largest agent in the federal government based on the feedback i ve seen so far from white house sources. it s pretty clear people inside share this exact concern. let s talk about this morning. joining us now from the washington post, eugene scott. thanks for joining us today. so we have shulkin out, ronnie jackson in, the white house physician. what s been your reaction so far? i think most people view this change as another reminder that the most important qualification to have to be in the trump white house is a personal loyalty to the united states. this is a quite accomplished military man, a physician who as we reported earlier has zero management experience. this is not the first time we ve seen the penalty make a move like this. this mirrors what we saw with ben carson and the department of
lot of as far as i know, i m not aware, i haven t had any conversations, not right now, it s a lot of what s coming from the white house team. and it raises some serious questions. outfront tonight jeff zeleny live at the white house. jeff, the president announcing on twitter getting rid of david shulkin, and does it hours after hearing major development involving possible pardons. interesting timing. erin, no question the president knows how to change the subject and how these announces these is his own decision. he controls the timing here. we are told that the chief of staff, john kelly here at the white house, informed secretary shulkin of his firing. the president we were told did not reach out to him directly. now, all of this of course is happening after hours and hours of questions here at the white house about the potential pardon. at the white house briefing, as you were showing there. sarah sanders walked a fine line speaking in the present tense saying not that i know of,
how this firing went down? this is one of the ones president was going to dor, for whatever reason chose to do it now. that s right. and this is no surprise shulkin found out he was fired from phone call chief of staff john kelly. staff said sort of distraction and dead man walking with the news that the president was going to fire him. so chief of staff john kelly told him he was fired same way former secretary of state rex tillerson found out phone call from the chief of staff that not from the president himself. we had been told that the president was speaking to people close, allies, saying he wanted to fire shulkin. a lot of staffers have wondered out loud to me why shulkin didn t quit? writing was on the wall he was going to be firedment and i m
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can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get four-in-one symptom defense. breaking news, veterans affairs secretary david shulkin out, fired, and replaced by the president s white house doctor. after weeks of shulkin, the former secretary, twisting in the wind with reports president trump was unhappy with him, ang frankly some pretty awful travel receipts, tonight the president came out and did the job, i m pleased to announce i m going to nominate dr. ronnie. pamela brown is outfront. pamela, what do you know about