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Heilemann. the question of your job security has been in the news for a month or so now, a few weeks ago -- i know you went in for a meeting at the white house with the chief of staff and the president, some of the reporting that came out of that meeting suggested your view was part of your problem was that you were being undermined in a conspiratorial way by trump appointees on your staff and you lost trust in people who were placed around you in the department. is that right? >> that is part of what we discussed, that's correct. we spent most of the time discussing the policy issues in v.a. ...

She apologized and it wasn't one of these halfway apologieapolog was like in the spirit of holy week, i'm sorry. >> it's the timing. >> here's the difference, joe. we are all going to make mistakes. when it's serial behavior and the apology was only for one reason, she was losing advertisers. her behavior stands for itself we can argue about politics but there's just human decentsy we can't have animals on the air attacking children. we can disagree on taxes, on donald trump, on a wall, but basic human decency. enough already. >> john heilemann, it seems there's been a problem at fox over the ...

Wing where everybody is wondering if the chandelier is going to fall on their head today. it's friday, we've got nine, ten hours till the end of the work day. who will be here when we walk out the door. nobody is 100% sure. >> nobody knows for sure. donny deutsch, let's talk about what's working for the president and not working for president. john heilemann is dead right. you have a sense of a panic on capitol hill among republicans. they see that their matchups against democrats are going as badly as possible. you have republicans retiring left and right. they know this fall is going to be b...

Economy is better, we feel like isis is being taken on, that he's going out and killing terrorists and as long as that's happening then we -- you know, the personal, it might not be what we want our children to immolate but we can really disconnect the personal and the actual policies that the we feel donald trump is implementing to make our lives better. >> so peter baker, it's heilemann here, i want to ask you this question to bring a couple pieces together. we've talked about these things related to points donny is making, objective metrics by which we normally judge presidents that trump i...

To do and understanding the complexity of what happens in v.a. is a very tough thing to do so i don't know that he's had the time to invest in understanding the details. nor should he. he should have a secretary whose job it is. obviously he wanted to make this change, that's his prerogative. but this is a very complex organization, the second largest government organization. >> do you think the president is fit to lead? >> i think that the president has a tough job and it's important that he surround himself with people that have the ability to lead that can do this. and obviously i've descri...