made homelessness a priority under secretary shinseki. and they have reduced it by 50%. and the goal is, of course, to get it to zero. like you quoted me, if you wore the uniform, you shouldn't be sleeping on the street. you should have a roof over your head. >> now, i know this has been so big to you for so long. i also did a show with congressman hardy on this issue a few months ago. but in rural counties, studies say there's more reluctance among homeless veterans to come forward. i don't know if it's more pride, lack of a better word. how do you reach those veterans, whether in the rural areas or in urban areas like reno and vegas? >> well, it's kind of like ptsd. you don't want to admit you have it because it's kind of a sign of failure. if you are homeless, you hate to come forward and ask for services. veterans have a lot of pride. we have to change the mentality so they don't realize it's their failure or their problem. it's a national issue that we need to address. so we need to get more information out there. the vsos are very good at helping that. some of the

they retired general shinseki for telling him that. this president hasn't listened. i went to meet with the members of the security council in the week before we voted. i went to new york. i talked to all of them to find out how serious they were about really holding saddam hussein accountable. i came away convinced that, if we worked at it, if we were ready to work and letting hans blix do his job and thoroughly go through the inspections, that if push came to shove, they'd be there with us. but the president just arbitrarily brought the hammer down and said, "nope. sorry, time for diplomacy is over. we're going." he rushed to war without a plan to win the peace. ladies and gentleman, he gave you a speech and told you he'd plan carefully, take every precaution, take our allies with us. he didn't. he broke his word. mr. gibson: mr. president? mr. bush: i remember sitting in the white house looking at those generals, saying, "do you have what you need in this war? do you have what it takes?" i remember going down to the basement of the white house the day we committed

shinseki was just relying on a pretty standard metric within the american government.he got a relatively hostile population, he's keeping requires a certain ratio of troops to population. -- peacekeeping requires a certain ratio of troops to population. this was on the record, and yet they went ahead. i don't know why. >> two days a year, you can balance an egg a bright and will stay there. , and it will stay there. you say after the soviet union fell that the united states could have invited russia to join nato and i agree with you completely. todayesponse to food and to putin isn -- it's too late. no go. many you are missing the three of 65 days of the year that you are looking at. what was the reason to have nato continue after the soviet union fell? you already have the blueprint for nato. the threat of the soviet union re-develops and reconstitutes itself or threatens in that area or somewhere else to recast itself, you already have the blueprint. especially since with bureaucracies, you can reconstitute and reconstituted even better because you learn from the mis

all this after the original wait time scandal forced the resignation of shinseki and the passage of a $10 billion veterans choice bill. a man who has written about red tape believes the va is incapable of change. >> it's so entrenched that unless there's a top to bottom change in the va, particularly in phoenix, that you are not going to solve this problem. it . >> it's the mid level management who knows they will outlast any president, secoretary or house chairman. >> reporter: the report is mired in the same bureaucracy which it is tasked with determining. untimely care may have contributed to the death of one patient. it identifies hundreds of others who died before their scheduled appointments, leaving unclear whether the patients died as a result of not being seen or from age and infirmities that would have killed them anyway. it's not just phoenix. the va's own statistics show that as of september 15th of this year, over a half million veterans nationwide waited over 30 days past their preferred date to see a doctor. >> important story. thank you. >>> a good day on wall street t

all this after the original wait time scandal forced the resignation of shinseki and the passage of a $10 billion veterans choice bill. a man who has written about red tape believes the va is incapable of change. >> it's so entrenched that unless there's a top to bottom change in the va, particularly in phoenix, that you are not going to solve this problem. it . >> it's the mid level management who knows they will outlast any president, secoretary or house chairman. >> reporter: the report is mired in the same bureaucracy which it is tasked with determining. untimely care may have contributed to the death of one patient. it identifies hundreds of others who died before their scheduled appointments, leaving unclear whether the patients died as a result of not being seen or from age and infirmities that would have killed them anyway. it's not just phoenix. the va's own statistics show that as of september 15th of this year, over a half million veterans nationwide waited over 30 days past their preferred date to see a doctor. >> important story. thank you. >>> a good day on wall street t