Schumer's "Legislative Razor Wire" Meets a Senator-Elect Who Wants No Trials

Senate Democrats promise investigations and entanglement. Kansas Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton told CBS he does not want "the next two years in trials." The tension inside the new majority will shape what oversight can actually force.

By Clara Hughes

Democrats will run the House and Senate in January. The question is no longer whether they investigate President Trump. It is how far the investigative wing can push before the kitchen-table wing pushes back — and before the veto wall stops anything that needs 67 Senate votes. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer previewed the approach on CBS News' midterm live updates: "Whenever Trump defies the will of the American people or the law, we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor wire." He also called the midterms a "generational remake of the Senate map" and said Democrats must "prove ourselves worthy" of voters' trust. Then came the counterweight. Democratic Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton of Kansas told CBS News: "I do not want to spend the next two years in trials." He wants more time on cost-of-living and other issues than on