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former veterans affair secretary david shulkin resigned. they say he was -- he says that he was fired via presidential tweet right after chief of staff john kelly gave him a heads-up last week. >> were you fired or did you resign? >> there was no reason why i would resign. >> so why don't you just say you were fired? >> well, i think that's the alternative to resignation. the president wanted to make a change and that's certainly his prerogative to do that. >> so the tweet fired you? >> yes. >> but this is more than a he said/she said. it can impact the va going forward and it's the latest ...

>> harris: of full disclosure, you are being looked at. the secretary of the va's and now this is something that you obviously are very close to. full disclosure here because this is important. your perspective on this as this is something that you're studying right now and you're a former member of our military. >> pete: is very near and dear to my heart. i use as an example of what happens in a lot of countries across the government paid trips about there is more money. >> dagen: one thing i'll point out, point of fact, you need to third of the vote in both the house and the senate to overri...

Or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. and help make more tomorrows possible. ♪ welcome back, everyone. major report released yesterday by the va's internal watchdog say officials knew for years about mismanagement at the washington va medical center but didn't do anything about it. in addition, the inspector general details the widespread problem going back to at least 2013. the report says investigators did not find evidence that va secretary david shulkin was informed about the issues, although it says poor leadership for years is going back to blame for these issues. ...

Than amazon. heather: the lowering prices, the price war, starbucks unveiled a second holiday cup, one was not enough. >> a controversy around these cups, why they decided to do this, the first time ever they have released a cup in the middle of the holiday season so there it is onscreen, red with white heart and starbucks is encouraging you to write the name of someone special in that hard so last year they released 13 cups with different designs, this year they have got two. heather: the trying to get prices down. the time is 10 minutes until the top of the hour, the va failed to report 90% ...

Where you surprised by this finding? >> absolutely not. the government accountability office report verifies reporting done by usa today, this was done for years until earlier this year until the va took action to stop it. this was happening in large part because it was difficult to fire bad employees including clinicians, doctors etc. and this was part of a deal to get them out of the va including payoffs as well and the result, not only causing problems at the va, but this billion medical a system because a lot were leaving and working private-sector. >> 5 va hospitals, let's look at a segme...