believe ed that the static was so intense that it was good to get shinseki out. he s also taking a trip to europe next week and is going to be speaking in terms of the veterans and war over there. and also feels he s going to put a military man in place to replace shinseki. quite interesting, stanley mcchrystal is one of the leading candidates for this job. so is michael mullen. over at from the joint chiefs, so you re going to see a number of military people and again, congress and the people who do the confirming, high respect for the military and i think you re going to see almost applause, confirmation of whoever is there. so, it should be less contentious. i think that s the difference between the sebelius. a lot of people see him as slow to demand accountability and that again, is a political perception problem that is going to transcend whatever happens.
this is a fox news alert. just hours after accepting the resignation of va secretary eric shinseki, president obama made a surprise appearance in the briefing room and announced that jay carney is stepping down as white house press secretary. this comes just days after carney s office leaked a cia agent s identity in afghanistan. he s a great press secretary and a great adviser. he has good judgment and good temperament and he s got a good heart. and i m going to miss him a lot. i will continue to rely on him
shinseki goes about the president s own leadership style since the president here from this poudium here today, shocke these problems were developing and republicans said the president has come out and said he didn t know much about the va, about the irs or health care rollout, that botched rollout until after it happened. listen. and i think he s deeply disappointed in the fact that bad news did not get to him. and that the structures weren t in place for him to identify this problem quickly and fix it. he s not decisive. he doesn t make decisions quickly. he doesn t seem to surround himself with really good people. now in the afternoon, the president made yet another rare appearance here in the briefing room interrupting the briefing to say he had a personnel announcement that jay was leaving to be replaced by his top deputy. there is no direction connection
i honor you for that. thank you. those are the vehicles that change lives because the helpless, the men with no arms and legs and women who are blind, this and that, now, have freedom of movement with these high tech chairs and their whole psychology changes, everything changes, general shinseki did not help one iota, did not send a card to independence.org. did not do anything, nothing. he totally ignored this efforts the folks generated. not the v.a., not the federal government, all right? shinseki should have honored independence fund.org, should have made a big deal out of it so that more people would come in he ignored it you shinseki honorable man and served the country well. you are wrong in the sense that he is terrible administrator, he should never have had the position
soaring. i don t think you ll be able to buy a big market nba team for les than $3 billion. reporter: and to put these really big numbers into perspective, last month the milwaukee bucks sold for $550 million and that was an nba record. so this bid blows that out of the water, but isn t the biggest sale in u.s. sports history. that goes to the l.a. dodgers, their sale in 2012, $2.1 billion. victor, christi? big numbers. alexandra field, thank you so much. the chief of veterans affairs out of a job this morning and attention turning to finding his replacement. his permanent replacement, we should point out. eric shinseki resigned after revelations that included deadly delays for veteran cares for those who were waiting. senior white house correspondent jim acosta has learned shinseki s departure was