dr. wenstrup asked questions about va facilities. in the reinvestment of the dollars that you're getting from closing or shutting down unused space, you can track on a short-term basis and then a long-term projection as to exactly how you're going to reinvest the dollars that you save from not maintaining a space open that is not being used? >> yes. yes, we will be able to do that. currently today when we dispose of a property, sometimes very large properties like in pittsburgh or in new orleans we disposed of the whole site that we had flolast in katrina. we give that back not to the va but to the gsa or the treasury. under the president's infrastructure program that he announced on monday, in there would be a proposal that va could retain those proceeds if we were to give back property and we would track that very specifically and they would be reinvested in infrastructure in the va. >> so if we looked at the inventory, if you will, of facilities whether they're not being used at all or whether they have just -- you know they're be

dr. wenstrup, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you. thanks for approach a difficult topic for everyone involved. i'll say, and especially with what you just said, general, they say to whom much is given much is expected, although i wouldn't say rank is given. it is often earned. but expectation is much greater. and i think that's a fair assessment. you do expect more from your officers. and especially your general officers as you go up in ranks. so i appreciate that feedback. mr. fine, you mentioned earlier about the gathering data from the igs. what do you see down the road with this? is it going to set a tone for what type of punishment is appropriate or what legal actions we need to take? what do you expect to gain from that as that comes together? >> well, we regularly gather that data and i think it's important to report that to see what is going on even by service and by rank and by offense. so we will continue to do that. provide transparency on the process which is a good thing. i'll mention one thing is to look at this issue a

dr. wenstrup was there doing cpr and tried to control an airway.obviously not breathing and in bad shape. i saw the doctor trying to get an air way. i went quickly over there. i couldn't get a heartbeat, so i started cpr on him. >> give your viewers a sense of what kind of medicine -- you have practiced in your career. is this something you encountered? >> i'm a gynecologist in private practice in rural kansas. we take care of the er. and a mass shooting as well. took me back to those days in training. >> i spoke to senator flake right after the accident. the republicans had -- the congressional baseball shooting and other things. do you feel like you and your colleagues are shaken up at all about these turns of event? >> i think these made us grow closer. when steve was shot, our wives formed a circle of prayer and love around everybody. even this situation within minutes after learning of this, kevin mccarthy's wife was calling in making sure everybody was okay. the vice president made sure everybody was okay. reaching out to each other. [ no aud

brad wenstrup. >> dr. lynch, question for you. how many veteran getting out of dod are homeless within the first five years or so? >> i honestly don't have the answer to that. do you have a quick estimate? >> i don't have an estimate. but we have a work group that works with dod, the va and others looking at the transitioning service members from dod and following them down to va and assessing homeless rates, but we are very early in the process. >> you are in the process? i think it's a key number to figure out, right? what is the problem here. why does this occur? it kind of reminds me, you see situations of a child who presents the emergency room every three weeks or so with a cough. you treat the cough and they get a little better and three weeks later they're back with the same cough. at some point you want to go into the home and figure out why they're getting the cough and that's why you find out you get a mold growing or whatever the case may be. this is important information, particularly because it's current and it's now