referral to a criminal prosecution. but you worked in the district, you worked for the federal government, so you know that any regular gs eight or nine would have been fired fast richard painter was my ethics officer. a reporter couldn t buy me a soda. i heard you trying to get back in. i think honestly people are kidding themselves if they think scott pruitt is going to be in a lot of ads. no one s going to advise the candidate to put up an ad about an epa administrator no one s heard of. the weekly standard calls for pruitt to resign or be fired. so i m appalled by pruitt s behavior. but the system doesn t correct itself. even if you re in the minority, you can threaten to hold up a prop p appropriations. different than us sitting around, boy, can you believe this headline? i m embarrassed that republicans have done so little. honestly interest there are 49 democrats in the senate.
numbers went down. we had a court decision saying we can hold them less than 20 days. the system doesn t work that fast. they re coached what to say. get released. never show up in court. when they do, they get a final order of removal. 80% of the people claiming asylum lose cases for the frivolous claims but they re out in society and get lost. we can t find them. it s defacto open borders and that s what the politicians want. bill: there is a lot going on here. come back to the question. orrin hatch said if the white house wants to fix it they can do that. do you not agree with that? are you suggesting they can t? i think the president is doing exactly what he has to do. promised to secure this border. whether you re republican or democrat you want to secure the border. congress needs to fix this. we ve been up there numerous times. they know the loopholes. i think they want this issue. they want this issue out there rather than doing their job and fixing this issue.
whoever those middlemen were, and some people never even figured it out, they are rich. this plan also calls for scaling back the rebate system, addressing pouring foreign sub, and getting generic drugs to the market place faster. the hhs secretary is alex azar, a former pharma executive in his own right. he said he could be trusted to reduce the charge for drug prices because he knows how to change the formula or incentivize a system that brings about lower list prices. the math doesn t work. the system doesn t make that work. my job now with the president s commission is to make that work so that the incentives work to actually bring prices down, charge less on the list price. that is exactly what we are about, and no one company on their own can change that dynamic. you have probably seen one of the roughly billion or so
i think there s going to be a whole lot of screaming from veterans organizations who don t want to lose the va. i want to be clear because there s a lot of reporting that supports that. nancy at the pel s statement today mentioning there s been a long-standing effort to privatize the va and interpreting the shulkin battles happening inside were essentially a proxy war over that policy direction. there s also the question, jennifer of the harriet miers test. jonathan swan i think reporting someone told him off the record this is harriet meyers again, he tried to elevate her to the supreme court and republicans said no. right. well, unfortunately, that sort of check on the system doesn t happen much. and although i think there are good and real policy debates that are going on and will be going on, i think shulkin very much like the other people that senator boxer named did dig his
that policy direction. there s also the question, jennifer of the harriet miers test. jonathan swan i think reporting someone told him off the record this is harriet meyers again, he tried to elevate her to the supreme court and republicans said no. right. well, unfortunately, that sort of check on the system doesn t happen much. and although i think there are good and real policy debates that are going on and will be going on, i think shulkin very much like the other people that senator boxer named did dig his own grave. abusing once gent taxpayers money by paying for a vacation for himself and his wife. perhaps not being entirely honest and then becoming kind of a paranoid lunatic having people stand guard, going to war with his staff to the point it was becoming an embarrassment even for this white house i suppose. so i would go back a couple steps and say listen, shulkin may not have been the right