shulkin. i will start by saying that, to the ranking member, that we have started a great discussion on caregivers and will continue that with a roundtable. i would like to make that roundtable bicameral, so we can get both the senators and us in a room together. i thought it was a great start the other day. i do see a pathway forward where we can do this right and get this done, hopefully this year. that would be my goal. n choice, i sent all of you this article. i still read my medical journals. february 6 medical association journal, a great article on ensuring timely access to quality care. i would encourage -- i will send them to your office. i encourage you to read them. mr. secretary, you mentioned yesterday the v.a. -- most people out in the country did not realize how expensive the v.a. is. people out in the country did not realize how expensive the v.a. is. we look at the medical care and all the facets of medical care that the v.a. does, the benefit process, which we know has gotten

shulkin: i would. i want to make sure we are maximizing our authorities under title 38 and title five. if it got to the point where i was not able to recruit the people that are veterans served, to have caring for them, i would ask for a waiver. >> i am pleased to hear that. when i recently met with management for might look when medical center they said they rather difficulty recruiting and maintaining housekeeping staff. housekeeping staff is vital to keep facilities clean and safe. in many cases, the cleaning staff has to be especially trained on bio hazards. wouldn't a pay freeze exacerbate this problem, and improve -- and hurt danger safety? sec. shulkin: there are a number of occupational hazards in the va. a -- this is one, where it when you clean a hospital -- this is not the same, i think you are saying this -- this is not the same as cleaning an office building. making people understand the type of organisms that live in hospitals, and the reasons you have to clean these environments, is life

shulkin. welcome. the secretary is joined by the honorable jon rychalski. assistant secretary management chief financial officer for veterans affairs the chief , financial officer of the health administration, acting deputy undersecretary for the veterans benefits administration, the deputy undersecretary for finance for the national cemetery administration, and richard chandler, deputy assistant secretary for resource management for the v.a. office of information and technology. mr. secretary you are now , recognized. dr. shulkin: thank you. mr. chairman, i want to thank you. thanknking member walz, you. i want to thank all the members of the committee. many of you had a chance to come over to my office, spent some time talking about the issues. i know all of you are committed to the work we are doing. that is why i think we have the best committee, the veterans committees in the house and senate. because we work well together in a bipartisan way. and mr. chairman, ranking member, thank you f

david shulkin's own inspector general issued a blistering report today. it is the latest example of first-class travel problems to shake the trump cabinet. we'll have an extended look at the issue, right after the news summary. in the day's other news, president trump publicly condemned domestic abuse for the nerst time since a top white house official resa week ago. rob porter accused him of physical assault during their marriages.o upw, mr. trump has praised porter, and appeared to cast doubt on the accusations. today, amid rising criticism, he fielded a question on the issue at a white house meeting. >> i am totally opposed to v domestlence of any kind, everyone knows that. it almost wouldn't even have to be said, so now you hear it, but you all know it. thank you all very much. >> woodruff: earlier, the chair of the oversight committee in the house of representatives, trey gowdy, said he's opening an investigation into how the white house handled the porter case -y and his seculearance. but vice president pence defended the chief of staff, john kelly,

secretary david shulkin has defended his 10-day european trip. but in a 97-page report today, ae v.a.'s inspector general outlined a number of serious mirelictions, saying shulkin made "misleading statements, improperly accepted wimbledon tickets," and turned an aide into a "personal travel concierge" to plan "high tea and roman baths." the report paints a very different picture than shulkin did when he spoke to "cbs this morning" in november. >> it was a business trip. we did the business that was toways our top priority. >> reporter: investigators oftermined that shulkin's own chief of staff altered an email from an aide to make it appear that secretary shulkin would be receiving an award in denmark so that his wife's $4300 airline ticket would be paid by the u.s. government. as a veteran, were you offended? >> deeply offended. >> reporter: colorado republican mike coffman chairs the house veterans affairs committee and is calling on shulkin to step down. >> he's really part of the culture of corruption, that too often defines this organization

. >> for months va secretary david shulkin defend his ten day european trip.n a 97 page report today the va inspector general outlined a number of serious derelictions saying shulkin, improperly accepted wimbledon tickets and turned an aide into a personal travel concierge to plan high tea and roman baths. the report paints a very different picture than shulkin did when he speck to cbs this morning in november. >> it was a business trip. we did the business that was always our top priority. >> reporter: investigators determined that shulkins's chief of staff altered a memo from an aide to make it appear that shulkin would receive an award in denmark so his wife's 4300 airline ticket would be paid by the government. >> as a veteran were you offended? >> deeply offended. >> mike kauffman chairs the house veterans affair committee and calling on shulkin to step down. >> really part of the culture of corruption that too often defines this organization. i just don't think, that he has a moral authority to clean it up. >> shulkin, fifth trump cabinet member to have

the report says shulkin and his wife treated one va staffer as a personal travel concierge. wimbledon tickets, shulken's wife wrote in an e-mail, high tea? roman baths in bath, would want to do baths not just tour. >> this is never what it's about. there's a reason we call it public service, it's not personal service. >> reporter: shulkin's not the only cabinet member in hot water over travel. over a six-month period, epa chief scott pruitt expensed nearly $200,000, according to documents obtained by an environmental group. including frequent first-class travel. his security team said is for his safety. >> they place me on the plane where they think is best, from a safety perspective. >> tom, we learned tonight that secretary shulkin has reimbursed the government for $4,000 of his wife's travel costs and those wimbledon tickets. tom. >> stephanie, thank you. >> still ahead on "world news tonight" this saturday -- standoff in los angeles. after hours of negotiating, why the s.w.a.t. team was forced to break down the door to catch their man. >>> plus, flu fears. concerns the q

in the case of david shulkin, it's worse on several levels.ing inspector general report about his behavior this week. it not only includes he repeatedly lied about his travel and using government funds to pay for his wife, his report refers his chief of staff to the justice department for potential criminal prosecution. it stems from a trip that shulkin took his wife on last summer in july, over ten days in europe, secretary shulkin had three and a half scheduled days of work but all the rest of the time was for -- we have a list from the inspector's report. touring the palace for the changing of the guard, visiting rosenberg castle, visiting frederickberg's castle, shopping in copenhagen, a visit to the church of war rooms and visit westminster abbey, a visit to st. paul's cathedral, a visit to tower bridge and shakespeare's globe theater, a trip on the london eye, that ferry wheel thing, another trip to the windsor castle, all on the taxpayers' dime. he took his wife to the wimbledon championship. he said it was okay to take the ticket becau

a $4300 ticket to fly shulkin's wife overseas. investigators also found another of his aides effectively acted as a personal travel concierge", spending many hours arranging tourist activities for shulkin and his wife, rather than conducting official va business. on wednesday, colorado republican congressmember mike coffman called on shulkin to resign, tweeting -- "it's exactly corruption and abuses like this that doesn't help our veterans." shulkin has been summoned to answer questions at the house committee on veterans' affairs today. in los angeles, federal investigatioions -- immigrationn agents with ice have launched a series of raids, arresting more than 100 people since sunday. the sweep comes just weeks after a similar series of raids in northern california. the lapd and many other police departments across california said they will not cooperate with ice on immigration enforcement, prompting ice spokesperson sarah rodriguez to say in a statement that the agency was targeting l.a. and other sanctuary cities because they we

the secretary of veterans affairs david shulkin is set to appear on capitol hill this morning.ckly to be grilled over the revelations his chief of staff allegedly altered a letter the price to bring his wife on an overseas trip. misrepresenting the purpose of a trip to europe last year so shulkin's wife could accompany him and his staff at the taxpayers'expense. the doctored e-mail made it appear that he was receiving an award from the danish government. the i.g. report said he improperly accepted tickets to wimbledon. during the trip to england and denmark, the i.g. said it began investigating the issue after receiving an anonymous tip. >>> some investigators said that the secretary and the staff put out misleading details to the heed ya. the v.a.'s press secretary said all of shulkin's trip activities were reviewed and approved by the ethics committee. >> so shulkin has denied any wrong doing and responded to the report's findings in his own report to the secretary general. the latest top trump administration official to come under fire for costly t taxpacker-funded travel mi

but not secretary shulkin, he suggested last night that maybe that e-mail was doctored by a hacker.orning secretary arrived on capitol hill for what was supposed to be a budget oversight hearing. watch his response when a lawmaker suggested they should take the hacking quite seriously. >> i would say before moving to the budget the allegations of a potential hacking of a va computer system with ill intent is a serious matter. p i would ask you, mr. secretary, we're prepared to ask the department of justice to look into that if you feel that's appropriate and we'll see if that's the appropriate action to go on. >> oh, you would like to look at which now? i said my chief of staff couldn't have messed up that e-mail, it must have been ha hacked. you're going to send it to the justice department for investigation. okay. that's serious. tonight it's reported that the congressman has referred the allegation of hacking to the justice department for investigation. meanwhile, these can't be fun days for va secretary david shulkin, the taxpayer funded trip to europe with his wife might have b

thank you for being here secretary shulkin. first and foremost i'm enormously proud with what we've accomplished in partnership with this administration. president trump, this committee over the last 14 months we've done a lot of great work for veterans we should be proud of. i appreciate the seriousness that you've taken the ig report and look forward to consider you do that. to dive a little bit deeper into the question, i know that you agree that veterans agree a scheduling system that gives them immediate access to care, shortened wait times, the ability to track and manage information and progress throughout the care continuum. i want to make sure, though, as we appropriate money and pass budgets that the money that we provide to the va is effectively utilized, which is the reason that you're here today. and we've seen this past year that with the electronic health record rollout, that that's run into trouble. we've seen the delay of implementation even further. so my question is, with the readily available cuts, solution,

david shulkin. >> good afternoon everybody, thank you for those comments. i appreciate it and i want to have a chance to update you as both our governors said, we are going to have a chance to hear from you and some questions and some interaction, which i really look forward to. just this past month i had a chance to meet with the directors of your state homes. i'm going to have a chance to me with your state directors of veteran affairs. the more interaction i can hear and we have a chance to share what is happening in your state and how we can better support you, it's really important. i was like to start with why we do this, it's really our mission as you remember from history, right before the second inaugural address president lincoln gave the country this mission, that is really our responsibility to care for him or her who has borne the battle and be able to be there for them when they come home to their families. this past year we have had some important accomplishments 11 bills that passed through congress that the president has signed are all done

shulkin is being ordered to repay the department for his wife's travel.ese tickets back the money for those wimbledon tickets as well as to overgo an investigation into the travel packages of the department he leads. >> what is secretary shulkin saying about this? >> release id a statement to this as well as a response to the va ig. he says, a report of this mach is a direct assault on my spouse, my character, and my understand blemished record of service to the veterans affairs administration. your staff's conduct related to this investigation reeks of an agenda. he's not the only cabinet official who's been under fire for travel practices. there have been five other cabinet secretaries under fire. members of congress saying they want to hear more, at least one republican who sits on the veterans affairs committee, says shulkin needs to go. >> all right. good report. thanks very much for that. >>> we're following breaking news on the rob porter abuse scandal that's engulfed the white house and the white house chief of staff john kelly now for more than a

he says shulkin must resign now. president trump ran on accountability. according to "the washington post," shulkin set to appear before the veterans panel today to talk about the budget but ultimately will be asked about these questions. you can see that at 8:00 this morning. watch it on c-span3. look for it at c-span.org and radio app. from michigan, a parent. we'll hear from don. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm thinking controlling the guns isn't going to do it. we need to go about it some other way. sick people will always find a weapon or be able to get one. so i don't know what other way to go about it, but gun control isn't going to do it, in my opinion. >> so what are the other ways then if gun control isn't the way? >> well, we have people that are much smarter than i am. we have to get together in these think tanks and obviously go about it another way. like i said, they are always going to be able to get these weapons. people can't get them legally on the streets get them all the time. you have mass shootings every where, as well in th

shulkin has said that he will repay her airfare. the u.s. turkey agreed today to work on mending relations, after recent tensions over the syria .lict turkey has demanded that the u.s. drop its support for kurdish fightersnside syria. today, secretary of state rex tillerson met with his turkishun rpart in ankara, and insisted that the nato allies share the same goals. >> there is no daylight between turkey and the u.s. objectives. defeat isis, stabilize the country, create stabilization areas so eventually the refugees and internally displaced persons can begin to return home, and support the political solution for syria that will result in a wole, independent democratic syria. druff: turkey has lately attacked kurdish fighters inside northwest syria, arguing that they are linked to kurdish rebels inside turkey. hurricane-ravaged puerto rico is facing a new setback to its recovery.ro the federal coboard for the u.s. territory asked today nr an emergency $300 mill loan. otherwise, it warned the island ll have to cut electrica power after tues

shulkin told lawmakers today he wrote a check to reimburse the treasury. >> i do recognize the optics of this are not good. i accept responsibility for that. and but do i believe it's important the united states continue its work with its allied countries. >> it's not the optics that are not good. it's the facts that are not good. >> not the optics, the facts. there's epa administrator scott pruitt familiar to viewers of this program who is a more controversial figure than shulkin for good reason and hon just discovered to have been flying around the word "in" first class using public funds including a trip on emirates airline, the single embodiment of over the top luxury which you may remember from this ad with jennifer aniston. the american people paid for that. the epa initially lied about pruett's travel at thing reporters he got a blanket waiver to fly first class. the problem is no such waiver exists. that was not true. he explained the reason he had to fly first class was because passengers in coach aren't nice to him. >> there have been instances unfortunately during my time a

. >>> veterans affairs secretary david shulkin testifies about his agency's 2019 budget proposal thursday. he apoopears before the veteran house committee here on c-span 3. >>> president trump and first laid amelania trump hosted a white house reception for african-american history month. from the white house east room this is 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, mr. trump companied by the sergeant general dr. gerald adams. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. i really appreciate you being here, and it's an honor for the first lady and i and a true honor to have everybody, all of you, many of my friends in the white house and our great vice president is right here. sole thank you, mike, and so many of our wonderful cabinet. it's really a terrific day, and it's so much fun, so much fun to have you here to celebrate a very important element of our culture and our life, african-american history month. right? we're very glad to be joined by our outstanding surgeon general dr. jerome adams. jerome, thank you very much. i also want to re

david shulkin testifies thursday. secretary shulkin appears before the house veterans affairs committee live at 8:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> richard branson, founder of the virgin group, talked about his start as a business owner and shared thoughts on the future of space travel. this was part of the goldman-sachs small business summit in washington, d.c. it's 40 minutes. >>> sir richard branson, ladies and gentlemen. we are thrilled to have you here today. you need no introduction, but i'm going to give you one anyway. you've started over 400 companies in your career of managing businesses over five decades. i'm sure that there's going to be a bunch of valuable insight that you can provide to all the business owners that are here, so screw it, let's get on and do it. and i'm really excited, personally. this is great for me. so i'm just going to start. you started all this when you were a kid. you were 16 years old. you launched a magazine, "student" and you then went on to launch virgin records. i'm pretty

it's interesting, too, you have a republican members of congress saying shulkin should go. saying look this is what trump ran on, what you just played from the clip in 2016. this is what he ran on and if it means anything, he has to go. >> rick, it's nice to sit in the pointy end of the plane, the seats are wider, it's nicer. but you know government travel is fraught with restrictions. >> yes, it's incredibly detailed driven but i went and did old fashioned reporting -- >> you were the former director of a magazine. >> yes. and i went to the travel policy, it is the general policy of the u.s. government that less than premium class accommodations must be used for all modes of passenger transportation. i travelled back and forth on that shuttle we've all been on hundreds of times and saw obama cabinet officers in coach. what mr. pruitt doesn't understand is the people talking to him in coach are voters. and so many of these people who work for donald trump don't understand the meaning of being a public servant. think think they are coming to serve at the trough, they are the

david shulkin maintains he doesn't do anything improper but will offer reimbursement if advised to do so. tomorrow could be key in the debate over the future of dreamers as a bipartisan group of 22 senators floats a proposal that gives young illegal immigrants a 12 your path to citizenship but also includes funding for the present border wall. but would not and end the visa lottery. mitt romney announcing he's not going to make any news tomorrow about utah's senate race in light of today's shooting florida. stay with us for late breaking of elements tonight as we are starting to learn more about the teenager suspected of killing 17 people at a florida high school. we will take you back to portland after the break. >> people were on their phones trying to snapchat. students freaking out. teachers. >> i thought it was a drill. >> we knew it was real when we saw the bullets, shots going through the window and glass shattered. a couple kid oh, manatees. aka "the sea cow"" oh! there's one. manatees in novelty ts? surprising. what's "come at me bro?" it's something you say to a friend. what

before the tom price thing came to a head, you have to wonder is there a similar example made of shulkin, made of pruitt? there's not an indication that's going to be the case but the thing with trump we've learned he's with you until he's not with you. so that could change at any moment. it's interesting, too, you have a member of congress, a republican members of congress, mike kaufman, who's out there saying shulkin should go. saying look this is what trump ran on, what you just played from the clip in 2016. this is what he ran on and if it means anything, he has to go. >> rick, it's nice to sit in the pointy end of the plane, the seats are wider, the service is better. it's great up there. government travel, however, as you know, having served in government, is fraught with restrictions. >> yes, it's incredibly detailed driven but i went and did old fashioned reporting -- >> i just read you were the former ed former editing manager, you know. >> yes. and i went to the travel policy, it is the general policy of the u.s. government that less than premium class accommodations must be us

. >> national governors association also heard from david shulkin.- this is 45 minutes.

shulkin -- they have the president [indiscernible] federal resources. to both of them have the confidence of the president? sarah: i don't have any reason to believe otherwise. if they don't have the confidence, you would know. >> and they talked about security clearances, those with interim acuity clearances, at the end of this week -- [indiscernible] , thef those people attorney and senior adviser, jared kushner, can you talk about how he would do his job in the white house if he does not have that clearance? sarah: i can tell you that no decision within the memo will impact anything that jared kushner is working on in terms of specifics and security clearance. i can't answer whether someone has security clearance or not. i can tell you that nothing that has taken place will affect the valuable work that gerrit is doing. -- jared kushner is doing. he will be a valuable member and do the work he has been focused on with the last year. >> you mentioned a deranged individual took the last -- lives of 17 people. that person took dozens of lives in las veg

david shulkin testifies about his agency's 2019 budget proposal thursday. secretary shulkin appears before the house veterans affairs committee live at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress. the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> president trump held a meeting with members of congress to discuss trade policies. the discussion centered around the president's goal of ensuring fair and reciprocal trade policies that benefit american workers and grow the economy. this meeting from the white house cabinet room is 50 minutes. >> they're on our side. they just can't say it. okay, thank you very much, i'm delighted to welcome both republicans and democrats, nice sound. isn't that a nice sound? and we won't be discussing daca. but there's

david shulkin testifies about his agency's 2019 budget proposal thursday. secretary shulkin appears before the house veterans affairs committee live at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress. the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider.

is david shulkin committed to letting veterans choose between the v.a.aid he does. he has told me in private he does. but then there is these mixed messages coming from the v.a. to capitol hill. and that is only slowing down legislation that would expand healthcare choice for veterans that wean sure the v.a. better delivers healthcare to our veterans. it's hurting veterans. that's what matters here. at the end of the day, you can have all this drama in d.c. but there are still hundreds of thousands of veterans across the country waiting too long for care and every day we don't have legislation trying to fix that is a day that more veterans suffer. all this drama that's been created and again i have to say that secretary shulkin is a big part in driving that is just undermining that. if you are not willing to come together, work with the white house, work with the president to advance his legislative agenda, you need to be gone. i hope that monday morning or tuesday morning we come back from the holiday, everybody is able to act like adults, come together

. >> dana: investigators determining david shulkin misused funds for a trip last summer. him with the va picking up her travel expenses. nearly half of the ten day trip was spent sight seeing. the trip cost taxpayers more than $120,000. shulkin denies wrongdoing but said he will comply with recommendations that he reimburse air fare and other costs. >>> immigration agents arresting 150 people over three days in the los angeles area. it's the first large scale tweet since california became a sanctuary state. william la jeunesse went on a ride along. stopping it legal immigration one problem. deporting those already here another. before california was a sanctuary state, it was relatively easy. had one ice agent and a jail who could id dozens of criminals and get them deported. now i see hundreds of agents meeting around town sitting in a house trying to arrest a target as they leave for work. it's dangerous, but i sense that california will not protect its own residents, it will. >> they want to put politics in front of public safety, we're still going to protect the commun

shulkin says he regrets the decision and taking steps to make things right. >> i made the decision tomburse the treasury, to follow the ig recommendations and i'm committed to doing what we have to do to focus on veterans and make this better. david: wimbledon tickets. not a good idea. not if you're working for government. >>> innocent lives taken in just seconds and several more remain in the hospital. a live update on the victims and the survivors of the florida massacre. that's next. ♪ >> so the dude pulled the fire drill. we went outside, boom, boom, heard gunshot. i thought it was firecrackers. ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. the pen where you don't have to see or handle a needle. and it works 24/7. trulicity is a once-weekly injectable medicine to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. it should not be the first medicin

and after that veterans affairs secretary david shulkin talks about priorities of the agency at national governor's association winter meeting. >>> earlier this month t nonprofit organization represent us hosted a summit in new orleans to discuss campaign issues and finance process. one focused on presidential elections and included people advocating for a national popular vote to replace the electoral college. this is just under an hour. >>> welcome, everyone. it is really tremendous to see so many people in the room for what is a really important issue. it does not get enough tension. for the next hour we're going to focus on the peculiar way we choose or president. not by direct selection of our people, but indirect manner. electors who then go through process to select our president. >> louder. >> okay. can you hear me now if i speak like this? okay. the election of duty experience that was disheartening in other ways with our panelists will get into, but it was not an election aimed at the entire country. it was an election aimed at about a dozen battleground states if you did not l

david shulkin testifies about his agency's 2019 budget proposal thursday. secretary shulkin appears before the house veterans affairs committee live at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress. the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> president trump held a meeting with members of congress to discuss trade policies. the discussion centered around the president's goal of ensuring fair and reciprocal trade policies that benefit american workers and grow the economy. this meeting from the white house cabinet room is 50 minutes. >> they're on our side. they just can't say it. okay, thank you very much, i'm delighted to welcome both republicans and democrats, nice sound. isn't that a nice sound? and we won't be discussing daca. but there's plenty of discus

. >> separately, last week lthere was some news made by secretary pruitt and secretary shulkin. they both have their private travel and use of first-class flights and federal resources. do both of them still have the confidence ott preside-- of the president? >> i have no reason to believe otherwise. as we've said many times before, if someone no longer has the confidence of the president, you guys will know. >> and the chief of staff on friday, those with interim security clearances by the end of this week that have been outstanding since june of last year would lose their access to classified information. one of those people is his attorney, senior adviser jared kushner. how will he be able to do his very senior job in the white house if he does not have access to classified information? >> i can tell you that no decision within the memo will impact anything that jared kushner is working on in terms of specifics on security clearance. i can't get into -- >> does he not need classified information to do his job? >> i can't answer whether someone has security clearance or not, a

david shulkin testify testifies about his agent's 2019 budget proposal thursday. secretary shulkin appears before the house veterans affairs committee live at 8:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> sunday night on "after words," former u.s. trade negotiator and senior senate staffer ira shapiro with his book "broken: can the senate save itself and the country?" he's interviewed by former senate majority leader tom daschle. >> politics was supposed to be about finding a way to overcome some of those differences through principled -- through extended discussion and a real legislative process, through principled compromise. it wasn't supposed to be about one party winning on their own. the times, as you know, the times in history when one party has been able to do this on your own are very few, maybe 1933 and '34, fdr dealing with the depression. lbj, '64/'65, but even lbj reached out to republicans and fdr had republican support the first two >> watch "after words" sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2's "book tv." >>> next, a panel on trade from the georgeto

congressman till walls has in fact referred meanwhile, these can't be fun days for va secretary david shulkin, the taxpayer funded trip to europe with his wife might have been fun but these days are no fun at all. now it's time for the "last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> good evening rachel. remember for candidate trump there was nothing more important than fixing the va. and now $4,000 in airport parking to me is the biggest mystery on that list. >> the overcharges on airport parking. the only thing i can think is they parked the car on a baggage carousel and that's the ticket you get. in 10 days how do you pay $4,000 for parking? >> that's the mystery for me. figure it out and report bang. >>> in tonight's news, there's reporting at cnn.com that trump campaign associate rick gates is in the final stages of coming up with a plea deal with robert mueller. he would be the third to do so, following in the footsteps of michael flynn and george papadopoulos. and steve bannon was interviewed by the special prosecutor's staff over multiple days this week according to two sources familiar with t

epa administrator scott pruitt nba administrator david shulkin have had their travel invoices scrutinizedall this despite working for a commander in chief who signed an executive order last year directed at eliminating washington's waste. >> this order requires a thorough examination of every executive department and agency to see where money is being wasted and how services can be improved. >> democrats are pledging to give carson a thorough exam. >> what's appropriate is an investigation by the government accounting office into whether there is a violation of what's known as the antideficiency act. >> republicans investigating. oversight committee chair trey gowdy told hud to preserve all documents about redecorating. he is trying to see if there is merit to a hud employee's claim they got demoted when they wouldn't blow the budget. >> bret: we will follow it. thank you. stocks down. dow lost 381. s&p 500 lost 30. nasdaq fell 57. wild ride on the markets this week. up next, the first day back in class for survivors of the florida school massacre. ♪ ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru fo

david shulkin, an obama administration holdover who is viewed an as noncontroversial fresh off a rebuke from his own department's inspector general after his staff lied so the secretary's wife could come with him on a publicly funded trip to europe. he is now purging the va telling politico he is investigating what he called subversion at the agency and those who defied his authority won't be working in my operation. okay. and then there's only administration official working as many jobs as jared kushner, that is mick mulvaney, who is the budget director and acting head of the consumer protection bureau, an agency he once vowed to kill. >> it turns up being a joke, and that's what the cfpb has been. >> he's currently dismantling the cfpb. staffers spent years building a case against golden valley lending, claiming the lender illegally charges people up to 950% interest rates. but mick mulvaney, who got more than $60 million from payday lenders dropped the suit without explanation. finally, there's keith schiller, the man who spent the better part of 20 years as trump's finally, there's

>> what does the president think about secretary shulkin's handling of his travel, the wimbledon ticketsnd all of that? what did trump think about that? >> does the president believe there should be an age limit for those who buy an ar-15? >> the longer you go between taking questions, the more questions you're likely to get, that's how that works. let's talk about a reactive trump white house. with us to do that is phillip bump, national correspondent for "the washington post" and john harris is back with us as well, a veteran journalist who spent more than two decades covering politics and the white house for "the washington post." he happens to be editor-in-chief and co-founder of politico. john, remember a more innocent time in say the last presidency and every one before that in the modern era, where you deliver a state of the union and that would begin a kind of sales campaign, often up front about it and often featuring a road trip to drive home that message. >> brian, most presidents regarded the state of the union speech as not just a night, but really a month, a week leading up

afternoon, a by the on veterans run governor of minnesota and the governor of missouri and david shulkinthe veteran affairs secretary will be part of that aboutand we will close up three: 15 with governor asa hutchinson of arkansas and john hickenlooper of colorado talking about economic development and the future of work. a full day of content here and we will be covering it for you on c-span.