Can baker succeed where johnny man sell failed . Ronny jackson withdrew his nomination to be the next va secretary will not be returning in his role as the president s personal physician. Two Senior Administration officials, nbc news has not confirmed that reporting. Jackson faced intense criticism this week after the top democrat on the Senate Veterans affairs committee, jon tester, released a document summarizing allegations against jackson by current and former colleagues. Those allegations included overprescribing pills, drinking on the job, and creating a hostile work environment. President trump responded in a tweet yesterday writing, quote, Secret Service has just informed me that senator jon testers statements on Admiral Jackson are not true. Heres what the president had to say at his rally last night in michigan. Senator jon tester of a really great place, montana, who voted, by the way, in favor of
sanctuary cities who is weak on the border, didnt vote for tax cuts, he took a
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Came out and supplied South Koreans with a number of those in his own administration by the fact he would meet with kim jongun. The parallels go on and on. The Secretary Of State just hours later came out and said there would be preconditions for President Trump meeting with the president of iran. But this comes against the backdrop of the president and a number of his top aides really escalating the rhetoric. Threatening to impose new sanctions. To criticize iran sharply for its acts of terrorism. The president of iran not responding to the president s offer for a meeting. Instead, he decried what he called United States illegal pulling out of its ran nuclear deal. The stakes for the president couldnt be harder. Because the president really railed a number of allies. Lawmakers on capitol hill when he pulled out of the nuclear deal. A lot of those people saying look, that is what was holding iran to account. Keepi
this afternoon with white house correspondent peter doocy. how do things look there? so far they look quiet and you know how these things go. you don t hear a lot from the president if he doesn t have some good news to share with the people or with members of his party. and as of right now it s a sign of things not looking so good. no public events on the president schedule. but a few moments ago we got some rare insight from joe manchin about the president s negotiating style or a lack of negotiating style because joe manchin has really been getting worked by biden for the last couple of days and by biden s top staffers. he revealed to reporters on the hill that the president never asked him to betray his values. and that s consistent with what we heard for the last few days, the president was not whipping boats. he was not trying to usable power of the office to get people in line for this infrastructure package and that climate and social human infrastructure package that they
and after the u.s. was going to sign a deal, we would walk away. the stunning reality when the president pulled the plug, they suddenly realized. people are saying, we are not winning the war. of course you re not fighting the war, the afghan people are defending themselves. it s very different. the other thing is the taliban are not winning either. they do not control more territory and they are in just as much of a stalemate as we are. the question is, can we live with the stalemate? the answer is yes. can the taliban? i think that s a different question. julie: before i let you go, what does this say about trump s negotiating style? is very consistent. on the one hand, he demonstrate he s going to protect u.s. interests, and to be there and stay there. in a sustained way. on the other hand, any time the other side wants to stop him he s willing to talk. he is very consistent. chinese, russians, ukrainians iranians, andtaliban. julie: we appreciate you coming on. democrats go