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On twitter he announced that the white house physician, ronny jackson, was his nominee. and this was a surprise to many people in the white house and, you know, also to top senior officials who had expressed concern that while, you know, admiral jackson is a very affable person who knows how to read a room really well, who is very personable and, you know, just a friendly, smart guy from texas, that, you know, what does he know about running va, and you know, previously, there have been people running the agency who have been chosen just because they were either doctors or former corporate exe...

That was bypassing thomas bowman, deputy secretary at the department. donald trump has nominated the next v.a. secretary. this raises an important legal question. now federal law says a president has broad authority to temporarily fill a job at a federal agency if the person in the job dies, resigns or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office. there is no explicit mention in the legislation of a president having the authority if the person is fired. as we just heard shulkin tell cnn he was fired, the white house maintaining he resigned in the phone call with white ...

Half under president obama he ran v.a. health care. and i assume he was running v.a. health care when this young man was still waiting for care, and he says he didn't get care until president trump was sworn in. why didn't he? that's a question people should have secretary shulkin, should they get the chance. time and time again the v.a. promises they're going to reform, make changes. this is yet another reform bill, and it doesn't happen. >> yes. one thing to sign a bill. it's another thing to see the changes, which clearly are slow and difficult to make in such a problematic system that is i...