administrations. here is congressman pete king. the department of justice, i feel put out a very reasoned statement, very reasoned analysis why the whitaker appointment is valid and does not require senate confirmation. so again, i think this is a side issue of being thrown out there by the democrats. also a senior outgoing house republican urged the white house to name a permanent attorney general very soon arguing it will mute the debate over whitaker. it s an open legal question. there are good arguments on both sides but he is the acting attorney general up to and including the time the supreme court says otherwise, i m a lot more interested in who the next real attorney general is going to be. bill: whitaker gives a major public speech tomorrow at new york s joint terrorism task force and we ll look for any indicators there as to his position. sandra: thank you, catherine. bill: want to bring in jonathan turley the constitutional law professor at george washington univ
they have the pardon today. peas and carrots are the two birds from south dakota. peas weighs 39 pounds. carrot checks in at 41 pounds. i feel good about both of them. i like carrots, the favorite musical artist is elvis presley. sandra: i ll stick with carrots on the right, peas on the left. bill: nice hotel suite last night. sandra: getting a sense of the holidays. bill: here we go. sandra: after two recounts and controversy election officials are certifying the results in florida at this hour. phil keating is live in miami. good morning. good morning. now it is finally, finally over. the unprecedentedly close florida 2018 election has been certified. about 45 minutes ago up in tallahassee was the ceremony by the state canvassing commission
there are differences. in the clinton case you had a server housed in their house, there was serious questions of whether there was a truthful account. initially clinton said there was no classified information. there was in fact classified information. there was a ricks. the clinton people did not assist the state department when they were trying to find out what damage had been done. there are differences. but at the end of the day you still have to say or ask why? why would you do this? bill: classified information seems to be a higher bar. it is. bill: what the white house is saying is that this was in the early days and she was talking about schedules which kind of reminds you of hillary clinton s argument about the yoga schedule. the emails, i deleted them about any yoga schedule. the white house is saying it s not apples to apples. do you think it is? i don t think it is on all
nancy pelosi. 24 members of what s called the problem solver caucus are republicans and said they would vote for her if she supported a rule change package. what a bait and switch for voters who thought they would vote for democrats to get change. no, you get nancy pelosi once again. she lines people up for votes and raises money. this is supposed to be the party against the big money. nancy pelosi will get it because she raises the big bucks. bill: this letter they sent was political cover. there is a progressive wing of the party. when they campaign in the next election they can say we say we needed the leadership. she has the votes. a lot of people are making a big method about the speaker race. that s not the real issue. the new progressive wing of the party that will be just like the freedom caucus that will block things in committee. block things from going to the floor and both republicans and democrats are trying to stop those wings. party. bill: i thought we were the pro
points in an nfl game. which means the chiefs became the first team ever to score 50 points and lose. they combined for 14 touchdowns, bill, one more than the buffalo bills have scored the entire season. there are four lead changes. sandra: records broken all over the place. bill: you stayed up? what time did it end? after midnight eastern time. my dad said it was like watching ali/frazier. we ll have to wait and see if next year s white house correspondents will be entertaining. there won t be any comedy portion next year. the comedy portion is usually pretty polarizing. everything came to a head last year with michelle wolff criticizing sarah huckabee sanders. next year a historian will be speaking that inspired the