not an admiral drinks or doesn t drink on the job. if, in fact, you are qualified, what are you scared of? go before the united states senate and tell them your story. let the investigators and the senate staff do their jobs and if you re qualified you ll win. if you aren t, you won t. this is not some sort of new political idea. it s very interesting. terry, just to make it button up all the ironies one of those nominees that had to withdraw was kim ba wood now the federal judge overseeing the stormy daniels case. give me your came on this because is donald trump you know the man is he the type of person that would do what j i m gee williams just said. if he really believes in him and he is out tweeting in ronny jacks jackson s favor, he declared him the healthiest president ever and has helped him out, is he the kind of guy who would double down and say i m renominating this guy? i think it depends. the problem for him is that he has so many fires going on in
his office for $43,000. take a listen. i did have a phone call that came in of a sensitive nature and i did not have access to secured communication. i gave direction to my staff to address that and a out of that came a $43,000 expenditure that i did not approve. that is something that so you are not taking responsibility for the $43,000 that was spent in your office, you re saying that staff did it without your knowledge? career individuals at the agency took that process through and signed off on it all the way through. i m going to hold jimmy williams back who used to be staff because i know he s probably going to be jumping out of his skin that staff is being blamed. what do you make of the pruitt staff did it dense? that is so lame. he didn t just say staff, he said career staff. the career people, the obama he blamed it on the people who have been there and will be there long after he s gone. right. that s lame, it s trifle and it s all those things you kn
medical office. jackson maintains the allegations are false as does the president. i called him today, i said in a certain way you are in a very big way you are an american hero because you ve exposed a system for some horrible things. i have had it happen to me with the russian collusion hoax. it s a hoax. but i came into the job understanding that things happen. he didn t. he s a great doctor, a great admiral. he didn t really think a thing like this could happen and i think it s a disgrace. jackson s withdrawal the 24th failed nomination of the trump administration capped a week that also saw epa chief scott pruitt go to congress to deny mounting ethics allegations and acting chief of the consumer financial protection bureau mick mulvaney admit that as a congress he only listened to lobbyists if they contributed to
jackson, dr. ronny jackson, the keyword is qualified. i ve talked to obama era people, they loved him. everybody loved ronny jackson but there was something kind of strange about the controversy being whipped up. when senator tester came out and said, well, you know, he handed out pills and he was called the candy man. look, from what i know from presidential travel and talk to people who have actually done t i have not actually done t but those long haul overseas flights, you better believe that they hand out ambien and other things to make sure that people are awake or can sleep and can do their jobs. when that came out i thought, this is this is odd. this doesn t make sense. so to jimmy s point if ronny jackson if dr. jackson is qualified, if he is indeed the person who should be the head of the va, president trump should renominate him but he s not because those same people who love dr. ronny jackson are also
his campaigns. jonathan and jason are back with me and joining me is tara and jimmy williams. jimmy, you are at a disadvantage because you are not here at the table. i will go to you on this first. this is a weird story for a lot of us. we were talking at the table that as far as we knew from obama administration people when, you know, ronny jackson first stirred up controversy by saying trump was healthy as a horse the head scratching comments you got from obama he was very well liked during the obama era. all of these allegations really did sort of strike a lot of people as odd. trump was tweeting this morning that john tester, the senator who put all these things out, should resign because as he said the things are proving false, the secret service is unable to confirm or deny any of the phoney democrat charges that have devastated this wonderful jackson family. does this strike you as weird? i think if that s the case then the president of the united states should renominate ro