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El else. to be clear, jackson has no experience managing a sprawling government bureaucracy, certainly one like this that is plagued by problems, the second-largest agency in all of government. as for david shulkin who is on his way out, he's speaking out about his departure, expressing real frustrations. he was affected by a bruising ethics scandal for foreign travel he took with his wife but he pushed back on the idea of privatizing the v.a. in a new op-ed he says it will hurt veterans. members of the administration had a different opinion about that and he writes "as i prepare to leave gove...

24 minutes past the hour. good morning to you. i'm christie paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. who is in charge of one of the u.s. top consumer watch dog agencies. >> president trump tapped nick mulvaney to be interim chief after the director stepped down. but that sets up a political and legal clash here because the outgoing director chose someone el else. jared kushner has until monday to turn over more documents to the senate judiciary committee. >> and president trump will be on capitol hill to push tax reform next week. he's meeting tuesday, in fact, with senate republ...

Drug problem, which is a worldwide problem, it's a problem that we have. and tom marino said, look, i'll take a pass, i have no choice, i really will take a pass, i want to do it. >> lenny, i want to get your reaction to all of this. 24 hours ago on this show, i asked if you thought we would see something from capitol hill, and we obviously have. >> yeah. i think that this was probably inevitable. i'm a little surprised by the speed at which it happened, but just imagine if tom marino as drug czar, if nominated and confirmed, heads out to a town hall meeting in southern ohio or west virginia o...

Lawmakers are saying now is they didn't fully recognize the impact of this bill. and i think now they arinin are answering pretty serious questions about what to do next, is there new legislation? are they going to try to do something about this? and how do you make sure you don't take up something like this and not really realize it? >> i think this is the latest example of an issue existing for a while in terms of lawmakers voting on bills they don't completely understand and know that much about. >> how is that possible? >> it shouldn't be possible when you have entire staffs and when your ...

I'm not speaking for other people. i don't know what bush did. i don't know what obama did. >> that's important there. he said i don't know what bush or obama did. yesterday he said they did not make calls. that obviously isn't true. i talked to representatives for both the former presidents late yesterday who clarified that specifically about his comments about general john kelly whose son died in afghanistan in 2010. i've reached out to president obama's office to see whether or not president obama called general john kelly at the time. obviously this is something that they don't want to pol...