Affairs secretary, David Shulkin after the president fired him on twitter. Ahead, the latest shakeup. Shulkins response and what happens to the v. A. Now. Lets get to it. Good afternoon. Russian retaliation. Moscows foreign minister is announcing the kremlin is shutting down the consulate in st. Petersburg and sending out 60 american. They say this is in response to other countries throwing out the Russian Diplomats. Officials have called it the first chemical weapons attack on european soil since world war ii. Monday, the white house gave 60 Russian Diplomats and their family as week to get out of the United States and said they plan to close the russian consulate in seattle. Sergey lavrov accusing officials to follow an anti russian force. Officials in moscows have denied any involvement in the attack. Its foxs top story. Rich edson is live with more. The rush foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov summoned the u. S. Ambassador to russia that 60 diplomats have april 5 to leave russia and the u. S. Has to clear out their staff from the u. S. Consulate in st. Petersburg and do see by saturday. This is according of course to russia state media and were still waiting on u. S. Reaction to this. U. S. Officials have been telling us the last few days that this was the anticipated and expected result. This is a rule in diplomacy. Whatever a country does to your country, you do it to theirs. So earlier the United States kicked out 60 diplomats and closed the consulate that russian has in seattle. Russia says theyre expelling other diplomats. More than two dozen nations say theyre kicking out Russian Diplomats in response to the nerve attack in the united kingdom. Why russia says the consulate in st. Petersburg . It because its the most prestigious. The embassy in here in washington d. C. Tweeted out a poll which u. S. Consulate should they close in russia and st. Peters won it handily, shep. Shepard were hearing the victims in this are doing wetter. Yeah. Out of critical condition. The spies or the exspys daughter is doing so. Thats according to the hospital and that shes no longer in critical condition. The British Government says they were poisoned with the nerve agent. Now shes doing better, the russian government wants to talk with her, meet with her, perhaps to figure out the russian government has been denying this whole time it was a nerve agent and theyre responsible for this and they demand evidence as to what the british have on this. This is simply just part of what the retaliation has gone now. It was that attack that prompted the u. K. To kick out Russian Diplomats. The russians now coming full circle. Diplomacy at work, shep. Shepard thanks, rich. Lets go to Michael Ohanlan from the brookings institute. Is that it . Thats probably it for the moment. The fundamental issues are still there. Anyplace from syria where hostilities continue and president assad bombards innocent civilians with Russian Support to the ukraine where the battle goes on for the help of the russian separatists and hundreds continue to die every few months to other parts of europe where russian planes and ships are buzzing or unsafely approaching nato capabilities. The new cold war lives on this. Is one chapter in that broader story. Shepard pretend youre Vladimir Putin and you just used a nerve agent in an attempt to murder someone on european soil for the First Time Since world war ii and what you got was the expulsion of 150 of your spies. I mean, hhh. I hope he thinks twice. Putins world view is he thinks we took advantage of russian weakness in the decades after the cold war. We pushed our weight around in the middle ease with mediocre results in places like iraq and libya and we had to be taken down a peg. This is one part of the broader strategy. He doesnt strike me as a particularly contemplative guy that reassessed and reevaluated his previous decisions sometimes with a touch of guilt or regret. I dont think thats who he is. Id be more likely to think that he might try to kill this guy in his hospital bed. God father style. So that would be my first instinct about where his head is today. Shepard im trying to think of why he would slow down. His people shot a jet out of the sky, he took over part of another country. The march seems to be on and seems to be almost well, with very little resistance. What would be something that the World Community could do to maybe really slow him down . I think we are doing a lot of direct defense. In the baltic states, poland, nato has more forces. Still not robust, but a substantial trip wire. We have other capabilities were trying to build militarily to come in the need be. That kind of thing and hardening our electoral machinery against russian shenanigans like we saw in 2016 is crucial. Worrying about cyber attacks. Thats crucial. That has to continue. We need to walk and chew gum together. We need to think about whether theres any kind of broader dialogue to engage in over time. That might allow both sides to air their grievances and rethink the basic way in which Eastern Europe is being handled today. Russia needs to get those forces off of those territories. We need to rethink our plans for nato expansion to the former so why it republics and a broader dialogue with the tougher measures that we undertake right now can begin to point us in the right direction. Shepard michael, thank you. Thanks, shep. Shepard President Trumps latest fired cabinet member is speaking out in a big way. Not holding much of anything back. The former Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin sounds off about his time in d. C. After the. Showed him out the door with a tweet. As we do this time of day, were watching the dow. 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Shepard its toxic and chaotic. Thats what it is. Thats how the ousted Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin says the environment in d. C. Hours after President Trump fired him on twitter. The president picking the white house doctor, rear admiral Ronny Jackson to take his place. Admiral jackson head the press conference about the president s health. David shulkin wrote, im very proud of my record and know that i acted with the it moves integrity. Unfortunately, none of that mattered. As i prepare to leave government, im struck by a recurring thought. It should not be this hard to serve your country. The former v. A. Secretary told npr that members of the Trump Administration want to privatize the v. A. And he was standing in the way. The appointees were trying to politicize the v. A. And trying to make sure that our progress stopped. Its been a very difficult environment. Its been one where weve been distracted from our mission. Shepard again that from npr. He was accused of accepting tickets to wimbledon. The former secretary did reimburse the v. A. And he says theres more to that story. He would have loved to tell it but they wouldnt let him. He said the whole thing was m mischaracteri mischaracterized. And today is the last day for hope hicks that has worked with the first family before the president ran for office. Peter doocy is live in west palm beach, florida where he will spent the easter holiday. Hello, peter. On air forbes one this afternoon, officials explain the president had been considering a few other candidates to become the v. A. Secretary, but drdr. Drdr. Ron dr. Ronny jackson kept rising to the top of the list. Now the process is the normal Senate Confirmation process. Many dont think that dr. Jackson, the combat medic, is in any kind of disadvantage because of his lack of experience in bulky bureaucratic office buildings. Weve had bureaucrats or individuals that understand kind of have the experience and the resume of hospital organizations or in the case of the Obama Administration general eric consecki to run the nda. And mr. Shulkin said the Trump Administration wants to turn it into a privately run operation. He says President Trump just a few minutes ago hinted at some big changes coming. Were going to have choice at the v. A. Were going to have choice for these great people. Youre also going to have choice with jobs. Youre going to have choice with jobs. Our veterans will have choice. Youre going to have choice with jobs. As the only Obama Administration man in the cabinet, shulkin is the odd man out and now hes out of a job. Shepard and the development in the case of the porn star with the president. Right. A federal judge in los angeles ruled it would be premature or inappropriate at this stage for President Trump or Michael Cohen to testify in the Stormy Daniels lawsuit, which the porn star filed because shes trying to void a nondisclosure agreement trying to conceal the details of a decades old affair that she had with businessman donald trump. But Stormy Daniels lawyer says this is not over. He just tweeted a link to the judges order and he wrote this. Heres an order from the court denying our motion as premature on procedural grounds. They filed their motion to compel arbitration seeing to hide the fact from public i have. We expect this any day. So far no comment from the white house. Shep . Shepard peter doocy live with us in south florida. Thank you. Lets go to jordan fabian, White House Correspondent for the hill. These sorts of things, they keep the whole story alive. Im guessing in that building behind you, theyd rather that not be the case. Absolutely, shep. The president came out today to the south lawn. Sometimes he wants to talk to us about the story of the day. He didnt do that. Hes been hunkered down and not addressing the situation with Stormy Daniels as these questions continue to hover over here. Well have to wait for another day. Maybe a tweet. Shepard on the matter of the v. A. Secretary, we keep saying, you know, he found out about it through a tweet. Its actually how we found out about it. Were told the main man at the white house told him. The man that is being appointed will have to go through the confirmation process is the doctor that came on that day with the the president ial health conference. All data indicates the president is very healthy and he will remain so for the duration of his presidency. Some people have, you know, just great genes. I told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old. He has good genes. Thats the way god made him. Dr. Jackson, hes taking cholesterol medication. He has evidence of Heart Disease and borderline obese. Can you characterize that as Excellent Health . His heart is very healthy. It was what it was. Its wellestablished the president likes to hear good things about the president. He heard good things from this doctor and now the Veterans Administration and its 341,000 employees are in the president s estimation to be run by a man who has never really run anything like that. I wonder if theres concern. There is, shep. Thats the number 1 question for dr. Jackson. When he goes before the senate for the confirmation hearings, were hearing from members like Tammy Duckworth that want to know what qualifications this doctor has to run the second largest federal cabinet agency. Its a huge undertaking. I note that dr. Jackson is wellliked on both sides of the aisle. He took care of president obama and President Trump. I dont think people dislike him. Theres questions whether hes prepared for this kind of undertaking. He has to talk about that and talk about where he stands on this contentious issue about privatization at the v. A. Hes been sharing some advice where he wants to see the agency go. The public doesnt know what he told the president. Shepard you can say all you want about trips to wimbledon. The problem with shulkin was, shulkin didnt want to v. A. To be privatized. That was a nonstarter. One would suspect if thats what the president wants, that would be what this doctor wants. I guess well find out in the hearings. Are we expecting those to be contentious . Shepard i think so. The threshold for nominees has been lowered to 50. Hes going to save some tough questions because he doesnt have the type of background the past v. A. Nominees have had and this issue of privatization is so contentious with even some republicans not being a fan of it. 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Shepard the president talk about infrastructure and his plan to use 200 billion in federal funds in an effort to begin fixing the nations road and bridges. He talked about that and other things. Mike tobin was witness. The president just wrapped up 20 miles south of cleveland. How was there, mike . He certainly did meander through subjects. He started talking about how you cant win if you dont win ohio. H he talked about investing 200 billion federal dollars which would obligate state and local governments to spend 1. 5 trillion on crumbling infrastructure. He put some pressure on congress to move legislation so the jobs can get started in the first place. Heres the president. Congress now has the opportunity to build on this momentum and to act on a common sense plan that will make our economy stronger, our roads faster and our families safer. We want a safe country. We want safety. Up to 400,000 jobs the white house says will be created. Above average pay. According to the president , 32 above average for the skilled trades. The president touched on something that is a familiar refrain. 40 of the bridges you drive over were built before man walked on the moon. Shepard wow. Thats a stat. Sherrod brown from ohio said theres no guarantee that the 400,000 jobs would go to americans first. You heard the president talk about america first, but he didnt really say anything that would link prioritization of those jobs. You heard other members of congress criticize that if you put so much pressure on the state and local governments, theyll respond with new tolls, new taxes. They might sell off assets to meet this obligation of 1. 5 trillion, shep. Shepard mike tobin. The white house lawyer on the Russian Investigation speaking out in a rare interview. He said attorneys have no choice but to cooperate with a special counsel. Well tell you why and what else he had to say. 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