. >> bernie sanders' bill? you're talking about bernie sanders' bill? >> you're saying the only people wow think who serve this country who need help and support are ones who had a weapon? >> that's not what i said. i'm asking you -- >> you called them desk jockeys. >> is that bernie sanders' bill you're talking about? >> yes. >> bernie sanders' bill wanted to allow everybody who served to go into the va medical system. you can't do that. the va is set up for service-related disability. it's service-related disability. >> you got it wrong. the v.a. allows you if you have served and you have financial problems where you can't get it, they let people in like that. and you mentioned earlier about the agent orange thing coming back. we don't know now people who, you know, had no disability. when i got out, they didn't know about agent orange when we left. they never talked about it. a couple of years ago, i came down with colon cancer, and the doctor said it was probably agent orange. >> absolutely. >> i didn't go to the v.a., because thank god i work at a

i want to thank bernie sanders and dean heller.tinue online as well as facebook and twitter. come on, folks, get in this debate. from the left, i'm van jones. >> from the right, i'm newt gingrich. join us tomorrow for another edition of "crossfire." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> next, president obama breaks his silence about the v.a. scandal. but it's not the first time he has been caught off guard by his own administration. what does it say about his leadership? >>> plus, life in prison for selling hash brownies? that's what a texas teen is facing. does the punishment fit the crime? >>> and "wheel of fortune" host pat sajak setting off a firestorm. who is he calling unpatriotic racists? let's go "outfront." >> good evening. i'm brianna keilar

what do you do when you're president obama and bernie sanders? do you still put your power behind the attorney general. eric shinseki? >> this is one of the more respected ex generals out there. just this weekend be joint chief was still offering his support them about import credibility, and his leadership skills. you have the republicans on the other side doing the same thing. john boehner has said he is leaning toward asking for his resignation, but reminding about that that is not that, it is about the problems of the v.a.. everyone knows the v.a. is a problematic system, always has been, and a lot of people think it always will be. despite the problems ms. -- and the accomplishments that senator sanders said, it is a problem. the power to fire people as needed, where does the legislation go from here? legislation does us much for the v.a. as for the entire federal government. the changes 100 the years of precedent -- 150 years of precedent. shiny political so ifon in the moment, this audit comes out and there are heads to rule and they do ru

bernie sanders said we need time to review this build should be looking at it.s a three pag bill, 27 lines. three pages, 27 lines. it's a straightforward bill is quite simple for anyone to digest. as and it would allow him to fire them, what you cannot do right now. >> wouldn't allow him to fire himself in a. [laughter] >> okay, keith fitzgerald, what do you make of this it's a lot easier to fire people in washington . and when you hear bernie sanders say there's not enough time, well, that was the issue that the fact that they can do what the private sector is asking to do, i got off i can make that case criminally. there is something dramatically wrong that it's an insult to being wrong. >> is blumenthal had said that this is where the criminal charges had existed in in the meantime, we kind of knew that this is where accountability isn't going. >> that's right, the senate's rejection of it is a rejection of their leaders and the disinterestedness. barack obama has treated this incredibly wrong. it took a month to address this and then the administration to an

tavis: please to have senator bernie sanders, who last week thought valiantly along with democrats on floor of the senate against an effort by republicans to not increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. republicans won that fight, that i suspect the fight will continue. senator sanders, good to have you back on this program. you guys thought to push this to $10.10 an hour? the republicans fought against it. you lost. tell me why and how. vote, 54 the majority votes. we have to deal with republican filibusters. we need 60. it is very clear to me that the republican party has moved toward being an extreme right-wing party. historically, they supported raising the minimum wage and now they don't. seven dollars 25 cents an hour, which is what the national minimum wage today is, is a starvation wage. you have millions of families finding it impossible to provide for their families. in my mind, raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour does not go far enough, that it is an important step forward in giving a pay raise to some 28 million americans who desperately need it. these starvatio

. >>> at the half hour, i'll speak live with senator bernie sanders. he's the chairman of the senate veterans committee which will hold a hearing next week on this growing v.a. hospital investigation. bernie sanders joining me live later this hour. >>> house democrats faced a tough debate among themselves today. thou should they join republicans in a new probe in the attacks in benghazi or boycott the special panel right? the house voted largely along party lines to form a committee to investigate what happened in benghazi, a terror attack that led to the deaths of four americans. let's bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger and our chief congressional correspondent dana bash. dana, democrats, what, they've just wrapped up a meeting amongst themselves. what are you hearing? >> house democratic leaders are coming out of nancy pelosi's office saying they don't feel they're anywhere closer, in fact, maybe they've taken a step backwards in terms of what they've been asking for to be able to participate in this select committee on benghazi. it's

you mentioned bernie sanders. bernie sanders did something that only bernie sanders would do. he blamed all of this i believe on the koch brothers or mentioned the kochs. didn't he? >> right now as we speak a concerted effort to undermine the v.a. so the point is, you have government eventy itself, social security, enormously popular, medicare, enormously popular, postal service popular, v.a. popular. what are the problems? the problems is that will all of these are large governmental institutions and you have folks out there now, koch brothers and others, who want to radically change the nature of society. >> hitting the koch again. >> i could not agree with him more. >> really? >> i think the koch brothers would do away with big government institutions like social security, medicare and v.a. >> that's good. >> you think it's good. i think most people don't think it is. >> they wouldn't have secret waiting lists that end up killing veterans. >> i see. they're all going to -- >> funny he didn't mention medicaid, which is another program that completely stifrpgs because it's ru

you have bernie sanders later, he's been an apologist for the v.a. what you continue o to see, everyone has failed us here. they have all failed america's veterans. and they haven't been listening to us for years. so i'm glad the country is finally paying attention. we just wonder what the hell took so long. >> has there been anybody in v.a. or in the administration who has both appreciated the problem and tried to make it better. you work on this on a day-to-day basis, this is your life to try to make things better for veterans. is there anyone who have been doing it right, if the people in charge aren't doing it right? >> i think chairman miller has been very aggressive in oversight. he's been sounding the alarm. i think speaker pelosi has been aggressive for year after year after year on these issues. and obviously the veterans groups have been pounding away. but it doesn't seem like america is paying attention or america cared. so i think we've been trying to sound the alarm. now that everyone hears it, what do we do? mr. president, are you going

i want to bring in bernie sanders of the veteran affairs committee. senator, good morning. >> good to be with you. >> let me play for you a little piece of the sound that we heard from general shinseki, if i can. >> sbintegrity is irresponsible and i have asked for removal of all of the v.a. leaders, and we will enforce accountability for those who have tolerated or been responsible for the improper scheduling practices at the phoenix v.a. >> and let me hear what you heard from him and did he go far enough? >> yes, what he said is what has happened is beyond words and irreprehensible and those people responsible have to be fired as quickly as possible, tomorrow the, and those practices have to be eliminated. what i also want to say is that we need to pass the accountability bill and which have one that is going to make sense and try to get it up on the floor in a couple of days, but furthermore, "the new york times" reported that at the heart of the issue, chris, is the fact that people don't lie just because they lie, it is because we need more nurse

joining me now, senator bernie sanders, independent from vermont, senator sanders, this is something you've been working on a lot. what is your reaction to the fallout from the revelations that have been reported in the press and the president's comments today? >> well, i think a couple of things. we held a big hearing on this issue on thursday, and if you listen to the -- all of the veterans operations, what they tell you, chris, is that when veterans get into v.a. health care, in fact the quality of care is quite good. and there are a number of independent studies out there which suggest that in many republicans, v. health care does better than health care in the private sector. but as you have indicated, one of the serious problems that we face is that in the last several years, i think significantly because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, 2 million new veterans have come into the system. and i have no doubt that there are parts of the country where we simply do not have the staff needed to accommodate these veterans in a timely and effective way. and that is a real problem.

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joining us now is independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. hair of the senate veterans affairs committee. senator sanders, it's really nice to see you. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> so overall what is your response to these allegations about the phoenix v.a. do you feel like, as chair of the veterans committee in the senate, do you feel like you have a handle on how serious these allegations are and what really happened? >> well, rachel, the allegations are very, very serious. as you noted, the director of the hospital denies them. what is going on now is exactly the right thing. the inspector general of the v.a., an independent entity, is going down there, they're in phoenix right now, and they're going to do an exhaustive investigation to get to the truth of the matter. and what i have said and say again that as soon as that investigation is completed, we're going to do a hearing or a series of hearings on what has happened in phoenix. so i think we're moving in the right direction. we're going to get the facts, and we're going t

>> no. >> that from senator bernie sanders. the full interview is available on our website.eon is joining us from the bronx. good morning. caller: drugs should be illegal. but you legal drugs are cocaine, things like that. but the merrill went -- the marijuana plant, we need to leave that here for the younger generation. it is too powerful, it cannot be killed. we tried everything and we cannot kill it, so we should just leave it alone. it is a holy plant. it cannot be killed unless you can stop it from coming, which we cannot do. when will we realize that that plan is more powerful than america and its allies put together? thank you for the call. some figures according to drug policy.org. people arrested in 2012, the most recent figures on nonviolent drug charges, a number of states allow drugs for medical marijuana use. 21 states, in fact. dave humphrey has this point on our twitter page -- host: the next call comes from charles in cincinnati. please turn down your set, otherwise we will hear feedback. caller: [indiscernible] go ahead with your comment. is charles and my c

joining me now is vermont's independent senator, bernie sanders, chairman of the senate committee on veterans affairs. senator sanders, thanks for being here tonight. >> my pleasure. >> nor, one of your colleagues going after the veterans groups back in february he and 40 other republicans blocked a bill you proposed to expand health care programs for vets. how can they justify that, senator? >> well, al, that's a great question. this was according to the veterans organizations the most comprehensive veterans legislation introduced in decades, legislation that addressed health care, dental care, education, employment, the family needs of veterans back home. it was a bill that had the support of every single major veterans organizations and when we brought it to the floor, we had every democrat supporting it and we only had two senators, two republican senators on board, senator heller and senator moran, and we could not get -- we could not overcome the republican filibuster and get the 60 votes that we needed. we were only able to get 56. >> only two republicans, this is amazing, and

joining us is bernie sanders. always good to see you, senator.d morning. >> you can take people on both sides of this debate and you put them in a room and if they come no closer to compromise and say it was a good dialogue, but we still really disagree, how do you go about moving forward? >> you go about doing not what paul ryan suggests, but what the american people want and the american people are very clear. they want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. ryan and his friends are opposed to that and by the way, chris, many republicans not only are are opposed to raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. many of them want to do away with the concept of the minimum wage so the workers in america can earn $3 or $4 an hour, but i think what the black caucus was talking about is the direction that we've got to go and the american people support that. they understand that real unemployment today is not 6.7%. it's close to 12%. we need to create millions of decent-paying jobs and you do that among other ways by investing in our crumbling inf

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on tomorrow plus newsmakers, bernie sanders is our guest. he is the chairman of the veterans affairs committee and talks about allegations of misconduct. he comments on eric shinseki's role and adjusting the matter. the truth is that the v.a. is a huge institution. it does a whole lot of very important work. in many ways, it seems like he has done a good job. everybody has heard about the claims backlog. is underle don't know bush, do you know how we did claims? we did them by paper. that meant an individual veteran could have files this page. multiply that by hundreds of thousands of veterans. our member talking to shinseki and he said i will convert that from paper to electronic. we will have those claims down accuracy.s with 98% they have cut the backlog in half. they are on the way to fulfilling that goal. one of the national embarrassments is the level, high-level of homelessness among veterans. vietnam vets living on the streets. since shinseki has been an office, we have reduced that by 24%. also, as a result of the wars in iraq and a

folks in the senate might want to know what is in the bill before we voted on it. >> independent bernie sanders, i should have said. you need to read it. fair concern, senator. this bill is three pages long. three pages. so busy, senator sanders, so busy, you can't read the three pages. mark is a fellow at the american enterprise institute. mark, it's the disinagainousness reeks. >> it does. and i wish he told speaker pelosi we should read bills before we pass them. that would have been helpful in obamacare. >> not really, two and a half if you look. >> this is ridiculous. sen tomorrator sanders is doing bidding. it's about money, public worker union money. there are civil service regulations in place that are so strict it's virtually impossible to fire a career employee. >> even if they stink. >> even if they stink. senator coburn documented we lost 2.5 million days of civil service work for people who just don't show up to work and don't get fired. you cannot fire a federal worker because the public sector union workers have made it impossible and so what is happening here is democrats are pu

senator bernie sanders in very mopt. what do you make of this? it takes is one and other people look. what do you make of it? >> you're right, ed. that's how things get start. yang starting with walmart i want to congratulate the folks in portland for their courage and wisdom in doing this. at the end of the day you have this absurd irony of walmart being owned by the walton familiar lay which is the wealthiest family in america. a family that owns more wealth than the bottom 40% of the american people. do we think that walmart can pay workers a decent wage? yeah, i think they can. can they provide decent benefits? i think they can. the insanity of the situation is, that with their low wages and minimal benefits the workers have to get on medicaid or food stamps or government-sponsored housing all paid for by taxpayers nooerd to subsidize walmart. >> i started with senator kennedy back in 2007 and asked the question, when does the greed stop. is this the beginning of that? do you think that walmart is too big to even rethink their business practi

joining me now is vermont senator bernie sander who was in that hearing today.ator, what was it like hearing your colleagues bring back old talking points today? >> it just shows how desperate the republicans are in terms of health care. they have nothing to offer. under bush for eight years, they have nothing significant to say about expanding health insurance to the other insured. in recent years, all they could do is talk about the affordable care act. they are upset that we now have 8 million people getting their insurance through the exchanges. they are very upset that young people now are getting insurance on their parents programs and they're equally upset that millions more people are now getting medicaid through the affordable care act. >> how could it be that republican governors all over the country are denying health insurance to their people who desperately need it, even though the federal government is picking up 100% of the cost. bottom line, they have nothing say. >> people are upset that people have health insurance. and governors, as you say, b

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do support people like elizabeth warren and bernie sanders and a number of us on banking committees were beginning to change the environment and the culture of the committee, slowly, but making significant progress. six largest banks are twice as large as the next 50 largest banks. secretary geithner made some interesting comments in larry summers'class at harvard. i guess it was harvard. he said, of course these banks are too big to fail, but then he likened those of us trying to fix this to captain ahab forever chasing the white whale. he finally acknowledged that he is not in power, that these banks are really too big to fail. if you think fixing this really matters that much. presidential adviser was in my office for five years ago. i was talking to him about the importance of manufacturing, especially when you look at manufacturing 30 years ago, it

also heading to the hill, white house chief of staff dennis mcdonagh where he will meet with bernie sanders of vermont. >> are peek quote-unquote cooking the books? >> i'm not aware other than a number of isolated cases where there is evidence of that. >> sanders grilled secretary of veterans affairs eric shinseki last week. while there's calls for him to resign, the white house is standing by the former army general. >> the president has confidence in secretary shinseki. >> that is the backdrop and how we got from there to where we are today. that emergency meeting this morning at the white house. let me go back to our white house correspondent vick viqueira. what could possibly happen. kathleen sebelius was not fired at the time when congress called for her head. what will it say if eric shinseki, a decorated veteran, a four-star general is relieved of duty at the va? >> reporter: i think there are comparisons and parallels to two the situations. the aca, obamacare is not on par in terms of a signature issue. the president made reform at va a top priority, and we're told the president is

the senate veterans affairs committee responding to the request for the independent senator, bernie sandersn vermont. the democrats are in the majority of this senate, to come and testify. he will testify before the senate veterans affairs committee. so far the house veterans affairs committee that subpoenaed him to provide e-mails, all sorts of other information connected to the allegations of wrongdoing in the department of veterans affairs, when it comes to veterans waiting for treatment, the house veterans affairs committee has not formally subpoenaed or requested that he come testify there. that's the republican majority in the house veterans affairs committee but he will go before the democratic majority in this senate to testify next thursday on all of these issues, responding to bernie sanders, the independent senator from vermo vermont. more on this story coming up later. >>> meanwhile, dozens of the world's most influential economists are gathering for two days in nigeria, supposed to be a showcase moment for the country and its president. instead, it's been overshadowed by a seri

passed by 99 / one o the bernie sanders of vermont voted against it there has never been a foe like that in the senate in my lifetime. but it provided an atmosphere that governments can involve themselves of the activities legally. and legal terrorism exists in many governmental situations. >> host: over the course of u.s. history has there been terrorist tax? >> one of the best examples in the books is slavery. you referred to it as jim crow laws but they were part of the judicial system ratified it to the supreme court which permitted not only segregation but violent acts of regina and public demonstrations which were reported in the newspaper the next day. i found this extraordinarily shocking when i came upon that evidence. i don't know another country that had that longstanding involvement with political violence and it was political all the way through precisely because the denial of voting rights in to the judiciary that protected those sacks of lynching. as an aside, there was a collection of post cards discovered about 20 years ago which is called without a sanctuary. they were

. >> it seems you just hit the nail on the head there where bernie sanders and mark pryor are both welcomenside the democratic tent. do you feel that that is personalizing the potential of new jersey to elect, say, more moderate republicans? think about your primary -- the primary process in the state. it's hard, i assume, for a moderate republican in a senate election to get through the process, is it not? >> it is. and there are house primaries, too. and if you're not allowed to nominate a candidate who agrees with most of the state on issues, then you can't elect them either. and that's just been going on not on in new jersey but a number of other northeastern states and i think some west coast states as well. within the republican tent, if you're ronald reagan's point of view, which is a big tent and you don't say bad things about other people in the party, that was his 11th commandment, then i think you start electing people in a number of states and it's the only way to get a national majority. if you try to carry states like new jersey, you have a national majorities. >> i want to a

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bernie sanders try to block this bill to go forward. he had a bill he wanted every single veteran to be able to use the v.a. system. in theory that sounds beautiful but many of those veterans are not -- do not have a disability related to their service. it would collapse the system. 22.5 million veterans in a system that can't even manage 6 million right now? it would be a debacle. it is another way of having the government manager -- do you really want to have these with lists? people can make fun of sarah palin. way i am starting to say this is that type of reaction him -- this type of reaction. what other work can you describe it with when people are getting bonuses for making their numbers look good to forgetting that when the v.a. has lost their desire to take care of lives and they are only concerned about numbers, they have lost their soul. >> senator sanders is our guest this week on our newsmakers program and he talked a bit about this scandal. here it is. guests should the leader of the ,epartment, eric shinseki vietnam vetera

bernie sanders stood up and objected to it. said one day we may pass it but i want to have a hearing first. >> i don't understand that it's a simple bill. all it says is that the secretary or any future secretary appointed by this president, a democratic president, can fire executives in the v.a. who aren't doing their jobs. right now he can't do that. and they blocked it. so, unfortunately, members of congress will head home for memorial day and veterans will keep waiting for accountability and that's outrageous. >> couldn't senate majority leader harry reid corral senator sanders and say look don't could that or did he expect that and know that he would try to block this. >> they organized the block. the bottom line is that they spent a couple hours today figuring out who they would get to go down there and object to it. they came one with all kinds of excuses why it couldn't pass. if they wanted to it would have passed today. passed something called a hotline. call the offices and ask everyone to support it but, it won't be

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you brought up bernie sanders of vermont and now you have richard blumenthal of connecticut. these are democrats who are saying this is a problem, this is a bipartisan issue. would i ask, and you alluded to the inspector general looking into it, and why not the doj? i would ask why the president isn't sitting in on some of these hearings, right? who is more invested in making health care work in this country. >> great point. >> than the man who made hallmark legislation as part of his presidency on health care and here is a portion of it that isn't just not working but killing people, killing very people who fought for that country. where is the president? >> i know the answer. he is on upper east side of manhattan. they blocked the east side of the island. raising money at a fund-raiser. >> shut down manhattan. kirsten, this is a great point this is a call, opportunity for the president to show leadership, to show compassion, to show investment in his signature health care saying, i care about your health. i care about veterans that served this country. this is an outrage. w

bernie sanders being the independent from vermont who's very outspoken on this, but not in the senseetting this bill pushed through. why is that important, jedediah? >> i think tucker's exactly right. i think that doesn't just hold for positions we're talking about right now, that goes for education, everywhere. you have to be able to fire people who are incompetent or who have a proven record of not doing their job very well, and until you can do that, there is no accountability in any system i don't care if you're talking about the government. the private sector there is accountability, and people do lose their jobs, and that's why things get fixed. >> yeah, because the market demands -- >> away demand. >> the market -- demands accountability. kirsten, i want to ask you this about the president though, what kind of, what kind of leadership do you think that it shows that we have waited to this point? i mean, he could have put eric holder on this investigation very early, there were calls for that. what is -- and i know you can't get inside of his head, but based on what you've seen

on tomorrow plus newsmakers, bernie sanders is our guest. he is the chairman of the veterans affairs committee and talks about allegations of misconduct. he comments on eric shinseki's role and adjusting the matter. the truth is that the v.a. is a huge institution.

a bill so socialist that socialist senator bernie sanders praised it saying its only thing wrong with this bill is that elizabeth thought of it and i didn't. she's outcommying the commies. hang on, jimmy, put warren's hair on sanders, okay. now put sanders hair on warren. oh my god, now switch their faces it's the same person. now worst of all, folk t warren supporters are lining up to make her president and she is doing nothing dissuade them. >> i'm not running for president. >> i'm not running for president. >> i'm not running for president. >> i'm not running for president. >> oh, methinks she dote clearly states she's not running for president too much. i mean why else would she release this memoir a fighting chance. the only really politicians write these things is because they are throwing their hat in the ring. that's why i'm confident the republicans are going to nominate governor-- he promises to tighten washington's belt but i won't tell you where. the point is-- there are republicans and or bondage fans here tonight. the point is-- the point is irresponsible media needs to

. >> joining me tonight, vermont senator, bernie sanders. senator, good to have you with us.his is a story talked about a lot. it seems to just keep getting worse. this is nothing but an assault on the postal service. who's against the postal service? the republicans. the and now the story is out, about how they're going to go after the fun that's out there. senator, what's going on here? this bill is an assault on the postal service. how else can we read it? >> well, you can't read it any other way, ed. this ties into the koch brothers and the right wing republicans' vision of america. these are the guys that want to privatize social security, medicare, medicaid, the environmental protection agency and the united states postal organization. they're very clear about this. a few years ago, their plan called for ending and doing away with 15,000 rural post office sers and saturday mail delivery. year after year the republicans have been waging a fierce attack against the postal service and the people who work there. the bottom line here and here's the most important point. if t