created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by her local cable or satellite provider. on this we can's "newsmakers take our guest is bernie sa nders. as chairman of the veterans affairs committee, he discusses changes to the v.a. under the leadership of veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald. he also talked about the results of the midterm elections as well as the presidential race in 2016. here is a preview. >> i have gotten to know bob mcdonald in the last couple of months. i like him very much. sloan his assistant gibson are working really, really hard. v.a. is a huge system and you can't bring change overnight. i think what bob is talking about, what the secretary is talking about is you can fire anybody but you don't want to lose on appeals.

you don't want somebody running to the courts and saying i was fired unjustly. what they are trying to do is. there -- dot their i's and cross their the second point that i would furor for the last year in the v.a. was the fact that in phoenix and other parts of the country, we had unacceptably long waiting periods. you know what? in the last number of months, leadershipder bob's has made significant progress in making sure that veterans are getting into the v.a. in a timely manner, or if not, getting out to the private sector in a timely manner. in phoenix inseen elsewhere, and i don't have the statistics in front of me, that what you have seen a