government s second largest agency plagued with scandals. according to the new york times trump feels more job that he understands the job of president and relying on his own instincts putting a premium on his personal chemistry with his people rather than on their resume or qualifications for the job. recent he told reporters change isn t such a bad thing. they wrote a story about staff changes that was very false. i think you want to see change. i want to see the different ideas. the news marked the end of secretary shulkin s time an the va given the president s public backing before this. i also want to express our appreciation for secretary shulkin who is implementing the dramatic reform throughout the va. i have no doubt it will be properly implemented. right, david? better be, david.
the president watches 60 minutes. if he s watching tonight, what would you say to him? he knows i m telling the truth. how could you have voted for him? he talked about jobs, jackie. he said he would shake things up. i mean this might come as a shock to you, but we almost lost our house the way things are going. have you looked at the news, because things are worse. not on the real news. welcome back. it s hard to imagine a more politicized week for network primetime ratings. stormy daniels earning huge numbers with her interview on 60 minutes on sunday night. 22 million people tuned in to that. the biggest audience for that show in a decade. then a couple nights later on wednesday, 18 million tuned in to watch roseanne barr s return to primetime, her character a trump supporter according to nbc, president trump called her
the three of them while the president determines who if anyone specifically will be naxd lead communications director. nick confessore and elise jordan here with me in new york. thanks to all of you. could special counsel mueller use the news that trump s attorney floated the idea of a pardon to build an obstruction case? lots of new developments in the russia investigation is coming up. plus, if you want to understand the new face of the democratic party, look no further than the march for our lives last weekend, the people that took to the streets are the ones taking charge of the grassroots politics of the democratic party and they are not all teenagers or not necessarily what you might expect. we ll show you what the big board says. it has been a year of memorable parodies on saturday night live. the new one was from a former snl star. and finally, the round table will be here with three things you might not know. this is hsh where the action is.
to get you out of it. you need an outsider to do it. it s unfair to lump dr. ronny jackson in with some of the more inexperienced cabinet picks because he is a lifelong military doctor, a rear admiral equivalent to a one or two star. you don t rise within the pentagon ranks and not know how to manage people by the time you re at that level of promotion. there s a lot that could be gained by having a military doctor run the va just because the regular military health care system isn t synced with the va system necessarily. a lot the more exploratory treatments pioneered on the military side such as to combat ptsd aren t necessarily available to veteran. i think this is dr. jackson is someone who is trusted by president bush, president obama and clearly president trump and i think it s an exciting picking. > other news today on the personnel front, the president saying good-bye to one of his longest serving aides and someone who was one of his
we ll never have to use those words. we ll never have to use those words on our david. and according to nbc news, president trump who built his career in part on telling people you re fired on reality television, he tasked john kelly with firing shulkin before the president tweeted the news himself. i m joined by kristen welker, white house correspondent with nbc news, nick confessore with the new york times and a political analyst and elise jordan. kristin, over to you first where the news happened yesterday and the president put that tweet out. that s a pattern we turn on twitter and learn something big happened through the president s account. when and why the president turned on david shulkin because you heard the praise before this. when and why he turned on the va secretary and how it was he then turned to his personal physician.