Ambien for all, Ronny Jackson and the VA, explained

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Congressional reporter Ella Nilsen makes her Weeds debut joining Sarah and Matt to break down the botched nomination at the Veterans’ Administration, they also address the questions around the troubled agency’s future. References and further reading: Sarah's piece on the Ronny Jackson scandal Ella's piece on the controversy surrounding Jackson's nomination CNN piece on Ronny Jackson's alleged 'grab-and-go' clinic NY Times piece on the concierge emergency room Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you guys see the latest?
0:01.6	What?
0:02.1	It was this like weird CNN like kickin' Wally's down
0:05.2	like Kevin Amp you and the kids.
0:07.1	Oh my God.
0:08.2	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:25.3	I'm Matthew Galaisius joined today by Sarah Cliff and we have a new Weeds guest, Ellen
0:30.5	Nielsen from the Vox Congress team, an elite crew, I would say, strike force.
0:37.9	Really glad to have you here and we are going to talk about Ronnie Jackson.
0:42.2	We were going to talk about Ronnie Jackson's troubled confirmation.
0:45.9	When we planned this episode on Wednesday.
0:48.6	Yes.
0:49.6	It is now so troubled that he is withdrawn from consideration, but this is the Weeds.
0:54.3	So what we wanted to do was really try to talk about the VA and the VA health system
0:59.1	and what the issues are and that continues to be a relevant question here as we ponder
1:04.6	the absence, but it is worth just starting with the basics here and what happened here.
1:10.4	Who is Ronnie Jackson and why did this wind up being such a big problem?
1:14.3	So Ronnie Jackson is the White House doctor and when he was first nominated I feel like
1:19.1	there was a lot of confusion because people immediately thought about, when people said
1:23.0	Trump's doctor, people immediately thought about the, I can't remember his name, but the
1:26.7	very bad.
1:27.7	Dr. Boistean.
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