amvets has been doing that for 70 years. let me close by saying how grateful i am to president obama and congress for entrusting me with this opportunity to leave the department of veterans affairs. -- to lead the department of veterans affairs. thank you amvets for being a friend of the department. thank you for your work. thank you for your commitment. thank you for your enduring devotion to veterans. thank you for sharing your time with me this afternoon. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> tonight, "q&a" with pat buchanan. followed by the scottish parliament considering the option of declaring scotland's independence from the u.k. whip, the house majority of a," our week on "q& guest is pat buchanan, the author of "the greatest comeback: how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority." mr. buchanan worked for richard nixon and his book explores nixon's career following his losses in the 1960's presidential election i

amvets has been doing that for 70 years. let me close by saying how grateful i am to president obama and congress for entrusting me with this opportunity to leave the department of veterans affairs. for being avets friend of the department. thank you for your work. thank you for your commitment. thank you for your enduring devotion to veterans. moments, today's headlines and your calls, live on "washington journal." i 10:00, we're live from the middle east institute for a discussion on religion and diplomacy. noon, the hudson institute looks at national security threats posed by iran and isis. we are also covering a forum on u.s. strategy in iraq from the heritage foundation at 2:00 eastern. minutes, we discuss foreign policy and the so-called obama doctrine with robert ulis.e and brian kat at 8:45, we will have an investigative reporter for washington examiner, to focus on a recent series of articles on congressional incumbency and proposals for term limits. "washington journal" is next.

amvets has been doing that for 70 years. me close by saying how grateful i am to president obama and congress for entrusting me with this opportunity to leave the department of veterans affairs. thank you amvets for being a friend of the department. thank you for your work. thank you for your commitment. thank you for your enduring devotion to veterans. thank you for sharing your time with me this afternoon. thank you. [applause] >> president obama spoke to reporters a short while ago about the police shooting of the unarmed black teen idger in st. louis amid unrest over the shooting the president said now is the time for healing and peace and qama on the streets in ferguson. you can see the president's comments on cspan.org. "the new york times" wrote before the president spoke the governor promised the residents we're going to see a different tone in the response by the police after five nights of unrest. senator of missouri also in ferguson today releasing a statement which said in part we need to demilletaize this situat

amvets has been doing that for 70 years. let me close by saying how grateful i am to president obama and congress for entrusting me with this opportunity to leave the department of veterans affairs. for being avets friend of the department. thank you for your work. thank you for your commitment. thank you for your enduring devotion to veterans. thank you for sharing your time with me this afternoon. thank you. >> here are some of the highlights for this weekend, friday at 8:00 eastern. saturday, at 6:30, the communicators. political q&a, commentator and presidential candidate pat buchanan. books on hillary clinton, barack obama, and edward snowden. eastern.at 10:00 p.m. the weekly standard's daniel. and we too are the literary sites of casper, wyoming. in the negro league kansas city monarchs. slavery inon of movies. and sunday, on real america at 4:00 p.m., an interview with herbert hoover. aoutus know what you think the programs you see. e-mail us or call us. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> in a few moments,

i look forward to working with amvets new leadership. thanks for extending the invitation to help kick off your 70th annual convention. it was good to talk to you last week. time, support,ur encouragement, and recommendations. . thanks as well for your important collaboration in the transformation. your transformations -- your contributions in the digits two digits initiative will keep paying dividends to veterans for a long time to come. let me recognize as well were delegation from taiwan. taiwan.delegation from congratulations on your 23 years of partnership and sharing with amvets. i spent a decade of my life in asia with my family. we lived both in the philippines for four years in japan for six years. we traveled throughout that part of the world for the proctor and gamble company. i love the people and cultures in asia. it was one of the most formative times in my business career. i learned important lessons. one is important as we begin changing va into a more veteran centric organization. it is about relevant and ovation. the re