beck. dr. beck is the acting chief consultant for the prosthetic and sensory aid service. she is accompanied by dr. joe webster, national director for the amputation system of care. dr. joe miller, national program director for the orthotic and prosthetic services and norbert doyle, chief procurement and logistics officer, for the department of veteran affairs. thank you very much for being here this morning. i guess it's afternoon now. dr. beck, if you would proceed. thank you. >> thank you. good morning, chairman buerkle, ranking member michaud and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to speak about the department of veterans affairs' ability to deliver state of the art care to veterans with amputations. i'm accompanied today by dr. webster, our director of the amputation system of care, dr. miller, our national program director for orthotic and prosthetic services and mr. norbert doyle, who is vha's chief procurement and logistics officer. va's prosthetics and senso

next on the run down, glenn beck will assess the situation. president obama finds himself in right now. and later megyn kelly on what a grand jury could possibly do to attorney general holder. the factor is coming right back. >> bill: in the impact segment tonight, as we stated president president obama's power is at its lowest ebb right now? will he lose the election in november? joining us from dallas to handicap the situation glenn beck the author of the big big big new best seller "cowards." all right. you heard laura ingraham and i talking about we don't think the folks have caught up with the story yet but it's going to get bigger next week with the full house report on holder. supreme court coming in on obama care. that could be the president's worst week ever starting on monday and you say? >> that's saying something. he has had some really bad weeks, especially lately. i think this is the arrogance of this administration coming home to roost as jeremiah wright would like to say. the american people happen to agree with, laura. the ame

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our pal glenn beck doing well moving down to dallas.ook called "cowards with politicians and radicals in the media" beck is of course following the presidential race. latest is obama campaign ad targeted at african-americans. >> we can't afford to spend the next four years going back. i'm running to make sure that by the end of the decade more citizens hold a college degree than any other nation on earth. >> i refuse to pay for another millionaire's tax cut by kicking children off the head start programs or asking students to pay more for college or eliminating health insurance for millions of poor and elderly and disabled americans on medicaid. ♪ >> bill: we are not sure who is paying up the back-up singers but they do sound very good. glenn beck joins from us dallas. >> i have never heard anything like that. >> bill: this a campaign ad i haven't either. i would love to hear mitt romney's backup singers. probably sound like the osmonds. >> here is the problem with that ad. it's two fold. they talk about we have got your back, mr. presi

beck. for your testimony and for being here today. i have a number of questions. a lot of it is based on what we heard from the three previous panels, especially the veterans and the veterans service organizations. i think they provide for us a reliable source of information and they identify needs for us. my first question is, what was the impetus behind the change, you heard the concern from the previous panels. what was the impetus behind the change in the procurement policy and did you consult with the veterans service organizations and/or veterans? who did you talk to to make this change? >> the impetus for the change is an impetus from the department to assure compliance with federal acquisition regulations. i have with me mr. norbert doyle, who is vha's chief procurement logistics officer today. we were anticipating some of these questions, and he's available to provide more information about the change and what's happening. >> just if you would, before you start, so does that mean h

beck, mr. doyle and mr. hurd also for your service. i think you get an idea what we're concerned about. this conversation is not going to end today. we need to make sure you have the flexibility that you need to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done but not have unnecessary waste because it all comes out of the same pocket, affecting the folks we're trying to help. with that i yield back. >> i thank you for your comments, mr. barrow. mr. matkoksky i sense your desire to do the right thing. we're all focused on the same issue. i know the questioning at times appears, you know, potentially confrontational. that's because we have a responsibility here on the o and i subcommittee to make sure that we're asking the right questions. we don't always get the answers that we want but i certainly sense the sincerity in what you're trying to do and i appreciate that. i want to say thanks to the panel, and you are also now excused. the v.a.'s sweeping definition for prosthetics opens the door for confusion. i think we've heard that tod

i wouldn't dare touch glenn beck's change board. next speaker is one of the nation's leading multimedia personalities. and he has played an indispensable and vital role in developing effective counterweight to the dinosaur liberal media. but the truth is, and you understand this, that glenn beck is much more than a media figure. he is a modern day patriot who is calling america back to its founding principals of faith in god, limited government, individual liberty and personal responsibility. he is the author of seven number one "the new york times" best sellers. his latest book is "cowards" and he will be signing it after his appearance today. he is the man who turned 5:00 p.m. into must see tv on fox news. [ applause ] with ratings that he got at 5:00 in the afternoon larger than cnn, headline news and msnbc combined. [ applause ] he's if founder and ceo of gbtv one of the largest streaming video networks in the world. he is the founder of blaze, one of the most visited news sites in the nation. in 2010 i'm guessing that a number

basically a combination of beck can the mussel bar together on steroids up there in atlantic city. oh my goodness. what are you fixing. >> i'm doing something so summery here at the area. it's a soft shelled crab blt. toasted brioche bun hear, a little bit of -- here. a little bit of homemade mayonnaise. >> you sauteed them in? what? >> butter and olive oil and applewood smoked bacon, just brings it all together. the recipe is on jchayward.com. >> basically that's nice and sauteed and it's dusted in a little bit of -- >> how long did you have -- >> about five minutes, put that on top of there and then take little president of lettuce. take this tomato. put that on top and then we're going to take this bacon right here. >> oh my goodsness. >> pit this right on top of this. >> uh-huh. that looks good. >> oh, yeah. it's really tasty. and then you just take it and you jus smash it down but you got to toast your bun. >> that's what makes it extra special. >> you got to toast the bun. i'm going to cut nit half here. >> okay. >> and then hopefully everybody will just try one here. >> oh m

glenn beck says the republic will not last. serfdom is right around the corner. >> john: i worry that bureaucrats will regulated us into serfdom. >> regulatory environment in the last five years has gotten much worse. >> economy, the military, the culture are we going to 84 in a hand basket? or complaints about a decline just the standard line we have heard from old people. >> despite all the problems we have we have more freedom to live how we wanted to. >> john: is america in decline? that is our show tonight. 4 >> john: few has said it as often as glenn beck saying that the survival of our republic hangs in the balance and wondering if we will close the book on america. >> i don't know we were going to close the book, i'm quoting you he is the crazy man. >> i'm told that. [ laughter ] >> you have a choice, john. you look at the numbers. you use common sense. you see where we're headed. we're a country that is damn near insane in major cities in places like washington, d.c. and detached from everything that we used to hold de

this event in new york city was cohosted by the leo beck institute and the american council on germany. it's about 1:10. >> thank you. i'm going to be brief. you didn't come to hear me. i do want to say a wrord about the topic and myself and then a little bit more about our speaker. i am a refugee myself. i came to this country at the age of 2. my father is a very eminent figure. he was probably the leading jewish leader for many years. and he was fortunately out of germany with his dying father in palestine when hitler came to power or heaven knows what would have become of him had we came here as refugees. i'm very fascinated with german history. i was taught entirely by these extraordinary refugees. stanley hofman, not a refugee in the same way as the others, but came anyway during the war to canada. so hitlerland is something that interests me greatly. and being asked to give an introduction of andrew nagorski was something that i was very happy to do. and then i realized i needed help on his bio. i want to read you rather than do it extemporaneously so i don't make a series of mis

beck, you mentioned the center of excellence. where is that located and how much of the work being done there is medical research as it pertains to prosthetics? >> the center of excellence that i spoke about is a joint va/dod center of excellence for extremity care. that actually will be a virtual center or is a virtual center. it will have locations in san antonio, texas and in washington, d.c. staff will be distributed across our system so that some of our staff will be in various centers, both va and dod centers around the country so that we are collaborating, coordinating our efforts and i think you mentioned research earlier, sir, and one of the things that we talked about that we will be able to do by leveraging the capability with dod and va is that we will be able to do clinical trial type of evaluations at a number of different centers at the same time and that is one of the missions of this joint va/dod center of excellence is research coordination and studying and reporting on new technologies and developing better out

few have said it is often or dramatically as glen beck. he used to spend an hour every night on fox from this studio actually saying that theur survival of our republic hangsa in the balance and wondering if we will close the book onk america. what do you mean -- >> i don't know if i said we are going to close the book. >> i'm quoting you here. close the book on america. >> i think we a choice, john. you know it as well as i do. u you look at the numbers and use common sense and we where we are headed. tha we are a country that is damn near insane in major cities and in washington, d.c. and detached from everything that we used to hold dear are.n: >> john: detached from everything we hold dear. chaos in the cities. i don't see that. by and large -- >> have you been outside in new yorkyo city? have you been on the streets? >> john: i just did a book tour for the new book. >> i didn't know if you saw the occupy wall street. >> john: they are tiny fraction of america. >> they are a teenly. >> john: they are a tinyn o fraction of america. >> b

it's brilliantly done. >> beck's people are fighting back. after "glee" was born, they are planning a rival show, a conservative glee featuring hit music and mno sleeping around. he predicts he'll have liberals making out with me. they'll never see it coming. it seems we are born to watch certain shows and buy certain brands. biology, inc., a firm that measures brain responses to brands says that just like the votes in congress, americans' buying habits are often split along party lines. tv shows, democrats like to watch animal planet. republicans click to the history channel. and cars, republicans prefer bmw, democrats jeep. there may be still hope for bipartisanship, though. both democrats and republicans love coke and google. but come on. seriously? the talk back question this morning, are we born to be democrats or republicans? facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. the radical new macbook pro with retina display. ♪ innovation...in every dimension. ♪ it's hard to see opportunity in today's challenging environment.

we have a gentleman here, does glenn beck have a show in egypt or no? ( laughter ). >> it's his evil twin. >> jon: really? the guy who is spreading sort of conspiracy stuff? >> he's a little bit kind of cloned everywhere. >> jon: oh, really? >> yes, even in sports programs. can you imagine glenn beck doing a sports show, ask that's what you'll get. that was-- some blu-ray came from the eyes -- >> basically it's free mason and the americans and israel have gathered together to hypnotize the egyptian people to go to tahrir square to complain. >> yes. >> jon: okay. >> and iranians. all these people, you can imagine, israel, hamas, israel, and america all -- >> working together. >> yes, against egypt. >> jon: how, how do they decide what to eat at the meeting? kosher. gotta be kosher. are the people resentful thatlet powers that be don't believe that they would have the where with all to stand up on their own? >> the problem is that people want to believe. they-- they want to believe, but, like, when you have the media, kind of pounding on them with all the

sister march ruin field letter father edward beck, and jeff field. send my love to phil donahue. get to psycho analyze mitt romney. i love it. after the commercial. >> it is a combination of low self-esteem, low blood sugar and missing red wine with my -- and mixing red wine with my painkillers. i look at her, and i just want to give her everything. yeah you -- you know, everything can cost upwards of...[ whistles ] i did not want to think about that. relax, relax, relax. look at me, look at me. three words, dad -- e-trade financial consultants. so i can just go talk to 'em? just walk right in and talk to 'em. dude those guys are pros. they'll hook you up with a solid plan. they'll -- wa-- wa-- wait a minute. bobby? bobby! what are you doing, man? i'm speed dating! [ male announcer ] get investing advice for your family at e-trade. desk top, lab top, ipad. iphone. >> pleasant your hearts. >> the big one. >> stephanie: all i know, the little flower is there and it means go to meeting. i love go to meeting. >> joy: why anyone would want to be president of the united states is a mys

know, glenn beck cracks a crazy conspiracy theory in the glenn beck corner of the internet and republicans all believe it for a second. but when somebody made the mistake of actually checking to see if it was true, frankly, it ruined everything. then senator john ensign, ah, john ensign, he'll be back on the show later, he asked at a hearing, he asked the head of the tsa, if somebody said that they didn't want to go through tsa screening because of their religion. here's how that went. it was very quick. >> well, i respect and we respect that person's beliefs. that person's not going to get on an airplane. >> and there will be no exceptions, just because of religion? >> yes. >> that was -- the -- >> okay. >> that was the answer that i was looking for. >> the answer you were looking for, bluntly disproving that conspiracy theory pip mean, it's bluntly disproven. even if you are a refugee from glenbeckistan, it is just not true. but again, these things, they never die on the right. so a conservative congressman from louisiana is still in this past week advancing this totally disproven conspi

glenn beck says we won't survive to 2016. soon rioting in the streets.lton says we are destroying our military. patted buchanan says few americans are white and europeans we are declining morally and ethically. please, our diverse it is our strength. we still spend seven times on our military than the next big e-military. chaos and rioting? people have always predicted the collapse of america. 33 years ago jimmy carter gave us the malaise speech. >> eighth crisis of confidence, not only in government itself, but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shakers of our democracy. >> john: that same year. sensible george will wrote america's decline was sergt along a downward crumbling path. c.i.a. predicted that the soviet economy would be three times bigger than america. after the soviet union fell, this best-seller explained how europe was surpassing us. our free economy outperformed theirs. it's possible we will regulated ourselves to death. this, all these rules is why job growth has stalled. yet the i had hypothetical in washingt

wow, i'm going to throw up at the news of glenn beck's new radio deal, $20 million.n facts, chris, you don't-- >> he doesn't read or produce radio at all. >> stephanie: they replaced our show in san francisco, and glenn beck ratings went down 90%. >> maybe we should let our ratings go down. >> stephanie: maybe i could get $20 million a year if i got that bad. i probably would be dumped off the stations i'm on. but because right wingers invest in right wing infrastructure. they don't get it. they still had him because of--well the syndicators is owned by the same station but yeah okay. >> those are the facts. [applause] >> stephanie: all right, i went out to go to the bathroom yesterday and all the lights were off out there. i said to rebecca i blame bain capital. did we not pay our electrical bill? bain did, they came in and bought clear channel. a lot of friends lost their jobs. we're not talking out of our ass when we talk about when bain takes over. they made a lot of money though. >> yeah, i think you would do it for half of what glenn beck is getting. >> stephan

glenn beck says we won't survive to 2016. soon rioting in the streets.hn bolton says we are destroying our military. patted buchanan says few americans are white and europeans we are declining morally and ethically. please, our diverse it is our strength. we still spend seven times on our military than the next big e-military. chaos and rioting? people have always predicted the collapse of america. 33 years ago jimmy carter gave us the malaise speech. >> eighth crisis of confidence, not only in government itself, but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shakers of our democracy. >> john: that same year. sensible george will wrote america's decline was sergt along a downward crumbling path. c.i.a. predicted that the soviet economy would be three times bigger than america. after the soviet union fell, this best-seller explained how europe was surpassing us. our free economy outperformed theirs. it's possible we will regulated ourselves to death. this, all these rules is why job growth has stalled. yet the i had hypothetical in was

it's going to conclude today with speaker of the house newt gingrich and glenn beck.ease stay all day until 2:45. we look forward to the breakout sessions and we'll cap the afternoon off with our state caucuses. please join leaders from your states at those important state caucus meetings. we'll have a brief break and be back for the evening program. last but not least i want to point out we've got some great speakers here and a lot of them have some amazing books that they've written and shared. we're going to hear shortly from s.e. cupp, doing a book signing, we're also going to hear from senator rand paul, this is his book. we've got a number of speakers, look in your conference program for a full schedule. you don't want to miss meeting these speakers in person and getting a chance to have their book signed personally to you. with that we have the full program to launch into now and i'd like to allow the program to continue to unwind as we pay tribute to our country. >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome back to the stage for our national anthem the sounds of lib

few have said it is often or dramatically as glen beck. he used to spend an hour every night on fox from this studio actually saying that theur survival of our republic hangsa in the balance and wondering if we will close the book onk america. what do you mean -- >> i don't know if i said we are going to close the book. >> i'm quoting you here. close the book on america. >> i think we a choice, john. you know it as well as i do. u you look at the numbers and use common sense and we where we are headed. tha we are a country that is damn near insane in major cities and in washington, d.c. and detached from everything that we used to hold dear are.n: >> john: detached from everything we hold dear. chaos in the cities. i don't see that. by and large -- >> have you been outside in new yorkyo city? have you been on the streets? >> john: i just did a book tour for the new book. >> i didn't know if you saw the occupy wall street. >> john: they are tiny fraction of america. >> they are a teenly. >> john: they are a tinyn o fraction of america. >> b

glenn beck, his contract was just up.io business knows, has laid off thousands and thousands and thousands of employees. >> my friends and coworkers. >> the last three or four years. >> radio people on the beach thanks to clear channel. they're doubling his contract. >> stephanie: everything is so public but i mean that is true. that's why everybody knows that the public thing that there's so much debt on the company that some stations have to take shows that will pay to get on. we're not going to do that. it has created an economic climate in radio. you're right. that has not skewed toward fairness. >> the question is why would this company be so interested in overpaying for double, the salaries of its right wing radio talk show host? it is a legitimate question. >> stephanie: i had 90% higher ratings and as chris said, i would do it for half this. let's dive into the right-wing world. charles krauthammer. >> beyond the politics and the process is simply constitutional decency. this is out and out lawlessness. what's iro

. >> reporter: dale beck wakes up take early so he can get to the gym and that means he's only sleeping five or six hours a night. >> getting up early and working out has helped me keep that zest going throughout the day. >> reporter: but a new study shows people over 45 who regularly sleep less than six hours are at higher risk for developing stroke symptoms. those can include a sudden numbness in the body or a loss of vision. >> we live in such a 24-hour culture and the emphasis is on improving your diet, getting more exercise, but we also forget the last thing which is get some good sleep as well. >> reporter: the study's designers were surprised to find that the people in their group did not have the usual risk factors for stroke. their weight was normal and they are with the a low risk for sleep apnea. >> researchers are planning to watch the study group another five years. they want to see if participants go beyond the early symptoms and suffer actual stokes. -- >> strokes. >> if that's the case, then we can target the sleep through modifying the quality of their sleep, the durati

some at the leo beck institute, the hoover institute, library of congress.some of in these unpublished diaries, correspondence in family collections. in a few cases from actu -- with actual interviews of people who were still alive. but, mostly from -- from what they left behind, i found such extraordinary documents. literally often in family attics that i felt i was reliving this period in a whole different way. and as much as possible in hitlerland, what i try to do is put you, the reader, and myself in the shoes of these people who were there, the american diplomats, journalists, travelers, writers and say, okay, here is what they observed. you be the judge. what did they get right? what did they get wrong?

beck is bored now. >> sean: temper tantrum. >> now i feel better.greta: you weren't interested when i was telling you what we are doing tonight. i saw you put your head in your hands like you are bored. thanks a lot. >> no, no. go ahead. >> greta: the latest on "fast and furious." reince priebus is here to talk about the president's comment about the private sector. and former member of congress that switched parties. and donald trump is here. he has something to say about bill maher. and more. so, ve all of that back to you, sean. >> sean: in 1 short minutes. let not your heart be troubled. we continue with bob beckel and then horowitz talk it about the left wing groups and where they get their money and the impact on the political scene. straight ahead. puts you at 5 times greater risk of stroke. don't wait. go to afibstroke.com for a free discussion guide to help you talk to your doctor about reducing your risk. that's afibstroke.com. syou know, i've helped a lot off people save a lot of money. but today...( sfx: loud noise of large metal object

beck, dr. miller, as jim said, these are professionals. they're doing a good job, but certainly there is need for oversight and we certainly don't want to see, you know, penny pinching curtail all the advances that have been made in the past 20 years. >> madame chair, i would think that the committee might just think about this in terms, since we can't define who these people are, we should give advantage in the job market for these people either through tax credits for tell the employer if you hire one of these people, you're going to get advanced depreciation on your capital assets or you're possibly going to get write-offs or incentives for them to hire these people so that all these people get a job. because in the end, the challenge that they have mentally and physically is so enormous. it can be overcome if they have a job that they feel they have strong self-esteem and they're self-sufficient and independent. and they need this job more than anything else. would you agree with that? >> i think that's an excellent idea. and in princi

beck and others to lay out what we thought the problem was. dr. yang and others gave comments directly as to what we heard, then we asked vha to consider how they're doing their work and see if they can't improve that. at this point in time, i'm not knowledgeable enough, unfortunately, to give you advice on exactly what i think they should do different. i wish i could, but i don't have that information. >> there has been some discussion and was clarified as far as the cost and the savings comparing apples to apples, and the management of the inventory. have you or your sister agency ever done a report within the department of defense to find out what the cost, comparing dod to va, is the cost equal, number one, and secondly, you talked about the inventory management. is your recommendation consistent with what actually the department of defense is doing or do they have the same problems that va has in regards to cost and inventory management? >> with respect to the provision of care and the way va and dod are different, i think is that dod has i b

beck, you mentioned slin call clothes. so much concern we have had is that dod has taken the lead in tros thet tick and you're asharing us that prs that on dod and ana. all the initiatives are going to ensure that the va is working with them trying to emulate and catch up to dod's prosthetic programs. i think that would be helpful for us. >> thank you. yes. we will do that. >> if there are not any further question, i just want to thank this fourth panel for your endurance. this because long hearing, and for your willingness to be here. thank you. thank the both of you, dr. miller and mr. doyle, for your service to this country. and before we adjourn the meeting this is always a good opportunity for this committee, this subcommittee, so say thank to the vert rans for your service and for your crackfy vase to the country. the united states is the greatest country in the history of the world and it is because of the service and served this have served this country. thank you very much. with that i ask unanimous consent that a