About muellers russia probe. Another recount after a blizzard of losses in florida. Razor thin margins in two of tuesdays most of closely watched contests. I will not stand by while unethical liberals try to steal this election. Chris governor rick scott joins us live in a fox news exclusive. As the democrats win the house, nancy pelosi once again eyes the speakers gavel. Well ask our sunday panel where to look for cooperation and confrontation. On this veterans day, our power player of the week. Last surviving marine from world war ii to receive the medal of honor. I keep saying i am not the hero. The heroes didnt get home. Chris hello again from fox news in washington. President trump this paris on this veterans day, marking 100 years since the end of world war i. The celebration of peace comes as the president faces new turmoil at home. Divided government on capitol hill. Open hostilities with the press. And controversy over his appointment of acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker. First john roberts traveling with the president in paris. Reporter President Trump began his day in paris gathering with leaders gathered to commemorate the armistice. Emmanuel macron ripped the nationalism President Trump has embraced. Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism by saying ours first, who cares about the others. We erase what a nation holds dearest, what makes it great and what is essential. Its moral values. Reporter it was the second time macron spoke out about trumps policies, calling form a true european army. President trump called thats comment insulting. Russian president Vladimir Putin was on hand for the ceremonies, briefy shaking hands with President Trump. The u. S. Nixed plans for a summit with putin during the summit. But they will talk at the g20 in buenos aires. Reporter after the summit the president will head back to the United States. Hell skip the first day of the peace forum. Chris . Chris john thank you. Lets bring in Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president. Welcome back to fox news sunday. Lets start with the president s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general. Here is what he said about whitaker friday and what he said about him last month. President trump i dont know Matt Whitaker. He worked for Jeff Sessions. I can tell you Matt Whitaker is a great guy. I know Matt Whitaker. Chris does the president know naught whitaker and did he know before appointing him that he was a critic of the special counsels investigation. Kellyanne the president has gone the to know him the last year as he was work at the department of justice for 13 months as cheech of staff to attorney general sessions. The president has dealt with Matt Whitaker in many different situations in the white house. I watched them interact. I watched in whitaker brief the president. Chris did he know he was such a sharp why it i can of the Mueller Investigation. Kellyanne i am not aware of that. Its not clear to me that in whitaker has been briefed on the Mueller Investigation. He was chief much staff to a recused attorney general. Its the Deputy Attorney general and his chief and his team who has been overseeing the Mueller Investigation. If you are talking. Naught whitakers stants as a private citizen a year and a half ago i dont think that disqualifies somebody from being the chief Law Enforcement officer at the department of justice which is an executive function. Chris whitaker has had a lot to say about mueller. Here he is about a possible way to shut down the special counsel. I can see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesnt fire bob mueller, but he reduces the budget so low the investigation grind to almost a halt. Chris here is whitaker on mueller looking into President Trumps finances. I think that is a red line. Its beyond the scope of the letter the Deputy Attorney general issued and appointed director mueller as special counsel. Chris and here is whitaker on the centerpiece of the entire investigation. The truth is, there was no collusion with the russians in the trump campaign. Chris given what seems to be you say he hasnt been briefed since he came in. But his predisposition on the investigation, how can he fairly oversee it now and specifically if he were to block a mueller subpoena of the president or decide he would not send a full special counsel report to congress, would the president back him on that . Kellyanne we are so far past the period where those comments were made by whitaker as a private citizen. Since then and during the course of this investigation which has gone on over a year and a half and cost taxpayers over a million dollars. 1. 4 million pieces of paper have been produced in compliance with the Mueller Investigation requests. 33 trumpassociated witnesses and counting. Even people he says he doesnt know, have been called before mr. Smaller as i understand it. It is the. Mr. Mueller as i understand it. This is about russia collusion. Chris forgive me. Its different from what the president said from what whitaker says when he is overseeing the investigation. So the question is, given his predisposition against it, can he fairly oversee it and if he decides to limit or block the Mueller Investigation because he can as the acting attorney general, will the president back him . Kellyanne the president said he has not discussed the muler investigation with whitaker. He made that clear other day. I have never been witness to them discussing it. It would be a mistake to shut down the Mueller Investigation in the way you describe it because we have been so compliant. There were people out there, democrats, sit tight because he wont be in office very long. Well find the electors, recount in michigan and wisconsin, or well impeach him. Guys, get used to it. If there is proof of collusion, we are waiting to look at the final report. The gentleman overseeing the investigation, Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein has called Matt Whitaker a quote superb choice to be acting as attorney general. People working with him feel confident he can be the chief Law Enforcement officer at the department of justice. The department of justice does many important things to this country that dont involve bob mueller and this investigation. Chris i understand that. But this is the specific area where people are interested, than is a controversy about whitaker, and there is a controversy about whether his appointment as acting attorney general is even legitimate, and your husband George Conway joined with a former obama official to write this in the new york times. Its unconstitutional its illegal. Anything mr. Whitaker does, or tries to do, in that position is invalid. Here is what the president said about it friday. President trump you mean mr. Kellyanne conway . Hes just trying get publicity for himself. Why dont you do this. Why dont you ask kellyanne that question. Chris following the president s direction. Is your husband wrong about the constitutionality of it . Is he just trying to get publicity. And how do you have feel about your husband so frequently, publicly criticizing your boss . Kellyanne it dot doesnt affect me or my job. People argue about the constitution every day. Thats why we have a Circuit Court system and a supreme court. He and his coauthor have one opinion and the president and his attorneys have another. I offer my advice to the president in private. I dont need to put it on the opinion pages because im counselor to the president. The president and his attorneys are convinced that there are at least three or four ways this appointment does pass muster. Under the constitution through the vacancies act. Also this a statute passed and a 2003 department of justice opinion about this. I think in Kellyanne Conway comment is instructive. Because people describe my husband as Kellyanne Conways husband and dont describe him by his first name. So i am sure the feminists are cheering me on, an independent strongwilled woman in a powerful position who disagrees with her husband. Chris he disagrees with you. Lets move on to the midterm elections and the agenda. President trump talked about finding ways to work with nancy pelosi, the likely speaker of the house and with the democratic majority, unless they start investigating him. Here is the president. Can you compartmentalize that and continue to work with him for the benefit of the rest of the country or are all bets off . President trump no, if they do that, its just a warlike posture. Chris some president s have been able to compartmentalize. Kellyanne you should plate other clip of the president where he said there are a few areas where he says they could work on, he mentioned trade and immigration. I spoke to the president this morning. He called from paris. We dont want to go backwards on these economic gains. President trump thursday answered 68 questions from 32 reporters. And this president , he just stand there and holds forth taking question after question. He says hell work on infrastructure, and immigration. But thats a question for the democrats, too. Are they going to be investigating or legislating. Chris they say they are going to do both. You brought up the press conference. That brings me to my final subject. The infamous confrontation with jim acosta. I want to ask you about two responses by the white house. First to tweet a video that was clearly altered to make it look like it was more of a physical confrontation than it really was, and second to pull acostas pass to get into the white house and threaten to do that to other reporters. Kellyanne what do you mean by edited or doctored video. He either put his hand on her and grabbed the mic back or he did not. Chris but it was speeded up. Kellyanne thats not altered. They do that all the time in sports to see if there was a touchdown. I disagree with the description of his video being doctored. He should have apologized to that young aide, and as far as i know he has not. Im more interested in the work of alex acosta than jim acosta. But what the president said friday is instructive. You have to show respect to the white house and the presidency, and certainly to the president. I think wha what what acosta dis very unfair to the rest of the express corps. Chris if a reporter writes a story that the president doesnt like, if a Reporter Asks a question the president doesnt like, are you saying its fair to pull their pass and prevent them from getting access to the white house . That strikes at the heart of freedom of the press. Kellyanne if what you just described was the standard we would have cleared out the entire building years ago. He gets a lot of unfair treatment by the press. The disrespect at the moment in that incidents. I will disagree with you. As a woman who has had people put their hands on knee, i am currently deciding whether to press charges on an incidents that happened last month. I dont like him pulling that mic back. And doing on her arm what looked like a karate chop. The president answered his questions and he was moving on to the next question to nbc. He was standing ready to pose that question, and he wanted to move on to give other outlets an opportunity to ask their questions. Chris i agree with that. Telly ann, thank you. Thanks for your time this weekend answering our questions. Chris what does the split decision in the mid terms mean for the president s agenda. [ phone rings ] what . ready for christmas . No, its way too early to be annoyed by christmas. You just need some holiday spirit thats it this feud just went mobile. With xfinity xfi you get the best wifi experience at home. And with xfinity mobile, you get the best wireless coverage for your phone. Youre about to find out you dont even know where i live. Hello see the grinch in theaters by saying get grinch tickets into your xfinity x1 voice remote. A guy just dropped this off. Hehehehe. I just heard the news. And i say this. Protecting mueller and his investigation is paramount. Chris Senate Minority leader schumer reacting to the appointment of Matt Whitaker. Our panel, marie harf, and josh holmes, your thoughts on Matt Whitaker, i dont know if you want to weigh in on the constitutionality of his appointment. Do you think the president put him in that spot given the statement he made to limit or block the Mueller Investigation. Rich the appointment is legal under statutes. The question is whether the statute is constitutional. A lot of the things being thrown at him is nonsense its not a problem he has a relationship with the president or said discouraging things about the mueller probe. The big thing is he served on the board of the scam patent company which is extraordinary for a highlevel Justice Department official to have done. Chris congresswoman harman, some of your former democratic colleagues in congress are calling this a constitutional crisis before whitaker does anything. This morning on one of the other shows Chuck Schumer is saying he must recuse himself. Do you think they are overreacting. Jane lets say a fond farewell to Jeff Sessions. I am the tomorrow one to say it so im saying it on armistice day. Hes a patriotic american who is a devout conservative and served his constituency well. His service in the Justice Department was applaud by at least three former attorneys general. The only reason he could possibly have been appointed was to shrink and starve the Mueller Investigation. Rod rosenstein has not been cite sides for any of the other things he has been doing. Chris there was a question about whether he wanted to use a wire. Jane thats fair, fair and balanced. But back to this, i think hell be a shortterm appointment. I think he wasnt vetted. I think the white house did this impulsively like it does many things. Somebody is in the wings. But the logic would have been to make rosenstein the acting attorney general. Chris your former boss says he wont allow legislation to pass legislation to protect the Mueller Investigation. If whitaker blocks a subpoena by mueller. He could decide if hes still in the job to take the final report to mueller. What do you think it reaction would be in the senate. Josh the reaction would be horrible. But i think one of the reasons why mcconnell thinks its unnecessary is because it is. What we have seen the last year and a half, the United States and the congress allowing his investigation to go through. You now have a Democratic House of representatives. This has been operating since may 17, 2017. The idea that you can have Matt Whitaker or anybody else just show up and shut this down belies the fact we have accumulated a year and a half of information. Nobody is going to shut this down and i think mueller will conclude this. Chris the friday after a big midterm election. The democrats have taken back the house, and it looks like nancy pelosi will be the speaker of the house. Here is how pelosi reacted to President Trump and talking about the fact the democrats are going to proceed object two fronts. He said lets talk. Im sure we can come teen agreement on some things. We have an obligation to try to find Common Ground it, our constitutional responsibility to be a check on the executive branch. And have oversight on the agencies of the executive branch. And we fully intend to implement that. Chris marie, how much Serious Business do you think the House Democrats will be able to do with the president. I want to deal with you, but if you start investigating, we are dead. Marie the House Majority is getting great. The blue wave is getting bigger than it looked like tuesday night. I think on issues like criminal just firs justice reform, democrats in the house will vote on bills, send it to the senate and they will put the onus on the senate and the president. Voters said they want more accountability for the trump administration. We have seen that in every administration. The house and senate have that constitutional role and didnt use it the last two years. I think the investigations will be strategic and specific. It wont be impeach, impeach, impeach, unless mueller comes up with something thats earth shattering. The ball will be in the senate and President Trumps court to show whether they want to govern or just obstruct. Josh this is not the same democratic conference nancy pelosi led in 20062010. All the energy is in the impeach trump, in the abolish i. C. E. Movement. The radical leftwing economy of the world. Which is medicare for all. If we think any of those will go across to the senate and die anything but a lonely death. Chris there does seem to be some agreement like infrastructure. Is there the basis for a deal there . Can congress and the president walk and chew gum at the sa