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 it s been postponed. you have seen allegations of over prescribing medications. are you saying those untrue? i m looking forward to the hearing so i can sit down and answer all the senator s questions. the ig report about the allegatio allegations? no there was not. how much vetting before you are formally announced as the nominee? you re not withdrawing. you re going to continue this process? garrett, as you just pointed out clearly not answering the questions now but proceeding as though the nomination is going
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. jackson s background whether this nomination goes forward or not. we have now gotten so deep into this with the hearing supposed to be wednesday now on indefinite hold. peter, what are you hearing about this? i was in the pool spray when the president calmed out questions he didn t answer. this is something that would be embarrassing to the president. it s hard blow for him if his nomination doesn t go forward because he forged a personal
and in the middle of it he seems to be suggesting that if jeff sessions doesn t 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 weaponized for one of donald trump s legal and political enemies. and no one an i.g., you have to assume the inspector general carried out a report this finding as we ve discussed, no one is suggesting it s not, that andy mccabe permitted public affairs staff to shape a story that ended up being a bad one for hillary clinton. it wasn t completely forthcoming about it. but the fix was in 90 days ago.
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? there s always hope. we hope that democrats want to put partisan politics aside and want the people of the country first. we re confident we ll get it done. safe to say the president won t be pleased if he gets snookered by the senate again? i think the american people are the ones that won t be pleased. they ll lose out the most if this doesn t go forward. disaster refounding request for $44 billion today. it s much less than what a number of different governors in the various impacted territories and states have requested. can you explain why the number is so low compared to what the local officials say they need?
come on board and support this historic piece of legislation that we feel will it be one of the great legacies of this presidency. didn t get any democrats in the house, how does that go to the senate? we ll always hope. we ll hold out hope that democrats in the senate will put bipartisan politics a side and put the people of this country first. we haven t ruled it out. and pushing forward and confident we ll get it done. is it fair to say president? i think the american people won t be pleased because they ll lose out the most if this doesn t go forward. administration put out a disaster funding request for about $44 billion today. it s much less than what a number of different governors and officials in the various impacted territories and states have requested. can you explain why the number is so low compared to what the local officials say they need?