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Shes cool on the show. I like all of your opinions. Keep tweeting me. Shannon bream is up next. Shannon has Lindsey Graham on friday will be a great show, as always. Shannon . Shannon he spent the day with the president. He will fill us in on that, laura. Thank you very much. Lets get you caught up on three breaking stories tonight. The Inspector General at the Justice Department is starting an investigation into what republicans contend is bias at the doj and fbi and the Russia Collision Invest...

Along with my nominee to lead the v.a. robert wilkie. wherever robert -- robert. stand up, robert. [applause] going to do a great job. and working along with robert is acting v.a. secretary peter orourke. so thank you. that is a great, a great team. i also want to thank some of our many leaders. i call them "leaders" because on this legislation they are indeed leaders. they said it would be very slow. its political season. we have an election coming on november 6. so they said it would be very, ...

Much consensus that means -- steve: how could you vote against it? >> hard for senators to deny the fact that a veteran should be able to choose. also gives the v.a. the ability to restructure itself, close facilities that arent working or arent being used and really give a veteran -- its all about choice. thats what the president promised. vets are not dumb. we know where we want to get care. let us choose. >> the criteria to make is that choice, that does that worry you. i called, i couldnt ge...

>> and acting secretary wilkie, who by the way has done an incredible job at the v.a., and ill be informing him in a little while -- he doesnt know this yet -- that were going to be putting his name up for nomination to be secretary of the veterans administration. im sorry that i ruined the surprise. ill see you anyway. >> so thats how that happened today. man comes forward, thanks president for his appointment. so many questions, bill. does this mean theres been no vetting as of yet? does this ...

Who by the way has done an incredible job at the v.a., and ill be informing him in a little while -- he doesnt know this yet -- that were going to be putting his name up for nomination to be secretary of the veterans administration. [ applause ] im sorry that i ruined the surprise. ill see you anyway. >> so thats how that happened today. man comes forward, thanks president for his appointment. so many questions, bill. does this mean theres been no vetting as of yet? does this mean hes already ve...

Be putting his name up for nomination to be secretary of the veterans administration. [ applause ] im sorry that i ruined the surprise. ill see you anyway. >> so thats how that happened today. man comes forward, thanks president for his appointment. so many questions, bill. does this mean theres been no vetting as of yet? does this mean hes already vetted? does this mean the president lacks respect for the top job, or this is the guy theyve decided has the rigor to be secretary of v.a.? >> i mea...

Right there, you might have seen from the back, the acting v.a. secretary, robert wilkey. hes come over from the department of defense to run the va. the presidents nominee to be the full time secretary, ronny jackson, with drew his name. so more turmoil at the white house, you might say, as they struggle to find someone to run the second largest department in the united states government, the veterans administration. 360,000 employees. backing with "happening now" in just a moment. thing strong...

And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist. ♪ rob: time for the good, the bad, and the ugly. the v.a. announcing plans to spend $700 million on homes for veterans. build several new state homes and repairing and modifying existing ones is the biggest investment into the program since it began 50 years ago. the acting v.a. secretary shows how strong the president cares for our veterans. jillian: very cool. next the bad. the 9/11 operator sentenced in houston to 10 days be...

These houses! yes, yes and yes. and dont forget about them. uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. ♪ ♪ ainsley: it is time for news by the numbers. first $1 billion. that is how much wells fargo is expected to be fined. federal regulators penalizing that company for unfair mortgage fees and forcing customers to buy auto insurance policies they didnt need. $700 million. thats how much the v.a. plans to spen...

Could have four or five v.a. secretaries, and the countrys going to go great. i hope they keep getting rid of them until someone is doing the right thing. i think this is an inside baseball kind of conversation about whether or not he was fired or resigned. in reality the american people are going to go, i hope our veterans are getting the care they need. >> you do think if shulkin did resign, there would have been some kind of a paper trail here that the white house could have easily produced t...