con text to try to make sure that i wasn t as effective as a leader moving forward. shulkin was also asked how specifically he learned he had been fired. he wouldn t weigh in on that. i can tell you two white house officials have told nbc news that he was informed during a phone call with the chief of staff general john kelly during the day prior to the president s tweet that came out last night. so the president didn t fire him, it was his chief of staff? that s according to two white house officials. okay, thank you so much, kristen. my panel, john shuttllts. michael steele is former rnc chairman. liz smith, a democratic strategist. john, your members are all impacted by this. what s your thought about jackson? unprepared, completely unprepared. i m sure he s a great doctor but if you ve been following the
point, if it s clear that an individual s not going to be able to get that clearance, of course, then you don t want them to have access to sensitive information, but what i m trying to say is at the start, you want american officials, and he is an american official on behalf of the white house and the president, you want them to be well informed and well armed with as much information as possible. he now doesn t have that at his command, and that will now weigh on what his responsibilities are and how the president deploys him zb him. so, jonathan, if john kelly was trying to make the case that the family is making a mess of the white house, he had ivanka trump saying that she wouldn t answer a question about whether or not donald trump s more than i think he has 19 credible accusers who ve accused him of sexual misconduct, she wouldn t weigh in on whether or not they were telling the truth after having no problem of weighing in on roy moore s accusers, no problem weighing in on o
to be okay, but you have to fight for what you believe in. and one thing he wouldn t comment on for all of these democrats dozens of them now who are boycotting the inauguration, even though his administration has weighed in and said they don t believe the democrats are hurting a smooth transition or contributing to division, he himself, even though reporters have been wanting to ask him this question, he wouldn t weigh in at all. wolf? yeah, he said he didn t want to comment on that decision by so many of these house democrats to boycott the inauguration. michelle kosinski, thanks very much. rocky moments for the trump transition today as controversial cabinet picks came in for some pretty tough questioning. democrats grilled the health and human services secretary nominee, an outspoken critic of obamacare and the epa nominee, the climate change critic who actually has sued the agency he s now been picked to head. our political reporter sara murry is here to sum it all up for us. th
purview. i do not know. he wouldn t weigh in on that. that s the big question, will the department of justice find gm criminally liable? based on what you know, is this going to be enough to make most of the families satisfied? have no idea. some have told us they ll take this all the way to trial. they re not going to settle. they re not going to take any amount. they want to send a message. they think if they get paid off then what does this do. we re going to see how many people opt into the program. they re going to start accepting those claims. thanks very much. i want to bring you some breaking news now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. israeli media says the bodies of three missing israeli teens have been found. you may remember they disappeared june 12th, near a settlement in the west bank. this breaking news coming out, that the israeli prime minister has called an emergency security cabinet meeting as well. we have our own ben wedeman in
white house press secretary asked if he has an opinion about this. his response was, look, fema has enough funding in the immediate future, so he wouldn t weigh in on that debate looking forward. but we are already hearing from some republicans, tom coburn of oklahoma, or rather of tom coburn, rather, who said he does think those types of funds should be offset. so this is a debate and this is a discussion that has already started. that has already been set in motion, martin. so i would be surprised if we didn t see this, and, of course, that was the debate during the issue over whether or not there should be sandy funding approved. of course. nbc s kristen welker at the white house. thank you, kristen. reporter: thank you. now to the task for the red cross leading the recovery efforts in moore, oklahoma, and this critical work comes on an anniversary for this invaluable group. let s turn now to dan hall bu halliburton, spokesperson for