joining me now, montana senator tim sheehy. senator, thank you for being here.ore we get into the pentagon, i just have to play something for you with. this is sound from senator murphy, chris murphy, democrat from connecticut, about what's happening with doge. i just want to play this and get your reaction. roll tape. >> this whole thing is a fraud, right? if it's a con. it's a grift, right? from the very start, the trump administration has been about a one thing and one thing only, stealing from all of us, stealing from regular people, stealing from poor people, stealing from the middle class in order to enrich their billionaire mar-a-lago cabal. david: senator, after all of the stuff -- and i want to use with another word, but i can't on tv -- after all the stuff that doge and musk have uncovered about waste and just outright fraud and theft coming from the federal government for years and decades, in fact, he's talking about doge doing the stealing. do you think anybody buys that? >> well, you want to find grift, look no further than usaid and where that mon

plus, montana senator tim sheehy on trump, elon musk and pete hegseth shaking up the pentagon.ut first, our very own edward lawrence is live from the white house with all of this stuff that's going on there. [laughter] there's quite a bit of it, edward. >> reporter: quite a bit. and within the last few minutes or so, reuters is now reporting that the u.s. and ukraine have agreed to terms related to a mineral deal, a joint venture, economic partnership and that reuters, according to reuters, president zelenskyy from ukraine is coming here to the united states to sign this deal with president donald trump. we'll have to see if that is true. when i was many kyiv, i can tell you president volodymyr zelenskyy of ukraine was looking for specifically wanted guarantees over security. i was first there with the treasury secretary, scott bessent. that's when he first delivered the plan to this. however, it was also a said he wanted more weapons as well as security guarantees, and that's not being attached to this agreement. still, the white house saying it's a win-win. >> this is to reco

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when tim sheehy left i think where fiber sextant bigger than montana and we don't have one full-serviceeteran hospital. not one. outside of nature, that's it. we have really big challenges for all those reasons because resume veterans, challenging because were big and we don't even have one full-service hospital. we had many disasters in my view with the v.a. you and i talked about some. in 2015 when it came to the senate the v.a. system in alaska collapsed. it was a first big think i don't with as a brand-new senator. it collapsed because they took, realign these visions here took the patient in alaska and carlson and alaska and with people making appointments for alaska veterans based in the lower 40 didn't have a clue about our state. the system collapse. we had a giant backlog, last year the backlog was up to 12,000 veterans, which is a lot for my state because we still have call centers based in lower 40 say veteran and let's say ketchikan, alaska, says hey i need to get to anchorage hospital. the call center said okay drive, way, it's an island. they don't even know it's an island

the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the tim sheehy, a senator from the state of montana to perform the duties of the chair. signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of the following joint resolution, which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 14, s.j. res. 12, providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of l title 5 united states code and so forth. were you given assurance about custom medicaid. about the speaker and the two chairman of the areas of the cuts were big the unified there was a global because of the houses over here in the senate was over here and we were somewhere in the middle. >> so there will because to medicaid. >> but that won't affect the quality of care they will outwork requirements for able-bodied adults that don't have children they will audit all the wolves and if you don't apply a medicaid to take you off the