Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181111:14:54:00
Acting attorney general. the white house is distancing itself from this appointment. your sense of how all of this is going to play out? >> yeah. so the constitution says that principal officers have to be confirmed byto the senate. principal officers are people who report directly to the president, which is what the attorney general does. what thewh trump administrations saying is there is another federal vacancy act, which allows them to appoint anyone who has been confirmed by the senate. so their argument is because this man was a united states attorney many years ago in iowa and at that p...