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Interesting. but this is a real tense and slightly angry meeting. while theyre not yelling at each other, they are warning and threatening each other in legalese. in one, look, youre messing with the presidents work. literally he said youre screwing with the president of the united states. and in the other, bob mueller says, look, if you dont want to have him sit down, we can always subpoena him. for both sides, by the way, joe and mika, i think that this is a difficult negative because if this ...

>> theres no margin of error for any nomination at this point. we saw how hard it was to get mike pompeo through. hes served in congress. he was director of the cia. there are issues his critics have with him but he clearly is a person who had great credentials and run a major agency of the government. dr. jackson has twhnot. he has these additional issues to confront workplace conduct. whether its a hostile workplace and whether he was too fwree re passing out medication and potentially drinkin...

Tomorrow. hes giving the white house an opportunity to withdraw that nomination quietly, if they could, so the committee does not have to expose embarrassing information about this well liked doctor. this is a classic case where the vetting was not done before the nomination went up. >> that does appear to be the case. you talk about the idea this might be embarrassing for dr. jackson. ive talked to a number of democratic senator who is might not be favorably disposed toward dr. jackson fwh firs...

Information about dr. jacksons tenure there. his background, work environment there. the kind of information you think someone at the white house would have handy had a more traditional long form vetting has been done. take a listen. >> im doing my job. any story other than what ive said is made up. some of the stories have been. >> that is very signal. they are jointly holding this nomination. >> thats right. had the nomination been going forward, this is a situation you would see them together...

Relationship with dr. jackson. it was an unusual nomination to begin with. you dont see the president nominate his own physician to a cabinet position like this. it does suggest a lack of vetting. it makes you question the white house chief of staff organization. his ability to put a more orderly structure on this white house. if it doesnt go through, you know its going to leave the president once again scrambling to find somebody he can trust to put in that position. you see with these personne...

Cornering him there h tin the hallway on capitol hill. >> can you say anything at all about these allegations that come out against you h the last few days? >> i was looking forward to the hearing tomorrow. kind of disappointed pst tennessee po its been postponed. >> you have seen allegations of over prescribing medications. are you saying those untrue? >> im looking forward to the hearing so i can sit down and answer all the senators questions. >> the ig report about the allegatio allegations? ...

Both support dr. jackson or oppose him. they have been in lock step on this. a decision to come out with this joint statement this morning confirms this. the department of veterans affairs is the second agency in the government. this is a big deal. despite the state of cabinet nominees who have been coming up here for confirmation and will continue to in a few weeks, senators take their responsibilities on this very, very seriously. i suspect we will learn much more about dr. jacksons background...

And in the middle of it he seems to be suggesting that if jeff sessions doesnt go forward with taking away, stripping the pension from andy mccabe, that will be a pretext by which trump may decide he can fire jeff sessions to install an attorney general who can fire bob mueller. this is just so dirty and so grotesque. again, we have dirty grotesque things all the time. this is a horror show. >> i think what sarah huckabee sanders did today was to use that podium, to allow the podium to be weapon...

Support this historic piece of legislation that we feel will be one of the great legacies of this presidency. >> the fact he department get any democrats in the house, how will that go for the senate? >> theres always hope. we hope that democrats want to put partisan politics aside and want the people of the country first. were confident well get it done. >> safe to say the president wont be pleased if he gets snookered by the senate again? >> i think the american people are the ones that wont b...

Come on board and support this historic piece of legislation that we feel will it be one of the great legacies of this presidency. >> didnt get any democrats in the house, how does that go to the senate? >> well always hope. well hold out hope that democrats in the senate will put bipartisan politics a side and put the people of this country first. we havent ruled it out. and pushing forward and confident well get it done. >> is it fair to say president? >> i think the american people wont be pl...