candidates. right. it was an amazing night. and it s full of enthusiasm to take our country back from the chaos that this president is causing his complete disregard for the constitution as is evidenced by his appointment of mr. whitaker. donald trump is effective at certain things. he s more effective than some people initially realized. but the notion that he is a political mastermind was really 81 cut last night. this was the first time we seen him work with the difficulty of mid-terms. as i mentioned, you have been through it. rachel maddow is speaking object that and his hand-picked mid-term candidates failed. presidentially endorsed katie arlington lost that seat. trump endorsed senator dean heller last night lost his re-election race. trump endorsed candidate danny targetanian he lost that race. he announced his full and total endor
and george conway. it s an op-ed that makes the case that whitaker s appointment is unconstitutional. noting that because he reports directly to the president and himself not senate confirmed tr another appointment at all, his last confirmation is 2004, it s a pretty compelling read. basically it says any action that he takes would be challenged on unconstitutional grounds. i have a couple reactions to that. number one, neil is is a lot smarter than me. number two, i think that their argument is intention with the vacancy reform act, which i read as permitting this appointment. you do? how? there are exceptions when someone resigns or is disabled. sessions resigned. for it to be filled by people with certain criteria.
. congressional democrats are warning of a saturday nit massacre making a bold and in your face move to demand an emergency hearing on the replacement of mathieu whitaker. jerry nadler joins me in a moment. he is asking for him to recuse because he has this well documented hostility putting the investigation at grave risk. two source close to whitaker tell the washington post he has no intention of doing that. leaders are sending another letter demanding they preserve the key documents relative to mueller in the firing of sessions. a lot of officials put on notice. we remind you that concealing, removing or destroying the documents itself could constitute a crime. thank you for joining me tonight. are you in the middle of it. you are not waiting. why did you come out swinging
lynn jones me right here on the beat. good to joan you, ari. let me play the sound the viewers are playing for the first time, which is trump picked someone to be acting attorney general who said russian interference did not even occur. what is your reaction to that? is he wrong and does that affect his ability to oversee this probe? well, i associate myself with the views that your previous guest at a minimum there is a horrible appearance here that in and of itself should cause mr. whitaker to request an ethics opinion, to tee up the process for obtaining an ethics opinion to assess he has an appearance that the disabling and as to which he should recuse himself. as a practical matter, we all know that s not going to happen the reason he was happened picked on this job, unmistakably he gave an opinion to the president under no circumstances would we have a recusing of
permanently. that s what would happen. if you want to per nerm lent, you have to audition to the senate. and also i just think the more i learn about matt whitaker, the more concerned i am about him. reading his comments about the foundational case in which the supreme court in 1803 determined that it was the duty of the supreme court to say what the constitution means and what the law is. he was asked this a debate when he was a senate candidate what are the worst cases the supreme court has done. he said let s begin. this is not within the mainstream of legal thinking. let s begin with dread scott. it s probably one of the most important ever decided. let me bring up what may be the real motive here. that is, in recent days don jr. has been telling friends he s worried about being indicted as early as this week.