i was very well treated by him as a doctor. but that doesn t suit him to run one of the most complex medical bureaucracies and one of the most troubled ones, jim. scott, it is cnn s reporting that the president said to aides that ronny jackson s performance in that press conference, praising the president s health, was a factor in him selecting him for the v.a. he also commented, my cnn colleagues have reported to others that he thought he looked like the central casting version of someone who should be in that role. that appears part of the president s calculus here in choosing him. it s part of the president s calculus in choosing a lot of aides these days. he likes people who now how to communicate. i hope dr. jackson s management abilities and his abilities to run an organization like the v.a. live up to how the president views his communication abilities. there s no question he has never managed anything this large, but not that many people around donald trump right now have.
the same mistake that president bush made. got your message loud and clear. we have fantastic people on the ground. got there long before harvey. so far so good. so we ll talk about the federal response as well as the local authority response. we know that in some communities those local authorities have not been able to get out to those homes and respond to some of the calls because, in some cases, they ve lost communication abilities and capabilities. and in others it s just dangerous right now because the winds are still strong and the rain is coming down. we ll talk more about the response and what we re seeing as the sun comes up in the next few minutes. we re still 20 minutes away from the sun coming up so they can try and get a good assessment of what they re dealing with. but before this, can you imagine being on the team who had to rush babies from that danger zone there in texas to safety? our next guest is one who helped get several sick infants out of the nicu and into
mo brooks of alabama as a member of the g.o.p. baseball team who gave aid to congressman scalise after he was shocked. congressman mike doyle of alabama is the manager of the democratic squad. i spoke with him earlier today and started off asking representative brooks whether he realized just how gravely congressman scalise was wounded. i knew it was serious. steve was losing communication abilities. he was still conscious, and i am no md. it looked like he was going into what i would call shock. anytime you have a bullet coming in that doesn t come out in the hip area, there s all sorts of things that could go wrong. my hope at the time was that it hit the muscle tissue, but apparently he did more damage. we understand that it looks like it s going to be a much longer road home for congressman scalise than initially believed. certainly our prayers are with him. congressman doyle, yesterday after the shooting, congressman
environment. mo brooks of alabama as a member of the g.o.p. baseball team who gave aid to congressman scalise after he was shocked. congressman mike doyle of alabama is the manager of the democratic squad. i spoke with him earlier today and started off asking representative brooks whether he realized just how gravely congressman scalise was wounded. i knew it was serious. steve was losing communication abilities. he was still conscious, and i am no md. it looked like he was going into what i would call shock. anytime you have a bullet coming in that doesn t come out in the hip area, there s all sorts of things that could go wrong. my hope at the time was that it hit the muscle tissue, but apparently he did more damage. we understand that it looks like it s going to be a much longer road home for congressman scalise than initially believed. certainly our prayers are with him. congressman doyle, yesterday
pattern. where there s some sort of significant accomplishment. and the president manages to step on the news by saying something. we heard over and over in the campaign, if hillary clinton could just she would make a comment about the deplorable and trump would step on the news by making it about himself. then he lashes out at his aides for their lackluster communication abilities. seizes control of the messaging himself. he thinks he does it better than they do. that s precisely what happened last week and i think it is what we can expect to happen when he touches down for this foreign trip. however, when he does that, he exacerbates the communication crisis. because he is actually not the most adept communicator. it worked during the campaign for him. but it has not worked for him when he has been in the west wing and in the oval office. so when you look at all this information has come out in the