.

In his speech on the state of the Union, Trump was also careful to look after another sector of his 2016 coalition, evangelical voters, on another problem that the government hopes to use to portray the Democrats as moving away from the American mainstream.

He accused the New York Democrats of having passed legislation would allow "a baby to be ripped from the womb of the mother a few moments before birth."

He was referring to a new law that relaxes restrictions on late abortions if the life or health of women is in danger.

The State of the Union was a new clue that after a new refusal To broaden its base, as do many presidents, Trump will seek to chart a path leading to the White House similar to the one he had wrought in 2016, challenging the experts who thought it could not be done.