Capitol hill over president ial pardons and the omb director and current head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Mick Mulvaney pushes back hard on newspaper reports about comments he made in a speech this week about lobbyist access to his congressional office. Its wednesday at the white house. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts joins us with the latest. Good evening. Good evening. A busy one. Today democrats without any evidence to back it up released a laundry list of allegations and accusations against dr. Ronny jackson, the man president wants to leave the Veterans Affairs administration. Among the allegations are accusations he mishandled opioid drugs and that at a secret Service Party he got drunk and wrecked a government vehicle. After meeting with the press secretary and chief of staff late today, dr. Ronny jackson dismissed new democratic allegations that he wrecked a government vehicle after getting drunk at a secret Service Party, insisting it never happene
Tonight under allegations of drinking while on duty and improperly handing out prescription medicationlike candy. Thats a quote. And theres more. A source telling cnn that dr. Jackson drunkenly banged on a female employees door in 2015. Becoming so disruptive the secret service stopped him out of then concern he had then wake president barack obama. I want to bring in the New York Times columnist nicholas kristof. Well have to stop and go to the breaking news and get to our reporter down in arizona. Thank you for joining us. What did you make of this first state visit . It was fascinating because trying desperately to woo President Trump on the issue of the iran deal and Angela Merkel will be here later this week. They definitely want the u. S. To remain in the iran deal buzz essentially theres no alternative if he blows it up on may 12th. And President Trump left mixed messages. On one hand he said it was an insane deal. On the other hand, he said that he seemed to give hints he might
Developments. First, this is a fox news alert. President trumps first state dinner honoring the french president says the two leaders toasted each other, most of it focused on iran, President Trump wishing for a new deal to constrain the nuclear ambitions. The white house gets ready to fight for a navy admiral, praised by barack obama, plagued by partisan concerns, claims he says he looks forward barack ob bipartisan concerns amid ack ob troubling allegations, he looks forward to answering. Kristen fisher covering the debate over a cabinet nominee. The white house didnt that properly. We begin with chief National Correspondent ed henry and some substance. They are wrapping up the state dinner. This is an interesting case, pretty intimate, they only had 13 tables, 10 to a table, candlelit, this friendship is butting. We are seeing french president macroin filling a vacuum with Angela Merkel coming to the white house. Other leaders have been pretty cool to donald trump. Macroin is fillin
That was. But good evening from washington. I am laura ingraham. This is the ingraham angle. Youre looking at a live shot of the white house as President Trump concludes his first state dinner. We are expecting the departure of the french president macron and his wife at any moment. So much for the myth that trumps America First policy means isolating from entertaining and diplomacy. The president is now the leader on the world stage. That we knew he would be. The french president departs tonight and german chancellor Angela Merkel arrives on friday. Potential historic meeting between trump and kim jong un over north koreas nukes is imminent. So how different reality is from what the socalled experts predicted not so long ago. This Administration May be just a series of flipflops, waivers on Foreign Policy for four years. That would put a lot of americans and a lot of people across the globe in great jeopardy. We have stepped away to global leadership, and we are in fact not only have
List, including rupertmurdoch, and Steve Mnuchin and his wife, and Jared Kushner and ivanka trump. After the dinner, the guests are heading to the east room for entertainment from the Washington National opera. Much more on all of this, the pomp and circumstance, in a moment. While tonights state dinner is going off without a hitch, you cant say the same for the latest cabinet domny. Wh we have information on Ronny Jackson. Allegations of drinking on duty, to improper Prescription Drug use. The word is that on overseas trips in particular, that admiral would go down the aisleway of the airplane and say who wants to go to sleep and hand out prescriptions. And theres more. Sources telling cnn that dr. Jackson drunkingly banged on a female employees door during an overseas trip in 2015. Becoming so disruptive, the secret service stopped him out of concern he would wake thenpresident barack obama. All this is the kind of thing you would expect to come up in the vetting process, if the whit