dr. jimmy jackson on his exceptional career and service to god. i wish dr. jackson many years of happiness as he begins this new phase of life with his bride of nearly 58 years, bobbi, his children, his grandchildren, and his great -grandchildren. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from indiana, mr. bucshon, for five minutes. mr. bucshon: excuse me. mr. speaker, it's with a heavy heart i rise today to honor the life and service of officer robert shawn pitts of terre haute police department who was killed in the line of duty on friday, may 4, 2018. officer pitts was born in indiana and dedicate the his life to the security and protection of his community. he proudly served with the terre haute police department for the past 16 years and with the sullivan police department for six years prior to joining the force in terre haute. he was also a member of the special response team and u.s. marshal's task force. i want to extend my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family and friends of officer pitts, espe

dr. jackson. but also that dr. was not telling the truth. >> you are telling me if hillary clinton had dictated to her doctor or barack obama had dictated to his doctor say i have the best genes. >> we all watched hillary clinton pass out completely pass out. >> and people's heads exploded. >> and we were told she had a fainting spell and everybody saw that and she was whisked away. and i don't hear anybody clamoring about her medical records. >> she is also not the president. >> who are you calling a liar? are you calling dr. ronny jackson a liar. >> i remember broadcasting a lot about hillary clinton's fainting. and we questioned all of this stuff. but you are telling me honestly, you are telling me if hillary clinton, if it turned out that she dictated her doctor's later or braarack obama, that republicans would not be making a big deal about this? >> no. bottom line question is this, just wait -- is anybody saying either of those doctors in these instances, is anybody accusing them of lying in these cases. >> le

dr. jackson did disclose this private information. ronny jackson angrily brought up the fact this was private information at the time. perhaps some connection here but clearly there were significant concerns internally raised about ronny jackson's from the vice president's world and perhaps this is the follow-up from that. >> just very briefly,ignations . is it your understanding this was a voluntary resignation or under pressure? >> that's the question here, of course. we have no reporting to lead to the fact that she was pressured to resign, but you can't ignore the facts of the reporting and the events that the president or the white house was refusing to withdraw those allegations. those weren't just allegations by random people. they were by people who worked with dr. ronny jackson at the time and people who formerly worked with him. his coworkers were saying these things about him, alleging these things, ask that's whnd that's his resignation being pulled. dr. jackson has returned to the unit. he isn't the president's attending p

dr. jackson. what do you make of that in light of the dictation news we know now with his previous physician. >> we have to think that in this case the president pushed dr. jackson and said, well, i have these really great genes, which is a line that he made with me, used with me and that he's used with a great many people. he likes to assert that he's superior in all these different categories, ranking from intellect to fiscal strength and stami stamina. you dr. jackson has been caught up in a controversy over releasing information about the vice president's wife's condition. her physician complained this is a violation of medical ethics and rules. so you see this tendency toward corruption in the people around the president, and that includes those who really should be beyond corruption. >> mm-hmm. michael d'antonio, thank you so much. and more trouble today for scott pruitt. the embattled epa chief now facing 11 separate investigations. hear the allegations now. and backlash erupts after kanye

dr. jackson and almost refused to meet with him anymore. >> there was an angry altercation of some kind. feel-good for him. >> that's the point. there may be a kiss up. >> let's try to put it into the category of what does it mean. i'm of two minds on this. this documentation comes out no reason to believe it's not legit. good. good data point. the white house pushes back and says this was a dispute between doctors. they don't like each other. that's all it is. it doesn't show anything different. okay. fine. then they say, by the way, all the other allegations that came out are false. it's not just the white house that's putting this out. friends of their's, respected guy, ari fliesher who did the job done there with the bush administration, it was in a tweet, right, inherently incomplete and ari would have to speak for himself. he says all the allegations are false. we don't know that. we know there was proof that rejects some of those contradicts some of those but not all and raises the big question. if they had it, and said, ah, we got you media. you went after this guy wrongly with fa

dr. ronny jackson, with drew his name as v.a. nominee. trump still supports dr. jacksen and feels that he's been treated unfairly by a democrat on capitol hill. wait until you hear what the senate chairman of the veteran affairs committee has to say about this when we continue. get more stories to share. get more from your summer getaway with exclusive hilton offers. book yours, only at hilton.com >> vo: they want more out of life in every way. so they're starting this year's garden with miracle-gro potting mix and plant food. together, they produce three times the harvest to enjoy... and of course, to share. this soil is fresh from the forest and patiently aged to guarantee more of what matters... every time. three times the harvest. one powerful guarantee. miracle-gro. kyle, we talked about this. there's no monsters. but you said they'd be watching us all the time. no, no. no, honey, we meant that progressive would be protecting us 24/7. we just bundled home and auto and saved money. that's nothing to be afraid of. -but -- -good night,

dr. ronny jackson. the white house said everything is smooth. everything is great. she's going to spend a few days in the hospital and then going home. should we just take that for granted? >> that is a good question, wolf. i think there is -- sometimes i'm not suggesting anything is inaccurate with the press briefing with dr. jackson, i think it was more question sometimes of not getting all of the information. so more sins of omission if you will with the press briefing and dr. jackson it became clear afterwards that president trump had had several tests to investigate the status of his heart while we got all kinds of lab results about the president, most of them very normal, this pretty significant test, we weren't even told he had that done. i happened to know he had it done from other sources and that is why i asked about it. here -- i'm not suggesting anything is inaccurate here. i would -- i think it would be nice to know what exactly the first lady was having treated in this case. we're just told a benign kidney condition which is good information to have. b

dr. jackson i think certainly make that a legitimate query. of course i think anyone who read that letter from dr. bornstein is not at all surprised that the president had some hand in, you know, calling himself the healthiest of all time. that is a very trumpian statement. >> and that picture we're showing right now, that's no longer in the doctor's office. they took that too. they took it off the wall. jonathan, to go back to the west wing for just a moment, it was just yesterday the kelly story was broken by nbc news. the quotes attributed to him about the president, and a lot of us thought in the moment, to quote a great film, pauly won't be seeing him no more. we didn't think john kelly would last long. do you have any updated reporting on the relationship between these two men? >> some. we have matched some of the reporting in terms of what some of the derogatory terms chief of staff kelly has used to describe president trump to others in the west wing. we know the president has floated the idea to people around him perhaps of moving kel

dr. jackson and the white house continued to deny any allegations of misconduct.dministration claims the incident involving mrs. pence was a dispute between two doctors who had a strained relationship. the vice president's physician did not respond to multiple requests for a comment. >>> michelle wolf has no regrets about her performance at the white house correspondent's dinner. wolf telling npr in an interview set to air today, i wouldn't change a single word in an interview it will hear today on fresh air. wolf said she did not expect this level of controversy but sure glad she stuck to her guns. >> i'm more surprised on what they're focussing on. because i think i said more controversial things than the actual jokes they're focussing on. i wanted to do something different. i didn't want to cater to the room. i wanted to cater to the outside audience and not portray my brand of comedy. >> at a correspondent's association expressed regret that the jokes overshadowed the dinner's celebration of the first amendment. others say the reaction is overblown given the p

dr. jackson. ahead of the republican head of the committee did not say he would have done everything differently than senator tester and also it came out yesterday that it was mike pence's position that apparently initially tipped them off to issues with dr. ronnie jackson. i think we need to get to the bottom of it. >> melissa: a power struggle in the right house. kind of fighting each other for territory is what it sounds lik like. >> jessica: the 23rd fell nominee at this point. while i have no reason -- i don't know what happened with dr. jackson, but i do know he was a great position for george w. bush and barack obama and both of them chose not to nominate him to become va secretary. which is just that he's not qualified to do it on the basis of his experience. >> melissa: that suggest they wanted bureaucrats more of the same. >> katie: before we go, i want to get back to the politics of those. the president is upset about the va nominee but going after jon tester because it in a red state a

dr. jackson to be the va secretary nominee before he withdrew, they struggled to find somebody to replaceid shulkin. now they're really struggling to find who they're going to nominate next. of course this is a critical agency that is very important to not only the president but lawmakers on capitol hill as well. so far we are told by an administration official they have five people they are considering at the moment. one of those is the former florida congressman, jeff miller, who's scheduled to meet with the president this week to go over that. we know that the white house staff was meeting today to decide how to go forward in this process. they're trying to really do a better job this time, since when the president nominated the white house physician, they really had very few people handling, serving as a liaison between him and capitol hill. now they have this whole mess where there's no clear front-runner, even though they are interviewing several people this week for the job. there's less of a sense of urgency to get someone nominated. they're attempting to take their time. right no

dr. jackson that appears to be retribution.olvement in the decision process of her care which is consistent with behavior that i have received from him in the past and anderson, this is consistent with allegations raised by these unnamed individuals who raises concern. >> let me be clear about something you said previously before reading that letter. that the vice president's attorney is saying that jackson told him to let this go in order to help the vice president's doctor's career? >> reporter: that's right. >> so he was saying jackson threatened him. >> reporter: the physician saying that jackson said let things go in order to help your career. this is what the physician wrote in one of those memos. >> how is the vice president's office responding? >> confirmed that the chief of staff was informed by this episode. and he referred the matter to the quote proper channels. the same spokesperson said mrs. pence was briefed of the facts. and the white house also declined to comment on jackson's half. kelly got a copy of these me

dr. ronny jackson. after allegations that dr. johnson or jackson-- is it johnson or jackson? jackson?on. it doesn't matter how i pronounce his name. dr. jackson-- it's short for johnson-- was passing out bills at the white house, he withdrew from the nomination, and he won't return to his old job as trump's physician. he wants to spend more time with his family, lying about how much they weigh. but there's an obvious candidate ready to step in. trump's long-time personal physician-- hello! and stolen stereo equipment dealer, harold bornstein. bornstein-- bornstein! became famous after he wrote a one-page letter vouching for trump's fitness that stated, "if elected, mr. trump, i can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency." i don't think donald trump is even the healthiest individual named donald trump! ( laughter ) after that, bornstein told "the new york times" that trump takes propecia, a drug often prescribed to stimulate hair growth in men. now, taking hair-growth drugs is not something trump should be embarrassed about. he should be a

dr. jackson that was just removed as trump's doctor. >> i'm even wondering if ronny jackson's great reports written by trump too because he said things that were wrong. >> what he did say was that the president weighed 239 pounds. at 6'3" that's borderline obese on the bmi scale and other data release was that he has a common form of heart disease. >> we know what he eats. he's talked about this very publicly. we know he doesn't exercise. these are just bedrock principles in medicine. that sets you up for having a heart problem. >> weekend rounds at the golf course are trump's gym routine and while he doesn't smoke or drink he's known to have a dozen diet cokes a day according to a new york times report. on the campaign trail aids said there were four major food groups, mcdonald's, kentucky fried chicken, pizza and diet coke. >> one thing i'd like to lose weight. it's tough because of the way i live. but the one thing i would like to do is be able to drop 15 or 20 pounds. >> meanwhile he repeatedly went after hillary clinton for a lack of stamina and mocked her for an incident in which he

dr. jackson's performance, but there's certainly a lot of words that were used in both. cohen, dr. bornstein who in an interview with nbc said he felt raped. ronny jackson, i don't know what he's going to do, he's out as white house doctor, everyone who comes in contact with the president ends up tarnished or worse. >> as soon as you broke it my first thought was michael cohen. there is basically a basket of people who have either worked with the white house or been involved with the trump's lives for years ended up completely chucked out the basket and thrown under the bus. this is what happens. a long-time trump associate who hasn't worked for the president in many years once told me that as soon as donald trump feels like you are no longer useful to him, he will get rid of it and will feel nothing about it and i think that that is what we're seeing over and over and over again. >> and the problem for the president is that now just about everyone who has worked for him is a witness in the mueller probe. >> yeah, he is -- these bills for lawyers and his staffers have to

dr. jackson improperly violated the patient confidentiality of mike pence's wife.y knows all of that and doesn't care about any of it. because john kelly has lied with just as much gusto about a member of the house of representatives. >> the congresswoman stood up. and in the long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there in all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and mao she took care of her constituents because she got the money. and she just called up president obama. and on that phone call, he gave the money, the $20 million to build the building. and she sat down. and we were stunned, stunned that she had done it. even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned. >> someone whose that empty a barrel. when immediately every word of that was proven to be completely false, outright lie from start to finish, john kelly did exactly what donald trump would have done, nothing. no apology, nothing. and john kelly's refusal to do the decent and honorable thing and apologize to t

dr. jackson. it's coming from the vice president's own doctor. now, frank bernie. this isn't the only medical news out of the white house today. you have this, this whole imbroilio. her criticisms fly in the face of what the white house is still saying, which is this whole jackson thing was a witch hunt. >> this is hard to believe. there are many, many people who came forward. she was left in a position where she was uncomfortable because she had blown the whistle and you know, here we are, it's hard, normally, we would not make big deal of the story. a white house physician leaving the medical unit, pu it's hard not to see it as a symptom of the constant turnover, the constant drama. i think there's parenty of connective tissue between this story and the constant daily revelations about scott pruitt. the last 48 hours of rudy giuliani. when you step back, there's a real crisis of professionalism in this white house in particular and i think it's impossible not to see the story in that context. zpl also in the context here of the white house medical unit. we have a

dr. ronny jackson, if he is no longer the president's personal physician, why not?he is still a active duty navy doctor assigned to the white house but upon his nomination to the veterans affairs, department of veterans affairs as the sectarian acting doctor was put in his place, . reporter: why is that? why not bring him back in the role? >> again, dr. conley had assumed that role, but dr. jackson is active duty doctor at the white house where there are a number of doctors that are part of the white house medical unit. reporter: does the president have response to the defamation suit filed by stormy why did. >> just relates to your third question. >> thank you, you talked about the president has tweeted about it, he's talked about how none of these questions relate to collusion, but that's not true. over a dozen of them do, we talked about accuracy from the president in the past why. is he mischaracterizing these reports? >> i'm not going to get into the back and forth matters involving the special counsel. reporter: it's not involving the special counsel. >> certa

dr. jackson for a second -- >> a bad sign. >> let's talk about ronny jackson. the white house knew last fall about a potential breach of privacy incident involving jackson and the vice president's wife. she directed aides to tell john kelly about her concerns. and yet still the white house is angry at senator jon tester for sharing this information, these allegations against rear admiral jackson when he was up for v.a. secretary. although, apparently, tester did so with the blessing of the republican chairman of the committee, johnny isakson. so it seems like karen pence and vice president pence had issues with this guy, johnny isakson, the senator from georgia and republican had issued and jon tester is getting all the heat. >> i would say substantively, the ha-- the allegation is that ronny jackson violated the hippa -- the privacy law. the health privacy rights and laws of a patient which happens to be mrs. pence. but that is a gross violation for any doctor of any kind. and the fact that it is coming from the pence family and not coming from jon tester hims

dr. ronnie jackson has been in the news, i think he wanted to maintain the relationship with the president as his doctor and i think he's upset about the fact that the president cut him off. >> but in terms of the delay in all this, i mean he's describing feeling really violated, he waited a year to come forward, is there anything waiting behind the scenes there? >> he wishes he had gone to the fbi and reported it as a burglary. that type of characterization has disputed as someone with knowledge of the incident. i think he wants people to acknowledge that he was the president's doctor for more than 35 years. >> and take us through exactly who it was who he says came to his office, and they came in, took records, he didn't have any ability to stop them or anything? >> it was 7:00 in the morning and he got a call from the young receptionist who answers the phone at his office, that there were two large member in the office, one of those men was keith schiller, who has a top white house job, he is a long-time bodyguard of the president. >> this sounds like on the surface like something that'

dr. jackson was, obviously, but the president has to be careful. he's talked about draining the swamp.t this point he's got a fire hose into the swamp. he's still got problems with zinke and pruitt, mulvaney, mnuchin. i mean i was under my questioning just a week ago with director mulvaney, he was talking about he wasn't going to hold back anything in the investigation of pruitt. well, now we understand in his own words last week that apparently white house policy was for sale. so he's standing in a waist-high swamp and he's loading water into it. i guess my belief is he's tired of general kelly telling him what to do and this is his way of getting rid of him in a way. >> all right, but interesting that you say not even a sure thing. he's got to be one of the best known people that might say yes to this at this point. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein of course is overseeing the mueller probe, as you know. he is fighting back against a group of pro-trump house members who want to fire him. formally impeach the deputy attorney general. that would have massive impact on the inve

dr. jennifer pena. she accused ronny jackson, the mt.'r doctor at the white house there -- the president's former doctor at the white house there, of overstepping his authority in the case, particularly of the second lady, of karen pence there, potentially violating rights and disclosing to staff. she said he treated her unprofessionally, she was uncomfortab uncomfortable. do you think she left because jackson is still there, and jackson is due to possibly be promoted by the senate armed services committee to a two-star general? is this the right time to do that with all of this happening and no investigation into it? >> yeah, i would think that dr. jackson has had a turn in the barrel, as you might say. there seems to be so much fallout that that is probably what is driving this. that white house office, something that most of us probably never thought about or knew much about, its operations as far as dispensing medication, now there are privacy issues. the way this which that office operates is crying out for some outside attention. th

dr. jackson continues to be an active navy doctor assigned to the white house. >> reporter: does the presidenthing to say about the stormy daniels def may amation ? >> i have no comment of that. >> as a standard practice, the white house took possession of the president's medical records. >> it was called a raid. >> reporter: the president has tweeted about it. he's talked about how none of these questions relate to collusion. but that's not true. over a dozen of them do. we've talked about accuracy from the president in the past. why is he mischaracterizing these reports? >> once again, i'm not going to get into the back and forth on matters involving the special counsel -- >> reporter: it's not a question involving the special counsel. >> it certainly has implications with the special counsel and i'm not going to get into a back and forth. >> reporter: there are some today who are essentially saying what has happened with the president's former personal doctor was a burglary the way keith schiller -- >> i think there's one, not some. >> reporter: what's your response to that characterization

dr. jackson in retribution over production.care which was consistent that i have received from him in the past. it was allegations named by unnamed individuals who raised concerns. >> you said that the vice president's attorney is saying that jackson told him to let this go in order to help the vice president's -- excuse me, the vice president's doctor. he is saying that jackson was threatening him? >> in some way the physician is saying that jackson should -- that jackson said let things go in order to help your career. this is what the physician wrote. >> how is the vice president's office responding? >> the vice president's office confirmed they were informed by the vice president's position. he referred the matter according to a spokeswoman to the proper channel. that he also said mrs. pence also had been briefed in the facts. she was grateful by all personnel involved. they consider the matter closed. a white house official did tell me kelly and deputy chief of staff about the controversy last fall. they referred to the pe

dr. jackson no longer in the running to be v.a. secretary, his committee's investigation is now over. >> fascinating. gary tuchman. thanks. thanks for watching "360" as well. time to hand it over to don lemon. "cnn tonight" starts now. see you time. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. another night of multiple big stories and we're following all of them for you. >>> our breaking news right now, sources tell cnn president trump's lawyers are preparing for a showdown with robert mueller. that's over the special counsel's warning that he could issue a subpoena forcing the president to appear before a grand jury. that is a battle shaping up and we will bring you all of the latest reporting on that. >>> plus, president trump really seems to have some doctor issues. just one week after that scandal that brought down the white house physician ronny jackson, trump's previous doctor, his name is dr. harold bornstein, remember him? he has resurfaced. he tells cnn that glowing letter he wrote about then candidate trump calling him the h

jackson. fill me in. >> reporter: it was supposed to be dr. ronny jackson. the president wanted his personal physician to be the new head of the va. but that didn't work out and now we have confirmed with a white house official that there are interviews taking place, many of them at least we understand to take place over the course of this week, including at least one with the former representative, the republican from florida, jeff miller. this is a person that was initially vetted for this post as you see on your screen he serveds a republican congressman from florida for about 16 years. has since left congress, said he's a class ally of the president. he served on the president's national security team during the transition. also during the course of the campaign. he was formerly the head of the house veterans affairs committee. so this is someone that we know the president likes, that he thinks -- that he thinks highly of, whether he will be the next man for the job, well there are week could give ace better indication that that's going to be the case. >

dr. jackson getting a lot of attention and i think he felt it was time to speak about it.e said he wishes he contacted the police and the fbi at the time that the medical records were taken. it felt like a burglary to him. >> well, thank you very much. we do have some breaking news on the legal front. >>> the president's legal team, michael schmit is joining us. >> the president's lawyer inside the white house who has been dealing with the special counsel's investigation is going to retire. the president is going to hire emmett flood, a long time washington longer who represented bill clinton during impeachment and worked in the george w. bush white house represented vice president chaney. mr. flood is expected to take a more adversarial approach to the mueller probe. he wanted the president to sit down for an interview. here we are in may of 2018, the year after mueller was appointed and the president will be going with a new lawyer inside the white house to deal with it. >> does this slow down any negotiations on conversations with the mueller team since it's a new cast

dr. ronny jackson was at that podium for that elongated period of time, you wonder what part did the presidentplay in that? i've never seen a white house doctor -- and we've been on presidential trips and had several white house doctors, we would normally get a piece of paper that says this and this. and for him to talk about how physically fit this president is, that struck me as odd. it makes you wonder if ronny jackson was put up by the president to say that, as well. but this, in all of this, even though the president may have dictated these words, it is about his fitness for the office. mentally, physically, what have you. and what is he trying to hide if he had to dictate this in >> do you want to add anything on that? >> it's one thing in the course of a campaign to lie about something that just makes you look so small. now he's run up against something in this russia investigation where he's not going to be able to lie and get away with it when you're dealing with a special prosecutor and very skillful folks at exposing those lies. so his whole way of doing things, and it just undermin

dr. ronny jackson to lead the va, but jackson withdrew his name over allegations of improper behavior. >>> california's unemployment rate is at a 40 year low. the number of jobless fell to 4.2% in april and it has not been this low since 1976. analysts say there's more good news. wages are beginning to creep up. >>> the oakland airport is showing off new security equipment this morning. they are specially trained dogs. they will be working in the security checkpoints to assist with screenings. airport security was very eager to show them off. and they want to remind travelers these are working dogs. >> when you come to the airport , you'll see the dogs working. please do not pet them, but please know that there working for you. >> the airport will be adding two more dogs this summer and that is in addition to a dozen teams provided by the alameda county sheriff's department.>>> san francisco wants to stock its cars with life-saving equipment. that kicked off adopt a police car. they want to raise money to purchase automatic defibrillators so that officers can help people who go into sudde

dr. jackson is an active duty knavety doctor assigned at the white house -- navy doctor assigned at the white house. >> reporter: does the president has v a response to the defamation suit filed by stormy daniels? >> i don't have anything for you on that. >> reporter: why did keith stiller take records from the president's personal doctor last year? >> the white house medical unit took possession of the president's medical records. >> it was characterized as a raid. is that your understanding of what happened? if doctor seems to be upset about it. >> that is not my understanding. this is your third question. >> thank you. you talk about that you don't want to get in to the list of questions but the president tweeted about it. he has talked about how none of these questions relate to collusion. that is not true. over a dozen of them do. we talked about the accuracies about the question in the past and why is he mischaracterizing the report? >> i won't get in the back and forth of matters involving the special cone sell -- >> it doesn't involve the special counsel. >> i am not getting into a ba

dr. jackson was standing up there and they kept looking for something with president trump's health.ave the first lady who obviously wants to be private about this. liz: let me give you that statement a cnnfl story just breaking, the private first lady underwent the procedure monday, no leaks beforehand from her east wing staff. >> only the west wing, where the president can't trust people because they're leaking behind his back but look, let's start with the fact that wouldn't you expect the first lady of the united states to stay a couple extra days in the hospital as a precaution? i would. so even if they're right and they are right, generally with the procedure, if it's a benign tumor, again, we think it's probably an angiomyolipoma, which is the most common one which if it's benign if it bleed s you shrink the blood supply because it's a very bloody tumor, you shrink it. liz: this is your expert opinion >> this is probably what it is you put a catheter in through the groin a very easy procedure, and then leading to this tumor you can shrink it by about a half or two-thirds and s

dr. jackson. this is the most shambolic administration in the history of the country and this report is entirely consistent with that reality that we see playing out in front of us on tv every day. in fact, to believe this is not true means that you have been successfully gaslighted by this administration because everything that you see in front of your face supports that, in fact, this is certainly true. >> jon kelly openly wondering when and why rob porter's ex-wives haven't moved on. that's a lot to swallow. a.b. one of the things that stood out to me in our reporting that the president so didn't want to meet with his national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, didn't like the style and the little facts in the presentation that john kelly had to go to extraordinary measures to reschedule things so the president wouldn't have to see mcmaster at a time when we have got massive national security issues. >> and he had to talk president trump out of withdrawing our allied troops out of south korea? >>

jackson is now facing an inquiry by the pentagon. as for dr. bornstein, he also claims his office was raided by trump staffers who were seizing the president's medical records. now, a spokesperson for a trump organization lawyer who was here when it went down, says that the handoff was cordial, peaceful and it was polite, and that dr. bornstein voluntarily handed over those documents. david? >> all right, tom llamas with us again tonight. tom, thank you. >>> and the new headline tonight about cambridge analytica, linked to the trump campaign, announcing it is filing for bankruptcy and shutting down. the company accused of improperly accessing the personal data of up to 87 million facebook users during the campaign. the firm tonight says its been vilified, insisting its actions were legal. >>> and from iowa tonight, lawmakers passing the strictest abortion bill in the u.s. the so-called heartbeat bill, blocked most abortions once a weal heartbeat is detected. critics say it essentially bans the procedure by the sixth week of pregnancy, before mo

dr. jackson in the white house. how much do we actually know?really one of those irony is dead moments, steve, considering how much fake -- actual fake news was fanned about hillary clinton's health during the campaign. as you rightly pointed out in the introduction there, donald trump did put out that letter which said he was astonishingly healthy. he was amazingly healthy. but in hillary clinton's letter, she actually had real details. she shared with us her hypothyroidism, her seasonal allergies. i think we even got a look at her mammogram. now to find out that this was fabricated or manufactured by the trump campaign, the answer to your question is we really don't know much that this doctor now is acknowledging that the president basically dictated it to him. at the time we were told they even had a limo waiting downstairs for the letter and it was done in about five minutes' time. >> it is absolutely bizarre news. i guess when i think back of it in the 2016 campaign, one thing that occurs to me though is, is this surprising really? i rememb

in the case of ronny jackson, dr. ronny jackson, nominated to be v.a.ry, that didn't turn out so well. people probably haven't forgotten that one yet. it is a curious case, i think, that we've ii doctors that are both say -- we have two doctors that are both saying this. >> and from the beginning, a new york character. the character in this reality show. >> straight out of central casting. >> let's talk about the chance of a mural sit down as they look like they're getting slimmer between the president and robert mueller whose team is investigating the russians and russian influence in the election. what about the chances this morning of a subpoena to get the president to sit down with robert mueller's team? >> it certainly seems, and cnn has reported, president trump has sort of turned against the idea of wanting to sit down with robert mueller. earlier he did, and then he was vascillating. now i think latest cnn reporting is that he sort of turned against it ever since that raid on michael cohen. and now he doesn't really want to sit down with mueller

>> you've seen a lot of reports about former white house doctor ronny jackson and dr.ornstein position has been reading the news and seeing him in the news. and i think he feels a little bit left out. he would have liked to have had that job. and i think that he is thinking you know what, i've got nothing to lose right now. he has already told the press about specific medications that the president has taken, so he didn't feel like he is violating anymore rules at this important and he feels like ronny jackson is in the news and i have something to say as well. >> did he say that he expected this visit? he seems to have indicated by calling it a raid, saying he felt raped, that this was not something that he was aware of in advance. >> he was completely unaware. he and his wife were driving into the city from their home and were parking the car and they got a call from the young woman who answers the phone in their office to say that there are two men in the office, one was keith shiller, trump's long time bodyguard who had a top white house job at the time that he wen

dr. ronny jackson, throwing out things he heard, i know things about tester that i could say, if i said themld never be elected again. liz: now the red state democrats are coming forward trump. can -- will that work for them? midterm? >> only if the republicans let them. nothing like the samuel johnson said prospect of hanging focus find the are wonderfully. and republicans have to do make the case. they are only johnny come lately, and the election is over they will back to behaving badly. liz: none of them voted for the tax cut. now senator rubio sounds like nancnancy pelosi attacking tax t that rubio campaigned on, voted for them. he said u.s. workers are getting little benefit from trump's tax cut, saying there is a lot of thinking that right that if big companies are happy they will reinvest it in worker, they bought back shares, gave oil out bonuses. okay, is it too soon to -- companies take time to build out, new factors and plants, he is really jumping the gun, why? >> he wants to be non-trump in case trump stumbles for 2020. mitt romney is hugging trump becausely could the lows prim

dr. ronny jackson considered for the spot, he took himself out of the running.dent did have a fairly accurate read on this, who would have the background to run on the agency of 375,000 employees, nearly $190 billion budget, it's a behemoth. do you think that that person should have military background, the two generals considered for the job? >> well, there's a tension here. we are serving the military, you would somebody who respect sxnsds the military. on the other hand, we're talking about big health care institutions. talking about big hospitals, big clinics, a big network. look, running a business is tough, running a health care business is tougher. it would be nice to have somebody who embodies both, the health care background and the military background, but you know, we run into the problem all the time with major universities, for example. if you look anywhere across the country, the university of texas, half of the budget is for the medical schools. we think about all the places where you go where you have a football team and lots of undergraduates. m

dr. ronnie jackson who was then the president's personal physician, authorizing the transfer of the records to the white house medical unit. sarah huckabee sanders this afternoon, the briefing saying, there's nothing really to see here, it's standard operating procedure. >> as a standard operating procedure for the new president, the white house medical unit took possession of the president's medical records. >> it was characterized as a raid. is that what happened in your understanding? >> that is not my understanding. >> we did not get an opportunity to ask that, if in the past the records had been trust dominic transferred, the president's security detail went into get the records or if they were merely transferred from the white house to the doctor's office. some people are describing this as a raid but she said, as far as i know, there's only one person describing it that way. >> another big topic, the white house is changing its statement on iran. this was seen as very significant at the time because the white house seemed to be saying, the iranians have a clandestine nuclear weapons

dr. ronny jackson. there was a lot of hyperbolic language used there as well and that is concerning.ause the language aside, you need to know everything. what do we know about the president's health right now? it is hard to say based on this new reporting. >> and alex, i understand dr. bornstein told then candidate trump what he couldn't put in the letter as he was dictating it, right? >> that's right. what we understand from dr. bornstein, then candidate trump in 2015, was calling him up and giving him this grandiose language with lots of superlatives. and it sounds like something the president would say. what bornstein said is trump was dictating these words and bornstein was saying you can say this, you cannot say this. and he definitely incorporated some of the language that the candidate wanted to include. and then he sort of put it into his own wording. so he got dictation in terms of the gist and some of the terminology, some of the phrasing and then he took some creative license and used as a mentioned, some of his dark humor infused it into that letter. so we have this amalg

dr. ronnie jackson any way you look at it.d republicans saying that she is the right choice. so what's the problem? >> she has democrats and republicans saying she's the wrong choice. while there are no question about her qualifications or, there's a virtual certainty that sort of laying out qualifications is going to be a messier process than it has been for president trump's other nominees to senior position. the basic issue is she was involved in the interrogations during the bush administration that the public has nephew seen in full detail in light of day. to the extent that it will require what her role is in the programs and what the programs looked like operationally, that could get very uncomfortable for her and the agency. that's the other consideration. it's not just can she make it through. like a lot of the president nominations, it could be be ugly but more likely than not to make it through, but is it worth the process. >> from the administration's standpoint, the first woman to run the agency. it's the exact op

dr. ronnie jackson to lead the va. >> in montana revalue integrity and support our president but john testerinformation about a respected navy admiral, helping dc democrats derail president trump's veterans affairs nominee, john tester has been part of the dc swamp for far too long. paul: we are bag with dan henninger, kim strassel and kate bachelder odell. so dan, let's go right to the tester ad. what do you make that as a campaign strategy and is it fair? >> it's a great campaign strategy and it is eminently fair because the democrats hold-up of not only ronnie jackson, mike pompeo, they will do it to jina haspil and many trump nominees has been in a word unfair, it has been preposterous. they are begin to go pay a price for that. the mike pompeo circus was watched by most of the american people and now we are going to see them do it again to jina haspel, they run the risk of energizing the republican base, bear in mind that's the big issue in midterms elections and the democrats have been trying to tamp that down but now with nominations, i think they will bring the republicans out. paul:

dr. ronny jackson and the story after that.nt went up there because we didn't have any presidential movement this morning. this just breaking, shep. we'll get you more information. >> shepard: it's my understanding that the president remained at the white house. the first lady there. you said she could be there as long as a week. that's standard, right? >> for this type of procedure. ebolization therapy is for a uterine fibroid. they thread a catheter up and block off flow to an artery creating a fibroid to grow in a woman's uterus. you have to remain still. it can cause pain. you don't want to dislodge the blockage. you want to remain fairly still, quiet a number of days to make sure everything sets in. you can talk with the medical a-team more. i'm not a doctor, shep. i play one on tv. >> shepard: the bottom line on this is, from reading this stuff, the first lady is absolutely fine, correct? >> she is. the problem is if you have a benign tumor growing in your kidney, at some point it will cause problems. you can go into kidn

dr. ronny jackson in january. >> some people have just great genes.rs, he might live to 200 years old. i don't know. he has incredible genes. i just assume. zblch what >> what's the code of ethics of doctors adopting the patient ace view of themselves, rather than the actual view? >> i mean, this is something that really could be brought up on charges through your state medical board. and this is the new york state board. you got to think about this. what i think trump and his group has done and what they're trying to do is systematically degrade anything that could put a check on trump's power. and they wanted to grade that, any institution that has been impartial, they want to corrupt it to the core. that's what they've been doing. johnny jackson, bornstein. and you've got this and now they're stepping on my toes if you really want to think about this, too, there's really two issues. and i'm going to say it quickly. you want to think about the hipaa issues. we exchange with doctors all the rhyme. but it has to be in the right format. i have to get a

dr. jen jackson, psychiatrist, she was attending the american psychiatric association and in the meetingtrying to figure out what the heck is going, june jackson and her husband never worked in the south but they opened occupy townhouse in new york city to civil rights workers, they raised money, they provided places for them to stay, they -- she even provided -- dr. christmas, we are down here, nobody has talked about post traumatic stress then. we need somebody to talk to. she provided, she was one of the first black women to graduate and lawed her now as she should have been lotted. this was christmas taken last year, i think she was about 93, 94, don't be jealous. that's what she looks now and i always say, life of social justice activism, you wind up looking like that. [laughter] >> arlene hernÁndez, she died about little over a year ago and she led student protests at howard university, people forget howard university was in the south, mason and they were also -- had issues public, accommodation, all this sort of thing, she did that when she was in college, she later became a labor