because he s been dozens of times into the white house and the oval office and so forth, but because this is such an important and pivotal decision that any president would make. the attorney general is one oey. to go outside of normal protocol it would be one thing if this was the deputy who steps up and takes the top position in the normal course of business. but the president changed the normal line of succession. so he clearly knows who this person is. and i think trying to distance himself now is mostly because of the bad press that is coming out because apparently the white house did not properly vet the nominee before he was named by the president. joey, let s talk about constitutionality. george conway, husband of kellyanne conway, co-wrote a piece for the new york times. here s the total, trump s appointment of the acting attorney general is unconstitutional. is it? well, look, he certainly has an argument to that point.
lot of very damaging information will come out. whether or not it leads to impeachment or removal or even political problems if the president seeks re-election remains to be seen. errol, let s stick with this whitaker storyline for a moment. i want to stay with you about whether the president knows him or not. the president said yesterday and tweeted on his fleet to his flight to paris he doesn t know matt whitaker, the man he appointed to head up the department of justice. a month ago he said not only did he know him but he s a great guy. two things here. cnn s reporting and reporting from others that whitaker s been in the white house dozens of times, including in meetings with the president. the two have spoken by phone. and also really how does did help the president to say that he does not know the man he just appointed to be the acting attorney general of the united states? yeah. look, it s literally inconceivable that the president simply doesn t know him. not only because
called a liar. and with each passing month, we get closer and closer to judgment day. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. good morning to you. the president is in paris, leaving behind the turmoil in washington right after the midterms. as washington worries his washington worries seem to follow him on the other side of the ocean. the wall street journal is reporting president trump was involved in hush-money payments on stormy daniels and karen mcdougal know who allegedly had affairs with him. acting attorney general matt whitaker has ties to a florida company being investigated by the fbi. the same agency he oversees. i want to show new pictures of president trump and president macron there in france where in a few minutes they re going to have lunch with each other,
interpreting the constitution it takes judges to do that. and when you have a stacked federal bench depending upon who this gets in front of and if it goes to the supreme court, i m not suggesting the supreme court by nature is political, but people have conservative ideologies and philosophies. i think that the sense of the president appointing judges would be so that they would protect him. if it ends up going that far, you know, i believe that he could certainly be protected there, as well. errol, an interesting element on this whitaker appointment. majority leader mitch mcconnell said that he expects that whitaker will be a quote here a very interim a.g. now, the president says there s no rush to name a nominee for the permanent position. but senate republicans, as we know, have not been quick to check this president or provide that oversight. but historically, when it comes to usurping their role of advise and consent on these nominees, they draw a line. what do you make of
the issue is the mueller investigation itself. even if this is an appointment for a limited period of time, the hope is that he could be of assistance, whitaker, with getting the mueller investigation off the table, done, conclude united states, a concluded and gone. and then who you appoint after that is not as significant because the reason he fired jeff sessions is because he thought jeff sessions should be his personal guy to protect him and should not have recused himself from the investigation. here we are. thank you both. thank you. thank you, victor. the wildfires in california, they could have an impact on sunday s nfl action. we have a previepreview. vince? reporter: the los angeles rams and oakland raiders are hoping to play through the deadly fires. we ll tell you how teams are adjusting given the fires and the smoky conditions, as well.