i'd like to make a comment about the a.g. sessions. when donald trump picked sessions, he picked the best red neck that alabama had to offer. he couldn't have made a better choice. too bad donald trump was too big of a red neck for the a.g. also, i'm glad that the dems have taken the house because now that we have taken the house, democrats taking the house, we can put check on donald trump. for two years he has ran the store like that prejudice red neck a.g. that he chose from alabama. host: here's lee, we'll wrap it up here with los angeles on our republican line. caller: hello. i think -- trump works harder. i think that resonates across america. even in places where he didn't stump did pretty good. i'm from southern california. it's surprisingly red down here. people think california is just liberals. that's not the case. we did pretty good. republicans did pretty good. host: do you think president trump comes out of this election? republicans losing the house. he does a dozen or more campaign swings through the fall. what's his la

>> well, the worry about the acting a.g.t independent in the way that you would want an attorney general to be. he's made statements like the one that we began this segment with that suggest he's already made up his mind about the russia probe. that suggests he's got a conflict. it also suggests as this op-ed suggests by george conway and neil katyal -- >> a lot of questions on this one. >> lots. you just gave us a bunch more questions to ask. thank you so much, corey. >> thanks for having me. >>> mean whiwhile the democrati wave in the house continues to grow. the latest numbers show that democrats won the popular vote in the house by 5.9 percentage points and could grow by as much as 7%. the cook political report's dave wasserman breaks it all down. in 2016/2010 the party riding the wave won an average of 57% of s ttoss-ups, 19% of opposite leans and 9% of opposite likely races. quote, in the house this was a wave. yesterday republican congressman karen handel conceded in the district once held by newt gingrich. handel was

he's not a.g. >> true. true. well said. so you have this situation where there becomes concern of how the president processes good and bad. right and wrong. right? and this is is not necessarily your bailiwick, but it's an extension of the same intellectual construct. khashoggi happens. okay? his cia, his people, they look at it, they say the way this went down, the prince knew. he looks at it and says, maybe he did, maybe he did not. let's stop right there. the cia gives you a report and says this man, this -- >> high confidence. >> high confidence. >> right. >> is that maybe he did, maybe he didn't? >> usually they back it up with the evidence that they have. that's not maybe he did, maybe he didn't. >> what does it mean the president looks at it and says maybe? >> i think what the president is doing is hedging and saying, well, they don't have a confession. they don't have a photograph of him doing it. they don't have a recording of him giving the order and, therefore, it's equivocal. that's ridiculous. >> sure. it's cer

and then chief of staff for a.g. jeff sessions, now acting a.g. matthew whitaker. which is it, norm eisen? is this a man that the president hardly knows, or is this a man who is important enough and significant enough that he would be at a meeting where the president says, where are we on going after comey and clinton? >> yeah. whitaker is not a stranger to the president. he's been described reportedly as the eyes and ears of the white house in the justice department. this is not a cabinet agency that the president doesn't care about. perhaps his most significant grievance is that the previous a.g., jeff sessions, recused himself. let's make no mistake about it, chris. matt whitaker was put there because the president knew full well that he would be a compliant a.g. now, i think when you put that together with the news that the president was tiptoeing up to this abuse of power and you no longer have the resistance that jeff sessions represented, indeed you have whitaker, who says he won't recuse himself. the opposite of sessions despite powerful legal reasons to re

a.g. there but it won't probably act very differently than jeff sessions because he doesn't have to worry about. being tied to any kind of commitment be russia gate what was trump telling everybody. i think a couple things he's telling he's also a couple things that he learned from the election now think about it right now there's a dose under the current line up here has no serious chance of republicans controlling the house in the senate that they're going to do any any serious investigations of up to adult trial or probably act at all upon any conclusions that the dollar investigation comes with come january they'll have kind of a wild card here in terms of what the democrats may or may not do and i think why five removing jeff sessions at this point and sort of holding the ball or investigation hostage a little bit here gives gives that his truck gives himself some leverage in which terms of perhaps. shutting down the investigation as a message to the democrats to say that if you move

it gives him an a.g. whose views of presidential power comports with those of the new smoupreme court justice brett kavanaugh. and trump now moves to utilize his broad notion of executive power to crush mueller before mueller streaks at trump's family, a step he has reason to fear is imminent. the president delivered the news today by tweet saying, matthew whittaker, chief of staff to attorney general jeff sessions at the department of justice will become our new acting attorney general. trump added that a permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date. well, the moval came minutes after the president refused to comment on sessions' fate in his post-election press conference. >> and can you give us clarity, sir, on your thinking on your attorney general and your deputy attorney general, do they have long-term job security? >> i'd rather answer that a little bit different time. >> a few hours later. the president has long blamed his attorney general for the appointment of special counsel mueller o

. >> daniel, the president appoints an acting a.g. and then distances himself from that acting a.g. i don't get it. >> a lot of people in washington are saying if trump appointed this guy and then later said he doesn't know who he is, the a.g. position is one of the most powerful in the cabinet and so shouldn't the president know who this person is and instead he was misleading people about this. matt whitaker is a guy who don mcgahn interviewed to be part of the trump legal defense team and try to be an attack dog on the russia investigation. so that fact alone is, you know, what democrats are saying is grounds for recusal. >> each of you have views on who is likely to be the new a.g. when the president chooses somebody to be approved by the senate. betsy, do you have a name in mind or names? >> it's definitely up in the air right now. one person to keep an eye on is edith jones. she's a circuit court judge. she has a huge number of clerks in a position of significant power in washington. she comes up in conversation as a potential attorney general. some folks in the white house wo

a.g.'s resignation and a democrat-led house meant to members of the administration, and china trade issues which are a distraction for most business leaders, but more than likely, if stocks go higher which they probably will, there will be increased volatility in the weeks to come with the wild cards. back to you. >> i love it, that means there's bargains out there, too. >> indeed. kennedy: thank you so much. >> sure. kennedy: gridlock can be good, but can split houses be bad? what if republicans fight for infrastructure projects that will do nothing to lower our deficit and raise your taxes, and what about the ongoing trade war with china? joining me associate professor of economics at the kings college brian brenberg is here, it is time for brianomics. crazy night. everyone knew what was going to happen, republicans keep the senate, democrats take the house. gridlock is one thing, the opposite is terrifying when you have two big spending parties vying for how to use that money to buy more

president trump installed matthew whitaker as acting a.g. for one person, to end the investigation. there's partisan consensus that this appointment violates the appointments clause of the constitution. which trumps any statute that the administration lawyers have cited. s george conway and former solisor general kneel conyer wrote in "new york times," mr. whitaker's installation makes a mockery of our constitution and of our founder's vision, partisan house democrats demand once again that in our scations on the omnibus bill that the g.o.p. leadership join us in including language that would say the special council to protect any special council, the special council cannot be fired without cause. he or she would be granted a three-judge appeal panel if fired. could only be removed by a senate confirmed a.g. -- replaced by a senate-confirmed attorney general or top senate confirmed official. this is very important. whitaker would not qualify because such an appointment must be made confirmed by the congress, by the senate. that's a fact. and now it has to be re-emphasized and very i

in other words, what the act is telling the a.g. is go register pre-act offenders, except if you find it unfeasible. ms. baumgartel: again, that's nowhere in the statute, and -- justice kagan: yeah, i understand that you think that. but if the statute -- if that is the best interpretation of the statute, would it pose a delegation problem? ms. baumgartel: that likely would be constitutional if you could read into the statute a command to the attorney general to register pre-act offenders to the maximum extent feasible, although, you know, as justice rehnquist articulated in industrial union, the benzene case, there is still a question about what feasibility means. and in this context particularly, because these are not -- this is not a technical scientific area. this is not a question of how much air particle, at what cost can be taken from the environment. this is really the fundamental weighing of liberty versus security interests, the sorts of decisions that the people's legislative body is supposed to make and not supposed to de

>> i'm not talking about him as a.g. or anybody as a.g.t the oversight of the mueller probe. that's what i'm objecting to. >> and i think here's the thing in terms of the mueller probe. nobody believes, i don't think, that whitaker is going to come in and seriously constrain his investigation. >> you really don't? >> i think what he is going to say, what i hope he says is, it appears that we're in the fourth quarter or two minute warning, he's a football guy, the two minute warning of this game. wrap it up. this cannot go on indefinitely and i think that's totally fair to say, unless you can tell me reasons why, let's wrap this up in the coming weeks and months. >> we all hope that happens. >> good, look, agreement. >>> "outfront" next, president trump lashing out at, honestly, just about everybody today after his party lost control of the house. >> i don't know why you'd say that. such a racist question. >>> plus women elected in record numbers last night, many defying the status quo. >> yeah, there were people who laughed me out of rooms

so fortunately, the a.g. is not a king. the doj is full of independent prosecutors who have a duty not to secure convictions but to see that justice is done. >> and whitaker also has a number of controversies apparently brewing. new financial disclosures showing that he made more than a million dollars from a group with backers that don't have to disclose donors. he also curiously made $9,000 earlier this year from donors to a campaign committee. this was for an office that he ran for in 2014? i actually don't know, but i would say this goes back to the question of whitaker's ability to serve in this position, and i think the fact that what we should be seeing is some very, very serious questioning by republicans, not just by democrats on his qualifications to serve as the highest law enforcement officer of the land. >> thank you. yamiche, thank you. thank you very much. happy thanksgiving to all of you as well. >> thanks. >>> trump backlash, the bushbpuk from his own party including one senator calling the white house a pr

decision to fire his attorney general, shifting control of the mueller investigation to the new acting a.gjust as democrats consider flexing their newfound political muscle as they begin to take control of the house. what it all means for the future of the russia probe. >> last night the republican party defied history to expand our senate majority. >> reporter: after a momentous midterm election, an extraordinary and at times contentious presidential press conference -- >> sit down. >> you didn't answer my question. >> you are the enemy of the people. >> reporter: president trump celebrating what he called a near victory in yesterday's vote. and hinting at political shakeups in his cabinet. >> i will say that for the most part, i'm very, very happy with this cabinet. >> reporter: and less than an hour later, a bombshell announcement. >> today the president demanded his attorney general, jeff sessions, resign. >> reporter: jeff sessions, the embattled attorney general, forced to step down from his post. submitting an undated letter saying, dear mr. president, at your request i'm submitting

this is about the original decision of the a.g. to recuse himself from the mueller investigation.nne: jeff sessions did the right thing. he had to recuse himself. but the criticism of matthew whitaker is warranted. i think he'll have a hard time getting confirmed by the senate. howie: he doesn't have to be confirmed unless he's named as the permanent head of the justice department. doing this the day after the mid terms when the democrats won the house. the president changed the subject. there is a legal argument whether whitaker can be named as the temporary head of doj. susan: the question is, is this sort of a violation of the spirit of that law to make this person a place holder where whitaker will be there temporarily? if he keeps him in for 241 days is that a violation of the expert of that law. howie: do you think is is because the press doesn't like him, not that he's not qualified? susan: whitaker is a tantalizing target for the press. he's conservative, he said things about the mueller investigation that suggests he would side with the president. howie: whitaker on cnn t

let me read from the a.g.'s statements, he said the courts are supposed to be the inferior branch of our three branchs of government. i got to tell you notwithstanding russia and everything else, it is wild to see a lawyer now leading the justice department, even on an acting basis, who says that when we all know everyone knows the supreme court is a co-equal branch which also has the last word on what the law means. >> right. and the significant advances with we protect the unions to include women and blacks and to free slaves and to give the vote to people has all been as a result of amendments and being interpreted by the supreme court and the constitution and recent times, as repeat as 1954, when he did brown versus board of education and said separate wasn't equal was revolutionary to advance that perfection. we have a person in the west wing who is biased racist, bigoted. he can't stand anybody, he can't stand about a white male that wants to have a gun and speak out and discriminate against these groups.

this has been a very turbulent relationship between the a.g. and the president. the president furious from the start that sessions recused himself in the russia investigation. tonight, the president's move shifts the focus immediately from the midterms to the mueller investigation. is it in danger? abc's jonathan karl tonight on the phone call to sessions and the message from the president. >> reporter: this morning, just before president trump's post-election news conference, chief of staff john kelly called attorney general jeff sessions with a message from the president -- resign today. sessions has been on thin ice for nearly two years. one of trump's earliest and staunchest supporters, he infuriated the president shortly after becoming a.g. by recusing himself from the russia investigation. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself. >> reporter: the attorney general's decision ultimately led to the appointment of special counsel robert mueller. trump never forgave him. >> if he was going to recuse himself, he should hav

when the a.g. is not senate confirmed, all it's going to take are some really crafty lawyers and federal judges out there, maybe they're representing death penalty cases, maybe they're representing big civil cases, to realize that whitaker is not confirmed by the senate and not valid. >> yeah, he wrote a very interesting op-ed with george conway, as you mentioned earlier, that talks about the idea that the appointments clause of the constitution says that the president may appoint, but the senate must confirm anyone who heads an agency, like the attorney general at the department of justice. and there was someone in place under the ordinary department of justice succession statute, as we said before, that person would be rod rosenstein who would act in that temporary capacity until a new attorney general can be appointed. and the difference there is that rod rosenstein is a senate confirmed appointee. having gone through that process when he was appointed back at the beginning of 2017. and so to ha

i mean, putting in a new a.g., you know somebody's going to ask you. frankly, a lot of animus towards cnn in that answer and his continuing war with our employer, but i'll be honest with you, kate, while i agree and would defend the president in the way he wants to defend himself on the mueller probe, i don't like the optics, nor the manners of speaking to a female that way, so i wish he would confine his answers on the mueller probe and defend himself vigorously, but i don't agree with speaking to a woman that way. >> thank you, scott. thank you. >> and none of us should hold our breath for that at this point. thank you very much. karine, april -- you can be abby too, because i love you all. and scott. thanks, guys. >>> "outfront" next, the legal, bitter battle in florida as the senate race tightens even more. governor rick scott alleges voter fraud. what is his evidence, though? i'm going to ask his attorney. that's next. >>> plus we have breaking news, a key race alert coming in. new numbers right now on the senate race in arizona that has been too

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a.g.'s resignation. more than likely we'll see an increase in stock market poll tilt in the next few days. liz: terrific reporting there. to what you can expect in the way of policy. we know that democrat socialist alexandria ocasio-cortez this the house. she is hitting out against i.c.e. and more, and she does want single payer healthcare. let's get into it with andy puzder. he's the author of the hitback, "capitalist comeback." the head of the democrat socialist wrote an op-ed saying quote capitalism only works for the rich. this person argued that workers have a right to share in the wealth that labor creates. your take? >> people need to remember that socialism has had terrible results every place it's been tried. historically the u.s.s.r. collapsed under its ownweight. venezuela. north korea, cuba. capitalist policies, the policies president trump put in place, reduce taxes, reduce regulations. we have the closest and lowest unemployment rates ever. people with only a high school education. wages ar

whitaker and the acting a.g. could be eliminated if we had a nominee and my understanding is the white house is starting to look into that. >> i don't think it's fair to the man to bash him before he even has a chance to find the men's room. he has done nothing that should make anybody worry. >> bill: another classic. members of the senate judiciary reaction on the criticism to matthew whitaker as his appointment faces its first legal challenge from the state of michigan. my next guest is mike lee on the judicial committee. what's the question at hand with whitaker? >> whether or not he can appropriately be appointed as interim attorney general. there are arguments on both sides. i'm looking forward to the department of justice's office of legal counsel releasing memorandum that it's apparently prepared on this subject. the office of legal counsel has some of the best lawyers in the government on this issue and i look forward to flushing out their argument. >> bill: with that as a back drop, do you support him or

but because jeff sessions is no longer the a.g., the judge has to decide who his legal successor is. is that clever maneuvering to force the judge's hand here? >> yes. i think maryland, the people behind the maryland suit, they're brilliant. they are making this an issue that's not politics, it's the law. >> it's the law. >> whenever donald trump is outside the realm of poll titic and he's in a court of law, whether it's michael cohen, whether it's paul manafort, donald trump loses. and he's not a winner in a court of law so this is a brilliant stroke. but i got to tell you, going back to the eastern district of missouri, stay tuned. you're going to have the same issue in the united states mail fraud or wire fraud case and it's going to pop up like weeds in a garden. >> we'll look for it and watch what happens out of maryland. gene rossi, thank you. good to see you. >> thank you. >> coming up next, cnn files a lawsuit against the white house after it pulls the press credentials of our chief white house reporter jim acosta. and parts of california are looking more like a war zone. 44

his replacement, acting a.g.ark whitaker, is said to have no plans to recuse himself from special counsel robert mueller's investigation. and "the washington post" takes it a step further saying whitaker would also reject any potential subpoena of president trump. democrats are now scrambling to protect this mueller probe in fear that the president is now somehow trying to stonewall any of mueller's findings. whitaker has been highly critical of mueller before being named session's chief of staff last year. he was a legal commentator here on cnn where he many, many times argued ways the president could limit this very investigation. >> i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn't fire bob mueller but reduces his budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. >> as for bob mueller, cnn has learned the special counsel has just started writing his final report. with more on that let's go to cnn white house correspondent pamela brown

you t have an acting a.g. who can't serve influence over anything. >> i thought sessions handled it very well. the way he hand it personally. he didn't lash out at trump. he b said it's been an honor to serve. he may run for senate inial bama against doug jones. >> i agree with bill. there was a real problem there that he couldn't exert this influence over the mueller probe and have control. it was very classy how he left. he's still popular in his state so he may well be re-elected. but he did important things outsidell the supervision of the mueller probe. one of them is a return to law and order. after 8 years of the obama administration politicizing the justice department.et he's turned that back and on issues like free speech, some of the prior litigations going on out in the states. it's been astounded leadership. paul: we have seen chris christie, pam bondy of florida. could those two or rudy giuliani be confirmed by the senate? >> i think it could. he has more people in the senate. i think that's why h

quickly here, we keep forgetting about the a.g., the acting a.g. whitaker because he's an important player in all of this. >> look, it's hard to say what his exact role is here. as juliet pointed out earlier, we're going to get a bunch of details in the sentencing document that's going to be coming in the near future. i think at that point we'll also have a better idea of what manafort's angling for here. we'll know what he's lied about. if he's lying to protect his business dealings in russia or his partners there, then yeah, juliette might be right. he might be lying to protect a foreign government or protect himself from repercussion from a foreign government. if it's lying about things that went under in the campaign, it looks like yeah, he's lying to protect the president. we'll have a much better idea when -- >> i've got to run, you guys. thank you so much. i appreciate your time. president trump holding not one but two campaign rallies tonight for republican senator cindy hyde-smith in mississippi's senate runoff. she's made comments about a

illegal because he violated the a.g.uccession statute and plain wrong because we're learning things about his background that should have been exposed in the vetting process. he's frankly not qualified to be the attorney general. >> on the law, on the constitutionality of it, two points i would make. the federal vacancies reform act of 1998 lays out that the president can appoint someone to a position like this if they served in that department for at least 90 days, which he has. then when you look at precedent here, you have a supreme court case dating back to 1898. that's u.s. v. eaten where the court decided it was constitutional. do you see a violation of the law here? >> let's look at precedent, poppy. matthew whitaker is the first person to head a federal agencies, i believe, in our nation's history, who had not been subjected to the vetting process and confirmed to the senate for another position. there's an underlying statute i think that works also with respect to the succession for the a.g.'s office. here's the

president trump today inside the oval office, i'm told those two at one point did discuss the open a.g. post, though graham made it very clear and publicly that he had no interest in it whatsoever. chris christie was also on white house grounds earlier today, though i'm told that he was here to meet with jared kushner about prison reform. and the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, here at the white house as well, though he is here for an entirely separate issue, nothing to do, we are told, with the open a.g. post. he got passed up on an interim basis by matt whitaker, who of course was jeff sessions' chief of staff, who is now the acting attorney general and because of that, he is also in charge of the russia investigation for the moment. whitaker has been a staunch critic of that investigation publicly, at least, before he got into his role. the white house is saying today the fact that whitaker got the nod on an interim basis over rosenstein, they still say that is a continuum of the upper levels of the department of justice, and they claim the mueller investigation is just a s

. >> so who will check this acting a.g.? >> so the only people who can check it are congress.e fact that we haven't heard from congress is really unsettling. i mean this is a failure of congressional oversight. the president again has now fired two people for the purpose of trying to stop or impede an investigation of himself. that in and of itself is a constitutional crisis. and it is a constitutional crisis because our congress is refusing to fulfill its constitutional responsibility of conducting meaningful oversight, and getting to the bottom of what is going on here. >> so senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has said recently that there will be confirmation of someone soon. is that sign posting for this, really is going to be really temporary for whittaker? >> if mitch mcconnell had known somebody with the power to start a senate hearing because he is the one who could put a stop to what is going on. >> like what? cha what could he do. >> for instance, i don't have any information for this. and i'm not suggesting this is happening but it is entirely possible that matt

whitaker and the acting a.g. could be eliminated if we had a nominee and my understanding is the white house is starting to look into that. but i don't have any -- as i told you this morning, i don't have any indication of time line or who the candidates are. >> cornyn is not alone. james langford told politco that "it would be helpful to get moving so we can have that person in place as soon as possible. whoever will be there will have to make clear statements about what they intend to do on the special counsel. the sooner the better, let's get it resolved." a senate gop spokesman said much of the conference feels this way. john thune says that they will have the votes to confirm the next attorney general whether it's this year or 2019 assuming it's someone that is well-qualified, which thune expects the nominee will be. if the russian probe is still going, republican senators say there needs to be a commitment to protect him. >> i suspect that will be front and center during the confirmation hearing. there will

whitaker, except primarily as he travelled with a.g. sessions. no social contact. neither the president's comment or tweet appear to be accurate, however, considering he just last month said this. >> i never talk about that, but i can tell you matt whitaker is a great guy. i mean i know matt whitaker. >> i know matt whitaker, he says. that was just last month. in addition to the president's own words, we know that trump has met with whitaker dozens of times at the white house. as well as talk to him on the phone. in fact, according to "new york times," white house chief of staff john kelly has him considered whitaker as the eyes and ears at the justice department. the times reports that the white house counsel interviewed whitaker last year about possibly joining trump's legal team as an attack dog against robert mueller. that's right. the same robert mueller that whittaker has now been appointed to oversee. the cnn legal analyst terry cordero is here with me, former counsel to the attorney general. and there are clear ethical concerns here but you believe whitaker

that's after he posted this on twitter showing his deputy a.g., mueller, comey, and others includingnd bars.

i think whitaker as the acting a.g. would know what mueller has up his sleeve including any sealed indictments that may be just about to be released. >> fascinating conversation. thank you all, thank you, chris, i appreciate it. nancy pelosi says she is the best person for the job of house speaker as the newly minted democratic majority assumes control. not everybody in her party agrees. is this a case of sexism? we'll talk about it next. attention homeowners age sixty-two and older. one reverse mortgage has a great way for you to live a better retirement... it's called a reverse mortgage. call right now to receive your free information kit with no obligation. it answers questions like... how a reverse mortgage works, how much you qualify for, the ways to receive your money and more. plus, when you call now, you'll get this magnifier with led light absolutely free! when you call the experts at one reverse mortgage today you'll learn the benefits of a government-insured reverse mortgage. it will eliminate your monthly mo

the chief of staff or the a.g. is not the person who is supposed to be in line.s to first wonder by what authority he's going to put him there. but the president's already told us he's temporary. he'll have a more permanent placement put there in the long run. so i'm wondering if in many ways this is the president's attempt to gain information about the investigation. so once he's downloaded everything and debriefed from robert mueller and then he walks away to have a permanent replacement who is senate-confirmed come in, well, guess what donald trump has? he's got the keys to the castle. >> that's what the first thing i thought about today. to get as much information and get his hands on as many levers as possible so that when the congress actually takes over, he will have all the information he needs and when the report actually comes out, he'll have everything he needs. it's amazing. go on. >> no, i was just going to say that the idea that an acting anyone should exercise authority over something as controversial as this really would be unprecedented. >> do yo

when that came in the form of a big move of firing jeff sessions and putting in as acting a.g. mr. whitaker do you see this as a move not just to distract from politics, but to interfere with the mueller probe? >> i think the latter is the primary purpose, to interview with mueller. the timing of the mueller investigation -- the timing of it is to distract from the big defeat that the president suffered in terms of our taking the house. >> do you believe it's constitutional what happened with the attorney general jeff sessions? what's your concern here? >> first of all i think he's been outspoken in saying he wanted to curtail the mueller investigation, that it should be curtailed. article 2 section 2 clause 2 of the constitution says that principals in our government like the attorney general have to be confirmed by the senate. the president appoints with advice and with the confirmation of the senate. that didn't happen. you've seen some of the quotes today that this appointment makes a mockery of the constitution and the vision of our founders. >> what's your concern about the m