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Year in american history is a matter of consensus is wrong. >> yes, it's his justice department but his political appointee, jeff sessions, recused himself. we can't have it both ways. the justice department and the fbi should be independent of the administration as much as they can be. that's why the fbi director has a ten-year term and that's why sessions stepped aside. >> you do have a weird situation where you've got his attorney general that had to step away from the biggest thing he's looking at and you have this guy in the southern district had to step away from the biggest thing that m...

The world and it's peanuts compared to the v.a., so nobody has experience, you know. it's a big monster and i'm really proud of the job we've done for the v.a. because we got -- we're working right now on choice and really big, but we got rid of so many rules and regulations that made it impossible and we're doing great at the v.a., but i want somebody that's going to be great. he would have done a great job. >> let's bring back political analyst john avalon and david gregory and we have former fbi agent josh campbell who worked as a special assistant to james comey. this isn't on me, it's on ...

Every administration fails to deliver. they talked a good game but this is chaos. i don't think anybody thinks this is a good plan or good strategy or this is good for veterans. that should be a nonpartisan consensus at this point. >> do the people in your membership and you spend so much of your life advocating for the causes of veterans, the families of veterans, do they believe that we support them? do they believe that politicians see the fate of veterans as common ground that deserves the best? >> they don't believe politicians. we serve our members every year. they think the american pub...

If they're true, from a medical standpoint, i think, would be the most concerning. >> thank you very much. always great to get your perspective. let's bring back our cnn political analysts. so once again for our breaking news, john avalon, if he's out as the v.a. perspective nominee, then who's in? who could possibly be next? we've talked about how vital this agency is, how much these veterans need help and is there somebody else -- that's what took so long in getting rid of david shulkin, there was no plan b for who would run the agency? >> the president has teased the idea that he has quot...

To dry and some ethical concerns add to go his problems, but also some sort of, you know, opposition inside the administration. dr. jackson had that personal connection with trump based on loyalty, but that obviously isn't sufficient to run this massive bureaucracy that still needs reform. who he will be replaced by is an utter x factor at this point. >> it's so important because we know the trail of tears of difficulty of the v.a. and how it effects our men and women who are coming back from combat after afghanistan and iraq. there's so many well documented cases. we talk about a big bureaucr...