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Shes cool on the show. I like all of your opinions. Keep tweeting me. Shannon bream is up next. Shannon has Lindsey Graham on friday will be a great show, as always. Shannon . Shannon he spent the day with the president. He will fill us in on that, laura. Thank you very much. Lets get you caught up on three breaking stories tonight. The Inspector General at the Justice Department is starting an investigation into what republicans contend is bias at the doj and fbi and the Russia Collision Investigation and those fisa warrants. We are learning that President Trump has fired his Veterans Affairs...

Along with my nominee to lead the v.a. robert wilkie. wherever robert -- robert. stand up, robert. [applause] going to do a great job. and working along with robert is acting v.a. secretary peter o'rourke. so thank you. that is a great, a great team. i also want to thank some of our many leaders. i call them "leaders" because on this legislation they are indeed leaders. they said it would be very slow. it's political season. we have an election coming on november 6. so they said it would be very, very slow this period of time. i was just telling mike, mike, this hasn't been very slow. if you l...

Much consensus that means -- steve: how could you vote against it? >> hard for senators to deny the fact that a veteran should be able to choose. also gives the v.a. the ability to restructure itself, close facilities that aren't working or aren't being used and really give a veteran -- it's all about choice. that's what the president promised. vets are not dumb. we know where we want to get care. let us choose. >> the criteria to make is that choice, that does that worry you. i called, i couldn't get through, so now i can say i'm delayed. delayed enough to use my private physician? >> part of...

>> and acting secretary wilkie, who by the way has done an incredible job at the v.a., and i'll be informing him in a little while -- he doesn't know this yet -- that we're going to be putting his name up for nomination to be secretary of the veterans administration. i'm sorry that i ruined the surprise. i'll see you anyway. >> so that's how that happened today. man comes forward, thanks president for his appointment. so many questions, bill. does this mean there's been no vetting as of yet? does this mean he's already vetted? does this mean the president lacks respect for the top job, or this...

Who by the way has done an incredible job at the v.a., and i'll be informing him in a little while -- he doesn't know this yet -- that we're going to be putting his name up for nomination to be secretary of the veterans administration. [ applause ] i'm sorry that i ruined the surprise. i'll see you anyway. >> so that's how that happened today. man comes forward, thanks president for his appointment. so many questions, bill. does this mean there's been no vetting as of yet? does this mean he's already vetted? does this mean the president lacks respect for the top job, or this is the guy they've...