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>> we've made a lot of progress with the veterans, but i want to get them choice. and they didn't give us choice. i made some changes, because i wasn't happy with the speed with which our veterans were taken care of. i wasn't happy with it. >> reporter: but tonight, shulkin isn't going quietly. writing in an op-ed, "the environment in washington has turned so toxic, chaotic, disrespectful." adding this parting shot, "it should not be this hard to serve your country." shulkin says he was pushed out by forces in the department that want to privatize the v.a. he had been on thin ice for weeks, ac...

Already to show the veterans affairs secretary david skull k -- shulkin. >> a rift has been growing but he is not the only official whose job could be in danger. cnn's boris sanchez has the details. >> reporter: a source at mar-a-lago this weekend telling cnn the president was having private conversations with close associates about the future of veterans affairs secretary david shulkin, specifically, that he would be leaving the administration, potentially as soon as the end of the week. now the president and shulkin had disagreements before on the private sector's potential influence in the ...

The administrator scott pruitt sense more than $120 in public funds last summer, more than 30,000 spent on a security detail for pruitt, nearly $90,000 of that was spent for food, hotels, commercial air fare and a military jet used by pruitt and nine epa staff members. what is going on here. >> that's just the money spent by the federal government. he has been exacting money from outside sources as revealed in travel reports that he filed with the office of government ethics. this is just a wave. you have zingy bringing a security detail overseas. shulkin spending shh 122,000 on a ten-day trip...

Outside sources as revealed in travel reports that he filed with the office of government ethics. this is just a wave. you have zingy bringing a security detail overseas. shulkin spending shh 122,000 on a ten-day trip with his wife to europe. >> italy. >> to mnuchin spending about $1 million last year on travel. but these guys follow the tone from the top. the president spent tens of millions of dollars jetting off to his vacations at his own properties, every one of which is an advertisement for the properties and the moneyization of the presidency. i think what's going on from the top is you...

Think we're in such a hyperpolarized society that you have supporters of the administration who assume that anyone who has concerns about ethics is just carrying partisan water. and the truth is, anything but that. these are objectively concerning matters. and all you have to do is imagine the other candidate had won the election. this congress would be holding hearings right now over some of this stuff. >> and does the fact that oftentimes we're talking about it taxpayer money being used to finance any of that does that breakthrough the noise? or we're at the same point with that as well? >> ...