Line with actions taken by past president s. Meanwhile, President Trump is in an exclusive interview with our own chris wallace, saying he will not get involved with the Decision Making when it comes to oversight of the special counsel investigation. But he was not aware of acting ag whitakers criticism of the probe. I did not know that. I did not know he took views on the mueller investigation. And there was no collusion . He said that you can starve the investigation there is no collusion. If whitaker decides in any way to limit or curtail the mueller investigation, are you okay with that . Its going to be up to him. I think hes very wellaware politically. I think hes astute, politically. I think hes a smart and well respected person. Hes going to do whats right. But you wont overrule him if you decides to curtail . I will not get involved. All these people that say im going to and the investigation, theyve been saying it now for how long has this gone o on . Harris the top democrat on the intelligence committee, adam schiff, found to vowed to chale appointment. I think its unconstitutional. Hes clearly a principal officer and the fact that hes temporary doesnt mean its any less subject to senate confirmation. He needs to know that if he takes any action to curb what mr. Mueller does, we are going to find out about it and expose it. I would certainly call on my colleagues right now to avoid the constitutional crisis, take action now. Speak out against this appointment. Harris the president to responding this week a tweet misspelling congressman schiffs name. He was not only approved by the senate, neither was bob mueller, who was highly convicted. Meanwhile, the top democrat Elijah Cummings has vowed to make a final report from muellers investigations to make it public. What the public has said is that they want accountability. They want transparency. They have paid for an investigation by one of our greatest public servants, mr. Mueller. Special counsel miller. So, i would do anything and everything in my power to have the findings presented not only to the congress but to the people of the United States. Harris the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, Lindsey Graham, says hes not worried about whitaker but he would like to see a vote on a bill to protect the special counsel. Jeff flake says not going to support judges until we get a vote on the mueller protection bill, which i wrote, by the way. Some people think its unconstitutional. I feel good about it. I think the best thing the senate could do is just bring this bill to the floor. Having said all that, i dont see any indication at all that the Mueller Probe is going to be interfered with by mr. Whitaker or President Trump. Harris wow, theres a lot going on there. Lawrence a couple things first of all, heres what the democrats are trying to anticipate. Just allow it to happen. If you decides to fire him, then you guys can take action. Harris what do you do with senator graham . He agrees. He writes the legislation. Lawrence lets get to that. Between Lindsey Graham and jeff flake, thats not their job to do that. They are not over the executive branch prayed for them to hold up judicial appointments, to say lets protect bob mueller, you dont run that branch of government. If the president decides to fire him, and they believe its because of some type of corruption, then you can impeach the guide. We dont just get to say let me get involved with your executive branch. You could provide oversight, but your job is not to decide who is protected or not. Thats the president s authority. Agree with it or not. Harris jessica . Jessica i dont see with the big deal is. Theres a lot of legislation that makes people feel good, that gets passed all the time. Usually its bipartisan. What does that hurt the president or the members of congress or the senate were not interested in protecting bob mueller to just sign the thing, if theres no wearing that the president is going to be firing bob mueller . Also, Bobby Bob Mueller was cod by the senate. Because it has an oddly spelled expletive in it, as well, which talk about decorum, its a pretty low blow talking about a sitting congressman and using that kind of language. Lawrence to be clear, it is his right. Kennedy isnt that unbecoming of United States editor . Jessica on air i think its unbecoming for it i dont think the president to be lecturing us about decorum and then going and doing some thing like that. If you want to be taken seriously, he could spell the name crackly. Harris i want to make it clear, i wasnt struggling over that word. [laughter] jessica oui neo harris kennedy, this is interesting to me i am leaving on you to try and explain it. A lot of people were in disagreement over what the exact ruling should be, here. How it pertains to the constitution. Kennedy as far as whitakers appointment . Harris and white can be temporary. A member when we thought he was going to quit . Jeff sessions . We didnt know if Rod Rosenstein was going to quit, and looked like they were all going to quit that week. The conversation turns to come if you makes appointments, wheres the argument over it then . Hes allowed to do that. Then you have a set confirmation on the permanent guy. When did the script to flip the question mike kennedy i dont know, man the whole thing its all about each side digging in. Adam schiff doesnt want because he wants to make sure theres an impeachment that comes out of it. His biggest fear is not that the federal government run smoothly and effectively and the branches keep each other in check . Its because he jockeys for a position gives the advantage. If he does complete the investigation and launches some sort of either finding or an impeachment process is taken up by the house, thats one thing. I agree with Elijah Cummings. Whenever this report is finished, i think it should be made public. I think all of the stuff should be made public prayed adam schiff has been so guilty of this things his parties benefit in order to increase his profile. Devin nunes stated on the right. Lawrence and he wants to launch his own investigation. Remember, for months now, they said just protect bob mueller. A love investigation to go through. Now you want your own investigation why . Harris it will be interesting to see how they feel about that in the democrat side. Is this the droid they were looking for chris an end want to talk you about that part to sit with the president , they talked about the written answers from the president to bob mueller. Lets take a watch. Im preparing written answers. Im the one who does answer. Yes, are they writing them out . Yes. They are writing what i tell them to write. Will he be submitted . At some point very soon. I completed them. Is that your final position, that there will be no sitdown interview and nothing . Written or in person, on obstruction question mike i would say, probably. Probably. I can change my mind, but probably. I think we have wasted enough time on this witch hunt. The answer is, probably. We are finished. Harris melissa . Melissa he is so disappointed. He gets witch hunt in every single time he talks about it. Thats staying on message of what you want to do. To me, i was kind of surprised to hear the sentence. I think thats the end of it. Im surprised to hear that they are done with it, ready to turn them in. That is that. For me, the first time, i dont think i have said this yet because i never believe that the probe is ever coming to an edge. But its starting to feel like it might be in the end, which would be amazing. The whitaker thing, i dont understand why it would be so easy just to say forget it, lets go to somebody else. Its not worth fighting over the interim. But, then you signal weakness, that you are not up for the fight. Democrats are clearly going to fight over everything. They find a reason to oppose him. Do you think do surprised him by saying no, and finally, on the decorum thing, im going to vomit on the next person on either side that says decorum. No one in politics has any decorum any longer. When you get upset, everybodys outraged and screaming everywhere. Harris how dare you . Kennedy i have friends that think that language, then they are upset with the president start something or when he finishes something, but people are so eager whether its Elizabeth Warren or adam schiff do the exact same thing. Tom perez and Kristin Harris but it wasnt just tom perez, he was calling other people in the party lets just kennedy lets use curse words melissa decorum is out the window. Its out the window. Harris you were one of the few people when the kavanaugh confirmation hearing was going on, when you said before any of the other things came about, this is earlier. Right after he had been nominated by the present. You said if hes going to be somebody who we get stuck on as a country, move on. Then he doubled back and said, no, its about the fight. Melissa i guess this is the same thing. I barely know this guy. You cant just back down, because everything is a fight right now. Its ridiculous. Lawrence i think the president what makes him what makes American People like him is the fact that he is who he is. As your point, to the decorum thing. Melissa [laughs] lawrence nobodys acting diplomatic. But the president never pretended to be diplomatic. Thats why people respected. They dont like them, but at least they know he is who he is. Harris hes genuine. Jessica can i add link to t . Most of them say what you want them to hear. Whether or not you like or dislike this president , he does not do that. There is something about that that i hope other politicians use going forward. That they dont anticipate what the right answer is supposed to say, supposed to be, rather. But just say what they really, really mean. A lawrence because they listen to consultants. Harris wow. Weve got to scoot, but we are coming back right after this. The florida recounts are finally over. Democrat bill nelson and Andrew Gillum have conceded to republicans rick scott and ron desantis, respectively. Top advisor to President Trump says that this is testament to his influence. Whether this means that the president is a favorite in florida, in 2020. We will talk about it. And, some Top Democrats refusing to fully endorse the results in georgia as a public and brian kemp his victory over Democrat Stacey Abrams. We will examine the allegations. We will examine the examination examinations. [laughter] and, with the criticism says about faith in the u. S. Election. Clearly, he did everything he could to put his thumb on the scale and win that election. Won that election. I am a family man. I am a techie dad. I believe the best technology should feel effortless. Like magic. At comcast, its my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. My name is mike, im in Product Development at comcast. Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. Melissa fox news alert, nearly two weeks after election day, the florida recounts are finally over. Praise the lord. Incumbent democrat senator bill nelson it was a long recount, my friend. Competing yesterday to his g. O. P. Opponent, governor rick scott. The recount shows scott with a 10,000 plus vote lead. This coming a day after democratic tallahassee mayor, Andrew Gillum, conceded the governors race. The former republican congressman ron desantis. Hours after finishing the recount from a Broward County election supervisor brenda snipes submitted her letter of resignation, ending a controversial 15year career. Tonights resignation is expected of genuine force, likely putting there is possibility of putting her plact in the hands of government elec. Heres white House Counsel kenny killian, earlier i think over to scott and congressman desantis ran Excellent Campaign sprayed this president getting in here, several times in his last six or seven days, really made the difference. On also, it could encouraging them not to build a clear victory. I think people got another view, brenda snipes and her signet against. That should be the first order of business for governor to santos to look at who is running these counties and his electoral process. Melissa harris, you have some more news there that you were just looking at, right . Harris you will recall, there were actually three recounts in florida. We are learning that the republican has no conceded. What did i i have it here. Melissa i did me to put you on the spot. Harris this is important, that we were talking during that sound bite. It was the agricultural commissioner. That will go to a democrat. So florida settled. Lawrence it settled, but im not sure this everybody is like she is sending her resignation. They had the same problem before, as well. That person was fired by jeb bush for incompetence, as well. Are we going to finally get someone in there that knows how to add and knows how not to violate the sunshine law . Thats not going to count illegal votes . Harris do you want the job . Lawrence absolutely not. [laughter] i do want a servant i dont want to serve in any part of government. I dont want to curse, but they are terrible at their jobs. Kennedy decorum is out the door [laughter] lawrence may be a problem people are talking about, although the election isnt clean enough, that reese was still close. These are socialist candidates that believe in socialism. They do. They are getting more and more support. It was funny at first, when they couldnt win. But that was a really close election. I think this country is going more toward at least the voters are. Melissa thats a really interesting point. I did talk to some floridians who had that same opinion, and were sort of like wow, in terms of if you eat food or buy anything at a grocery store, pay rent, or anything. If you pay any of your own bills. We dodged a bullet in florida. Because we could have gotten a socialist he was really going to make everything in the whole state more expensive for people who pay for themselves. Not for millennials, and whoever else. Harris why is that happening . Melissa are we getting closer to that in a lot of places . You dont think so . Jessica they arent socialists. Like alexandria alcott sue cortez, he spoke briefly about why hes a democrat and not a socialist. Using the term socialist, which now has a such a negative connotation because people think venezuela. Thats not thats not what melissa raising the price of everything. Jessica im saying when people hear the word socialist, they do think about a couple points raised in the Corporate Tax rate. They think people in line for food and eating dog spray thats not what is good to be happening in florida. Melissa but hes done such a horrible job of defying the word. Jessica but Andrew Gillum hasnt, and people should listen to him and his clinical beliefs. Kennedy lets take socialism out of it for second, and lets think about the state obligations. Thats the problem. You could screw around with names that pretend thats the most important thing, but the bill is coming very soon. We cant afford to pay it at the federal level. If you are going to take a group of people who have sought shelter, and, really, our regular tivoli economically free fashion of florida then punish them with higher taxes with very little need yield for them, its confounding. Its really frustrating. Its no surprise that, even though there may be more democrat voters leaning that way in florida, still have these close races. That alternative is bad news, and its immoral for everyone. Harris the big question is, why is it happening in certain areas . We saw it in arizona, where its more of a swing state. Lawrence also, in texas. Harris meanwhile, in georgia, Democrat Stacey Abrams admits that she did not defeat brian kemp but refuses to call his state when legitimate as governorelect. Last week, she threatened to sue the state. She stand by that claim that rapid Voter Suppression painted the votes. He is the legal victory. What you are looking for me to say is that there was no compromise of our democracy, and that there should be some political compromise in the language i use. Thats not right. Whats not right is saying that something was done properly when it was not. I will never deny the legal premature that says he is in this position. I pray for his success. Will i say that this election was not tainted, a disenfranchisement of thousands of voters . I will not say that. Harris democrats from outside georgia have been weighing in, including former attorney general eric holder, saying that democracy did not win in georgia. We saw this also with governor scott, who recused himself in florida during the recount. Are we in a complicated position, where people in their jobs, overseeing elections, should maybe recuse early on even before the vote counts come in . Lawrence its hard for me to say, because its always been this way. I think we are putting too much power in these statewide secretaries of state, because its definitely done at the county level. All they are doing is tallying up, after all the counties have submitted. Its easy to do a check at fate of the day, because they can say hey, there is too much due process. As far as telling the numbers. One state officer to control it. I do think its a legitimate argument to discuss the current laws of removing people off the voter rolls. If they want to have that discussion, have that discussion pray but have it before the election, though. Harris lets talk about the number. Oh, great, so we can get you and kennedy talk about the numbers. The differential was a little bit more than 54,000, between these two opponents. The number that democrats say was problematic for votes been counted with about 53,000 that brian kemp was somehow responsible for in terms of their legitimacy as votes. Kennedy . Kennedy the idea of using voter i. D. Laws to somehow garner favor and have a hearty probability of voters in your party i dont i question that process. You either have to have voter i. D. Laws, or you dont have to have them. But you have to have some means of legitimacy in these elections, so people feel good about the results. Because a candidate didnt win doesnt mean that the c