general, the person leading the department of justice article two, section two, clause two must be confirm by the united states senate. so the question is not whether mark whitaker is biassed. we know that he is. it s not against the investigation. it s not whether or not he s biassed against the justice department and the supreme court. we know he is. it s not just or whether or not he was part of some failed business that was shut down by the ftv just last year. we know he was. the question is not whether he is republican or democrat. the question is he there constitutionally? legally? and constitutional scholars say no. now, as we understand it, there are various people including mr. manafort and cohen and the others either with the
now for this week s gotcha. georgia secretary of state brian kemp ran against democrat stacy abrams for georgia s gubernatorial seat in tuesday s midterm elections, and it was hardly a fair race. from the onset there were concerns about mr. kemp s integrity. for months he refused to resign from a position that allowed him to oversee the very election he was running in. resigning just two days after the election when all the damage was done. and while in office, he purged over 53,000 predominantly african-american voters from voting rosters, closed hundreds of polling sites in high-poverty areas, and because of his strict voter i.d. laws, many has to use provisional ballots that have
trump, we re talking about wire fraud with manafort. the russians who were indicted will never be prosecuted. they re the true source of interest in this. we would love to speak to them, and so the idea that somehow those indictments and the president is a little bit of a stretch. but when you re talking about i don t think i said that. great. more interruptions. i m only clarifying what you said. you re so sensitive. but you re misquoting what i said. they didn t misquote me. no, i m not misquoting you. there have been indictments and there have been people that said they re going to cooperate. but go ahead. right. yeah. and those people are cooperating which is perfectly fine. i don t think that impugns the president s credibility on the mueller probe which is supposed to be about him clueding wiollu the russians. the idea that any person that is put over the investigation in an oversight capability, unless they re a die in the wool
people, when you think of 1.4 million people, the last time rick scott won the governorship in 2014, he won by less than 70,000 votes. as we ve seen with women and black folks in this country, it may take a few terms to get folks who have never enjoyed access finally into the process. one of the things i said touring the skmurcchurches and g people to vote on this is that you got to now go back and register them. we ve got to go back. whether they vote republican or democrat, they must be enfranchised because how do you restore them if you don t restore them to full citizenship. how much access to they get to reentry services because they re dealing with transportation issues. if you re an hourly wage worker, can you get time off to go vote.
meanwhile next door in georgia, stacy abraham is refusing to bow to pressure for brian kemp to concede in the state s race for governor saying that thousands of provisional ballots. president trump returns to washington with just six weeks before a historic democrat majority in the house starts flexing his muscles and later i ll talk about that with democratic national committee chair, tom perez, about where the party expects to start. joining me now, american family radio host stacy washington, as i understand indicated talk show host and author, bill press, and new york times columnist and msnbc contributor, michelle goldberg. let me start with you, michelle.