my predecessor, the great attorney general robert jackson, faced a similar problem. later, justice. in 1957 he lamented that -- i like this quote -- [laughter] ag sessions: "no administration can halt its policies to seek the judiciary's views. the government cannot learn the judge's views until after the law is passed and then only after a lapse of years. moreover, those contributions are always negative. it may tell what may not be done, but it never tells the government what can be done. government by litigation has destroyed effective enforcement of public policy." i kind of feel that way sometimes. he did not know how good he had it, however. [laughter] ag sessions: so, the department of justice has been fighting the unprecedented number of limitless injunctions in the courts and we are well aware. for example, last year, i made the commonsense decision that i stay in local law-enforcement grants that go to cities and states, should go to those that actually cooperate with us in federal law enforcement. these discretionary grants, including the enforcement of immigration laws.

jackson, md, as the new secretary of veterans affairs. in the interim, honorable robert wilkie of dod will serve as acting secretary. i am thankful for dr. david shulkin's service to our country and to our great veterans!"

robert e. lee and jackson's hon. >>> rescuers on the scene of a plane from bangladesh crashed and burned.was carrying 71 passengers. >>> a helicopter crash in new york city, five people died when the health considerate i think up in the east river right off manhattan. all passengers died the pilot survived. tom costello on the scene to tell us more about it. >> reporter: imagine the terror of being inside a health court harnessed in. suddenly the chopper crashes into the water, turns up side down and sinks and your strapped in and trapped inside and to have all of it captured on video. it happeneding over night, a deadly helicopter crash in new york city's east river. the incident caught on a bistanner's cell phone. the pilot reported engine failure moment before bringing the chopper down into the water where it suddenly turned up side down. >> the call of a helicopter did a dive those into the river. >> reporter: the helicopter sunk with five passengers and pilot on board. emergency response units rushed to the scene, rescued difrers and pull three victims from the submerged helicopter.

. >> until jackson can be confirmed robert wilkie will serve as acting secretary of the va.on lauren blanchard, fox news. to another fox news alert the hunt for this violent immigrant intensifies. please identify the deportees as mohammed from senegal. he escaped ice custody going to new york on tuesday and sped away in a taxi, 90 minutes looking for him before alerting police. he has been arrested 10 times in the us with charges including objection and sexual abuse. entire family feared that after their suv plummets off a cliff in california. the parents visited by child protective services days earlier after one of their children - the sheriff does not believe the crash was intentional. police have recovered the bodies of jennifer and sarah heart and three of their six adopted children with one of those missing children you may recognize made headlines for this photo showing him how to police sgt. at a protest in ferguson, missouri. new overnight, north and south korea leaders setting a date for a historic summit. between 2 sides will be april 27th for the first time, as b

. >> reporter: until jackson can be confirmed robert wilkie will serve as acting secretary of the va.blanchard, fox news. rob: donald trump promising to take out the savage ms 13 game since the beginning. >> we are going to destroy the criminal cartel ms 13. to any member of ms 13 listening i have a message for you. we will find you, we will arrest you, we will jail you. rob: this got so much talk on the campaign trail but despite efforts to eradicate this violent gang members are finding safe havens in liberal cities that have adopted sanctuary policies and become hostile towards immigration and custom enforcement. here to weigh in on this is former lieutenant with the las vegas metro police, thank you for joining us, you're an important person to talk to because we just had a number of arrests in las vegas for murders happening there as it appears this game is trying to settle into your city. should people in cities like las vegas where the gang is showing up should they be worried and how worried should they be? >> this is a valuable lesson because unfortunately every major city ha

knowcivil war students budd robertson for his work on stonewall jackson, ap hill, robert e lee, the stonewall brigade and the army of northern virginia. his current project is an encyclopedia of robert e. lee. but he has spoken and written widely on the common soldier in the common people of the civil war era. as you can see from the book titles listed in your program and available-for-sale and on a graphic in the lobby outside, yes, i have to pitch for everyone. most recently, he edited the publication of the book highlighting the letters, thates, and reminiscences remain in private collections throughout the commonwealth. the virginia civil war cisco to --iel -- sis was continual they scanned these newly developed sources and they are available for researcher at the library. this is the kind of valuable works of budd robertson has performed throughout his long career. and for which we are deeply grateful. this morning, gentlemen and ladies, dr. budd robertson will kick off our symposium with a talk entitled civil war echoes from the common folk. ladies and him alone, dr. robertson. [applaus

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jackson, md, as the new secretary of veterans affairs. in the interim, honorable robert wilkie of dod will serve as acting secretary. i am thankful for dr. david shulkin's service to our country and to our great veterans!" all of this is happening is the white house continues to battle other news, as in other rumors about what a former white house lawyer may or may not have said to former trump campaign officials. we take you there and what sarah sanders had today at the press conference. >> i would refer you back to the statement from ty cobb and the report that you're asking about in which he said i've only been asked about pardons by the pres press. >> the white house again avoiding questions surrounding the president's legal team. this time deflecting a "new york times" report that before they were indicted, the president former attorney john dowd floated the idea of the president pardoning michael flynn on paul manafort, subjects of the ongoing miller pro. >> i can say ty cobb is the person that would be most directly involved in this. he's got a statement on the re

robert e. lee and his horse traveler; "stonewall" jackson; and jeb stuart; the president of the confederacy, jeffersonlly, matthew fontaine maury, a somewhat more obscure figure who tried and failed to start a confederate colony in mexico. >> hayter: those monuments, in many ways, are part and parcel of what we call the lost cause. >> cooper: the lost cause, what does that mean? >> hayter: the lost cause, quite frankly, is just the confederate reinterpretation of the civil war. it's created almost immediately after the war ends by confederate leadership. it was hard for a lot of people, in my estimation, to believe that their ancestors died and-- and fought for an ignoble cause. 600-and-some-odd-thousand people died in the civil war, which is more americans than died in the second world war. and people had to make sense of that. >> cooper: believers in the lost cause who raised money to build monuments in town and cities across the country were often veterans, or their widows and children. lost cause ideology portrayed confederate soldiers as heroes defending states' rights against northern aggression

jackson's bio does not reflect any experience working with the v.a. or with veterans or managing any organization of this size." on monday, acting v.a. secretary robert wilke takes over on an interim basis. it could be months before jackson is confirmed. bret? >> bret: lucas, thank you. let's hear directly now from dr. shulkin. he joins us. mr. secretary, thanks for being here. >> glad to be here, bret. >> bret: so let's start with this. why do you think you were fired? >> well, every cabinet member serves at the pleasure of the president. and it's the president's prerogative to have a team around him that he thinks is doing the job. i think we heard today from the president that he wasn't happy with the pace. and, you know, i agree with the president. this is an organization that needs to change. it needs to do better at his job and we all want to do it faster and better because it's so important to the country. and i think the president has the right to have the secretary that he wants with him. >> bret: you said the administration wants to privatize the v.a. have you ever seen -- we haven't seen evidence as far as the white house policy directive

robert: my colleagues at the "washington post" reported that many people inside ofhe white house, including dr. jackson, were surprised by his nomination. they wrote thatas jackson w taken aback and heads at the same t aed to take on such big job but the president continued to push and told the senior statue on monday that the doctor s his top choice. a senior white house said jackson went through an informal vetting process but without the extensive vetting that typically accompanies a selection.t we're looking a touch configure medication perhaps for the doctor. shaw: we are, despite the fact that a lot of people on both sides in washington liked a miriam dr. ronny jackson. the probl here is -- bedid sort of dive into the v.a. yesterday on vice news tonight sw becouldn't find anything that looked le management for dr. jackson in terms of running anymore kind of l ge organization or even small organization really. so while he may be a a vy good ctor, it's hard to see how he's going to go into something as large athe v.a., something that david shulkin had been a part of before, didn't successfully get

jackson. long before he was stonewalled. winfield hancock, lewis armistead -- on and on. then robert e lee of engineers in a blue uniform, it is winfield scott who teaches him how to be a soldier. that is a fun story to write because again, the story nobody knows. >> another theme ipicked up, a lot of politics. >> i really don't like politics. i am not political innocence that -- i have had people say to me that bothers me, it was a nudge nudge, wink wink, are you really talking about today we talk about whomever? dwight eisenhower or anybody. >> no, not at all. and there is politics in every war. who makes the work? the politicians. who fights the war? those fighting have very little to say about that. the mexican war is a example. winfield scott went to mexico purposely cut himself off from communication with washington. he and president polk can stand each other. erso he wants nothing to do. you want not going to take his orders from washington. he cuts off all communication, marches into mexico and really could care less what anyone washington. a little hard to get away with that

secretary robert will can i takes over on an interim basis. expect jackson'son to take months. >> dana: lucas, thank you. several states are planning to sue the federal government if a controversial question about citizenship status is added to the 2020 census. critics say it could cost some states billions in federal aid. former deputy assistant general john mu, you teach law, i wanted to have you here. i didn't get a chance to go to law school. i want to have you help us understand the original idea of the census is rooted in the constitution. the lawsuits that these states want to file, what grounds do you think, do they think they have. >> it's hard to see. under the constitution, the government must take quote unquote actual ee noomration of the population to allocate the seats in the house of representatives every ten years. the ground that the states are using are basically the same grounds people have been using to sue president trump over the travel ban, over his effort to restart the removal of recipients, you're secretly racist, you have a bad motiv

jackson. for more information, head over to liljohnroberts.com. lil' john robertss and applause ] thank you so much for a wonderful week. you know, guys, we try to stay as up to date as we can on this show when we do our monologue and we do our "closer look." we love to give you news that happened today. sometimes though, i walk off during a commercial break, like i just did, and find out that h.r. mcmaster, trump's national security advisor, he just resigned. he's out. [ light laughter ] john bolton is in. and we have a hiatus next week so you're never going the hear me talk about it, because in a week nobody is going to [ bleep ] care about that. [ laughter and applause ] so i wanted to mention it now. they have more turnover than our drummers. [ laughter ] our first guest tonight is an academy award-nominated actress you know from her work in "hidden figures" and the hit series "empire." she stars in tyler perry's new film, "acrimony", which is in theaters march 30th. let's take a look. >> what is this? why was her wallet in your truck? >> what? >> after all the

jackson after being blind sided by trump's announcement. they planned to announce wednesday that ed leave the administration and be replaced by robert wile at defense department until a nominee was found but trump preempted the plan when he tweeted he intended to nominate jackson. michelle goldberg is a columnist for the "new york times," noelle nikpour a republican strategist and manically know from news day. not surprisingly, i don't have a good idea of what happened here and why it happened. there's a couple of theorys and suggestions out there. shulkin saying look, this was about a scheme to privatize the va. you had this scathing inspector general's report sitting out there about shulkin and the cost of his trip to europe with his wife. you've got that. you've got trump's tendency to make sporadic decisions. was this more about shulkin or more about trump wanting jackson? >> it's hard to discern what it's actually about. we have a sense the white house aides are not ready to answer all the questions about ronny jackson and his qualifications. he's a doctor and active duty member of the armed forces. what qualifies him to run a troubled

jackson. for more information, head over to liljohnroberts.com. lil john roberts, everybody. >> seth: our first guest tonight is the host of the emmy and peabody award-winning show "last week tonight" which airs sunday nights on hbo. please welcome back to the show our friend, john oliver, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> seth: there you go! how are you? [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, thank you very much. thank you for having me. thank you. >> seth: i want to start with something we talked about because you're sunday night, you kind of have to pick up the pieces of the weekend first. >> that's right. >> seth: and usually the weekends are quiet in d.c. >> well, there was a time when that was the case. >> seth: yeah. >> but, unless, unless he's on the golf course without cell service. >> seth: exactly. but you sometimes try to avoid getting too caught up in it. you told one joke this sunday about how rex tillerson was fired on the toilet. >> yes. >> seth: yeah. >> i did. i did. we literally did it. there was just -- we just couldn't do it this week. so -- >> seth

jackson. for more information, head over to liljohnroberts.com. lil john robertsause ] >> what's up seth? >> seth: thank you for being here. >> thanks, man. >> seth: our first guest tonight is a prolific writer, director, and actor. you know from his work in the very popular "madea" movies. he wrote, directed, and produced the film "acrimony," which is in theaters march 30th. let's take a look. >> i would do anything for you. and i did. and you lied. and you cheat on me. i'm done with you. i'm done. get out. >> no. >> get out! >> seth: please welcome to the show, tyler perry, everyone. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: how are you? >> i'm good. i'm good. i'm doing better than he is in "acrimony," man. she's like get out and get out now. >> seth: i don't -- i would be very upset if taraji p. henson ever talked to me like that. >> yeah. yeah, man. you believe her, don't you? >> seth: she is very -- she is very intense. and this is the third movie you've done with taraji. >> yes, i love working with her. >> seth: and is this something where when you write this part,

jackson. for more information, head over to liljohnroberts.com. lil' john roberts is here.re. [ cheers and applause ] >> thanks, seth. >> seth: such a pleasure. you know our first guest tonight from his eight seasons on "saturday night live." he co-created and stars in the new series, "barry," which premieres sunday, march 25th on hbo. let's take a look. [ light laughter ] [ whispering ] >> how's this make us better actors? >> it loosens you up. prepares you for the unexpected in a scene gets you out of your head. >> okay. [ light laughter ] >> seth: please welcome back to the show my very good friend bill hader, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> seth: hi, my friend! >> hello, friend. >> seth: i am so -- we were talking backstage, the first two episodes of "barry" that i watched -- it's just fantastic. >> oh, thank you. >> seth: you play a hitman. >> uh-huh. >> seth: who wants to become an actor. >> uh-huh. >> seth: how -- [ light laughter ] how did you come up with that idea? [ laughter ] >> i don't know. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> no, it was this thing where al

claiming travel expenses it's understood that robert wilkie will be acting secretary but the president will nominate his own personal physician that stock to ronny jackson for the role. north korea's leader has pledged his commitment to denuclearization and says he will go ahead and meet u.s. officials that's according to china which has just hosted the reclusive leader after days of speculation beijing revealed that kim jong un was its guest from sunday to wednesday in what it called an unofficial visit but kim joan received almost all the trappings of a state visit including an honor guard at a banquet in the capital's great hall of the people from beijing our china correspondent adrian brown has more for xi jinping this was a diplomatic triumph he not u.s. president donald trump now the first world leader to meet kim jong un. chinese state controlled media waited until kim was back home before confirming what officials to try so hard to deny just a day earlier. in the great hall of the people kim and his wife were welcomed like old friends appearance is important at times like this. she opted for a business suit where is kim stuck to the look favored

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if i am putting words in the mouth of robert e lee or words in the mouth of the stonewall jackson orny of the confederate is not because i am confederate. it's because i am looking at, i want to know the history. i want to know what happened. i want to know the details and i wanted to be accurate. erasing all of that, that is no different, we react with outrage will be made about isis. destroying some 500-year-old beautiful religious monument in syria. because they do not agree with what the monument says. well, i'm not equating necessarily people who want to move starches to isis. but the principle is the same thing. you don't like the history, get rid of it. number don't do that. >> me of steve from new port richey, florida. please go ahead. >> i have a quick question for you. how about all of those wanted in the civil war kept -- that would be an interesting character for you. and my question is this, just like a movie with christian bale. i have a question regarding ptsd. these are civil war veterans now fighting the cavalry of the indian wars as they are winding down. they had t

jackson m.d. as the new secretary of veterans affairs. and it goes on, the honorable robertporary secretary. i am thankful for our great veterans. immediate reaction from you. >> that's an interesting development. we're told the president did not want to fire secretary shulkin before he could hire someone else. hiring dr. ronny jackson, certainly interesting. he knows the president very well. as he physician. there are fewer people who see the president as often. the question is, the president, we've known for a long time. you've did not all the reporting. it is a troubled agency. for all the time we've focused on the hr aspects of the function there, the core of the agency is a problem. and i am told the president is disturbed by this and he wants some changes there. so we'll see what happens. we have been waiting for this for some time. all the reporting you're doing, we were talking earlier. you suggested it might happen while you were on live television and that's what happened. >> and here we are. as we reported, myself and my colleagues, this has been going on for some

jackson m.d. as the new sekts of veterans' affairs in the interim -- robert wilkie will serve and i'm thankful for dr. david's shulkin's service to our country and to our great veterans. let's talk about the way he did this. how did you react to seeing those tweets yesterday? >> in an ordinary, administration, that is not the way things are done but that is par for the course in the trump administration. so the fact it was done by tweet in this administration wasn't a surprise. i did -- every time i see one of these tweets and one of the very public dismissals, david, i always ask myself, boy, i sure hope that the white house administration behind the president that is responsible for teeing up the next man or woman in line is ready to go. because once you put a name out there in public, you're taking on an enormous amount of risk if the person is not fully prepared and vetted and ready to face the senate confirmation process. >> and on that note, i want to ask you about what usually going on and in an ordinary administration as you put it there just a moment ago. i'll read from the washington pos

jackson m.d. is the new secretary of veterans affairs in the interim the honorable robert wilkie of you will serve as acting secretary i am thankful for a doctor of david chalke and service to our country our brand is following this story joining us out of washington d.c. so tell us more about why exactly the veteran affairs secretary was fired. well you know shelton resigned after months and weeks of speculation that he was on the outs with president trump and we've seen that president trump likes to follow the practice of sort of letting senior officials who he has lost favor with his he has lost confidence in i should say sort of dangle slowly in the wind for a while before finally forcing them out of office and case he had some expensive european travel with his wife that really appear to be more like tourism than official business is and it was of course all on the taxpayers' tab he also left or required some of his official aides to run personal errands for him and there was grumbling in conservative circles about can not moving fast enough with their goal of partially privatizing the vetera

the president named robert wilkie, the pentagon's undersecretary of defense for personal and readiness, to serve as the acting v.a. secretary until admiral jackson is confirmed. expect senate democrats to put up a fight. shannon? >> shannon: lucas tomlinson from the pentagon. thank you. kim jong un's secretive meeting with chinese president has left many in the u.s. wondering what will happen next. what it could mean for a future meeting with president trump. leland vittert joins us live with more on that. hey. >> good evening, shannon. lots of news but very few answers to the core questions here. when and where does the trump, summit take place, one with the ground rules, and what does the north koreans really want for their nukes? one thing is sure. the chinese made it clear with this visit that they play a front and center wall when it comes to dealing with the kim regime. the president paid respect to his chinese counterpart to that effect today tweeting, "received a message last night from xi jingping of china that he had a meeting with him drunk on and it went very well and kim looks forward to his meeting with me. in the meantime, and unf

and not just single out the bad but education matters if i am talking about robert easier putting words in the mouth of jackson or the confederates it is not i am pro- confederate but i want to know the history and what happened and the details and i wanted to be accurate and to erase all of that i'm sorry we react with outrage with isis and syria with a 500 beautiful religious monument torn up because they don't agree with what that monument says i am not equating necessarily people who want tomo remove statues to isis but the principle is the same thing if you don't like the history then get rid of it. no. don't i do that. >>host: florida is go ahead. >> caller: how is it going? i quit question. how about oliver wendell holmes? keeping his buddy uniform in his office that would be an interesting character. and my question is i have a question regarding the civil war veterans fighting the cavalry in the indian war is winding down suffering from melancholy one killed himself talking about the extent of ptsd and now they have the foreigners in the calvary. so discussing that during the civil war? >> that is a c

currently the acting department chi chief, robert will ki, who's the undersecretary of defense on personnel and readiness, is far more qualified to run a va than dr. jackson because he's got extensive washington experience. you need somebody who knows how to run large organizations. if the va were a city it would be larger than tampa. only slightly smaller than cleveland. which you know cleveland very well. >> and which has world class hospitals and people who have run them and who have made great strides in figuring out better ways to serve their patients but, michael, david axelrod, your friend, has a thought on this. this is what he tweeted. dr. jackson is a good and honorable person. a fine doctor and career military. but you do get the sense this has as much to do with his bofo press conference on the president's physical as anything else. he's got a nickname for his personal physician. is this more about for this president who he likes, who he can joke around with, than about who has the experience to run this? >> it's all about that. it's all about that. you knew something was up when the good doctor stood up and told the american people that donal

jackson. you see here is the day he's elected. in 1968, maynard and bunny had a daughter by the name of brook. show off the baby to her mother in lewisburg. robert f. kennedy is assassinated at the time. maynard decided to do so without seeking the endorsement black king makers in the atlanta voters league. which was founded in 1946 by his grandfather john wesley dobbs. in do so, he really -- he crossed the plaque political king makers in a particular kind of way. in his senatorial race, he wins the city of atlanta. he carries atlanta but he loses greatly within the state. it becomes clear he can carry votes. in 1969, he decides he's going to run for vice mayor. he's able to win. what this does it sets the course that in 1973 he runs against the first jewish mayor in the city and he wins and he becomes the city's first black mayor. he does all of this without ever asking his wife bunny. it dissolved their marriage. one of the things that bunny jackson was say about maynard jackson his ministry was politics. she recognized there was something unique about him in this particular way. he worked against crime. ehe brought crime levels down. these cr

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robert in florida. one of the reactions by the decision by the president to nominate ronnie jackson as the head of the v.ais getting reaction from various veterans groups. the new york times this morning, the issue has been pitted against almost every major group, advocacy groups funded by the koch brothers and their allies, at the center of months of intrigue as the department of veterans affairs coming which is charged for caring for the united states 20 million veterans. mr. shulkin's departure and the elevation of dr. ronny jackson to the top job at ray's new fears among democrats and groups , worrying that they will push for major changes in the veterans health care and that they oppose. the end result would effectively bleed to death the network of hospitals and clinics that have taken decades to build. dr. shulkin, who was dismissed wednesday evening body tweet and anin an op-ed interview thursday that a radical restructuring of veterans health care would not work. path that hedle tried to pursue, investing in their own health care system while offering veterans more although not unfettered access