shulkin's situation, is he is doing really well for the trump administration but being fwakd the president's allies. what gets lost is the president's agenda that the agency's ability to respond to a crisis of the. >> reporter: multiple sources say tensions increased after trump installed political appointees and now the turmoil has spilled out publicly. telling the press that he wants to purge his team. even telling "the new york times" that ted president's support for the removal of any staff members who didn't support him chflt the times reports angered the white house. the leader tasked finds himself fighting a war inside the trump administration to keep his job. >> last week, shulkin called all of this an unfortunate distraction. but a sign of how broken it is,