he never said what he was talking about made her unqualified. went to spellman college and yale law school. we'll see if he has elaboration about that today. brian kemp is in the trump hold on immigration. he brought it up at a town hall that he held in suburban atlanta. he made some very strange comments about stacey abrams, saying that she's very in support of illegal immigrants. let's take a listen. >> she also wants taxpayer benefits, free college for those illegally. my friends, that will bankrupt the citizens. she's also been asking illegals to vote for her in this election. undocument undocumented, documented people being part of the blue wave. that's illegal, and she knows it. >> reporter: stacey abrams from her part has from beginning said that georgia is a changing state. it's ready for a progressive democrat like her to take the reins. let's see what she told "am joy" yesterday. >> we foe that the state is changing and what brian kemp said in 2014 was that too many minorities were being registered and republicans should be afraid. he

how is she unqualified? >> yale-trained attorney and successful in business and public life and leader -- you line them all up and the in suggests and the insultees. the way the president likes to insult people in politics. re he says they are dumb and have a low iq and unintelligent and unqualified. >> tonight there is new reporting based on allegations of the president's long time attorney, michael cohen, who is an interesting source here. he pled guilty to eight federal charges long ago. he has spent dozens of hours with robert mueller's team and other federal and state prosecutors, mr. cohen is due to be sentenced next month. tonight michael cohen tells emily james fox at "vanity fair" in experience working with the trump -- he witnessed many times president trump using racist peop remarks -- one example from emily jane fox's reporting. this was after a campaign rally. cohen offered his observation to his boss. i told trump the rally looked vanilla and trump responded quote, "because black people are too

you can argue whether a mayor is qualified, but it's hard to say he's totally unqualified. again, words matter. >> he said gillum is a thief. >> yes, words matter. when you use phrases like "cotton picking," when you say "monkey around," -- and this is not an isolated incident. we know he does this, weaponizing race. what's the common thread among the three people i just named, barack obama, stacey abrams, and andrew gillum? it's not complicated. they're all african-american. donald trump knows that, knows how to walk the line so he's not outright saying it, but everyone in that audience knows he's talking about it. >> he's one half step away from outright at this point. it's hard to come away with a conclusion other than part of the republican closing argument here is division along racial lines. i will point out leader abrams, the former leader of the democratic leader of the georgia house, is a graduate of yale law school, the same law school that justice kavanaugh went to. president trump never mentioned his qualifications. >> just one other thing, if you're a trump sup

illegal immigrants voted and unqualified citizens voted. we are no longer a free election process and i believe you have the duty to find out and investigate. (bell ringing). this process. and i have been communicate with him back and forward complains. i get nowhere so i am publicly acknowledge the problems that we are facing as public employees and ask the election candidate -- and you are.... elected and appointed. i believe you are appointed to do something about our democracy in this country, that we are protected for our constitutional rights. but, that's not what i learned about san francisco election process, that i personally been through. thank you. >> chair: thank you: commissioner lee. >> yvonne lee: madam chair, i respect the public's right to express the views that i think that is really important for this commission to really ensure the public that, until there is evidence to back up these really strong claims that undocumented immigrants are voting, i think that we need to really make the clarification that as far as we're c

how exactly is she unqualified? yale-trained attorney, former leader of the state legislature, successful in business and in public life, leader of -- i mean. but you line them all up, right? the insults and the insultees, the way that the president likes to approach this particular issue in american -- in american life. it's not subtle. the president likes to insult people in politics, but he reserves a special brand of insult for african americans, for prominent black officials and black athletes and black journalists. he says they are dumb, have a low iq, they're unintelligent, they're unqualified and criminal. it's basically everything that he says about prominent african americans who he targets. well, now tonight there is new reporting based on allegations from the president's long-time personal attorney michael cohen who is an interesting source here, right? he, as we know, plead guilty to eight federal charges not long ago. he has spent we're told dozens of hours with robert mueller's team and with other fed

i find it interesting that the democrats have gone from he's unqualified and now, we have the arguments that he's qualified and now, he has to rescues himself. and talking about how he's qualified and the justice department came out with a 20 page memo detailing the president appointing someone who is not confirmed and doj giving examples back to george washington and with the democrats moving the goal post because they can't get the person they want and they are going to cry that the mueller investigation can't move forward and also yesterday, saying that whitaker is qualified and that the investigation needs to move forward. the democrats are pushing the panic button because they have gotten nothing out of the investigation that furthers their narrative and that's why they are trying to get out of whitaker's nomination. >> matt whitaker shouldn't be in that role. >> because of the senate confirmation? >> because of the confirmation and going back to 1988. >> not everyone saying it is right. >> if the office of legal counsel has weight in here" -- >> why are you laughing? that was funn

the way to start is the appointment of matt whitaker, unqualified and illegal appointment, is acting attorney general. >> we're going to get to that. michelle, you clearly have pointed out here the big win going back to when you look at the governors races and what's happened with state legislators as well as the congress. we haven't seen anything like this since watergate. >> because republicans cleaned up in 2010 when it was time for redistricting, republicans had a massive advantage in the house. i remember last year there were a lot of people saying democrats are not going to be able to do it. they need something approaching a super majority because these districts have been drawn specifically to perpetuate republican rule. so democrats, if you look at the percentage of the vote that democrats got the margin of the vote, it was at least as big as the big 2010 wave for republicans. they just didn't get as many seats because they've allowed the deck to be stacked against them. and one consequence of this election is that next time it might not be so stacked against them because the

so how is that unqualified? >> and we know how much the president appreciates an ivy league education, as long as that person has an "r" after their name as we are in election season. listen, this is not the first time somebody has used qualifications. i think hillary clinton said that donald trump was not qualified for the presidency. but when the sitting president of the united states, you know, a white man referring to the woman that is seeking to become the first black female governor of a state in the country, obviously she's not of his party, he has every right to go and campaign for kemp and what have you, but she certainly meets the qualifications in the georgia constitution to serve as governor. so i'm not sure why he would use that word to say that she is unqualified for the position. >> david chalian, thank you. folks, in case you're not getting enough david chalian on tv, he has his own podcast. it called the daily dc. check it out if you haven't already. >>> new numbers show a strong rate for the ec

. >> he's totally unqualified and his only qualification seems to be that he wants -- the president wants him to be the hatchet man to destroy the mueller investigation. >> the battle cry beyond as florida begins its first ever statewide recounts, but will all of them really be counted? i'm alex witt in new york. let's follow what's going on out there. we're following two big stories both with political implications. first florida, the largest swing state, is having its first ever statewide recount. all counties have until thursday to machine count more than 8 toi8.2 million votes. and andrew gillum now retracting his election night concession. florida senate could be headed to a recount by hand. but also developing right now, five days since democrats won control of the house. they are now strategizing how to use their new powers. house democrats could issue subpoenas, compel tefstimony an would that mean investigations on obstructions of justice? what about president trump's taxes? >>> all eyes on this trump loyalist, the new acting attorney general. representative jerry nadler says the

will the white house maintain its "unqualified alliance with the leadership or will it resent killing even the if that means sacrificing interests it has with saudi arabia." post is where jamal khashoggi was a computing columnist. one question, why would anyone bring a bone saw to a kidnapping? that is a headline from the article. the paper takes to task the u.s. for not pressuring for the details on the killing or question aing the changing story. identified the killing of another person. an investigative journalist and reports into corruption at political top levels earned her a lot of enemieses. she was killed in a car bombing attack last year. investigators say they have identified a group of more than two multis nationals who ordered the hit according to the times of malta. contactedallegedly three men who are currently in custody to plant and trigger the bomb. this is according to the accusations that have against them. malta,ng to the times in the investigation is at an advanced stage. her family says they have not been formally involve -- informed. >> a trial is underway for f

court of appeals when it came to the travel ban saying that they're wrong headed they're stupid they're unqualified and it's just the general nature of his temperament as president to take after the judiciary and i do think try to deal with him on his its rulings you may recall during his campaign he criticized the mexican american judge out in california saying it couldn't possibly be impartial in a case that had come up at least indirectly concerning mr trump because of his mexican american heritage and knowing that that trump was adverse to immigration through mexico or otherwise and i think it's that factor plus the fact that the judges like many other institutions are in some sense a club of fraternity and they expected that the chief justice who speaks for the entire body of federal judges would defend them from personal attacks of this sort bruce fein thank you very much indeed the e.u. is upping the stakes in its budget standoff with it's really taking the first steps toward slop in the country with fines the bloc says it's always populist government funds to spend far too much money and it

, a yale law graduate running for office down there in georgia was unqualified. did you get a sense from all of that that led you into the question about the tenor he used? >> i think the president, his anger was boiling over because of a lot of things. at one point during the press conference he was literally pacing back and forth. i thought he might walk off. i think some people see this as the president attacking a woman of color. of course i'm a black woman. he was also attacking april ryan, telling her to sit down. jim acosta, and calling reporters hostile. i'm not sure the president was singling out people because of their race. but the president was very obviously upset with the reporting we were trying to do there. and i talked to some white house aides who say the president feels particularly aggrieved when we ask about white nationalists because he feels it's an unfair question. >> let's talk about this campaign. you come from south carolina, and i was thinking about georgia and florida where you had incredible african-americans candidates. do you think

so, no, he's not unqualified. is he the most qualified, we can debate that. but he's not been taken off the street. our place -- here is the key. he's not been moved from the white house counsel's office over to put the justice department in receivership. he's a person of the department. >> one question. that is we do now how whittaker feels about this because he already said that he thought that if mueller investigated donald trump's finances that that would be a red line, and that he thinks that mueller has come dangerously close to a red line. he think it is parameters should be much more narrow for mueller. does that tell you what he is going to do? >> no. he's now attorney general. he's put in a different role and now he will be hearing people with information and perspectives that he's going to have to evaluate and assess. remember, he got a very high note of endorsement from charles grassley. senator grassley is a man of total integrity. so let's just wait and see. the jury is out. >> but do you think that robert mueller can investigate donald trump's

replaced him with a loyalist, whom even some trump defenders find unqualified. threatened to investigate house democrats if they investigate his administration. and personally insulted at least four white house reporters, all of whom just happened to be african-american or latino. this presidential tear has come with some consequences, concern in the white house is growing over the backlash over president trump's new othing attorney general, matthew whitaker, repeatedly expressing a skepticism about the russia investigation. in a video, whitaker saying his first week on the job is going, quote, good. hours after the president tried to say he doesn't even know whitaker. cnn's pamela brown at the white house. pamela, what the president said this morning, he doesn't know matt whitaker. not true. >> reporter: yeah, that's not true. in fact, just last month, jake, the president was praising matt whitaker as someone he knew. now he is changing his tune amid scrutiny. president trump heading to paris and leaving behind a brewing controversy surrounding his replachlt pl

the book is a red flag warning us of the dangers of apathetic government, unqualified or uninterested in anticipating and thus being able to avoid a whole panoply of disasters. michael lewis joins me from washington to talk about all this. welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me. >> it couldn't be better timed, actually, because of what we see in the united states, and also we have a real disaster in indonesia that points out what happens when government institutions are hollowed out. i knowia look particularly at the united states. but just tell me what you mean by the fifth risk. how was that coined and what does it mean? >> well, you know, i tell you how it was coined. i started by the story really starts with the trump administration's not bothering to engage in a transition with the obama administration. they were meant to have, you know, hundreds of people flooding into the federal government the day after the elections to receive briefings that had been a year in the works. it was essentially the best course ever created in how the federal government ran. waiting for

and what they say is whitaker is unqualified to serve as a matter of federal law, that there's a federal law that says when there's a vacancy in the office of attorney general, the deputy takes over, that the federal vacancy, the format the president used to put whitaker in there, only counts when there's something like the j justice department doesn't have. secondly, they say it's unconstitutional because to serve in a cabinet level office like this you have to be confirmed by the senate and they say there are a number of other people at the justice department including the deputy attorney general, solicitor general, that the president could have chosen and didn't and because he didn't, they say it's unconstitutional. they filed this, asked for a temporary restraining order. the judge could act without hearing from the other side but the other side we will probably hear from tomorrow because the justice department's legal counsel, we believe, will issue an opinion on if the president had authority to do this and i'm strongly suggesting it will be yes, they believe he could do this. and

different people go on many different shows saying many different things, that doesn't mean they are unqualified. in all fairness to matt whitaker, who again, i did not know, ok, other than through reputation. his reputation is excellent. in all fairness to him, he did some shows, so did many of the people you are talking about career and so did everybody you are talking about a permanent position. i think anybody looking at a permanent position in any department has done many shows. does that mean we cannot hire anybody come and we have to hire anybody that has not done a show? i don't think so. reporter: [indiscernible] president trump: say it again? you have to speak up. reporter: [indiscernible] florida recount. president trump: if you look at broward and palm beach, if you look at broward county, they have had a horrible history. and if you look at the person, in this case, the woman involved, she has had a horrible history. all of a sudden they are finding votes out of nowhere. and rick scott, who won, you know, it was close, but he won by a comfortable margin, every couple of hours it goe

different people go on many different shows saying many different things, that doesn't mean they are unqualified. no fairness to matt whitaker, who again, i did not know, ok, other than through reputation. his reputation is excellent. , he didairness to him some shows, so did many of the people you are talking about career and so did everybody you are talking about a permanent position. i think anybody looking at a permanent position in any department has done many shows. does that mean we cannot hire anybody come and we have to hire anybody that has not done a show? i don't think so. reporter: [indiscernible] president trump: say it again? you have to speak up. reporter: [indiscernible] florida recount. president trump: if you look at broward and palm beach, if you look at broward county, they have had a horrible history. and if you look at the person, in this case, the woman involved, she has had a horrible history. all of a sudden they are finding votes out of nowhere. , youick scott, who won know, it was close, but he won by a comfortable margin, i every couple of hours it goes down a little

. >> reporter: some in congress a those comments make him unqualifie to oversee the russia investigation. >> we know he was f chosenor the wrong reasons, because of his views on the russia probe. >> reporter: but even some who quesayon at poimt whitaker may see it differently now. to comeueller is goi in and brief him on the details of the investigation. and you a in a different place at that point. >> reporter: and the husband of white house adviser kellyanne , conweorge conway, co-writes a column with former solicitor general neil catchall saying under the constitution the jpresident can't maket anyone acting attorney general. >> principal officers like heads of departments have to be senate confirmed. and our founders put that in for a reason, because you don't want the president's lackey to be serving in such an important role. >> reporter: justice department ethics lawyers will now advise whitaker on whether he should recuse frointhe russia stigation. but there's no sign that he intends to. pete williams, nbc news, washington. (coughs) ♪ (coughs) (sneezes) for real cold and flu pr

. >> reporter: some in congress say that makes him unqualified to oversee the russia investigation. >> we know he was chosen for the wrong reasons, because of his views on the russia probe. >> reporter: but some say he could see it differently now. >> bob mueller is going to come in and brief him on the a different today, the husband of white house adviser kellyanne conway, george conway, co-writes a college with former solicitor general, saying under the constitution, the president can't just make anyone acting attorney general. >> principal officers, like heads of departments, have to be senate confirmed, and our founders put that in for a reason, because you don't want the president's lackey to be serving in such an important role. >> reporter: justice department ethics lawyers will now advise whitaker on whether he should recuse from the russia investigation, but there's no sign that he intends to. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has been hospitalized after suffering a nasty fall in her office. our andreanow with >> reporter: she'

oprah stumping for georgia's unqualified gubernatorial candidate. in florida jimmy buffet performing at a campaign event for gillum and nelson. on tv many other celebrities are telling you how they want you to vote. because they are celebrities! they always know everything. they are right. take a look. >> if somebody asked you what do you care about? what would you say? >> losing healthcare. >> equal pay. >> equal rights. >> what really matters to you? >> if you are worried about your pre-existing conditions. >> if you can't take another school shooting. >> civilitty. >> freedom of the press. >> all of our freedoms. >> do they matter to you? then vote! if you care about immigration and children taken away at the border. >> if gun reform matters. healthcare for young and old matters vote. >> if women's rights are human rights, then vote! don't lose hope. vote as if it matters because it does. >> on november 6th we are all in this together. >> sean: they forgot they want open borders and they liked obamacare and supported him. they never mentioned due

attacking well educated african-american candidates for being unqualified and spreading racist anti-immigrant ads. that would look weird to put it bluntly. >> with be best. >> be the best. if you have an approval rating that is higher than your husband's, wouldn't you think she would be an asset? if you think about first lady melania trump, you think about when she spoke at the convention and when she was found to page yarize michelle obama's words. there are albatrosses around her neck. the jacket that she wore. i really don't care, do you? people remember those things as well. she has a higher ark approv eerg and she softened people to an extent. the question is, is her asset now a liability for him. they don't have the greatest relationship. when she does this, people remember that. >> these past few weeks in pittsburgh, they were very hands on. >> that's true, but her last supreme before the pattial campaign was days before the election in pennsylvania and she spoke and it was very well received. she talked about being an immigrant and coming to this country and the anti-bullying part. th

there was no russian interference and when he has expressed ridiculous legal opinions he is totally unqualified and his only qualifications seem to be that he wants to be -- that the president wants him to be to destroy the mueller investigation. >> be that as it may, you know, you called his appointment illegal. the law in this case, it's the federal vacancy to replace the attorney general with any senior official serving in the same department as long as they are acting capacity for fewer than 210 days. >> yeah. >> he meets those requirements. >> well, i don't think so. there's very good constitutional law that regardless of the vacancy act you cannot have an attorney general or for that matter an acting attorney general that hasn't been confirmed by the senate. it may very well be tested in court. you have to ask the claimed attorney general for assurances he is not going to interfere with the investigation by mueller. the rule of law must be maintained. no official can be above the rule of law, not the president and that is -- and that is key. there has been the republicans in congress that

you appear to be unqualified to be the mayor. if that's the case, i should be the mayor. i object to the type of treatment and every excuse in the book not to take care of the problem. i've giving you tough love because i respect you. r-e-s-p-e-c-t, all my moves is important to me. r-e-s-p-e-c-t, this is what i have to do to make sure that breed takes care of her t.c.b. stop listening to people. scott weiner telling you to not take that money. for example, he put $44 million down on two different apartment buildings for homeless teachers. and you scrutinized the legislation. the schoolteachers have to be evicted from their apartment in order to start to homeless teachers recycle program all over again. quit listening to him, breed. how come you don't listen to that philosophy. >> president cohen: thank you, thank you. oh, honey, your 2 minutes are up. you're finished. come on, m.f.a. come on up. come on up. let's hear what you have to say. you've been here a very long time. thank you for being here. >> thank you, thank you. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i'm all

he's totally unqualified. 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. >> calls for whitaker to recuse himself keep growing and representative adam schiff who is set to lead the intelligence committee has this warning for whitaker. >> whether he's doing anything to interfere with the probe, mr. whitaker needs to understand that he will be called to answer and any role he plays will be exposed to the public. >> joining me now is democratic congressman steve cohen of tennessee and a member of the house judiciary committee. good day to you, sir. you heard congressman nadler and congressman schiff say whitaker will be held accountable, subpoenaed if he interferes with the special counsel's investigation. what is the first interview whitaker could be questioned about? >> well, i think right now we can question the basics of his appointment and that would be a legal action the senate would have to lead but in januar

totally unqualified. his only qualification seems to be that he wants to be -- the president wants him to be the hatchet man to destroy the mueller investigation. >> many republicans say those concerns are overblown. you don't recuse somebody because they have opinions different neenlt they are overseeing. mr. mueller will be able to do his job without political interest force by mr. whitaker. i think mr. whitaker is legally qualified to over see this investigation until the appoint of a new attorney general early next year. reporter: a bill expected to be pushed before the end of the year would protect mueller from getting fired. eric: president trump is on his way back to washington from france after paying tribute to those who fought and died during world war i. we'll recap his remarks. it's takes place at home for the 100th anniversary for the armistice that ended that war. coming up, the president and ceo of that museum will join us to talk about the significance of this day. but first a tribute at t

american people of a system of checks and balances, which is designed to protect against this kind of unqualified nominee. >> your case has been assigned to judge trevor and mcmadden. he's a trump appointee. you voted in favor of him. does this mean you will trust his ruling no matter what he do does? >> if he rules against us, we will appeal it, and i believe that we will win if this case goes to the united states supreme court. because there is no question that the highest law of the land, the united states constitution applies here, and the supreme court has an obligation to apply it, and make no mistake, what's at stake here is not just matt whittaker, but all of the decisions of the department of justice, the special council investigation. he's shown himself to be hostile to that investigation, he's provided a blueprint for strangling and stifling it. >> yes. >> and the stakes here are very high. >> he has, he said he thinks it's not worth anything. that he could starve it from money or someone in the role he now has, could starve it from money, it no longer exists. you're right about that,

election, but that is not collusion with the campaign >> reporter: some in congress say that makes him unqualified to oversee the russia investigation. >> we know he was chosen for the wrong reasons, because of his views on the russia probe. >> reporter: but even some who question the appointment say whitaker may see it differently now. >> bob mueller is going to come in and brief him on the details of the investigation, and you are in a different place at that point. >> reporter: and today, the husband of white house adviser kellyanne conway, george conway, co-writes a column with former solicitor general neil katyal, saying under the constitution, the president can't just make anyone acting attorney general. >> principal officers, like heads of departments, have to be senate confirmed, and our founders put that in for a reason, because you don't want the president's lackey to be serving in such an important role. >> reporter: justice department ethics lawyers will now advise whitaker on whether he should recuse from the russia investigation, but there's no sign that he intends to. pete williams,

a process for that, which is, because she's unaccounted for, she's unelected and essentially she is unqualified to make national security decisions, she goes directly to the person that got her to the white house, which is the president. this public shaming, though, is not -- it's not just embarrassing and shows the chaos, the outside world looks at all these decisions. you have the first lady upset about a slight. in the scheme of world drama, you know, an airplane -- who gets to sit on an airplane is not a big deal. going publicly out to get out -- when we don't know if she's been fired yet, the number two of the national security staff, this isn't some political hack, this isn't some campaign person. this is number two. of the apparatus that guides america's safety and security. she has -- you have john bolton is essentially should be in charge here. he's been bypassed by this tweet. the outside world, let alone the agencies, that work in national security are looking at this thinking, i mean, just like donald trump wants his march with the -- he calls them his generals and wants a march. an

he's unqualified. he's used to calling barack obama aikenian, would al kenyan terrible student. remember marco rubio, cuban-americans were ineligible to run for president. ben carson was otherized for his of seventh-day adventist religion. >> mitt romney. mormonism. >> he goes to this almost instinctively. so to see it in real time, i don't think that was planned. i don't think he planned to do h. i think as mark said, he was waiting for the crowd to fill in that blank. and when they didn't, he filled it in for them. but this is his playbook. >> you know what's fascinating? there is a case to be made. let's say you're donald trump. you could lead with the economy and talk a lot about the economy and tax cuts. that could be the center message here. look, i said i would do these things and i've done them. but his tendency as s.e. put it, his tendencies are not to that jobs well done thing. even though you could make that argument, you could argue, look, lower taxes, people like that. his tendency always is, remember what he said in his inauguration dress, this american carnage, ri

an unqualified good night for democrats. >> feeling like if they got six pick ups, that would be a good night. three would be a big prediction and they landed at six: they feel good with heart break over florida. heart break over ohio and they went in thinking they could win and we obviously called those the other way. big important states for 2020. they got wiped out during the obama years and this is a come back story for democrats. >> the view in the white house is they couldn't help it because the number was so large. they of course were going to lose the governorships. there was not anything else they could do. there was a sense they didn't focus enough on the governor's race. that was so crucial and longer lasting implications in the house and senate races. this is painful with the losses in kansas, pennsylvania and wisconsin. they were expecting florida not to go there. the white house was concerned about that this morning. that, kansas and georgia were the big concerns. michigan and pennsylvania will be painful going forward. >> georgia, we have a little bit of an update. stacey

stacey abrams, she's unqualified. >> the yale law graduate. >> maxine waters, low iq and attacks her even after the megabomber has her on the list of people that he almost tried to assassinate. he still doubled down on her intelligence. >> an rdrew gillum. >> after a while, you have to believe maybe it's not racially tinged, maybe he's racist. >> and he shows it consistently. >> you invoked taylor swift. i'll bring up amarosa. but a huge facet of that book was her search for that tape and having him saying the "n" word on tape was going to change this story more. how does this change anything.? >> i have no doubt the president used and uses the "n" word, no doubt. i think it would be titillating to hear it on a tape, but it doesn't change anything. you're right, the president is a racist. he shows us that all of the time. and it is so outrageously toe l horrible that we are shocked every time. thank god most of america has some human sensibility about ourselves. but, no, we know who and what he is. he shows us all the time. >> david, can i just -- >> please. >> i think we've all beco

and a large coalition of civil rights organizations because he is in a way because it was uniquely unqualified and unfit to serve in the federal judicial area. namely he has materially nominated, opposed because of a professional lifetime suppressing the vote. he defended an effort to dismantle, i should say, he defended the omnibus voter suppression bill or law in north carolina that the u.s. court of appeals said targeted black voters with surgical precision. he also defended congressional redistricting in which the supreme court found that .8 of those districts on target or suppressed racially jerry man mandsmand -- jergerrymandering black voters. >> farr did say hef was not at those meetings. you're clearly very opposed to him. we have seen protests during his hearings early on when he was first picked for this. what is the lobbying effort now. it seems like it's coming down to tim scott. he's not said, at least of 25 seconds ago which way he will vote on this. what are you and other groups doing to put pressure on senator scott, if anything? >> i think that senator scott has already poopp

the president called stacey abrams unqualified for that job in florida and on saturday used a similar attack against andrew gillum. >> andrew gillum is not equipped to be your governor. just not equipped. it's not for him, it's not for him. he knows it. he won't say it, but he knows it. we've got to keep this state great. otherwise it's going to be problems like you never imagined. oprah's good but the woman that she's supporting is not qualified to be the governor of georgia by any stretch of the imagination. brian is totally qualified. she is not qualified to be the governor of georgia, not qualified. >> he said you just simply weren't qualified to be governor. he didn't say why. how did you take that assessment? >> i find his assessments to be vapid and shallow. i am a business owner. i'm a tax attorney trained at yale law school. i am a civic leader who helped register more than 200,000 georgians. i'm a very accomplished political leader. i blocked the single largest tax increase in georgia history. there is no one more qualified standing for this office in georgia. >> as for geor

succession plan and the tradition of senate confirmed appointments to bring somebody in who is i think unqualified for the position but also does not have even a hint of advice and consent approval by the senate. if they get away with it in this circumstance, they can do it with other cabinet officers. >> the mueller investigation is on-going, there is urgency to your lawsuit. do you expect to get a ruling anytime soon? >> well, the government has the chance to answer and we of course have ability to ask for a temporary restraining order or injunctive relief at some point. at the moment, we simply filed a complaint asking for declaratory relief. we'll see if he recuses himself, whether he tries to interfere in the investigation. we're at least ready to go into court because the complaint has been filed, and we need to haef hear from the executive branch because i think they're going to defend against this. >> some republicans are uncomfortable with whitaker or question the legality of that appointment, trey gowdy is one. so is lindsey graham. you're laughing. why haven't you gotten any republicans

a fierce unqualified leader she has been under want to see her brought down by 20 or so rogue democrats in this. i think the argument for her losing the speakership would have been a lot stronger if democrats hadn't done as well in the midterm elections. she really did prove her worth, they are. >> melissa: let's listen to one of the democrats that said they would oppose her. no? >> not me! >> what? what happened? >> time and again, assemblywoman weber -- he has said numerous times that i have supported nancy pelosi. i don't support her. i put out a commercial saying i don't support nancy pelosi. >> melissa: is likely to be dicey, if she supports nancy pelosi? >> kennedy: i agree with the jessica. and forcefully come it's not anymore paid somebody says of their p.r. team he comes up with a good counter phrase like "having pounded all the evidence, i really don't want my soul crushed by --" but nobody's going to be very honest and say -- i hope she runs. i really do. you know what customer you should too. because it's much easier for the american people to get behind her because people d

that's an unqualified good. >> you had ayanna pressley on earlier. very impressive. i have a young lady on tonight who is one of two native-american candidates who won. there are a lot of firsts, especially for women. and if you look at some of the places that maybe -- georgia has not been called yet -- where people may perceive them as losses, they're losses because they didn't get into office, but they're real wins for this country when it comes to diversity. you have a woman of color in georgia, who could lose. who knows? had the opportunity pretty close to flipping a red state to blue. you had a man of color down in florida flipping a red state to blue. then you have a young, vibrant person in texas flipping a red state to blue. >> almost. >> almost. but that's what i'm saying. almost flipping it. that's progress, i think. >> it shows that it's closer together. there's a lot of division, but there's also common ground, and people all want better. >> yeah. i got a lot of folks sitting here tonight. >> much better than me. i don't know why you're wasting time with

a process for that, which is, because she's unaccounted for, she's unelected and essentially she is unqualified to make national security decisions, she goes directly to the person that got her to the white house, which is the president. this public shaming, though, is not -- it's not just embarrassing and shows the chaos, the outside world looks at all these decisions. you have the first lady upset about a slight. in the scheme of world drama, you know, an airplane -- who gets to sit on an airplane is not a big deal. going publicly out to get out -- when we don't know if she's been fired yet, the number two of the national security staff, this isn't some political hack, this isn't some campaign person. this is number two. of the apparatus that guides america's safety and security. she has -- you have john bolton is essentially should be in charge here. he's been bypassed by this tweet. the outside world, let alone the agencies, that work in national security are looking at this thinking, i mean, just like donald trump wants his march with the -- he calls them his generals and wants a march. an

matt whitaker is manifestly unqualified for this job. except that he serves the president's purpose of cutting by a thousand cuts, and dealing death to this investigation, it's the kind of slow motion saturday night massacre. >> my question about that is, what would -- obviously firing mueller, i think, would precipitate some kind of massive crisis, right? but it seems to me that should -- if you believe there's something untoward happening here with whitaker, that they're probably going to do something more subtle, how would your legislation protect that? >> the special counsel protection legislation would prevent the firing. but the legislation that we're contemplating would require complete disclosure of all the evidence and findings, so it would diminish the incentive for strangling this investigation. >> i see. >> it would also assure more funding so that the continuation of the present appropriation -- the money's been appropriated would be assured. >> so you don't have much leverage in the minority right now in the senate, far les

he's totally unqualified and the only qualification seems to be that he wants to be -- the president wants him to be the hatchet man to destroy the mueller investigation. >> be that as it may, you know, when you called whitaker's appointment illegal, the law in this case -- the federal vacancy reform act of 1988 authorizes the president to replace attorney general jeff sessions with any official as long as they're acting capacity fewer than 210 days. regardless of your opinion of mr. whitaker, he meets those requirements. >> well, i don't think so. regardless of the vacancy act, you cannot have an attorney general or for that matter an acting attorney general who has not been confirmed by the senate. anything he does is invalid. that may very well be tested in court. meanwhile, we have to ask the claimed attorney general for assurances that he's not going to interfere with the investigation by mueller because the rule of law must be maintained and no official can be above the rule of law. not the president. and that is key. there's been -- the republicans in congress have refused to

view, is that all of this is exactly what it looks like which is that croney and stooge, woe fully unqualified, looking into an inquiry. >> if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. this looks like obstruction to me. and his relationship between trump and whitaker is quite troubling. back during watergate we had el patrick gray, the head of the fbi, feeding information back to john dean so they could coordinate the coverup. you cannot have the department of justice sharing information with the target of an investigation or the subject or witnesses. that is what destroys an investigation and its credibility. and this just sounds exactly like the kind of thing that led to articles of impeachment against richard nixon. >> elliott, there's also the issue of the responses, and i want to get your take on this as well, maya. the responses have been submitted, interestingly enough, have nothing to do -- they're essentially asserting privilege over everything from the day he wins the election to anything in the presidency. nothing on the transition, nothing on the presidency, they'r

talking about the fact that the president of the united states has appointed somebody who is wholly unqualified purely on the basis of the fact that he has said publicly that he thinks there's no russian collusion or no russian involvement in this election. we know that's false. that he has said consistently that this is a discredited investigation that robert mueller should be if not outright fired starved of funding. the only reason he's sitting there is because he has auditioned on one criteria and one criteria only and is tthat that he's doing the bidding of the country and what's best for donald trump personally. that is a norm we have not seen since watergate. we know what happened with watergate when you had attorney general after attorney general stepping down because they were forced to. and you have the same situation here. it's unconscionable this is happen. >> so could robert mueller, knowing it was potentially an option to happen, and it has now happened, does he have all those indictments already sealed and ready to go and just send them out and they're ready to go? >> the same an

. >> it is never an unqualified strength. >> unless you're just stream of consciousness. rampell, how is that in any way an indication of how we're going to get along here? >> well, obviously it's not. but i think what we should bear in mind is that trump can hurl as many puerile insults as he wants to at adam schiff. schiff is still going to have subpoena power. like sticks and stones may break my bones, but calling me names won't reduce my ability to investigate you. >> that is not nearly as catchy as the original phrase. >> i know, but it's true in this case. >> i agree with you. it's not as good as crooked hillary. i agree with you guys. >> little adam schiff. i think the guy is like 6 foot. i don't know what the president's doing. but we got to be better than this. we got to be like you guys are. you don't agree, but you're intelligent. you're decent. you're accommodative of each other. you don't have to agree. you do it the right way, though. that's what we need more. what was that word you used? puerile. means boy. thank you so much. >> enjoy your mashed potatoes o