not seem to be the place with this much controversy. now you have him leaving town. making more not leaving town, but the position. and now folks out to get him. makes it difficult to separate the back and worth and figure out how this all went down. i thought it was interesting. rex tillerson on his way out noted this was a mean spirited town. it seems there are hard feelings left at the end of the cabinet officials tenures. indeed. was this about privatization which shulkin focuses on or is this about the travel and bad press or all of the above? it is really hard to say, michelle, as this point. all at this point. all of the above is a safe answer. the privatization issue is complicated because it is something that always has been there in the sense there are
they make the argument he is a veteran, understands veterans issues and has the president s ear. but nobody is trying to credit make the argument that he has the management experience to lead an organization of a couple hundred thousand people as the va is. they just say that the last few directors of the va had that experience and they weren t able to turn that battleship around. perhaps it is time for someone with a different kind of resume, a andrea. i m not questioning admiral ronnie jackson s qualifications being a physician, though he gave that rather controversial briefing about the president s health. but peter baker, this seems to that implications of the privatization issue where dr. shulkin was pushing back very hard against the political wing of the va in terms of private identifiesing the va. well, that s certainly the
prime minister spokesman who says a good day for europe. so after 16 hours of negotiations we know what the sticking points were. the sticking points were whether the imf should be involved greece didn t want them involved. and they basically lost that point. but we don t know the final resolution on the privatization issue. this is the fund where greece has to put assets into the fund to be privatized to then payoff debts. the eurozone wanted 50 billion and greece said that was too much and wanted 17 billion. it does appear they are all back in the room again. they are at these consultations that stopped for a while. and the belgian prime minister has tweeted one word, agreement. in terms of any announcements you would expect one pretty
know the vast majority of the votes would go to president obama if they were able to be cast. i work on legislative issues with opening up opportunities for those involved in the criminal justice system. i ll never forget setting down with a senator. we were in the district of nine prisons, he took a look at the building and said, this is great but news are not my people. i have never had that response ever, but he was crystal clear with me. these are not my folks, meaning these are not republican votes, good luck. i m going to lose the privatization issue because it is a big issue. people of color and immigrants are of the core population. they just sent a letter to 48 state governors offering to run the prison systems for 20 years if they could be guaranteed a 90% occupancy rate. our states are spending we don t want people to miss
liquor in their state. governor bob mcdonald s looking to make changes to that. what he wants to do is sell off the state liquor stores. he says up front it could make some pretty good profits, maybe about $500 million in profits just to sell off the warehouse and all that. there s also the privatization issue. when you re in a state like virginia that fancies itself as an open market state can and market-competitive state, and by opening this up to the private sector, private stores would probably drive down the price for consumers. they would end up paying a little bit less. talked to a few consumers who were in the liquor store. they said typically they like to go across into washington, d.c. where they don t actually control the sale of liquor or the state doesn t actually own the store there. so governor bob mcdonald s hoping to get this done sometime, but the legislature but wolf to give it some would have to give it some approval, and they ve run into a road block there. jamie