health care in the hands of the private sector. he writes the advocates saw me as an obstacle for privatization who had to be removed. at the event in ohio yesterday, president trump commented on his decision to fire shulkin. they re vets. they re great. they re our greatest people. and they ll be they ve got a problem and it can be fixed. by the time they see the doctor, it s over. it s over. not going to happen. we re going to have real choice. that s why i made some changes because i wasn t happy and coming up on morning joe, david shulkin will be a guest. be sure to stick around for that. i m sure that will be a very interesting conversation. as louis just mentioned, president trump went to ohio so on tout his plans for infrastructure. but from the get-go, his speechd veered into a campaign stump speech.
leader. and even colleagues are calling him mr. speaker sometimes. they introduced him to a crowd at a fund-raiser. kind of in a joking manner, but this guy is clearly on the rise. lastly, hope hicks spent her last day at the white house yesterday. i have seen some reporting that there s a lot of people gunning for her job, which is pretty surprising considering what is happening at the white house right now. who do you think could replace her, daniel? we ve heard kellyanne conway could be coms director or on an interim basis assume that title. mercedes schlapp is a contender and tony siag, the head of public affairs at treasury. but we should all keep in mind that the faster you rise in this white house, the sooner you will fall. so times it s better if you just stay below the radar. daniel lippman for us, good to see you. have a good weekend. you, too. during his speech in ohio yesterday, president trump
watch this. remember, you can t win unless you win the state of ohio, right? you can t. we have a very important election coming up and they don t like the wins we ve been getting. they don t like that the economy, the democrats, the they don t like that the economy is so strong. they don t like that they don t have one vote on the tax cuts. not one vote. and they re all now saying, you know, those tax can can cuts are stuff. what they re saying to each other is not pretty if you re a democrat. and we should do well. believe me, if our party if we, altogether, if we didn t win, this economy would be a wreck. we can t lose that by getting hurt in the midterms. so we can t be complacent. we re a very important and respected in some circles democrat said we should get rid of our second amendment.
time now for sports. where one the world s top athletes has spoken out about social issues, thrust into the spotlight following the recent events in in charlottesville. before exiting the stage at a charity event in ohio yesterday, nba star lebron james reflected on the weekend s violence and referred to donald trump as the, quote, so-called president. take a listen. the only way for us to be able to get better as a society and for us to get better as people is love. that s the only way we re going to be able to account for something at the end of the day. it s not about the guy that s the so-called president of the united states or whatever the case. it s about us. it s about us looking in the mirror. kidding all the way up to adults. all of us looking in the mirror saying what can we do to help change. shoutout to the innocent people in charlottesville, north
gonzalez saying comey made an error in judgment in releasing the letter which really says nothing. here s what he said about the timing so close to the election. of course it s always easy to, in hindsight, to second-guess someone. but certainly in hind sight it appears that did not help the situation at all. quite frankly, it muddled the situation. and obviously it puts at risk this election. some people some voters are going to be making a decision on election day and in early voting about which way they re going to go based upon this very incomplete letter that really doesn t say anything other than there is a continuing investigation that may implicate secretary clinton. during campaign stops across ohio yesterday, hillary clinton wasted no time in addressing the fbi s latest e-mail investigation. i m sure a lot of you may be asking what this new e-mail story is about. and why in the world the fbi would decide to jump into an election with no evidence of any