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First trip to the white house. ainsley: you might remember the fast food tradition started in january when president trump personally paid for the spread when clemson won the national championship and they went to the white house to visit. steve: i think yesterday they had representatives from if i can which i lay and they had mcdonalds on board. ainsley: probably better than a fancy meal, right? steve: a lot of them are used to it because they have it in college. brian: lets bring in v.a. secre...

Trump is not the front runner in iowa but in many, many nationwide polls he is just pulling ahead of the pack. he does this despite this sexual slang that he used to describe hillarys loss in 2008. yet he remains atop these nationwide polls despite numerous gaffes. what explains in your mind his falling? >> the amount of attention that fox news and everybody else gives him. my gosh, in the days after he made the comment about muslims entering the country, donald trump got 25 times more media att...

>> as you well know, donald trump is not the front runner in iowa but in many, many nationwide polls he is just pulling ahead of the pack. he does this despite this sexual slang that he used to describe hillarys loss in 2008. yet he remains atop these nationwide polls despite numerous gaffes. what explains in your mind his falling? >> the amount of attention that fox news and everybody else gives him. my gosh, in the days after he made the comment about muslims entering the country, donald trump...

>> well, no. i think we -- i wouldnt release them to begin with. and, yes, if people plot to attack our country, they will be dealt with and they will be dealt with harshly. >> finally, on the va mess, as you know, you have been a critic of the administration, how it handled -- the va administration how it handled the treatment of our veterans. there are many who say its just not up to the job. either privatize it, give the soldiers vouchers to go elsewhere, slowly shut it down. what do you say?...

The numbers. heather: of course we want to hold someone responsible for this. if season scheck -- if shinsekit solve the problem? >> it solves part of the problem. any veteran who doesnt get the help they need out of the veteran system they use the private system. its considered to be one of the most entrenched bureaucracies. how do yo -- how do you innocene eye them. bring in somebody new like mad dog general mattis who is a marine. heather: if he does go, i wonder

Has expressed his concern, that weve had greater resources put into veteran services than ever before, but also whos presiding over ending one war and coming to the conclusion on another, where we have a lot of veterans who need to be served. and thats not to put the problem at an arms length, but it is to say that we have a veteran system that was already problematic, that is greatly overwhelmed with the number of claims, and processes that we have now. but it has to be fixed for our nations ve...