breaking news just in to us. dr. ronny jackson, the white house a white house official says dr. jackson has returned to the white house medical unit, but has not returned as the president s physician. the official says it is unclear if that will happen. another physician we are now told has been serving as the president s doctor since the jackson nominations, since he was nominated to be secretary of veterans affairs, although he may have pulled the plug on his bid to run the veterans affairs department. the questions that torpedoed the nomination has not gone away. we have new reporting on that tonight, we ll bring you that momentarily. first the president s two-word take on it. they have this witch hunt going on. with people in the justice department that shouldn t be there. it s a witch hunt. it s a witch hunt. that s all it is. a witch hunt, he says. but that s not quite all he says. ronny jackson, admirable doctor, is one of the finest men
us lead our efforts to denuclearize the korean peninsula. another win for the president, as ric grenell also confirmed, u.s. ambassador to germany, after months of delays. democrats gave in because there obstructionism would have been made and fired if he was still not confirmed by tomorrow when german chancellor angela merkel arrives at the white house. important meetings on iran and north korea. a big loss, though, for the president. rear admiral ronny jackson pulled out of consideration for secretary of veterans affairs and met all kinds of anonymous allegations. he put out a statement declaring he would not dignify the basest charges of any more comments. the president unloaded on democrats who forced out jackson as he signed autographs for the children of reporters who came to the white house for take your kid to work today. he s a great man. he was treated very, very unfairly. he got treated really unfairly. he s a heck of a man. the president is what caused this problem,
& gamble company, fortune 25. to think that you can put a new ceo in every four years or every eight years, and drive sustained succe success. our veterans deserve better. robert mcdonald the former secretary of veterans affairs under president obama who had a remarkable amount of support from veterans groups at the time that donald trump decided not to keep him on. va is an incredibly vulnerable spot right now. i hope you re one of the people they re talking to about how to make things better. i ll answer the phone. all right. thank you. tell me. i will. we ll be right back. stay with us.
dossier. in the dossier, it says the president made the trip to moscow, during the miss universe pageant and involved with prostitutes there, which indicates he would have had to have spent the night. comey remarked on the strangeness of the president s obsession with it and made clear in the fox interview that not only is he obsessed with the comey memos and comey s book tour, which clearly has gotten under his skin, but still thinking about the russia trip and the details of it. david, i want to ask you about the other big news, a big headline, 8:00 a.m. this morning, dr. ronny jackson has withdrawn his name for consideration to be the new secretary of veterans affairs. he says in all of the allegations that have come to light against him are false, but he says he doesn t want to put the president through the distraction. at a certain point, i suppose this was unestabinevitable with volume of things that came out here. does this draw more questions to dr. jackson or the vetting pro
state pompeo and the north korean dictator kim jong-un and taken when then cia director mike pompeo visited kim jong-un, the north koreans over easter weekend. president trump, by the way, wasn t so sure about this meeting whether or not it s going to happen and sounded consumed with anger much of the day today venting on a slew of topics from the failed picture of ronny jackson and cloud hanging over the white house, the russia investigation. reporter: talking to children gathered in the rose garden only ask friendly questions today. we don t want to embarrass your children. reporter: using adult language to complain about the decision to withdraw the name from consideration for secretary of veterans affairs. he s a great man. and he got treated very, very unfairly. he was treated really unfairly. and he s a hell of a man. reporter: the president already fired up about jackson