meeting in philadelphia about the fact that they re going to discuss trade and kind of dinging democrats saying that because you haven t confirmed my nominee, i ll have to conduct the negotiations. she ll come here at a time when she s expected to design two executive orders that will be melt with a lot of opposition. we have our work cut out, explaining the orders in detail and covering the first visit of a foreign leader to the white house here in the new trump administration, shep. shepard: john, great to see you. thanks very much. matt murray is with us now. a wall street journal s deputy editor in chief. the wall street journal a corporate cousin of ours. the talk is the whole republican party is united on this matter. the truth is, there s a wing of the republican party that doesn t want to add to the deficit. they want to figure out a way not to do that. they have not accomplished that. no. they re stepping up to say that they ll pay for the wall and
this. max, let s look at that, the mission of president hollande. he is going to meet with the u.s. president, barack obama. they re pretty much on the same page. he does want to bring the united states and russia together. they re not on the same page. when it comes to whether or not bashir al assad should remain in power. how is that likely to work and what will come out of those discussions? he has his work cut out, president holland. he wants to bring the russian and american coalitions together against isis. president obama ruled that out. they disagrae on the political future of syria. so the russians don t want to rule out assad in power. until that s resolved. that s the bridge that hollande
deferred they can apply for a work permit. the president is following the guidelines of congress saying that you don t break up families first. you get rid of the felons first. tell me let s move to eric garner case and obviously both in ferguson and now in staten island, a lot of concerns about the process, about the legal process, about the grand jury process. what s gone wrong? what went wrong on staten island? you know, it s sickening. i ve seen that tape as you have. it s just unambiguous jourks the chokehold was illegal. it was obviously unnecessary. the guy says 11 times i can t breathe. he was not resisting arrest. so that if the process had worked the way it s supposed to work there would at least have been an indictment and then a trial. so clearly eric holder and the u.s. justice department have their work cut-out for them. they have to figure out why all these police departments and
the veterans affairs to accomplish this mission. i would like to thank my family for supporting me throughout my life but especially during this next chapter. my wife, my daughter, my son-in-law and my son are all here today. my parents and diane s mother could not attend today but thank you for your love and support. thank you, again, mr. president. i look forward to working with you to transform veterans affairs to better serve our country s veterans. thank you. [ applause ] all right. that man has his work cut-out for him if approved by the senate, robert mcdonald will be the man running the va agency. there might be some confusion. the president talking about vha.
clean this bureaucracy which has allowed this to fester. now we know for years and years and years. this, again, just the phoenix hospital. there s just so much more to this drew griffin with his work cut out, excellent job as always. joining me now to talk about whether this might actually dive into the criminal realm at this point for people s roles and what s going on in the va scandal, cnn commentator and attorney mel robbins, as well as hln legal analyst joey jackson. chewing on these new developments. say, where do i even begin? and is this now, i mean, we ve been talking about the potential to sue for damages, et cetera. now are we heading into the criminal avenue with what s happened? absolutely. the fbi involved. as cnn is reporting, as we ve