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First trip to the white house. ainsley: you might remember the fast food tradition started in january when president trump personally paid for the spread when clemson won the national championship and they went to the white house to visit. steve: i think yesterday they had representatives from if i can which i lay and they had mcdonald's on board. ainsley: probably better than a fancy meal, right? steve: a lot of them are used to it because they have it in college. brian: let's bring in v.a. secretary robert wilkie i believe for the first time. mr. secretary, thanks so much for joining us toda...

Numbers. i know you have your hands full trying to get the v.a. streamlined and more efficient. congratulations, mr. secretary. glad we are taking some action. i hope it works. >> thank you, brian, may i add one thing? last week we had terrible incident at palm beach. three v.a. professionals dr. federer, dr. alba, and technician johnson stopped a veteran from committing suicide. they put their lives on the line. two of them were shot. but that veteran was saved. and every day our v.a. employees are intervening in the lives of veterans who have fallen on hard times. it's a wonderful story. wis...

And what the president will do today is convene a task force. i think i will being the co-chair with my partners at the department of defense and other departments of the government. and we will bring out best medicine, the best social science in addition to going to the congress and asking for grants and moneys to give to our states and locations so they can help us in this fight. ainsley: mr. secretaries, is there anything we can do? because when you hear these numbers. these are individuals that have fought or our country. sacrificed so much. these are god's children. these are lives. when ...

Place to start would be getting rid of about 699 of them and hire doctors in their place. >> although that would be easier said than done, removing shinseki would be easy but making wholesale leadership changes at the v.a. would require the senate to take up a house-passed bill creating that authority. bret? >> mike, thank you. more on that with the panel. for just the second time as we said at the front of the show, the second time since june of 2009, the economy posted a quarterly decline in the first three months of the year. the gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 1%. a ...

Mostly on their goals, irradical, expanding the government, intruding into people's lives. then you get to a point where you get three factors, as you say, the most important underlying all of it is the economy. the recession lasted 18 months. the so-called recovery has been on for five years. we now have a quarter of contraction. you compare it with the reagan recovery, the average for the six years after his recession was a growth of over 4%. he was between 1% and 2%. so we have high unemployment chronic sort of discontent, and that underlies everything. you add onto that the fiasco of obama...