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Nominees. given his unique position of trust and responsibility, dr. jacksons background and character were evaluated during three different administrations. dr. jackson has had at least four independent background investigations conducted during his time at the white house, including an fbi investigation and conducted as part of the standard nomination vetting process. during each of those investigations, dr. jackson received unanimous praise from dozens of witnesses in the investigations revea...

The press obviously is not helpful at times. >> thank you, jim. >> i think thats plain to see. >> david? >> inspector general had problems with the way jackson ran his medical staff which only has 50 people. what makes him qualify to run a big department with 350,000 people? >> i saw a number of members of both the house and senate do interviews today. just earlier this morning in which they said, look, weve tried this a number of other ways with people who have run massive organizations and has...

Federal governments second largest bureaucracy thats been plagued by mismanagement. he added he doesnt think other people do either. he added if he were in dr. jacksons position he would not go through with the position. words that so far the white house physician has yet to follow. in minute were set to hear sarah huckabee sanders in the daily press briefing. lets go to our team of reporters. guys, welcome. the president himself isnt giving what we would call a ringing endorsement for dr. jacks...

Many, many years? >> so, i think the thread that you saw reporters trying to pull here was the idea that, sure, ronny jackson has gone through background checks in his role of high profile role, very close contact with not just president trump but past presidents as well, and you heard a couple reporters try to get at this did the white house go beyond that? what else did they do? what else did they try to do to vet ronny jackson prior to the president was a surprise tweet that sort of came out ...

Alliance. macron clearly wants to be in that position now as a leader and spokesman, but he said we favor multilatterism, we favor remaining in the iran deal. we favor values of freedom around the world. it was just one issue after another. i thought on climate change he was especially powerful when he said there is no planet b. theres no choice but to protect the planet. i thought he really laid down a marker pretty powerfully. if i were donald trump, i would probably just be smiling thinking, ...

Federal government. its the largest medical governmental agency in the world. it has 375,000 employees and its tasked with providing health care to our 9 million veterans. its also been plagued by controversies and problems. so you need someone who not only has governmental management experience in there, you need somebody who is a turn around artist of sorts to help get to the root of these on going problems at the v.a. and fix them and having somebody who is a doctor that you like is not in it...

Press. absolutely yes the administration does have a press briefing everyday and absolutely, yes, we have a lot of access to the president in those pool sprays, but lets not forget the way the president treats the press and the derogatory terms he uses for the press, both on his twitter account and in interviews or in dealing with reporters. hes called reporters sleaze bags, son of bs, third rate, little, for instance. so, if youre going to talk about the way this administration upholds the free...

Care and concern for those individuals that may be far and above what weve seen from previous administrators that have overseen that agency. hes a highly qualified individual. were coronet looking at this and moving forward. julie? >> are you tells us that the white house is not aware of any of the allegations before the president decided to name dr. jackson just to clarify? >> none of those things came up in the four separate background investigations that have taken place. theres been no area ...

That there was some folks that needed some help and another person got what they needed out of the medical kit and took care of the problem because he was too intoxicated to handle the problem, belittling the people below him, screaming, hollering. i think if these accusations are found to be true, i think it puts him in a world of hurt. >> not only is he still the presidents pick, despite the headlines, the administration is mounting a full defense on his behalf. >> we think he deserves his cha...

The white house briefing has been pushed back 15 minutes. and i expect that ronny jackson will dominate most of the questions here today. so, yes, the white house is mounting this really intense and frankly rather belated crisis management push to try to make sure that they are circling the wagons around ronny jackson. theres an acknowledgment in some circles this may be too little too late. right now theres a sense of trying to get jackson over this if not the finish line at least through this ...