WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) appeared on “Fox News Sunday” this morning to talk about Iraq, immigration and the meeting he recently attended at the White House between President Obama and Congressional leadership. Barrasso also discussed why Congress should wait until the new Senate is sworn in before confirming a new Attorney General.

Below are key excerpts of the interview:

On President’s Decision to Send More Troops to Iraq:

“We’re going to look specifically at how he wants the money spent, but its right that the President does come to Congress for an authorization of the use of military force. I support that, I think Congress ought to be involved in those discussions. You do get concerned about a mission creep, but I think they’ve been doing a good job in terms of trying to degrade, but they have a long way to go in terms of destroying ISIS and trying to secure Iraq. There are still big problems in Syria, and we discussed all of this with General Austin on Friday at the White House as well as the Secretary of the CENTCOM.

On Immigration and Executive Action:

“Well, I believe it will hurt cooperation on every issue, Chris. What the President does over the next two months is really going to set the tone for the next two years in Washington. You know, nobody ran for office and won a Senate race based on the President having more executive authority to take executive actions on amnesty or on health care or any other of those issues. The American people want us to work together to find solutions. So, I think it would be like the President pulling the pin out of the hand grenade and throwing it in as we’re trying to actually work together. I’m hoping that cooler heads at the White House can prevail upon the President to say look, if you want to have a good constructive final two years of your presidency, don’t do this now, wait until the new Congress is sworn in, let them come together and do the sort of things that Senator-elect Gardner was talking about in terms of working together to find some solutions on immigration.

On President Obama and Election Results:

“I don’t know that, but he is sure, I think not fully grasping the significant defeat for his party and his policies. As the President said, his policies were on the ballot each and every one of them. We have now elected I think we will end up with nine new Republican senators, his policies have been rejected by the voters, and not just because they’re unpopular, because they don’t work.

On the White House Meeting:

“That’s why we went to the White House to say, Mr. President we want to work with you on issues of jobs, the economy, affordable energy, and health care. And I was astonished during that whole lunch, the President didn’t ask us anything about that at all. He just was so focused on this executive amnesty issue, that he ignored the idea of having a dialogue on ways we could actually change the direction of the country and move forward with regard to jobs and the economy.

“And the President then spent an inordinate amount of time talking about his goals for executive action and pretty much ignored the next two years. That’s why I say what the President decides to do in the next two months sets the tone for the next two years. There are dozens of bills that have passed the House in a bipartisan way, specifically related to jobs, the economy, trade, health care that we want to put and will start putting on the President’s desk in January. None of those issues came up, it seemed that in addition to the Ebola and the ISIS briefings, that a lot of the focus was the President’s goal and desire to take executive actions when the President’s policies and party were repudiated in the elections on Tuesday.

On Attorney General Nomination:

“The Attorney General of the United States is a very consequential position. We have not done an Attorney General confirmation in a lame-duck since 1906—and that was in the same party. The last time we’ve done one with a change of party was when James Buchanan was leaving the White House and Abraham Lincoln was coming in. So as I say, what the President does in two months is very consequential for the next two years. She is going to have to specifically come to the hill, talk about trying to get better relations between the departments and the hill, and specifically answer questions about executive amnesty. Is it legal? Is it constitutional?”