Trey Gowdy Is Counting Down The Number Of Flights He Has Left Until He Can Leave D.C. For Good (HBO)

[Music] [Music] south carolina republican trey gowdy became an internet sensation by tearing apart his opponents live on camera do you not see the outrage in that mr. Robberson do you see it gaudí was elected to Congress in 2010 as part of the Tea Party wave quickly earning a reputation as a fierce and leafless ly effective partisan his tenure as chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi and his cross-examination of Hillary Clinton transformed him into a conservative folk hero this is an investigation which is why it's so sad that nowhere in that stack that you just put up there where the emails of Secretary Clinton but Gowdy a former prosecutor has increasingly disappointed Trump partisans when you are innocent if the allegations collusion with the Russians and there is no evidence of that and you're innocent of that act like it in January now he made a surprising announcement he wouldn't seek reelection in November the notorious partisan said there was too much partisanship he's now on a book tour with his co-author senator Tim Scott preaching solutions for Washington conciliation is more christ-like and I think it's it's better for the long-term health of our culture but Gowdy himself can't wait to leave for good Michael Moynihan spoke to him about his regrets he's got a few do you regret these at yours do I regret running do you regret serving the only that gives me pause is there a lot of people I haven't met that I would not have met but for so it's hard to say I wouldn't go through the negative parts to experience the positive what were the negative parts ineffectiveness you're one of 435 you have to say it in 30 seconds you don't get an hour in front of the jury you get 30 seconds or a tweet or a bumper sticker the end justifies the means you've got to win and we've convinced ourselves that we have to win because the country will go to Hades in a handbasket if my team doesn't win is that something that you realize the second you got into Congress I think initially I wasn't terribly happy because I was away from home what'd you miss you can't ever get back you live in an airport you show up for a hearing where you can debate it all day and not a single mind has changed no I didn't like this job did you have a salad sounds self-serving but I like the people but the job I understand the no I don't like a job you don't like the job no I'm an executive branch guy I'm not a legislative branch eat yours you did it though seven soon to be a if I'll make it if I don't get I don't get recall you're like one of these guys ticking the boxes and I can tell you I can tell you right now I have 19 more drives to the airport before this session is over 19 more weeks for the rest of the year that I'm gonna be gone three or four days away from home and then after that I'll be in South Carolina you're counting the number of drives to the airport that doesn't sound like a happy eggs or it could be that you're just so excited to go do something else yeah but to the extent men judge themselves based on what they do for a living I don't have a lot to show for the last seven years because if I open my phone here and I go to YouTube I get video after video trey gowdy destroys x trey gowdy eviscerates y millions of views you became rather famous in doing this right well I don't write the headlines and but nobody but people love it I mean is that effective in some way I think it's effective raising issues I don't think it's effective at resolving them did you not like being that character it's not who I am if I were to ask somebody who knows about politics trey Gowdy I suspect hyper-partisan would be one of the first five adjectives used Democrat for sure for sure part of that are the assignments that I've been given Boehner put me on the ethics committee he put me on the Benghazi committee Paul I think watched that and all knows me pretty well and he says that's not who the guy is that's not worries happiest we'll put you on house Intel which is the most highly coveted committee in Congress it is a political it is bipartisan it never makes the news and then Russia happened and the House Intelligence Committee was more divisive than the Oversight Committee has ever been he became a sort of conservative folk hero with Benghazi and now with the Russia investigation Mark Levin very popular conservative radio has yesterday said trey gowdy how did this guy get through law school is this guy dumb or what and he's showing his true colors now because he's not running for reelection that's pretty harsh stuff from the right now yeah have you heard a lot of that recently I've heard some of it part of what I don't like about the modern political culture is ninety-nines a failing grade it doesn't matter whether I liked you yesterday the first time you do something or take a position that I don't agree with you're gonna go from me liking you to being a sellout a rhino and a squish and never should have liked me in the first place why are you a rhino in a squish by these peoples that will do because I defend Muller because I have not figured out how to commercialize conservatism as some of my critics have the president of United States the leader of the Republican Party called you a loser depending on how you judge the purpose of the Benghazi investigation I think a lot of people would say I was a loser but then you endorsed him you endorsed the man who called you a loser yeah he's the nominee yeah but you're you you were just saying we're doing this in a party political way also knew a lot about the other candidate too so that was that was in also knew a lot about what about just endorsing nobody do you think these four offices did you think he was fit for office that at the time yeah what do you make of the Republican Party in 2018 the goal is to win that's all that the Republican Party cares about that's the goal goals to win are you a different person in 2018 and you were in 2010 it's hard to be more cynical than I was I'm a better person I can check off the box of having tried that and you won't see me running for political office again so you're done I'm done you

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Id: PQt0gZt3zDg

Length: 7min 7sec (427 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 05 2018

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[u/Hencher27]

Something that stuck with me about this interview is the comment about “commercializing conservatism”. It’s not a problem only on one side of the spectrum either.