And that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. Katie tur is going to take over. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west, its 2 00 p. M. In washington where it is day two of french president emanuel macron are meeting at the white house. Well see if that special relationship between macron and the president can change the president s mind on a host of issues, primarily the Iran Nuclear Deal. Even as the president hosted his french counterpart, mr. Trump was pressed on issues here at home. And at this afternoons joint Press Conference, it was his embattled pick to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. I havent heard of the particular allegations, but i will tell you, hes one of the finest people that i have met. Admiral jackson, dr. Jackson, hes a wonderful man. I said to him, what are you needed for . And as far as experience is concerned, the Veterans Administration which is approximately 13 million people, is so big, you koucould run the biggest Hospital System in the world that is small
our own von hilliard on the ground. i voted for the democratic candidate. reporter: do you usually vote democratic? no, i m a republican, but lasko seemed to want to go to congress and get things done. reporter: who did you vote for? debby, absolutely. overall i m a republican, have voted republicans my whole life, believe in all the measures that president trump is putting in place and believe that debby supports all that. joining me now hiral tipirneni who is the democratic candidate in the race, dr. tipirneni, thank you so much for being here. thank you for having me, i appreciate it. we were able to catch up with your opponent debbie lasko a little bit earlier. i m just a better fit for this district, whether it be securing the border, my opponent is not really in favor she doesn t want to put any money towards a border wall or improving education. i really have been a strong
declared their meetings today successful, the iran nuclear deal threatens to increase pressures. these are issues that macron holds the opposite view on. translator: you consider the iranian deal, the jcpoa, the one negotiated in 2015 with iran is a bad deal. for a number of months, i ve been saying that this was not a sufficient deal, but that it enabled us, at least until 2025 to have some control over their nuclear activities. this is a deal with decayed foundations, it s a bad deal, it s a bad structure. it s falling down. we re going to see what happens on the 12th. so the big question we are asking today on this story is, can president macron get donald trump to change his mind.
clean bill of health after he had his physical. but mr. jackson says he s still looking forward to continuing in this process. it you were able you were able to catch up with ronnie jackson while he was up on capitol hill. reporter: if we take the president at his word about the conversations he had with jackson. he had these conversations with the veterans affairs committee, just as the president was speaking, he left the hill a few minutes before the president made those comments publicly. what dr. jackson told me is he s looking forward to answering all the questions about him. although when i asked him those questions, he didn t answer them to me. dr. jackson, can you say anything about all these allegations that have come out about you in the last couple of days? i m looking forward to getting the hearing rescheduled and answering everybody s
but jason greenblatt would have more cover than michael kon does if he was acting as an advisor or a fixer, right, chuck? one more way to think of it, i think the factual contours that he lays out are really important. but prosecutors don t really set out to get anybody, what they want from cohn is the truth and they re going to take that truth wherever it leads, it may lead to the president, it may not lead to the president, it may lead to other people, we don t know sitting here. but i don t like the characterization of prosecutors setting out to get somebody. at least good prosecutors don t think that way. i think it s always important to remember that the prosecution here, the sdny could solely be going after something that michael cohen did alone, with no real intention of trying to get him to turn on the president of the united states. there s got to be reason why this is with sdny and not with robert mueller. gentlemen, thank you very much.