Republicans are in on it. They look the other way while I'm getting butchered and so on and so forth. I end up drawing my nomination because I wasn't going to get confirmed in the Senate because I even got some of the Republicans looking the other way. and, like, kind of let it happen. The reason was, is because they had already picked somebody that they wanted to be the secretary of the va, somebody that they knew and that they controlled and that they had influence over. (19:17–19:23)
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Asserts that his Senate confirmation was unlikely due to lack of support from some Republicans.
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