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Nominated but importantly the senate has confirmed to justice positions. whittaker has none of that. >> if he wanted to put somebody an active member confirmed in the justice department by the senate, thats fine but somebody who never has been confirmed elevating him to the highest justice position in the land, that you say is legal? >> thats correct. the attorney general has awesome powers. the power to put somebody to death or supervise the solicitor general or 94 u.s. prosecutors all senate c...

Will, you would be raising hell over this. and shouting from the rooftops. >> i wouldnt. heres why. our founding fathers, in their wisdom, they gave us a mechanism to oversee and supervise excesses of the executive branch and that is the legislative branch and by the way, the people just spoke yesterday and the new democratic house -- >> the new legislative branch said they were happy. this seems like 12 eons ago. but they were happy -- >> the constitution says that the legislature is the one to...

Seen in 100 years. it will write about the fact that unitary government in washington is now over and for the first time in trumps political life one branch of government or half of one branch of government is controlled by the opposition party. and that will be the thing that should be the headline out of last night, what the history books write about, and the consequences for donald trumps political agenda and certainly his own and entire cabinets need to lawyer up. >> a record amount of women...

It will write about the fact that unitary government in washington is now over and for the first time in trumps political life one branch of government or half of one branch of government is controlled by the opposition party. and that will be the thing that should be the headline out of last night, what the history books write about, and the consequences for donald trumps pl political agenda and certainly his own and entire cabinets need to lawyer up. >> a record amount of women elected. before...

Nevada, as well y. are those important? talking about a midwest rejection of president trump. states he won. another crucial 2020 state. mixed results. democrats happy certainly in the midwest. not happy about what happened in florida, georgia, and ohio, guys. >> thank you very much. back with us, we have david gregory, jeff zeleny, nina turner, and alice stewart. in terms of the governors races, lets focus in on florida. that was so high profile. david, with andrew gillum, is there anything -- ...

Terms, very much unlike what we saw from the former fbi director jim comey in the run up to 2016. now a lot of democrats are saying it is mueller time and wondering what the special counsel is going to do. and when the hammer comes down -- when you talk to people inside the white house and the presidents political circle, they are still very much worried about the russia investigation. they still think that the president needs to get rid of jeff sessions and rod rosenstein. there are some who ar...

Now of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein leaving the white house. we just saw him. he was at the white house. were not exactly sure why he was there. were told it was for a previously arranged meeting. although, obviously, eyebrows being raised at his presence at the white house right now. josh, knowing what you know about bob mueller, would this change anything from his focus on the russia investigation? >> so its not going to change bob muellers focus. but he may not be the person making ...

Regardless. so although its very impactful now and certainly one that was meant to denigrate not only jeff sessions and rod rosenstein and to subordinate them immediately, it can be reversed. the question is, what will he do in the interim. >> josh campbell, how do you see it? >> two things. first of all, if you think about all of the issues that the justice department deals with, all of the cases under their purview, all of the crimes, there is singularly one investigation that the president ca...

50.3%. 49.7%. but it is tightening in the past few minutes. its tightened pretty dramatically. >> you know whats interesting about this, the conventional wisdom is andrew gillum, because he was a more exciting candidate according to the pundits was helping nelson and pulling nelson across the finish line although we obviously dont know whos going to get across the finish line first. right now, nelson actually has more votes than gillum so perhaps that conventional wisdom, like so much convention...

Ballot initiatives were made for marijuana. and there were big decisions overnight on that front. we have the reality check on all the ballot issues. >> thats the only one you care about, isnt it? >> i feel like its the only one you hear about it. every two years its on the ballot again. >> the wisdom of the people overrides the state legislatures. an interesting result. yeah, marijuana legalization and felon voting rights, redistricting reform. those are some of the issues that passed in electi...