The governments second largest bureaucracy . Well ask someone with a unique perspective. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington, im leland vittert. Elizabeth not a boring saturday. Leland certainly not. Elizabeth im elizabeth prann, thank you for joining us. President trump very active on twitter this morning, doubling down on his earlier criticism of amazon. Peter doocy has the latest from West Palm Beach. Hi, peter. Elizabeth, the president s concerned about amazon is, he thinks theyre putting smallsized retailers in this country out of business and he thinks that they are abusing the post office, the United StatesPostal Service to the point that they have become, in President Trumps own words, amazon delivery boy. So, just a few minutes after the president ial motorcade left maralago bound for the Trump International golf club in West Palm Beach. We got a twopart tweet. Its reported that the post office will lose 1. 50 for each package it delivers for amazon, that amounts to a billion dollar. And despite that the staff has ballooned and doesnt include the lobbiests and should register. And in the postal should increase the rates, it would rise by 2. 6 billion dollars. The president does not feel like the jeff bezos owned Washington Post is fair in coverage of the administration. And the Washington Post doesnt think its fair for the president to tie into amazon. And quickly there was a rebuttal, he labeled the New Hampshire the fake Washington Post and demand it register as a lobbyist for amazon. The post operates independently of amazon though the News Organization is personally owned by jeffrey p bezos, the founder and chief executive of amazon. So, the feud continues. It was a few years ago that jeff bezos went onto twitter to direct a message at the president about a rocket launch that he was sponsoring and he tried to tag it with a senddonaldtospace. He did not mean that as a compliment. Fast forward to today. Bezos runs one of the most powerful companies. But the president holds the most powerful elected office on the planet. So with each insult, these are things that theyre talking about that has the ability to move markets and they do. Elizabeth they did on friday, absolutely. Know the a lot of compliments going around is a good way to put it. Peter doocy live from maralago, thank you so much. Leland not a lot of compliments from republicans as they digest the news that Jeff Sessions is not appointing a special counsel and the republicans arent necessarily happy. Very also questioned if a federal prosecutor could really look into antitrust bias at the department of justice in the fbi. Gillian turner here with us. Youve got a Republican Attorney general and republicans in congress that are not happy. Whats their beef. Republican lawmakers may not have succeeded in the getting the department of justice to appoint a new special counsel to look into the fbi under president obama, but now theres a consolation prize on offer from the department. The doj and attorney general appointed hoover to look into the surveillance process during that administration. So far, reaction from the g. O. P. To the announcement of this new probe has been a real mixed bag. Some lawmakers, like that from virginia are outraged. The new appointment isnt sufficient. He reports to rosenstein and rosenstein is in the middle of the dossier faultlines, right, the entire problem. Youve gotten fbi starting with the top, comey fired or displaced, ten top political appointees of the fbi are missing and attorney general sessions, who i respect, says theres not enough there to go forward with a special prosecutor. Other republican lawmakers think this new probe is a step in the right direction. I think the attorney general has taken a step in the right direction in appointing mr. Hubert to do this. It gets the matter outside of main justice, outside of washington d. C. , it leaves the door open for a special counsel. They all agree though on charges that the fbi, under president obama, mishandled the foreign Intelligence Surveillance process. Democrats for their part contend a separate special counsel for this matter is a pipe dream and theyre perfectly content with that already for the russian matter. Thats robert mueller. Mr. Mueller has done this brilliantly. Hes worked from the periphery and moved to the middle and done this in a surgical contest, getting people in a vulnerable state who are willing to and have information that we need to know. Hoovers new probe will zero in on the Obama Justice departments process when it came specifically aapply for fisa warrants, that allowed this em to surveil Trump Campaign advisor carter page. Leland a lot to digest in terms of who signed the warrants as well. Gillian turner, thank you. We bring in florida congressman Francis Rooney who called for a special counsel. Appreciate you being here on a saturday. Whats your problem with huber . Why not start here and why a special counsel now . Because i think a special counsel is a much higher level of scrutiny and this really needs the highest level of scrutiny and im here to tell you, im more and more glad that i called for a purge on the fbi and the doj. Its a mess. All of these guys are in kahoots. Leland i was about to play the sound bite, here it is from msnbc. Take a listen. I would like to see the directors of those agencies purged, i want to know the people who are going to be seen and not the people who are kind of a deep state. Leland i wont ask you if youre wearing the exactly shirt you were wearing back then. Do you feel vindicated right now the more and more you learn about the fbi and the doj. . You caught so much flak back then for this . 0 ex, yeah, right after i did it, senator grassley called for hearings. Congressman goodlatte and gowdy called for resumption of hearings and this keeps growing. Whats the most recent set of emails from the fbi and doj, people that potus wants to know everything . Id like to know what potus knew and when. Leland the only way to find that answer, the special counselor is it a hearing, a Blue Ribbon Commission . We need to go back to Something Like what investigated 9 11 . Id like to have a special counsel with subpoena power. I dont trust any of these guys. I think they need to do another round of testimony underoath. Leland and by these guys youre referring to who . Well, im referring to obviously strzok and page, but director comey, who now, its interesting to see everybody going for protecting their own skin, comey versus mccabe in the papers this morning and trying to figure out what they knew. Leland and mccabes lawyer putting out a number of statements out last night. Under oath youd like to see comey before a congressional hearing . Oh, yeah, id like to see comey, maybe even senator reid and maybe the president. Leland what about lynch and rosenstein . Oh, for sure. Leland okay. I mean, lynch telling comey to downplay the investigation with Hillary Clinton, calling it an incident instead of an investigation . Whats the chance of this happening . Well, i would have to talk to a practicing lawyer about that. But if were going to have mueller going on this russia investigation with i hasnt really proved a whole lot about the reasons what he was there to do in the first place, i would think we should at least clean up our bureaucracy and get down to the bottom of who knew what when. It seems to be coordinated. Leland democrats would say this is nothing more than republicans trying to impugn the investigators, therefore the investigation is impugned as you mentioned the mueller probe. This is a concentrated pr efforts rather than anything to do with facts. Your answer . Well, how about that guy from the white house that came out this week and the Obama White House and says obama really didnt care about investigating the russia interference. There are so many loose ends to this thing. Leland im confused so youre saying that it was the obama administrations fault about not investigating russia interference, therefore it shouldnt be investigated now . No, i dont mind it being investigated now, i dont think hes found much for all the time and taxpayer money hes spent and im sure he hasnt found much interference or havent found much, any links to the Trump Campaign . I dont see that hes found collusion. Now, maybe hes got something he hasnt side and i dont think that hes found successful results for russias effort to interfere. Leland so, but you think hes found interference. Oh, yeah, sure. Leland and you said you wanted a purge of the phish and doj in the beginning. And you doubled down on that now. What does a purge look like . Who does that . I think you have the special prosecutor now and go in there and have these people under oath about what the strzok and page texts all the about and that comey changed his mind with the Hillary Clinton thing and they waited a month before they told comey about huma abedins classified documents. The more you connect the dots on this thing the slimier it feels. Leland so far the names youve mentioned lynch, mccabe, page and strzok and obviously rosenstein works in somewhere there, but conceivably if theres a purge were talking about a lot more people, talking about a much wider conspiracy is what you need a purge to solve. How do you find that if it actually exists . Well, you know, when you purge a water line, you open up the air bleed so the air can bleed out of the line and would i focus on the top people who were giving all the direction and were moving back and forth with calls and emails and meetings and things like that. Anybody whose name is on those fisa warrants, those documents. Leland theyve essentially been purged. Mccabe is gone, comey is gone, page and strzok i dont think will have a long career at the fbi. Is that the purge you want or do you feel there are more people hoo need to go. Like some kind of disinfectant that needs to be put across are the fbi . Well, i think if you have those people testify underoath whether anybody else was involved in the communicating back and forth, we could find out. Leland and then conceivably there would be more people to purge if they found what you think they might. Congressman, good to see you here, sir. Thank you as always. Thanks for having me on, leland, have a great easter. David happy easter to you and yours. Elizabeth be sure to watch Fox News Sunday tomorrow. Chris wallace has an interview with senator Lindsay Graham and theyll talk about the changes at the va and much more. Check your local listings for time and channel and tomorrow, on sunday morning futures, at 10 a. M. Eastern. Maria bartaroma talks, darrell issa and jack keane. As we speak tight security on the border between israel and gaza. Its 7 15 in israel, following violent clashes between palestinian and israeli troops. The Israeli Military says it will expand its response if the attacks continue. 15 palestinians were killed by israeli fire during a hamas organized protest. And the israelis say that they were involved in violence and at least some of them belonged to militant groups. Elizabeth former Veterans Affair secretary David Shulkin says hes not upset with President Trump for firing time and hell continue to speak out on injustices in the department. And its seen as a step forward privatizing parts of the va. Here to discuss colorado congressman mike kaufman. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Elizabeth first and foremost, we did hear from former secretary shulkin. They saw me as an obstacle to privatization who had to be removed, im convinced that privatization is a political issue aimed at rewarding select people and companies. Whats your reaction to this . Yeah, simply not true. Secretary shulkin was removed or now i can say former secretary shulkin was removed because he was an incompetent leader and he did nothing to change the culture, the culture of bureaucratic incompetence that permeates senior levels of leadership at the veterans administration. In addition to his own failings in terms of his ethics, in lying to investigators about his travel issues at taxpayers expense. Elizabeth you talked about changing the culture entirely. How do you do that . Is mr. Ronnie jackson up to that task . Thats a big task. Dr. Shulkin came in from the inside, an obama holdover versus someone coming in from the outside. I think that the va can only be cleaned up by somebody coming in from the outside. Theres a classified layer at the top, a director layer of all the different programs within department of affairs that these are Senior ExecutiveService Employees that we gave the authority to the Prior Administration to remove expeditiously and they never took advantage of that. A new secretary needs to come in and look at the failures year after year after year that are documented by the office of Inspector General for the va. By the governmental accountability office, the gao, where these same people have been left in charge of these failed programs that are not serving our nations veterans. These people need to be removed. Elizabeth when we talk about the agency as whole, were talking about 360,000 of folks in the agency and talking 186 billion annual budget. This is a huge task he has in front of him. Some have argued that he doesnt necessarily have the experience to take it on and whats your response to that . His predecessors, you could argue had a lot of experience in the public and private sector, they failed because they fundamentally failed to get rid of these, i think, the deadwood at the top of this organization. The bureaucratic deadwood. And so, thats what admiral jackson needs to do and ill have to sit down with him before hes confirmed by the United States senate and what needs to happen so its serving our nations veterans. Elizabeth we dont know, and perhaps you could tell me his stance on possibly privatizing sections of the va. Do you think its a step in the right direction if hes an advocate for it . I think hes going to go along with a Choice Program thats before congress right now. Certainly will are different iterations of it, but its said that those that live wp a historic distance of a va facility or cant get a wait time. They can be reimbursed by the Veterans Affairs. There has to be some version of that. I think the privatization that secretary shulkin is a red herring to draw attention away from himself and his own failures. Elizabeth thank you for joining us. Well be awaiting the confirmation of the admiral and look forward to his work at the va. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Elizabeth leland. Leland hundreds of teachers call out sick in states across the country protesting low wages. Will they be back in the classroom on monday . I support their right to call in sick if theyre ill and sick. Theyre sick today. Leland plus, how the white house is preparing for oneonone talks with north Koreas Kim Jongun and where the summit might happen. Another protest in california over the Police Shooting death of an unarmed black man. William la jeunesse 9 15 there. Hi, william. Well, leland protesting for the fourth straight night. This is the family that released an autopsy from a prominent pathologist, suggesting that this shooting was not justified. Details coming up. 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Teachers across the nation protesting for more pay this week. In oklahoma teachers planned a School Walkout on monday even after the governor mary fal fallin increased their salaries. And in kentucky schools were forced to close after teachers called out sick even after a change to the pension plan. Teachers will be in school on monday. Elizabeth another round of protesters are expected to march in sacramento today after an independent autopsy report ordered by the family about the death of stephon clark. And william la jeunesse has more. Hi, william. Elizabeth the protests have been largely nonstop since the release of the video, body cam video showing the shooting of stephon clark. And last night about 500 shut down much of downtown. Police had rolling road blocks to kind of stop the protesters from interacting with motorists because they have surrounded vehicles and broke windows and jumped on hoods and that kind of thing and also some of them tried to get into hotels last night, but they were repelled by security. The family did release an independent autopsy by the pathologist, eight rounds struck stephon clark, and six in the back and some on the sewed and it was impossible that he was approaching police. Its kind based on the autopsy and physical evidence, theres no way that mr. Clark could have been in a position pointing a phone at the offic s officers. S