commend chairman jeff miller for his tremendous leadership. i want to join my colleagues and local veterans and asking for the senate to take swift action on the v.a. accountability act. for the two brothers in eastern washington, and for the millions not roes like them, we're going to stop fighting until they are protected. > i'm keith ross from pennsylvania 12 and western pennsylvania. six icklaus was one of pittsburgh-area veterans who died of a disease contracted at hospital.burgh v.a. he was a world war ii veteran he was issued more than a year ago. today what we know is that those responsible were given bonuses. the da has yet to discipline anyone. culturalmust develop a accountability to better serve our veterans. that culture is missing now. the house has passed bipartisan legislation to pass it. secretary shinseki should use it to clean up the mess. this is a printable of solidarity. . whatever the injury, what their blindness, loss of a limb, genetic brain injury, posttraumatic stress, no veteran should feel as though he or she is al

were absolutely disgraceful in their attacks on sergeant bowe bergdahl and his family represent jeff miller from florida for example insinuating that department offense was somehow keeping both bergdahl hostage in germany so that he wouldn't answer queso that he would have to answer any questions and then there are others who were quite sympathetic to bergdahl and to his his family and you know that that's that of course for people like me. and others who are compassionate in feel that. this has been this media circus has been way overboard very appreciative to see comments like that now i want to ask you about something you just mentioned with wrath miller i want to play a sound bite from that hearing was a really tense moment between the two of them between miller and haig will regarding bergdahl to return to the u.s. let's take a listen. wait a minute wait a minute. why hasn't he been returned to the united states you're trying to tell me that he's being held at a lunch stool germany because of his medical condition congressman i hope you're not implying anything other than that i like t

original whistleblower in the scandal, doctor sam foote and in washington, florida congressman jeff miller head of the house of representatives committee on veterans affairs. chairman miller now that secretary eric shinseki has resigned how concerned are you that the political attention on the scandal will fail? the politicians and public and media will resume ignoring the problem? >> it will not fade on the hill, the membership are so disgusted. my concern is it will fade in the media we could not get the media to pay attention a year and a half ago on this issue, and i am hopeful people like yourself will keep this in the forefront because it is bigger than what we are talking about today. >> dr. foote do you worry, now, with eric shinseki gone that interest, attention, will fade? >> there is a huge mismatch between the demand for care and the v.a. ability to supply it. i don't think the media will let that go away. >> we will pick up on that mismatch in a minute but, first, chairman miller, the v.a. inspector had issued 18 reports since 2005 about scheduling problems leading to long wai

extraordinary, one of the most extraordinary moments was with congressman jeff miller, a republican of florida, who chairs the house veterans committee, actually questioning whether bowe bergdahl should still be in the hospital in germany. have a listen. >> what we are doing is we are allowing -- >> wait a minute. wait a minute. why hasn't he been returned to the united states? we have seriously wounded soldiers that are returned to the united states almost immediately after they are stabilized. how long did jessica lynch wait before she was returned to the united states? you are trying to tell me that he's being held in germany because of his medical condition? >> congressman, i hope you're not implying anything other than that. >> i'm just asking the question. >> i'm going to give you an answer. i don't like the implication. >> answer it. >> he's being held there because our medical professionals don't believe he is ready until they believe he is ready to take the next step. >> you have ever seen a traumatically injured service member brought to the united states immediately upon bei

and here in washington, florida congressman jeff miller, head of the house committee on veterans affairs. chairman miller, now that secretary shinseki resigned, how concerned are you that the political attention on the scandal is going to begin to fade as the politicians, public, media are all going to resume ignoring the problem? >> it will not fade on the hill. the american people are so disgusted it's not going to fade out there. my concern is it's going to fade in the media, just like we couldn't get the media to pay attention over a year and a half ago to issues that related to this. i'm very hopeful that people like yourself and others will continue to keep this in the forefront. it's much bigger than what we're going to talk about today. >> dr. foote, do you worry with eric shinseki gone that interest, attention to the va scandal is going to fade? >> there is huge mismatch system-wide ben between demand of the care and the supply of it. i don't think the media will let that go away. i certainly hope they won't. >> i want to ask you this, chairman miller. the va inspector, it came

eric: congressman jeff miller, the hearing later on tonight, first of many more.icans want you to get to the bottom of this. >> we're not going to quit. eric: absolutely. martha? martha: news last night in fact. a new miss usa was crowned. >> and miss usa 2014 is nevada! martha: sounded like a goal. goal for nevada! she is beautiful. nia sanchez took the top spot, 24 years old. she is from las vegas. she is fourth degree black belt in tae kwon do, eric. eric: oh, man. martha: this is girl is strong and not to be messed with. miss usa. means she will compete for the title of miss universe later this year. eric: i like idea of taking a black belt off miss universe. martha: she might have to duke somebody on her way to the top? , to the universe title? we'll see. she is lovely. congratulations to her. eric: absolutely. kind of like the stanley cup call. martha: kind of like that, yeah. eric: granging gears, hillary clinton you know she has a new book called "hard choices" out. she claims she made a lot of hard choices and in book writing about the benghazi terror att

florida representative jeff miller has the republican address. he talks about the nation's veterans and recommends changes to the department of veterans affairs. >> hi, everybody. this is commencement season come a time for graduates and their families to celebrate one of the greatest achievements in a young person's life. but for many graduates, it also means feeling trapped, by a whole lot of student loan debt. we have to do more to lift that burden. a 21st century economy, the surest pathway into the middle class is some form of higher education. forunemployment rate workers with a bachelor degree is 3.3%, about half of what it is for high school graduates. a typical graduate of a four-year college runs $15,000 more per year than somebody with just a high school diploma. neverime when college has been more important, it has also never been more expensive. that's why since i took office, i have worked to make college more affordable. we reform the student loans and give away billions of taxpayer dollars to big banks and invested that money wher

chairman jeff miller's bill. as we go to conference, it would probably have been cleaner if we could have just taken up the senate bill, sent it to the president, and gone down that path. the conference does afford us the opportunity, though, to make clear as we would on the debate in any event, that while we need some emergency assistance for health care, for our veterans, access to health care, we have to be very careful when we go down this path that is not one that leads to outsourcing in the long term of health care for our veterans or even more ominously to privatization. those are concerns that the veteran service organizations have repeatedly over time expressed to us. by and large the complaint about the veterans administration is not about the health care, it's about the access to it. and the quantity of -- the number of people that have access. that's a very big problem. so temporarily we should be able to meet some of the needs, but not all because many of the diagnoses that are battle related need to

we had jeff miller of the v.a. committee as well as john mccain on the senate side and buck mckeon of the armed services. very tellingy -- a sign. i think that was the belt whether of this. veterans callse that hurt him more? inst: i think that set it motion. the american legion said he had to go and that is huge. nothing has happen like that in decades. and the final straw was the lawmakers who had been supporting him, people like john mccain saying he is a distraction. host: we continue discussion on eric shinseki's resignation. our phone lines are open. we are taking your comments and questions as we go about this. a special line continuing for veterans. with to be calling on that line for veterans from albany georgia. caller: thank you for airing this desperate situation for veterans. i am a veteran. i joined the army at 16 years old. as a result of some of my duty, i contracted melanoma cancer service connected. i have been dealing with the v.a. for 12 years trying to get a rating for this melanoma cancer. the

. >>> joining me now is florida republican congressman jeff miller. for being here to dda >> thank you, richard. >> shoundn't some of your committee hold some of the responsibility as well as the president? >> yes, there is plenty of blame, and you should take some of the blame, too, and the media just paying attention to the 132 hearings that we have held in the congress, and we have a appropriated every person and dollar that we have asked for and brought the issue to light, and if blaming me is going to solve it, blame me. >> if we were to blame you, what would be changed? >> well, we have sent over nine bills and one that gives the secretary the autor wuthority t people who won't do their jobs. we believe there is criminality involved and we believe there are people embedded into the bureaucracy of 320,000 people who know they are there longer than the president will be in the white house and any secretary is going to be in the cab cabinet. >> and so what is your thought on the senate side, they have come up with an agreement that will come up to

i don't think jeff miller is.nk we should leave that to the professionals. >> let me ask you, finally, because these new questions are being raised about a perceived threat from al qaeda related to what's going on in iraq. you also had at that hearing concerns raised about these five taliban detainees who were released and whether they pose any kind of threat to americans abroad. what is your take on this exchange and do you feel that the level of threat has been mitigated to a sufficient degree? >> well, i did ask secretary hagel a question about how are we tracking them in qatar, and he said that he really needed to talk about that in a classified setting. we haven't had that briefing yet, but i do think that we have to make sure that we keep our eyeballs on them all the time. we did get a cia assessment that provided the administration with the confidence that they were not a threat to the homeland. i would like to hear more about that in a classified setting. >> congresswoman, it's great to have you on the pro

even worse is that jeff miller is the chair of the veterans affairs committee in the u.s. house of representatives so this is the man who is charged by the united states the people of the united states and the congress to oversee. the apartment of chairs and here he is making accusations against a prisoner of war that he somehow either faking the illness or heat being caught on the wood ration in recovery is a very difficult and long process so it really is quite and. i can't imagine represent miller is so great or clueless about the special conditions of a prisoner of war so you just have to realize how much manipulative he actually is to pose a question like that it's after he go and i thought sector. me referring to as this whole desert or charge wankers of course had been critical of the exchange because of that is that a valid critique at all or does his psychological background really need to be explored here well i've been saying and you know and i'm friends with the family i don't represent the family in any official capacity of course but you know but even as a fr

following up on what you said -- >> no, i understand what i said. >> jeff miller. me respond and i will try to stand by what i said but i think they have gotten themselves into a real pickle here because of how poorly this was handled from the get-go. it was rolled out so poorly and the taliban video was provided to us before the united states government could give us enough information and now i think we have an overall security situation surrounding this man, his family, and everything surrounding the story because it was rolled out so poorly. i'm not going on judge this guy at this point being kept away from people and perhaps even mystery surrounding situation because i think that the response has been totally misplayed and mishandled, misunderstood by our white house. >> can i just say -- i mean, i -- i would love more information. i would love to, you know -- have the chance to see -- but, you know, the lack of empathy at any level on that question for this situation. listen, he could be a deserter. he could be sympathetic to the taliban. lit come out. it wil

jeff miller joins the governor tonight. and hillary clinton rips republicans saying they keep harping on benghazi for political gain. mike on the house responds. >> plus, many college campuses it is liberals trying to impress conservative ideas. >> the liberals double stance on intollerance. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. thank you, thank you very much. we have a audience here in new york. and welcome to all of you. and welcome to the huckabee in the fox news studios in new york city. i mentioned a couple of years ago my wife and i were celebrating 40 years of marriage and we took a trip to china, great wall and forbidden city and 10in men square and shanghai and the province of shindu. it was there that janet held and fed a baby panda and no, i did not bring a real one home for the grandkids. i know that many americans for that china will get too strong. i am worried that america might be getting to weak. other nations having a strong economy is not bad for the united states. it is one less hungry mouthed co

joining us now is jeff miller of alabama and chairman of had house veterans affair committee.t does the va that you want and are not getting? >> the problem is we don't know what they had. the general council said they finished providing the information we requested and i asked if the gentlemen there took notes when talking about destroying the records and he said yes but we don't have copies of the notes. if they don't provide everything by monday when congress goes back into the session in the house, we will petition the federal court to make the department of veterans affairs comply with a subpoena. >> why do you need that information so badly? >> because they are not telling the truth. f there was a secret list that was destroyed. we want to know who destroyed it, what names were on it, who authorized it, and when was it destroyed. i said you will destroy nothing and now it appears they were destroying records. >> congressman miller, i would like to ask you what is happening on the ground for veterans and how their reality has changed after discussing the story. the senate

jeff miller chairman of the house committee on veteran's affairs on fox news sunday calling on the media to do its part. >> it will not fade on the hill. i promise you that. american people are so disgusted it is not going to fade there. my concern is it's going to fade in the media. i am very hopeful that people like yourself and others will continue to keep this in the forefront. it is much bigger than we are talking about today. >> meantime senate veteran he is affairs bernie sanders unveiled a new proposal to revamp healthcare for the 6.5 million veterans in the va system. it would make it easier for recei veterans to receive treatment outside of the system. >> president obama set to announce a controversial climate change agenda that takes aim at the first promise to cut carbon emissions. the epa will ask thousands of fossil fuel burning plants to cut emissions by 2030. about all carbon solutions come from plants. >> hollywood is mourning the loss of jean dave -- ann b. davis best known for her role on "thes lady bunch." >> davis died in san antonio texas after falling and hitting h

today after secretary hagel was on the hill yesterday answering tough questions from congressmen, jeff millerida asking secretary hagel why bergdahl hadn't been back to the united states, pointing out some of our most traumatic injuries to our troops overseas, they immediately come back to the united states as soon as they're stabilized. secretary hagel took offense to that and said the inference was that this was political and that's why bergdahl was being held in germany. and the back and forth continued on that. in the meantime, multiple senior defense officials now say his arrival is expected some time after midnight tonight or early, early tomorrow morning. but the big headline is he's on his way home. that begins another whole stage of questions for what's ahead for bergdahl and also maybe some of the unknowns that we just don't have at this time. >> don't know if he's talked to his parents. they call it the reintegration process, the top psychologist and medical professionals will be attending to him after he arrives there later on tonight. >> more breaking news ahead on fox news. than

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jeff miller, we will hear from him in just a second.f you want to ask damian about this information you have heard about, here are the numbers to call. our guest mentioned jeff miller. here is his statement. [video clip] >> americans are a grateful people. we reject the idea of letting our own people down. all of this deception and incompetence at the v.a. with no accountability and no action, it is more than just a shame. it is a national disgrace. this week, we ask the president to take three immediate steps. first, we ask the president to support a bill that house has already passed, that makes it easier to fire senior v.a. executives who refuse to do their jobs. no more slaps on the wrist. whoonly write those contribute it should have is the right to be shown the door. second, we asked the president to order the v.a. to fully cooperate with the committees investigating this matter. the v.a. is currently sitting on 111 requests from our committee alone. it has become a case study in how to stonewall the public and this has to change.

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wasn't already back in the united states, it was a very testy exchange, with florida republican jeff miller, miller saying that -- questioned the secretary about why he was still in germany, and hadn't come back yet to the u.s. where he could be questioned about the circumstances of his capture. you are trying to tell me he is being held because of his medical condition? >> congressman, i hope you are not implying anything other than that? >> i am just asking the question. >> i will give you an answer too, i don't like the implication. >> answer it. >> he is being held there, because our medical professionals don't believe he is ready until they believe he is ready. >> and of coursely, they feel he is now ready, and he is on his way back to the united states. at some point, he will be questioned. about how he was captures whether he did desert his post. >> live from washington, lisa, thank you. >> and today's power politics as both political parties continue to try to deceiver the meaning of rep congressman loss this week, a new optimist is brewing over immigration reform. contrition to con

comes a day after defense secretary chuck hagel was on the hill and grilled by jeff miller about why bowe bergdahl was in germany, why he wasn't back in the u.s. where he could be questioned about the circumstances of his capture. >> you are trying to tell me he's held in germany because of his medical condition. >> congressman i hope you are not implying anything other than that. >> i'm asking the question, mr secretary. >> i'll give an answer, i don't like the implications of the question. >> answer it. >> he's held there because medical professionals don't believe he's ready until they believe he a ready. >> obviously the doctors in germany decided that bowe bergdahl is fine to travel, on the way back to the u.s., and he told lawmakers that he will be questioned about how he was captured by the taliban, whether he deserted his post in afghanistan. >> thank you. >>> the u.s. attacked the taliban group that captured bowe bergdahl. 10 were killed, including two senior commanders. they used drones like this to attack trucks carrying arms, ammunition and explosives. they were members o

. >> jeff miller was asked the very same question.how could members of congress not have known about this? let's watch his response. >> well, interestingly enough, many of those reports were instigated by the house committee on veterans affairs, and when we went to the v.a. to ask if the recommendations in fact were going to be followed up, they said yes, and then when we asked them about their numbers, they lied to congress in regards to their numbers, but it's very difficult for me to believe that the central office here in washington, d.c. did not have any idea about the cooking of the book and the illegal activity that was going on at their own admission 60% of their facilities. >> what miller was saying too is there was such a long history of lies about what was going on. >> the ig reports, that's the inspector general inside the v.a., those reports were not made available to congress. i'll give him that. the gao report that i mention frd 2000, that is done at the behest and for congress. they had that report. they did nothing ab

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. >> joining me on as chairman of the house committee is everymill -- is jeff miller. >> yesterday eric shinseki resigned and that did not come as a big surprise to anybody. the first thing is the replacement and interim sloan gibson. good idea? good man? good future there? >> somebody needed to move in. the position quickly. sloan has not been at the department very long, but i think he is -- sloan is a good man and he will at least in the interim period start the process that needs to be done. there is a lot of confidence that needs to be restored in the department of veterans affairs and i think he can get that started and i talked to him after the president made the announcement and he would transfer the aggravation and anger as to the way the department acted. that he shared with me, i think he will go a long way to getting the things started. >> the president intimated it was a money problem and we can solve it. and i think others suggested it is not a money issue. it is a management issue. from your perspective, tell me what do you think really has to be done? >> it is mismanagem

hearing on bonuses and awards and there were many stories and outrages, and seven years later, jeff miller said that there seems to be little if any improvement. chris? >> doug, thank you. president obama has ordered the labor department to start drafting rules to ensuring gay and lesbian americans are going to receive care for their spouses in states that don't recognize same-sex marriages. >>> the public school system in washington will suspend the practice of using student test scores to evaluate teachers as it adjusts to common core st standards. they were among the first to use the core standards, and many are calling for a temporary halt during the transition period. >>> one potential democratic candidate manages to offend leaders in both political parties. >>> and plus, no worries, canada, the u.s. has no plans to invade, at least not anymore. the grapevine is next. we're moving our company to new york state. the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional develo

congressman jeff miller, chairman of the house veterans affairs committee. where do we stand on this, congress man? >> i met with sloan gibson yesterday afternoon and i told him again if we don't receive all the information we requested in the subpoena that was issued now over three weeks ago that we're going to proceed to federal court to force va to comply with that subpoena. >> in the meantime you still have these wait times and problems. i'm all for getting to the bottom of the scandal but i guess i'm more to getting to the bottom of helping these guys out right now. how can we crunch down their wait times and make sure someone is looking after them? >> va needs to do what they already had the statutory authority to do but yet been hiding from the veterans the fact that they have the ability to go out and receive outside care, outside of the va system. however, the legislation that we're talking about on the hill this week and we're discussing last week, in fact, pretty much mandates va, you don't have a choice. >> so, soldiers veterans now if they go to

>> it was quite a testy exchange between the defense secretary and florida republican jeff miller, milleranted to know why he was spending so much time in germany, and not coming back to the u.s. where he could be questioned about the circumstances of his capture. you are trying to tell me he is being held because of his medical condition? >> i hope you are not implying anything other than that. >> i am just asking you a question. >>ly give you an answer too. >> answer it. >> he is being held there because our medical professionals don't believe he is ready until they believe he is ready. >> . >> obviously the military doctors in germany have now determined that he is ready to come back, he will be on his way. and he will be in texas tomorrow in san antonio. hagel did tell the committee members the lawmakers that at some point, berghdal will be questioned about how he came to be captured whether he did desert his post in afghanistan. >> ukraine's president today allegedly condemned an armed incushion into his country. three russian tanks entered the border crossing controlled by russian s

finally, i'll read you this reaction from representative jeff miller, republican, on veterans affairs. not surprisingly he said sit unfortunate president obama did not heed our warnings about the problems in the va health care problems sooner, we stand ready to work inside and outside the administration to institute va reforms to present services to americans. and the one final point i'll make, alex, president obama has yet to name a new va secretary. i anticipate that is something that will happen in the coming weeks, at least in the near future. we know he is wittling his choices >> a gustnado on friday. for a weak short-lived tornado like a vortex. it is a tornado light if you will. the storm accompanied by driving winds and hail. to give you a live look at wichita, kansas where more storms are affected. in wisconsin, a tornado touched down, downing trees and power lines there. a state of emergency remains in effect in st. paul, mississippi after the mississippi river crested friday. and katie has more. >> reporter: more waters than the rivers and lakes can handle. a lot of them ov

that again from veterans affairs committee chair congressman jeff miller. his committee will be holding a hearing later this evening to examine the issue of veterans access to health care and reported manipulation of waiting lists. gets under way at 7:30 p.m. eastern. watch it live here on c-span 3 and also comment as the hearing happens through our facebook page, or on twitter, using the #cspanchat. c-span's book "sundays at eight" includes kenneth feinberg who oversaw the 9/11 victim compensation fundp. >> from the perspective of the victims i don't see any distinction. if you try and justify my program, on the basis of the victims lost, i can't convincingly explain why 9/11 yes, 93 world trade center no. i think the only way you justify this program as a special is from the perspective of the nation. a recognition that 9/11 was, along with the american civil war, pearl harbor, maybe the assassination of president kennedy, and 9/11, its impact on the american people was such that this was really a response from america to demonstrate the solidarity and co

. >> last night we heard congressman jeff miller, the chairman of the key mittie there.mpossible to solve these problems by whitewashing them or denying they exist. that seems obvious, drew, but it does make me wonder to think that maybe we're to the point, even to that point yet where they have stopped denying and stop whitewashing the problems of the v.a. >> i listened to some of these hearings. last night there was a hearing in which a v.a. official was talking about the good quality health care at the v.a. perhaps that is true in some cases, but it's, like you said, kate, you really have to realize this is a huge systemic problem at v.a.s across the country, and it's going to take more than surgical operations to fix it, if i can use that metaphor. you really have to sweep through the entire organization and change a culture that's been in existence for years. >> and on top of your reporting, the special counsel's office has sent a scathing letter to the white house, a report of their own. what's the impact of that report on top of this? >> that was really stunning t

jeff miller, the republican congressman from florida. of the veterans affairs committee. he knows how veterans are treated in the united states. the implication being for some reason, i don't understand what he was driving at, but you saw the secretary of defense get irritated by the questioning as jim pointed out. the implication is for some reason they're holding him at the u.s. military hospital in germany for some extended period of time and he's raising the suspicion that this may be inappropriate. he could be getting better care here in the united states. what do you make of that? >> i got to tell you, i agree with jim. i think in all the time i've covered chuck hagel, i have never seen him so flat-out publically angry. i think perhaps what the congressman might have been suggesting is why has bowe beg daul not yet been officially, legally interrogated? to the best of our knowledge, he is not under going legal questioning. he is in this cocoon if you will of medical care of the repatriation process. not deemed yet ready to be under

florida representative jeff miller, frequent guest on this, chairman of the house veterans affairs committee, says the bonus system is failing american veterans. we'll keep you up to date on that. >>> a group of 300 military advisers and special forces officers are set to arrive in iraq as the u.s. general who led the iraq surge pushes for a different strategy than the one that the president is proposing and moving forward with. we'll get into that and also vice president joe biden meeting with officials in central america over the thousands of children flooding illegally into the united states. a fierce political battle over immigration reform as it rages in washington. a look at both sides in a fair and balanced debate. new signs of progress on the long road to recovery for actor tracy morgan. h. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. >>> new details concerning actor tracy morgan today.

i found it with jeff miller, my colleague, utterly perplexing.what the indication or intimation was that the administration was trying to hide him for some reason. i think secretary hagel is exactly right, we will let the doctors decide when he's ready to move and only the doctors. >> one final question, congressman, before i let you go on iraq, do you support u.s. air strikes against targets in iraq, negative targets in iraq, would you support that? >> i'm not prepared to support it at this time. i am priorepared to support grer material support to them which may include nouri malik >>> particular lear -- when we have a government in nouri maliki that proves to resistant, bringing him into his government. so no, i'm not prepared to support that. >> congressman, alan schiff, thank you so much for joining us. >>> the failed policies in iraq, but who is really to blame? i' speak to fareed zakaria and get his take on what is going on. and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine -- what if there was a new class of medicine that wo

drew, reaction to drew's reporting from congressman jeff miller who chairs the commission on veterans affairs. i spoke to him before the broadcast. >> what is your reaction? >> it is stunning. for somebody like this whistle blow tire have been forced to make decisions that only medical providers should be making, to triage patients as to whether they should be put in a drawer is just certainly unconscionable. but even more so for the very people that were supervising the people making the decisions to have continued to get promotions, bonuses, and to fight, and to call these folks disgruntled employees, is beyond the pale. >> yeah, i say this without any disrespect to her. she is not a doctor. not even a nurse. she is an administrator, a clerk, for her to make life and death decisions is terrifying? >> and for the department to allow people to do that much less force them to do it, which is very apparent, what's been going on here. and i have a -- very great suspicion that this is not just in phoenix where they have forced scheduling clerks to do exactly what this lady has done. and t

the chairman, chairman jeff miller tonight said those are 64,000 vets who's fallen through the cracksjust crazy and the va is also reporting that it is finding evidence of wrongdoing by its own employees, finding that pressures -- i'm going to read it from the report. pressures on schedule you ars t waiting times appear more favorable. more favorable, anderson, to get bonuses and when we talk about unofficial lists we're talking about secret lists. that's what those are. >> i mean, 64,000 people, that's a huge crack to fall through. not just a little -- is this a criminal investigation at this point? >> reporter: everybody ask dancing around this. the inspector general tonight saids, the troubles at the va will end when senior leadership, senior management is either fired or prosecuted. we know that the inspector general has handed over a lot of information to the department of justice. richard griffin said just a few moments ago he believes criminal activity did take place but, you know, where is the investigator? where's the investigation that's going to lead to that? we don't know

. >> we noticed the chairman, jeff miller, that we just heard from a moment ago who heads-up the committee, has been very frustrated and said there are all kinds of things subpoenaed that have not come through. the v.a. is stonewalling. what are your hoping with the hearing tomorrow night? what new do you hope to learn? what progress do you hope to make? >> well, i think just the opportunity to have the i.g. in front of us and really go through, you know, what they have as their interim report right now and talk about it. i raised the question to the veterans administration last week when we had the meeting, and the i.g. had pointed to a facts that there was an audit switch turned off in their program, in their computer program, and many scheduling departments and other places that the i.g. wasn't able to get that information because it was turned off. and i asked the question, why was it turned off? who was told to turn it off and things like that, where you can't even get the information to post something bad happening like this. >> all right. i want to refer to a poll, some new polling

reaction to drew's reporting now from republican congressman jeff miller who chairs the house committee on veteran affairs. here's what he told me earlier this evening when you saw the report. >> for somebody like this whistleblower to have been forced to make decisions that only medical providers should be making totoriage patients as to whether or not they should be put in a drawer is just certainly unconscionable. but even more so for the very people that were supervising the people making the decisions to have continued to get promotions, bonuses, and to fight and to call these folks disgruntled employees is i don't want the pale. >> a quick reminder, set your dvrs. you can watch 360 whenever you want. ahead tonight, sfiters taking more strategy territory boosting pressure on baghdad. the question is, is that where the focus should be? we'll look at some of the unorthodox methods america may have to employ to answer the thread that's have little to do with defending real estate. later,al hear from a former islamist extremist about fighting this call to battle, a call being answered

the hearing grew tense at times, including one exchange between hagel and florida republican jeff millerr why bergdahl is still being treated in germany at a u.s. military hospital. >> you're trying to tell me that he's being held at landstuhl, germany, because of his medical condition? >> congressman, i hope you're not implying anything other than that. the fact is-- >> i'm just asking the question, mr. secretary, and you won't answer. >> i'm going to give an answer too, and i don't like the implication of the question. >> well, answer it! answer it! >> he's being held there because our medical professionals don't believe he's ready until they're-- they believe he is ready to take he next step to his rehabilitation. >> woodruff: today's hearing comes as new opinion polls shed light on the public's view of the swap. according to an a.b.c.- washington post poll, 51% of americans disapprove of the prisoner exchange for bergdahl. and if officials find that bergdahl did, in fact, desert his post before his capture, the disapproval rate jumps above 60. meanwhile, new details emerged about the

>> i have a lot of faith in jeff miller. i think he provides hope for every veteran in the united states. i think the u.s. senate and john mccain fully understand the situation and they're going to do everything that they can do. but this is a huge problem that was a long time in the making and it can't be fixed quickly. >> okay. dr. sam foote,joining us. appreciate it. >>> let's get to the political fallout on the impact this scandal is having on the white house. larry is director for uva center for politics. larry, welcome to the program. do you think there's anying neg impact on the democrats in forthcoming election? >> absolutely. particularly states that have a heavy concentration of veterans. look, there are two types of scandals. we all know them. some are partisan scandals. they affect only one party. that is one party gets upset about them and the other doesn't care. the other kind of scandal fits the veterans administration scandal. everybody is outraged. democratic, republican, independent. it isn't just the 23 mi

you have seen the chairman of the va, chairman jeff miller, he's been very big on this talking aboutaccess to care. but the answer is not just throwing more money at a problem. the key is holding people responsible that aren't having outcomes, getting to the b of what the problems are, and ensuring that they have the best quality of care. so we'll spend what we need to, but the answer isn't just to spend more money on a problem. the answer is to get real outcomes and i think we can do that, and hopefully the new secretary and the president himself will take a keen interest in this and we can see some results finally. >> congressman kinzinger, thanks so much, paul rieckhoff, great to have you here. we wanted to get some more reaction on this scandal in the va. our kevin tibbles visited one of the largest military bases in the country and found grave concerns, as you might imagine, about the future of the u.s. military and how we care for our troops at home. it is today's "meeting america." >> reporter: fayetteville, north carolina, is army through and through. it's neighbor fort bragg