From the New York Times. Unlike Albemarle, this he's available. The nomination of President Trump's personal doctor as the next head of veterans affairs had come to an abrupt stop. Now Congress is describing the alarming allegations from unnamed whistleblowers that derail the doctors nomination it's Wednesday April twenty said this was the week that Doctor Ronnie Jackson, who currently serves at the White House as the President's personal physician he was supposed come to Capitol Hill to be vetted and interviewed by members of Congress to run

one of the largest bureaucracies in the federal government, the veterans Fares Department, might sheer covers the White House for the times this is of fellow runny Jackson, who hasn't gotten any? Serious management experience, not somebody who has been in charge of huge numbers of staff, not somebody, that's been in charge of a large budget, and so there were always going to be questions from Democrats for sure, but also from Republicans as to is this the right person to lead not only one of the biggest agencies, but one of the most trouble by another yea. Scandal is brewing this time at the Philadelphia off, as there is a scathing new reward about care problems at veterans Affairs facilities across the country is no stretch to say the Department of Veterans affairs as a trust problem. You know, veterans affairs has struggled for years. Under scandal in as many as forty veterans died, while they were waiting.

For medical care. Had this the eighth issue, all out in the veterans Affairs scandal, the top officials in charge of medical care for our beds is resigning, but also just general kind of mismanagement and a sense that this is an agency that doesn't very well. I can fix this year. No amount of money is gonna fix the v I hate to be so grand so in a member's covers having had the idea that they were gonna grill, doktor Jackson on what is it that you bring other than a friendship with the president and an affinity with the present, and what is it that you bring to the job that can address some of these really chronic problems at the Vienna and had it had come to be that this controversial nomination was made in the first place. What happened? The previous head of the Veterans Affairs Department, so the previous head had been an Obama hold over. He was ousted after a kind of long period of will here.

Won't he go, and I think there was an expectation that, in the wake of that President Trump would turn to somebody with either really deep credentials in the veterans community or somebody who had a lot of experience, for example in business. That's something that trump now use breaking news from the White House, and I President Trump late today fired his Secretary Veterans Affairs, David Shokhin, and instead in an abrupt moment that no one saw coming makes prize was not Shoguns ouster, which had been rumoured for weeks. It was who he's nominating to replace in this personal fast. Personal physician, rear admiral doktor, Ronnie Jackson, the president just said no, I won't run Jackson made a Navy rear. He is, prize choice to lead the government's second largest apartment. You serve as well. Health physician over the past three administrations. Recently Jackson has been

size by some ever giving a glowing report on the president's health here with the guy who had stood up on television and really defended him and gave him a positive brave review its as some people have. You know just great James. You know I told the President: did you get a healthier diet over the last twenty years, the amount to be two hundred years old or new may now it is incredible. Genes are just assume I mean you know. If I do What I wouldn't I wouldn't have in the end, the cardiac in overall health. Did he s? So that's it God, that's all the questions I've taken. Thank you for your time appreciated! That's how we came to be the nominees for the veterans Department. Ok, so does I, the family, does have a tough experience doctor action is nominated for this job and is preparing for this hearing. That's was to be on Wednesday morning before the Senate committee that will judge whether he can take this job in my opinion, is a generally the Senate defer to the president when it comes to nominations like this. So isn't it

I am sure that this will occur and then he will probably get the job. I think at the start of this week, most people were bedding that, despite the concerns over his lack of qualifications, that the Senate would likely defer that it would be a series of tough questions and, at the end of the day there is that kind of deference where the Senate says. Look the president has a right to put the people that he wants in charge of a department like this, and if this is the guy he wants, then we're gonna give it to him. So what changed? Well, what changed was a series of whistle blowers that came to members of Congress to make a series of allegations about Doktor Jackson that really didn't have much to do with this question of professional experience and management of a big department, but rather had

to do with his actions as the White House physician and they generally broke down into three areas allegations that he fostered a hostile work environment as the head of the White House Medical Office and the second was and he was seen drinking and or drunk at times. That would have been inappropriate for that to be the case now, and then third was that he he had been involved in inappropriately dispensing prescription medications to members of the White House staff for whom he was the doktor, but he was too loose in proscribed in those medications. Those are serious allegations they. Are and what really triggered the reporting was when, on a bipartisan basis. The leadership of the committee that was to hold the hearings announced that the hearings would be delayed indefinitely and, of course, when something like that, and they have to give an explanation- why suddenly, with this hearing be put off and the reasons

then, where the ones that I just described. This sort of allegations that had been brought forward by whistleblowers and that's kind of where we were Tuesday afternoon so? How has president Trump respond, especially given what you described as a strong relationship with Darya Tuesday afternoon? The president was asked about all of these swirling controvert and it was at the White House in the EAST River baloney and I are truly honoured to welcome french President Mccrone, MRS Mccrone to the White House. Thank you very much Emmanuel Mccrone. The president of France is in the United States for a series of meetings with the president and, as part of that, with two leaders held this conference and leave a bunch of topics asked about foreign policy and then yes said John was one of the american reporters asked the press.

Are your nominee to run the veterans Affairs administration. Doktor Ronnie Jackson has run into some serious political headwinds on Capitol Hill with some serious allegations being levelled at what about Doktor Jack Odin and all of these issues whirling around him and I think, we'd all expected to have a real, forceful expression of support by the president for Doktor acting and in some ways he did he said, but I will tell you he's one of the finest people that I have met, one of the finest. Man. I've ever known also he's been the doktor for President Obama, I believe for President Bush, but then he thought of did something that surprise all of us, which is the sort of gray say that will see what happens. I dont want to put a man through whose not

political person. I don't want to put a man through a process like this. It's too ugly into disgusting. You know if he were Doktor Jackson. He might just hang it up and not accept all of this abuse and drop out of contention. He said he had talked to Doktor Jack and on the phone and told, Add that it was up to him and that if he wanted to continue to fight this thing through that President trumpet support him in that buddy repeatedly said. But the fact is I wouldn't If I was him, I don't think I would do it. I wouldn't take this abuse to be abused by bunch of politicians that aren't thinking nicely our country. I really don't think personally. He should do it's totally. His eye would stand behind and totally his decision by the end of the press conference. It was sort of left unclear whether the President seem to be hinting or suggesting that maybe this is what he thought should happen, but White House officials said later

look. You just should take the president on face value that he said it's up to Doktor Jackson, whether to march forward and that's what he meant dimension at the top of the show. There is some new working news tonight about the President's nominee to lead the Visa White House, physician Ronnie Jack's the prisoners to run the department veterans of Fair Rear, Admiral Ronnie Jackson is in trouble. Senator John Tester is leading a push to try to into the conduct of admiral? and while he was at the White House serving as the White House physician late today, ranking democratically veteran affairs Committee, John Tester Montana, addressed our on NPR by Tuesday evening, at the sort of height of the controversy, the we got more details do know what drugs were this

yeah, I can tell you exactly the name, because I'm I'm not a pharmacist, but these Senator John Tester, who is democratic from Montana and the top Democrat on the committee. That is taking a look at whether or not to confirm Doktor Jackson for the position when on the akard Tuesday evening and really gave us some pretty amazing details in all three areas in so doing some people that do got hold of So we ve got a problem, the doktor s problem. There was a report done in two thousand twelve, that was a review of the medical office at the White House, of which Doktor Jackson was apart, and the review that was done by the Navy. Inspect General's office concluded that there had been too double morale that Doctor Jackson has essentially been in a battle for control of the office with the other top official there, and that we were told A time again. The people above Amy treated like gold. The people below

he be levelled, screamed atom, subordinate any office felt like they were trapped in the middle of this battle, where the people are worth around him felt like they had to walk on eggshells and then The area of accusations of being drunk senator tester said that there had been multiple allegations that he appear at the White House Drunk and that on one occasion on a White House trip, this is doing

and then Obama's administration that when officials went to find Doktor Jackson, because somebody needed medical treatment that they went to his hotel room and found him inebriated passed out and could not revive him to the point that they had to take his medical equipment and bring the equipment to another doktor, so that that other doktor could help the patient. That seems like the ultimate dereliction of duty in terms of what is expected of the White House position absolutely and in fact I think the remarkable details That story is what underscores and helps to explain why the senators took these allegations so seriously re earlier in the week when those allegations were more vague, it was a little

harder to understand why this had become such an issue so quickly? I think when you hear those details about the chief Whitehouse Doktor kind of unable to do his duties when called upon for reasons of being so drunk that they couldn't rouse him. Assuming that that's true, those are just allegations, but that's why every It has taken us a seriously if you're, drunk and something happens with the president is worried gotta go at an entreats. Brezhnev's needs to be done, so this is totally honest, at the bottom of this environment and MIKE what about this third area of concern. Doktor Jackson's distribution prescription drugs. The word is: is it on overseas trips in particular that admiral would go down the aisle away, the aeroplanes ere. I must go to sleep and rights concern their according to Senator tester is specifically that doctor in and other members of his medical staff would routinely distribute a couple of different drugs to White House staff. Members of the press,

and others on air force, one on long trip like an ambient idea. That's exactly right and in than what he would distribute would be Ambien, which is a sleeping aid allotted these trips are ten twelve fourteen hours long, so he would distribute ambient for people to help them sleep on the long flights, and then he would distribute a prescription drugs. Provisional which promotes wakefulness. So when they landed the White House, officials would get this drug to help them stay awake and essentially get on the correct time for the country that they were landing in those drugs that, if regular p wanted to get them. They'd have to go to a doktor, they get a prescription, they take the prescription to a pharmacy and have that filled in a sort of standard way. Doktor Jackson, Senator tester said, was simply had little packages of them and would hand them out to people who, They wanted them, so he would just go down the aisle and yes says that wants who have something. However, one of them who-

ever wanted them now now to be fair to Doktor Jackson. It is quite true that he was not the first White House doktor to do this. This is a practice that has been done by higher Whitehouse doctors going back many years. It's also a practice on state Department flights, defence department flights that many many hours, but yet again for members of the Senate, who were considering whether or not to put Doktor Jackson in charge. You know not only one of the largest bureaucracies, but also the largest healthcare system in that country, the Vizier healthcare system, which, in a manages it is the medical care of the nation's veterans to the senators. This call whether or not he was willing to be distributing these drugs without a prescription was very concerning to them. I don't have that one thing: it sounds like Doktor Jackson's most Regis moment occurred under President Obama, and yet I have

that President Obama also spoke highly of the doktor and kept him on, obviously, through the end of his two terms as president, and then he went on to serve present trump. So I wonder if there is a curve, broader sense of affinity for this doctor that is, allowed him to stay in this job. Despite what we now hearing, you know what it's actually one of the most confusing and intriguing aspects of all of this. I talk to you, of former Obama administration officials, especially after the details emerged that send it test or had offered, and none of them said that they recognise any of this behave President Obama, in two thousand fifteen and two thousand sixteen gave glowing reviews to Doktor Jackson about his performance at the White House as the chief after even recommending Doktor Jackson for Promotion Admiral, then so it's very hard to square those. Two things

think. But what do we know about the whistleblowers who are making these really serious claimed? Do we know anything about who they are not much, I mean look, That's the definition of a whistleblowers and isn't they come forward anonymously too? And in this case to members of Congress to offer information and concerns, and so. At the moment. What we have really is the information directly from the law makers in both parties, mind you and their staff describing what the whistleblowers have brought forward, got it in. Listen to you talk, I'm struck that in some way these particular patients are more alarming when considering this person as the president's doktor, then, when considering him as the head of the Veterans Affairs Department, I mean, I think, that's true in it I do think that the fact that the head of the vizier also is the head of this big hospital system. I do think there some nexus there between these particular concerns and the kind of job he would do but sure,

mean, even if, tomorrow, the question of whether or not he should be the nominees to lead the vizier. If that were taken off the table to Morrow I mean I still think there thee lot of lingering concern about what is he the right person to be attending to the president's health that certainly not what President Trump would have liked to think? Then he set in motion by doing this, but I dont know that there's going to be a way for him to avoid it, I mean again, you know you could imagine the political process of the nomination coming to a close, and there still being a cloud now over Doktor Jackson about whether he can continue job in the Navy. It's not like a saying that by nominating his favorite doktor, his White House physician to be the head of the visa. The president may have unintentionally disqualified that doctor from continuing in his role as White opposition I mean, I think that might be the result. In the end,

thank you for you're happy to do. The times is reporting that as allegations against Doktor Jackson intensified on Tuesday, the White House became more aggressive in its defence of the doktor. The president and Doktor Jackson met face to face on Tuesday evening and the White House released a statement calling the doktor. Record quote impeccable and saying he would not be well voted by false accusations. at the same time spent more than a decade building con Academy, the free remote learning platform. Now all

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