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Federal government. it's the largest medical governmental agency in the world. it has 375,000 employees and it's tasked with providing health care to our 9 million veterans. it's also been plagued by controversies and problems. so you need someone who not only has governmental management experience in there, you need somebody who is a turn around artist of sorts to help get to the root of these on going problems at the v.a. and fix them and having somebody who is a doctor that you like is not in itself enough qualifications for this. >> yeah. we need somebody who can triage not just one patien...

Press. absolutely yes the administration does have a press briefing everyday and absolutely, yes, we have a lot of access to the president in those pool sprays, but let's not forget the way the president treats the press and the derogatory terms he uses for the press, both on his twitter account and in interviews or in dealing with reporters. he's called reporters sleaze bags, son of b's, third rate, little, for instance. so, if you're going to talk about the way this administration upholds the free press, let's not forget how the president himself treats the press. hallie jackson with us from...

Care and concern for those individuals that may be far and above what we've seen from previous administrators that have overseen that agency. he's a highly qualified individual. we're coronet looking at this and moving forward. julie? >> are you tells us that the white house is not aware of any of the allegations before the president decided to name dr. jackson just to clarify? >> none of those things came up in the four separate background investigations that have taken place. there's been no area of concern that was raised for dr. jackson specifically. >> can you describe to us what the vett...

That there was some folks that needed some help and another person got what they needed out of the medical kit and took care of the problem because he was too intoxicated to handle the problem, belittling the people below him, screaming, hollering. i think if these accusations are found to be true, i think it puts him in a world of hurt. >> not only is he still the president's pick, despite the headlines, the administration is mounting a full defense on his behalf. >> we think he deserves his chance in a fair hearing. there's a process within the department of defense for active military peopl...

The white house briefing has been pushed back 15 minutes. and i expect that ronny jackson will dominate most of the questions here today. so, yes, the white house is mounting this really intense and frankly rather belated crisis management push to try to make sure that they are circling the wagons around ronny jackson. there's an acknowledgment in some circles this may be too little too late. right now there's a sense of trying to get jackson over this if not the finish line at least through this hurdle, these accusations against him. i can share more of what we learned about the oval office m...