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Them in there the last several v.a. secretaries have not been able to fulfill that mission. we have issues with getting access to healthcare and getting leadership managed. he sees leadership traits here. thats why he is putting him in there its ironic, i respect senator tester. he does a good job as a senator. he should know better than to go on cnn and national news with just allegations and use the term "candy man" there was a real candy man at the thoma, v.a. a doctor thanks to president tru...

Miles from the capitol. veterans are being offered appointment times weeks and months than what they should which is outside of the scope of the law. we have got to get that right. get veterans through the bureaucracy that is good once you receive it. we need a leader in there who can imagine that. work with congress to get that funding through. i think admirable jackson admir. stupid terms like candy man completely unverified when we had a real ceapsd man that thanks to president trumps leaders...

Allegations feel a little bit too far afield to prevent him from being able to have a hearing. >> jesse: some of these allegations are hard to make sense of. one was that he wrecked her car while drunk on the way back from a secret service party. he has come out and said i did not wreck a car. it should be easy to prove i didnt do it. >> greg: this is another example of how sudden fame becomes a game of whack-a-mole. lets say youre leading a reasonably good life. the white house doctor come in n...

Saying its not about politics but legitimate concern. >> 20 some people who got a hold of us and said weve got a problem. this doctor has a problem because he hands out prescriptions like candy. in the white house, they called him the candy man. >> jesse: jackson spoke to reporters and said he doesnt know where these allegations are coming from and says he is going forward with the nomination. we just got a whole rundown here of the allegations about jackson. dana, one of the things about candym...

Look, the white house botched this rollout. i asked marc short about that a number of different times. he didnt respond directly to that question, but it is very clear that marc short digging in and that that is going to be the strategy of this white house moving forward. one more point, he called it very unfair that jon tester referred to short or referenced that he has been called the candyman. he said thats just unfair. he said, look, these allegations are nothing more than an attempt to -- b...

Investment in the north so he can strengthen himself. the problem that president trump has is if you agree to that and he denuclearizes, how do you prevent him taking all that economic strength and rebuilding his military? >> general wesley clark gets tonights last word. thank you, general. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. tonight, disturbing allegations about donald trumps pick for the v.a. as a u.s. senator charges dr. ronny jackson, the presidents physician, has been drunk on...

Drugs to wake them up. >> he would go down the aisle? >> thats reports we got from 20 some that got hold of us said we have a problem, this doctor has a problem, he hands out prescriptions like candy. in the white house, they call him the candy man. >> major allegations there, according to a 2012 assessment by the navy inspector general, before he was made chief white house physician clashed with a rival physician and exhibited unprofessional behaviors as the two engage in a power struggle over ...

Two full hours. allie will ali will be back in the chair tomorrow. in the meantime, my dear friend, star of the hour, "deadline white house" anchor nicolle wallace takes it away right now. >> with friends like that, wow. hi, everyone. its 4:00 in new york. one former senior u.s. government official today described the botched white house handling of the ronny jackson nomination as, quote, leading a lamb to slaughter. jackson, of course, is the presidents pick to head the department of veterans a...

With admiral jackson, folks in the military, about behaviors that had happened. >> well, it gets worse from there. a short time ago tonight, senator tester appeared on cnn and said this. >> the word is that on overseas trips in particular, that the admiral would go down the aisleway of the airplane and say, all right, who wants to go to sleep? 20-some people got a hold of us and said we have a problem. this doctor has a problem because he hands out prescriptions like candy. in fact, in the white...

Did. im hearing over and over again that never -- he was never drunk on the job and reports of him being the candy man is a ridiculous allegation. its very interesting. are you hearing push back from people that have worked with him in the past? >> joe, my sense is that he was -- you eluded to this earlier in the show, very popular with obama administration staff, clearly well liked by president trump. so, my question in all of this reporting, there is some insinuation that there may be people w...