thought the mueller investigation was illegal and out of bounds and he had prescribed ways for essentially thwarting it and one gets the distinct feeling he is there for that purpose. maybe he won t do that, but there are other things that have come up that relate to the other things on your list that are disturbing because he s written and spoken about the court system as an inferior branch of government. right. he thinks marbury was improperly decided. and if he s advising the president on the constitutionality of the things he s doing, we re in for rocky moments here. on to the next one. i m sorry for the whiplash but a lot to cover and i want your take on that all. trump is alleging.
to make sure something like this doesn t happen again. we don t know how this will play out until the next step of the progress. i see hanging chads in my head, ryan. thanks for the update. we ll check in with you later in the show but right now, the other headline. a republic, if you can keep it. with his back against the wall, the president reembarked on an all too familiar campaign to undermine and cast out on american institutions because he didn t lose control of the house. america did. almost as soon as the results were in, trump questioned the validity of the u.s. elections. unleashing a storm of tweets in the past 48 hours, without any evidence, accused election officials in florida and arizona of fraud. on wednesday, he turned his attention on the mueller investigation firing his own attorney general, jeff sessions, for failing to be his dutiful stooge at the department of justice. in his place, trump bypassed the similarly principled number two rod rosenstein and instead,
announcing the appointment of matthew whitaker as acting attorney general. coincidental coincidentally, i m sure whitaker has been a vocal critic of the mueller investigation which he ll now be charged with overseeing. next in the path of trump tornado, the president turned his wrath towards the prez for daring to ask him questions. after a chaotic press conference on wednesday, the white house pulled the press pass of cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta. when asked if acosta s pass would be permanently revoked, trump doubled down by saying more press passes could be pulled in the future. i think jim acosta is a very unprofessional man. he does this with everybody. he gets paid to do that. he gets paid to burst in. as far as i m concerned, i haven t made that decision, but it could be others also. he also fired away at a pbs reporter calling her racist and another cnn reporter calling her
hopeful about what the next weeks and months are going to bring. so the first thing the president did when it was clear the republicans would keep the senate was fire jeff sessions because he could. now, some are saying not to worry, the mueller investigation will be just fine. democrats will have options. are you worried about the integrity of that investigation? i think everybody has to be worried about it because i think the reason that, you know, mr. whitaker was not the first, second, third or fourth person you d think of, there is actually a succession system in place that would have called for the deputy attorney general to be the acting attorney general, perhaps the solicitor general and there is a prescribed roster to choose from. instead, he got plucked out of semi-obscurity and now we know that he auditioned for this role on cnn by speaking about how he
we all know why he fired him because sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. are you worried about the precedent this could set for another president who might be a democrat? no, i think there s really been bad blood between the president and his choice for attorney general jeff sessions for a while. fair. certainly, it has always rubbed the president the wrong way that sessions recused himself and i think sessions recusal was overbroad but not inappropriate. okay. he calls now for whitaker to recuse himself are baseless and silly, frankly. the reason. the reason i asked. the reason sessions recused himself. first, answer the question i asked because we ll get to that to and i want your thoughts on whitaker but the question i asked was, are you worried that firing the ag under these circumstances and replacing him with someone who is hostile to