call for the department. >> the lack of transparency and lack of accountability is inexcusable. >> any allegation, any adverse incident like this makes me -- makes me mad as hell. >> va secretary shinseki faces tough questions today. i'll talk to america's first african-american woman combat pilot, and hear her very personal story, her personal connection to this scandal. plus, the living wage battle is going global. fast food workers are walking off the job in cities everywhere today as they push for a $15 an hour wage. will all the pressure finally propel the companies to pay up. but first, front and center on capitol hill today, a decades-long problem of backlogging of veterans hospitals and new accusations hospital administrators cooked the books to cover up delays.

va secretary shinseki testified, addressing accusations from va whistleblowers that 40 veterans died while waiting for treatment in arizona. >> if any allegations are true, they're completely unacceptable. if any are substantiated, we will act. >> that internal review hasn't stopped several republican lawmakers and the american legion for calling for shinseki to step down. but at least as many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle said removing shinseki is not the answer. today the secretary confirmed he intends to see this through. >> do you believe that you're ultimately responsible for all this? >> i am. >> would you explain to me after knowing all this information, why you should not resign? >> well, i've told you, senator, that i came here to make things better for veterans. that was my appointment by the

president. i intend to continue this mission until i'm satisfied, either that goal, or i'm told by the commander in chief that my time has been served. >> not everyone agrees that the man at the top should be held accountable for what some call a fatally flawed system. lawmakers today wanted to know what action has been taken as a result of these accusations. >> have you ever fired anybody on this issue, when you find out that they're not -- they manipulated the records. >> without getting ahead of decisions, i would say manipulation of data, of the truth is serious with me. >> would you fire them? >> i will do everything i can within -- >> that's not the question. >> today's hearing comes as rob neighbors was asked to step in and oversee the veteran affairs department and essentially to clean up the mess. the president's actions haven't

come soon enough for some. mitch mckonconnell called on th president to prioritize veterans' health care. >> if the president is truly serious, he needs to treat these stories at least as seriously as he did the obamacare website fiasco. our veterans deserve at least as much attention as a website. at least as much attention as a website. in fact -- >> meanwhile, a new whistleblower website has been set up by two veterans advocate groups. they were in d.c. today demanding answers. >> we knee to see em passed and aggressive action from the secretary, and it's not going to be just about today, it will be about what he does tomorrow. >> u.s. marine corps captain bernice armor is an iraq war veteran and first african-american woman combat pilot in u.s. history.

and nick is with iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. captain armor, first of all, thanks to both of you for being here. tell us your personal connection to this story. clarence jackson, a former marine, married your mom, and your father of chicago was a retired major in the u.s. army reserve. tell us about your own connection to this story. >> well, i'll keep it short. but basically, my dad was exposed to agent orange. years later, developed cancer, prostate cancer, which is also very common with african-american men. received treatment. it came back. and he's going through the process of radiation and all that. well, he started to experience some pain. and they found that the cancer had metastasized to his bones. the pain was so excruciating he wanted to get an mri. they made the appointment for three weeks out, after he just

wouldn't back down. two weeks into the pain, he woke up one particular morning, to go to the bathroom. he couldn't move. they called the ambulance. they got him to the hospital, to the va, and they were ready to send my dad home. my mom said, i am not taking my husband home in this condition. you've got to do something. so they moved up his mri to that day. turned out he had polyps on his spine that had enlarged so much it put pressure -- and he was immediately paralyzed in that moment. and unfortunately from that moment forward, he was bound to a wheelchair, and his health declined rapidly. and this was a strong guy, played for the colts when they were back in baltimore, three tours of vietnam, marine. and breaking the spirit, and not just the physical part of him, when this story started breaking, i immediately thought, if my dad had gotten that mri sooner, and not been in that wheelchair, would we have him

today. it's been very personal. i want all of our veterans to have the opportunity to get timely health care. >> nick, when you hear a story like bernice's, when she's talking about her dad, this obviously goes unfortunately beyond just iraq and afghanistan veterans, just in general. you give us sort of your thoughts on this that is broadly a matter of our concern, and what we do for veterans when they come home. >> sure. and thanks for having me. the real problem is, this testimony today from the secretary, the accusations that he heard, it's not new. these types of problems have been around for a number of years. they've been brought to the secretary's attention by congress, veterans' groups and independent studition. at the end of the day, these are happening over and over again. there seems to be a relying on the system when in fact it's the system that got us in the problem today. >> i think that's an important point. we have a statement from senator

john cornyn of texas. we're looking at live pictures of the hearing. you're seeing general shinseki on your screen. he said 40 veterans died while waiting for care on lists. if the reports in texas are true, individuals must be fired. the secretary will have no choice but to resign. there must be a top-to-bottom revamping of this agency. i think no one could dispute the second part of that, that you need a top-to-bottom look at this agency and revamping of it. from your personal point of view, do you think the problem should be focused on the man at the top, on mr. shinseki, or do you feel like this problem precedes him? >> it comes from both sides. yes, it does precede him. we have to have leadership from the top. we need to do something when we know what the issues are. sometimes all of the issues don't make it to the top. so we need to have internal reviews and audits, and different investigations. but not just when something explodes. we already knew that veterans

weren't getting timely health care. and i started my company, i travel around speaking about break-through mentality. how do we create the break-through. and it is a process. it is systematic. yeah, we need to go in and revamp the system. we need more doctors. and it's not just the physical ailments. like we have more doctors working on the physical than even the mental. veterans need a well-rounded, holistic approach. and money and funding is going to have to go to it, period, end of story. unfortunately at the end of the day, so many things boil down to money. it's really sad. >> indeed. we're seeing that hearing just concluding there. this is a system that serves 6.5 million veterans every year. 85 million appointments. 200,000 people serve per day, every year. i mean, what are the chances of being able to reform it? let's say we were to change the person at the top. you have people like house speaker john boehner saying

that's not really the answer. from your point of view as someone who represents veterans, what do you think is the answer? >> at the end of the day it's about the system we have in place and culture of accountability. there's a lot of things congress could do by passing legislation, which would give the secretary more flexibility in ridding the va of some of the senior executives that just bottom line are not getting the jo b done. i think that's what the veterans across all generations want to see, bold reform and individuals held accountable. >> bernie sanders of vermont is one of the committee chairs, i believe. this is what he had to say in response to those who are localizing this to eric shinseki. >> one of the concerns that i have is there has been a little bit of a rush to judgment. it is important to put va health care in context. hospital errors that cause death are now the third leading cause

of death in america behind cancer and heart disease. >> last word to you, captain bernice armor. do you see this as a systemic problem with sort of a u.s. health care system in general? or is this something that is very specific to veterans care that can be fixed by fixing that particular system? >> this is systemic to the va health care system. nick hit it on the head. we have to have accountability, period, end of story. it's not about firing one person. there are a lot of great things that the va is doing right now. they have a huge work load, and we have to do better, we have to hold individuals accountable and put some systems in place to stop the stalling, stop the backlogs. people need to be held accountable so we can move things forward and save veterans' lives. >> thank you to both of you. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you. and coming up, shifting grounds on the fight for raising the minimum wage. fast food workers around the

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i have a family and i have to support them. if i don't do this to get the minimum wage higher, how am i going to survive in this city of new york? >> the fight for income equality and better wages culminated in perhaps the biggest protest yet against the fast food industry. protests were planned for 30 countries from more cookco to japan to brazil to germany. the series of protests over the

past 18 months coordinated by a new york group and pushed by a federation that represents international labor unions. their goals? an increase in fast food worker pay to $15 an hour in the u.s. as well as the right to unionize without the threat of retaliation from employers. "the reid report" contacted several of the fast food companies targeted today. mcdonald's replied, we offer part-time and full-time employment, benefits and competitive pay. burger king said in part, for decades burger king restaurants have provided an entry point into the workplace for millions of workers. including many of the system's franchisees working at local burger king restaurants. however, there are signs that the ground underneath the industry may be shifting. last week the ceo of subway who has come under fire for pay practices, said, i personally think if i were in charge of the government i would index the minimum wage to inflation so everybody knows what they can count on.

the employees know what they're going to get. increases on a regular basis. the management knows they're going to have to pay a little bit more with inflation. it seems more sensible and fair to me. joining me to discuss the discussion of fairness is a staff attorney at the national employment law project. this is always the tug-of-war, right, between workers who are saying, we are not teenagers having a little job on the side. in a the lo of cases these are heads of households trying to live on this income. this is what the national restaurant association said today. a dramatic increase in labor costs, like the one proposed pi fast food forward, and fight for 15, is not the comprehensive solution to income inequality. these union backed protests are nothing more than big labor's attempt to push their own agenda while attacking an industry that provides opportunities to millions of americans. what is your answer to that?

>> okay. let's go back to why these strikes are catching fire, why they went from one strike in new york city, 18 months ago, to strikes on 30 -- in 33 countries. they're catching fire, because workers in this country, fast food workers make less than $9 an hour on average. they're adults, 70% of them are adults, many of them raising families. and like many americans in this country, they're experiencing wages that are stagnant or on the decline. the companies that these workers are working for, they're saying they can't afford to pay better, that's not true. last year, fast food ceos made on average $24 million in their compensation package. that is 1,200 times the earnings of the average fast food worker. the argument doesn't hold water. >> what's interesting, what's different about this fight now,

you heard this over the years saying you've got to pay people a fair living wage, does it seem there's action at the state level? 21 states where they raised the minimum wage. you have valid initiatives going up in other states. people are actually -- it's sort of catching on at the state level. do you see that victory culminating in eventually federal action to raise the federal minimum wage? >> states have led the way on this and where the federal government fails to act since 2009. states stepped in and filled the void and increased until the federal government has to act. even at $10.10 an hour which is the federal minimum wage proposals, these workers are saying we want $15 an hour and want to be able to organize without fear of retaliations. because we know that the companies that we're working for are enjoying such record profits and making so much money off our labor that they have to provide a minimum wage. >> one of the things that companies don't want to go along with this will say, it will be

passed on to the consumer. the consumer will have to pay more for a hamburger and the consumer will resist. >> consumers are not resisting. this movement has garnered so much support. the campaign to raise the minimum wage has gained so much support. as our economy has shifted, more and more people are now taking very low wage jobs to make ends meet. the ones that more and more of us, our neighbors, our family members are taking, are jobs where the minimum wage sets the pay scale. >> this is obviously a partisan issue. you have sort of a resistance from, i guess you would say the business wing. let me go through what chris christie in new jersey had to say to the peterson foundation at the fiscal summit recently. >> the problem we have in this country is not income inequality, it's opportunity inequality. and no matter where you are in the economic strata, you want

greater opportunity for your children. and i don't believe raising the minimum wage creates greater opportunity. >> how do you answer that? >> raising the minimum wage, i mean, i don't even know how to answer that. he's ducking the issue. the issue here is that we have 28 million workers who would benefit from raising the minimum wage. many of the fast food workers, many of the minimum wage workers have a college education, but these are the jobs that are available in our economy. so the issue isn't just about opportunity, it is about focusing on how to make the jobs that more and more americans are spending their careers in, better paying ones. that's good for workers, our families and a good sustainable economic recovery. >> thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. coming up next, this is probably the one and only time that you will see a cat video on this show. but this is no ordinary kitty. if i can impart one lesson to a

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>> if you believe susan rice, it was a request of secretary clinton to appear on tv. she declined. and if you believe susan rice, it was because secretary clinton had a grueling week. is that important? i think it is. >> hmm. now, sunday talk show bookings are important. don't get me wrong. but that's one of the big unanswered questions about benghazi? regardless, mr. graham and his counterparts in the house might want to watch how loudly they bang this particular drum. specifically, as the house prepares to launch its new select committee to appease the republican base and reinvestigate benghazi. in a new piece in "the daily beast," there is a deep unease among the republican leadership that the select committee could backfire. and badly. investigate and find nothing new and the committee looks like a bunch of overheated obsessives.

it makes all the other republican led panels that dug into benghazi look like keystone cops. there are a number of responses to the obsession, but it may have come wednesday from susan rice herself. >> what more is there that the administration has said or done that we're not aware of right now? >> dang if i know. i mean, honestly. >> a republican strategist and former chair of the south carolina gop, also chair of a pact supporting senator graham. kayton, i'm going right to you on this. it sounds like your friend and mine, senator lindsay graham -- okay, maybe he's not my friend -- he's trying to make something out of the fact that it was susan rice booked on the talk show rather than secretary clinton. is that nefarious in your mind? >> well, you know, one thing i think, senator graham has been

trying to find the truth since it first started. he's been responsible about it. remember, this is also a guy who was a prosecutor in the impeachment trial for bill clinton. long-standing republican in washington. and he's been asking these questions during this entire process. so, you know, this all feels like deja vu again from the 1986, when the iran contra came up. the republicans were doing the same as the democrats saying there was nothing to it. they already aired it out. may the 5th, 1987, they formed a committee where the democrat senator and democrat house member were running the hearings on it. at the end of the day, the public got to the truth on it. 11 of 14 were indicted. george herbert walker bush pardoned them and the end of that saga called iran contra. this happens in washington. everything's political. trey gowdy, who is from south carolina, is a strong prosecutor. he'll unpack all the hypotheticals and we'll get down

to the truth. and we'll finally either get an end to this or watch what happens when we see the e-mails, who wrote them and who did it. >> i want to go to jimmy in a moment. but katon are you comparing this to iran contra and talking impeachment? >> we're not talking impeachment. what i'm comparing it to is washington and the house of representatives has the right to do this. and they've done it. it's going to be a panel. and we've seen these things happen before. what i'm comparing is the media outrage on both sides on whether they should do it, shouldn't do it, whether all the information has been vetted, whether everything's been done. that would be the comparison for me is, we're going to watch, and the nation's going to watch this unfold and see it for what it was. >> jimmy williams, i heard two things that set off my spin meter, the words both sides, media outrage. there have been four separate previous benghazi hearings that produced reports, all of which were run by republicans, except one. there was one that was actually

done by the state department's independent arm. has there been, to your mind, sufficient exposition of the issue of benghazi? >> let me just say this. i actually agree, oddly enough, with katon. that is congress' job. they are certainly welcome to do oversight. i represent any oversight they want to do. i especially support oversight like in whitewater or travelgate and fostergate and et cetera. hillary clinton did not kill vince foster. that is the one takeaway from the 1990s of the republican investigatory committees. i hope they go down the exact same rabbit hole. i think it's fabulous. the most important thing to understand is this. all these committees have done all this work, the senate committee in a bipartisan report, issued their report, here we are again, we're having the same conversation over and over and over again, and let me

be clear. every single republican that i talked to, and i talked to a lot of republicans, every one of them says this is for two reasons of the the first and foremost reason is to get hillary clinton on the house side testifying under oath, because apparently she lied last time that they talked to her, and have her testify so they can bloody her up so she won't run for president. and number two, they can begin going down the path for impeachment of barack obama. that's what they're telling me they want to do. they said if it leads somewhere, it does, if it doesn't, so what, congress did its job. my response is, you're exactly right and i hope it leads down the path where we find out, again, hillary clinton did not kill clint foster. >> katon dawson, the other thing that seems to be happening here is money is being raised off of this issue, in addition to the "i" word for the base of the party. i have e-mails from moving

america forward, which is a group of former military people who it's headlined hillary, on benghazi, and you can donate money. and another e-mail that's in my inbox right now saying i demand, and we want you to sign a petition demanding hillary clinton testify. and asking you to please give a contribution to this pact. money is being raised by this. and the committee that's pushing it, accuracy in media citizenship in benghazi, includes berthers, allen west, who, again, has a pact raising money on this, it includes anti-muslim activists. are you comfortable with that being the basis of your party's inquiry into a very solemn and serious event that resulted in four deaths? >> i'm certainly not comfortable with any of that. and really, it's not our party who's out there raising money. we can't control these people on the internet. allen west had eight different sort of super pacts raising

money that didn't help him in the last election cycle. it is what it is. they're not going to raise a lot of money off of it. to jimmy's comment on the impeachment proceedings, hopefully that will never happen. that wouldn't be good politically. it wouldn't be smart. i don't think that's the end game here. but everything that happens in washington has a political tone to it. one thing i can tell you is that there are a lot of folks that want to have this whole episode unpacked and put behind us and find out who told what. i know there have been a lot of committees. there was a recent e-mail uncovered that has culpability to it. jimmy and i both agree, it's the right for congress to do this. it's going to be done. i have all the confidence that trey gowdy will perform in a very professional manner. his history is that. and whether it gets politicized or not, we'll see. at the end of the day, we're going to find out exactly what these e-mails were, who knew what and what the motivations were. >> the e-mails said nothing new.

and trey gowdy called it a trial. hope springs eternal. katon and jimmy, thank you for being here. breaking developments from capitol hill now. secretary veteran affairs eric shinseki just finished talking with reporters. here's his exchange just moments ago with nbc who asked the secretary what he had to say to veterans to say the va has failed them. >> what do you say to the veterans who say, he's abandoned us? >> i have not abandoned them. and i do talk to these veterans. not just veteran service organizations with my meet monthly, but as i travel across the landscape of our va facilities, located all 50 states in the last several years. and at each of those locations, i address veterans themselves. >> but they say talk is cheap. >> talk isn't cheap. cars are driven by people.

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>> here we tell their story. so that generations yet unborn will never forget. >> suddenly there was confusion. we were climbing over wires and desks. port authority policemen helped us find our way through. >> when i heard that the museum was looking for artifacts, i thought about my shoes. i had put them in a plastic container. and when i took them out, they still had the smell on them from that awful day. >> 14 of us were trapped in the stairwell trying to stay alive, and searching for a way out. miraculously, we survived. >> the museum was built seven stories below street level on the site where the twin towers once stood. outside, twin reflecting pools market the footprint of the trade center towers. the names of every person who died in the 2001 attacks and in the 1993 attack on the same location are inscribed in bronze

panels along the edges of each memorial pool. eddie is a friend of the show. she's also a security and threat assessment expert who's among the first responders on 9/11. she was working at 7 world trade center when the first plane hit the first tower. she decided to stay at ground zero, even after the call came to evacuate. and she remained on the scene to help rescue victims until the second tower collapsed. she received the secret service's highest honor that day. among the many things i was saying earlier, i'm amazed about you that as i find out more of your story, this is one more element of it. we were sort of watching that together, and you were feeling the same thing i am. this is 13 years ago, and it still feels like it's yesterday. >> it does. it's hard to watch it, to relive it. it's very emotional. especially with 2,900 -- all those souls. i also lost a colleague and a friend. and to be here on this day, to

be here talking about it. normally we're talking about security and investigations. this is a different element, a very personal element. i do have difficulties speaking about it and expressing what it's like. because there are no words really. it's kind of like a roller coaster ride somewhat. >> i think it's interesting that for children, for my kids, 9/11 sort of is sort of the defining moment, that they grew up in the era that kind of is the 9/11 era. so we're sort of used to all the security things, getting on a plane, all of the things that changed. it was a complete change in our world view. >> i remember before 9/11, you could walk in anywhere, there were hardly any magnet only ters, none of that. people checking security at desks. when you walk into a building in new york city, it's so different. it's the post-9/11 era. we've had to adjust. the game changed on that day. the world changed on that day. it became that, you know, we all

could be targets. just civilian people in general. >> just going about our lives. i want to play a little more sound from one of the exhibits called the last column. and workers actually signed their names, and families left photos of loved ones. it was on one of the last concrete columns left on the world trade center. take a listen. >> the last column was part of the last area that was searched. >> it tells the three stories, the building, the destruction and this cleanup effort. >> people working at the site were family members. they began affixing the photos. >> everybody was putting sayings on the column. >> on that day, really, responding to the attacks, i can only imagine that it's just adrenaline, that you're not thinking of the bigger picture. >> now it's 13 years later. at that moment, truly, i genuinely did not understand what was happening. i remember the first plane got struck -- excuse me, the first

tower got struck by the plane. i didn't understand it was a plane. then it wasn't until the second tower got struck that i realized it was a plane. even at that point we were trying to evacuate people, i couldn't understand or conceptualize that the tower would collapse. it all kind of happened one after the other after the other. now after the fact, you kind of see it in this linear motion. but at that time, it truly was chaos. it was people who stayed by, and everyone tried to do what they could. but also, one thing, one emotion that stayed with me on that day was a sense of helplessness. at the time i was a special agent. although i had a badge and a gun, it meant nothing on that day. it was very heartbreaking to watch what was unraveling and not to be able to help more people, or do anything really substantial. >> there have been some concerns people have about the cost, to get into this memorial. do you have that concern about $26? >> no. you know, i don't. it's not a normal museum. it's not even a memorial. it's just this -- it's something different. you've got artifacts there.

they even have remains of some of the people there. it's an interactive thing. they need the money to help sustain that monument, to sustain the memorial. i think $24 is a small price to pay for what happened on that day, for what happened down there. i think a lot of years went by, and we forget. the emotions, that nationalism that we had after the fact, it subsides. if you were to have said $2413 years ago, nobody would have any problems. i don't want the thought in what the true meaning of that, of the memorial means to get lost. >> yeah. indeed. ebby, so many things security expert, but indeed a friend of the show. >> thank you. and we'll be right back. [announcer] if your dog can dream it,

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science is hard. who among us can truly say we understand its mysteries. take marco rubio for example.

6,000 years, what do iowa caucusgoers guy. he es skews science when it comes to global warming. >> i don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would have an impact on what's happening in our climate. i don't know of any era in world history where the climate has been stable. climate is always evolving. natural disasters have always existed. >> you do not think human activity has caused warming? >> i do not believe human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it. i do not believe the laws they propose we pass will do anything about it, except it will destroy our economy. >> never mind the total consensus from reputable scientists not on the payroll of fossil fuel companies, that

global warming is happening. there's a gigantic ice sheet that is collapsing to the point of no return. which means ocean levels rising ten feet this century and more of the very bad things detailed in a major climate report last week, with details with the consensus of 300 scientists that we're already facing more severe storms, drought, heat waves and more effective climate change. marco rubio is remarkably certain on one aspect of scientific inquiry. >> let me give you a bit of science that they'll not admit to. it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception. i hope they'll ask one of the leaders on the left do you believe with the consensus of scientists that says life begins at conception. that's not even a debatable thing. we can see that happening. that is a proven fact. and yet that's a scientific consensus they conveniently

choose to ignore. >> allow me to quote dr. ricky lewis, ph.d. author of a biology textbook. life science textbooks don't explicitly when life begins, because that is a question not only of biology, but of philosophy. politics, psychology, religion, technology and emotions. science, not so much. but if you're marco rubio, those emotions might include the desire to get back in with republican primary voters who might have been miffed by a certain junior senator's immigration reform. i'm not a would-be presidential candidate, man. as if on cue, we have breaking news that miami international airport, two flights have been aborted and had their takeoffs aborted since there's been a tornado observed west of the airport. we will indeed continue to monitor the situation. that wraps things up for "the reid report." i'll see you back here at 2:00

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♪ >> the fires were spreading, the air was filled with smoke. to all of those who responded with such courage, love, compassion, sacrifice, and to enshrine it forever in the heart of our nation. ♪ and the rockets' red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air

♪ gave proof through the night ♪ sthothat our flag was still there ♪ ♪ does our star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ oe'r the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave >> good afternoon on this solemn day in american history. a new museum opened its doors in new york city this morning. but this one is unlike any other. the 9/11 memorial sits on the former site of the world trade center. beneath the bedrock