holly petraeus, appreciate your time today. have great weekend. >> thank you.d to be here. >>> 197,000 children have a parent deployed, letting a kid be a kid when mom or dad is off fighting for america. [ female announcer ] the healing power of touch just got more powerful. introducing precise pain relieving heat patch. it blocks pain signals for deep relief precisely where you need it most. precise. only from the makers of tylenol. fighting for america. >>> within the past two years has probably moved to six, seven times now. shes a had to endure a great deal from me returning from iraq injured, a different man, a different person, than the one that left her. >> that was retired captain shannon mehan, an iraq war veteran who returned to the philadelphia area with his wife and child looking for a job. he wrote a book about his time in the military and ran for state representative office last year. kelly russco works on these, wife of a member of the navy. you heard this story like shannon's before. your husband returned from iraq. does it get easier every time

i think she's done a good job of not just starting up the agency, hiring people like holly petraeus, and others to help come run the noble task. and you saw her just recently lay out very important reforms to simplify disclosure of a mortgage application so people know what they are getting and make better choices and can protect themselves from people that take advance of them. that is a very important objective. and, you know, i would just say that, you know, the oversight process is a very important thing to preserve and make strong and credible. i think what you saw yesterday will leave everyone to question whether the oversight process is like on the up and up. how many is political theater, how much the is necessary tough job that congress has to do? i've testified more than 50 times since i took office. and, you know, it's a hard tough thing to go through. it's necessary. but for the oversight process to be viewed as fair, and not just tough, but good and credible, you have to try to make sure you take as much as political theater out. it's impossible to take all of the politi