what a wonderful afternoon it is and made possible because congressman jeff miller, the chairman of our veterans affairs committee in the house and senator jon tester introduced legislation remembering our special forces, the 1st special service force. thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, senator. we can applaud them. that would be good. goen. again. and thank you, mr. speaker for bringing us all together. it is fitting that we are gathered here in emancipation hall because the heroes we honor today helped win the fight to free the world of tyranny. for generations our northern neighbor has been vital as a trusted ally and friend to our country. the 1st special service force

jeff miller. [cheering and applauding] >> okay. and carina bonamo who was -- this incredible playground in the most beautiful park in san francisco, we've already heard that online. it is now officially the most beautiful park in san francisco. [cheering and applauding] >> with the most amazing playground. and this was a dream that carina had. she moved it from a dream. there were splinters in this little wood playground that we had, and carina got a group together, did this in the most democratic way possible, and just has done a fabulous job. thank god. i hope you have many more projects ahead of you. >> thanks, lynn. and i just want to make sure that everyone knows this is not my thing, it was a big group of us. dee-dee cramer and stacey scott and ann simon and debby kay were with me the whole time. we got together. [speaker not understood] goes out to jeff miller for being so amazing and having such a great vision after all those community meetings. (applause) >> and i remember one meeting someone said they didn't want the play

as we just saw, jeff miller didn't do it. while it's obvious he made something up and it's embarrassing and we're hearing from calls for accountability for the likes of the people in the american legion, you're not hearing it from the other elements of the veterans. they are not saying that. >> you mentioned the republican chairman of the house veterans affairs committee. it was a republican from florida. he was disappointed in whachs said. then another quote here. after a rough couple weeks that included inflated claims of accountability, i hope mcdonald will redouble his efforts to ensure his statements and those of va officials are completely accurate. it's the only way the department gains the trust of the veterans. unless there's a big potential for more. in terms of who has been fired, disciplined for the problems they have been having with wait time and service for veterans. the fact checker at "the washington post" gay him four pinocchio pinocchios, which is the ultimate lie in saying 900 people had been fired since i

what a wonderful afternoon it is and made possible because congressman jeff miller, the chairman of our the house and senator jon tester introduced legislation remembering our special forces, the 1st special service force. thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, senator. we can applaud them. [applause] that would be good. again. and thank you, mr. speaker, for bringing us all together. it is fitting that we are gathered here in emancipation hall because the heroes we honor today helped win the fight to free the world of tyranny. for generations our northern neighbor has been vital as a trusted ally and friend to our country. the 1st special service force made up of men from both the united states and canada continue that tradition. canadians and u.s. citizens, men who made their living laboring as lumberjacks and trammers, mountain mountaineirs and miners, answered the call to serve and changed the course of the war. two great democracies came together to help defeat the axis. together they trained for stealth combat in arctic conditions. together they sacrificed personal safety

representative jeff miller. my home girl from the chicago area. [applause] tim walz, thank you for the great work. [applause] just to be clear about the bipartisanship here, this is one of those areas where we can't have an argument. clay's parents are texas republicans. [laughter] that's not just run-of-the-mill republican. they worked with the entire spectrum, conservatives, liberals, and that's just a reminder of what we can i when we take a break from the partisan bickering that so often emanates this town, and focus on what matters to the american people. i wish i had gotten a chance to know clay. in a way, i do. there are a lot of incredible men and women all across this country who, like clay, just love their country and want to serve. michelle and i have had a chance to meet so many of them, and incredible privilege. i think of the soldiers i sat down with at fort bliss a few years ago. they told me they were proud to serve, but struggled with issues like post-traumatic stress. they told me the challenges they had in getting support and tr

but it's also people like jeff miller who contributed all of the architectural services for this gem pro bono. [cheering and applauding] >> but it's also the passion of our elected officials on the state and local level who you're going to hear from in a little bit including senator leno, assemblyman phil king, our mayor. (applause) >> our recreation and park commissioners megan levitt son is here. our district 2 supervisor mark farrell. [cheering and applauding] >> our district 8 supervisor and park champion, tallest park champion in the city, scott wiener. (applause) >> our district 11 supervisor and another park champion extraordinary narc, john avalos. (applause) >> our city treasurer who does his work to make sure we've actually got the funds to pull this off, jose cisneros. (applause) ~ >> but it's the passion of all of us. and i also want to give a big shout out to the entire city family for their role, mohammed nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. (applause) >> with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working

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. >> ladies and gentlemen, the representative from the district of florida, the honorable jeff millermore danger of becoming a distant memory, but we must not forget. that is why it is imperative for those of us who have the ability to preserve the memory of your service and sacrifice. the metal we are presenting is a token of our gratitude for your heroism, the most important aspect of today's event is that it provides us an opportunity to strengthen the great legacy of the 1st special service force. a time the time when we desperately need heroes, wage war against tyranny our two nations banded together and successfully defeated evil. the 1st special service force is a shining example of what can be accomplished when america and canada stand together. your action embodies what president john f. kennedy said geography has made as neighbors history has made us friends economics has made as partners and necessity has made us allies. those who nature hath joined together let no man put asunder. those words are as appropriate today as they were more than half a century ago. president ken

what a wonderful afternoon it is and made possible because congressman jeff miller, the chairman of ourchairman. thank you, senator. we can applaud them. that would be good. goen. again. and thank you, mr. speaker for bringing us all together. it is fitting that we are gathered here in emancipation hall because the heroes we honor today helped win the fight to free the world of tyranny. for generations our northern neighbor has been vital as a trusted ally and friend to our country. the 1st special service force made up of men from both the united states and canada continue that tradition. canadians and u.s. citizens, men who made their living laboring as lumberjacks and trammers, mountain mountaineirs and miners, answered the call to serve and changed the course of the war. two great democracies came together to help defeat the axis. together they trained for stealth combat in arctic conditions. together they sacrificed personal safety to save the world. i take special pride in recognizing that the leader of this elite unit, a man of courage, conviction and character, was a proud son o

representative jeff miller. my home girl from the chicago area tammy duckworth. couldn't be prouder of her. [applause] >> and tim waltz, thank you so much for the great work. [applause] >> just to be clear about the bipartisanship here this is one of those areas where we can't have an argument. now, clay's parents are texas republicans. that's not just run of the mill republican. and they worked with this entire spectrum conservatives, liberals and that's just a reminder of what we can accomplish when we take a break from you know the partisan bickering that so often dominates this town and focus on what really matters to the american people. i wish i had gotten a chance to know clay. but in a way i feel that i do because there are a lot of incredible men and women all across this country who, like clay just love their country and want to serve. michelle and i have had a chance to meet so many of them. it's such an incredible privilege. i think of the soldiers i sat down with at fort bliss a few years ago, and they told me they were proud to serve but struggled w

chairman jeff miller basically said the same thing. all talking about the restoration of trust from this department. i think this guy does get one pass. this wasn't in the big scheme of things. this wasn't that big of a lie related to his work. but bob mcdonald's got to remember he was hired not because he was in the army. he was hired because he ran proctor & gamble for 30 years and could turn a big bureaucracy around in the direction of positive values and positive truth. he needs to get back to work doing that and forgetting about what kind of medals he did or did not earn back in his army days of which he only spent five years in the army. i don't think he was hired because he was an army ranger. >> all right, drew griffin, suzanne malveaux thanks to both of you. another big story we're following, the trial for the man accused of killing american sniper chris kyle is close to going into closeing arguments. it could happen any minute. a final witness took the stand today. what he said next. plus an american woman kidnapped in nigeri

representative jeff miller. my home girl from the chicago area tammy duckworth. couldn't be prouder of her. [ applause ] and tim walsh, thank you so much for the great work. [ applause ] and just to be clear about the bipartisan here, this is one of those areas where we can't have an argument. now, clay's parents are texas republicans. i mean, that's just not run of the mill republican. and they worked with, you know this entire spectrum conservatives, liberals and that's just a reminder of what we can accomplish when we take a break from the partisan bickering that so often dominates this town and focus on what really matters to the american people. i wish i'd gotten a chance to know clay but in a way, i feel that i do because there are a lot of incredible men and women all across this country who, like clay just love their country and want to serve. michelle and i have had a chance to meet so many of them. such an incredible privilege. i think of the soldiers i sat down with at ft. bliss a few years ago. they told me they were proud to serve but struggled with

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a bipartisan way with republicans in the senate, a number of senators including senator mccain, jeff miller in the house on what turns out to be one of the more significant piece of veterans legislation passed in recent years. i also led the effort with representative jim clyburn to put some $12 billion into federally-qualified health centers which has result inside some four million americans -- resulted in some four million americans, lower income americans now getting health care, dental care -- which is a huge issue in our country -- low cost prescription drugs, and i'm proud of that. with senator bob menendez, i helped pass the energy efficiency block grant program which put billions of dollars into weatherization and sustainable energy as we do our best to try to reverse climate change. now, that is my life and political history in five minutes. let me get to something more important now, and that is the future of our country. on saturday, just this last saturday, i had been invited to speak in harrisburg, pennsylvania, and my friend and i were driving back to d.c., and we drove throu

we have been waiting for va claim in the president is in charge of the va and i talked to jeff miller and the veterans affairs committee and with bipartisan support has done a lot to push these issues. i have concerns that they are not taking care of us now and they're not building hospitals and they haven't built hospitals in 25 years. we are not getting our benefits and i would like to hear your comments on that. >> guest: i think you are rightfully worried. i will just have to say in this administration we know there was a cover-up of the condition of the actual incompetence that was going on and a lack of efficiency that was going on in our va hospitals. this administration oversaw a covering up of that inadequacy of their doing their job at the va. i think veterans we do need to take care for veterans and we need to make sure will look we have to make sure we understand that the republicans understand it was george w. bush and his father herbert walker bush, the bushes who sent all of these americans over there. i think that was one of the great mistakes our country has ever made

a bipartisan way with republicans in the senate, a number of senators including senator mccain, jeff miller in the house on what turns out to be one of the more significant piece of veterans legislation passed in recent years. i also led the effort with representative jim clyburn to put some $12 billion into federally-qualified health centers which has result inside -- resulted in some 4 million lower income americans now getting health care and dental care, which is a huge issue in our country. and low cost prescription drugs, and i'm proud of that. with senator bob menendez, i helped pass the energy efficiency block grant program which put billions of dollars into weatherization and sustainable energy as we do our best to try to reverse climate change. now, that is my life and political history in five minutes. let me get to something more important now, and that is the future of our country. on saturday, just this last saturday, i had been invited to speak in harrisburg, pennsylvania, and my friend and i were driving back to d.c., and we drove through gettysburg, and we stopped there for

and i have to admit i talked to jeff miller and bipartisan support and i have concerns they are not takingare of us >> key should not be doing policy days on what's going to prevent people from attacking us in a islamic world. we should do what makes sense for us, to make sure those people in the islamic world who are muslims and willing to work. i believe 90% of the muslim people certainly don't go along with these radicals. but the radical islamic terrorists are motivated by their religion. and they are trying to radicalize their fellow muslims and the worst thing we can do is make this a muslim versus christian battle because right now we have many muslims who will -- the northern alliance that defeated the taliban, for example, in afghanistan. they are all muslims. we should have been backing them all along. by the way, in afghanistan our government was basically backing the taliban during the 1990's, and when we should have been supporting those people in -- who ultimately became the northern alliance. that would -- then we ended up having to send troops into afghanistan to do their f

and i have to admit i talked to jeff miller and bipartisan support and i have concerns they are not takinge of us now. they haven't built hospitals and 45 years. we are not getting our benefits. i would like to hear your comments on that. thank you very much. guest: you are rightfully worried. i just have to say with this administration, we know there was a cover up of the condition of the actual of the lack of efficiency going on. this administration oversaw a covering up of that and adequacy of them doing their job at the v.a. i think veterans -- i do think we need to take care of our veterans. we need to make sure we understand and we republicans understand that it was george w. bush and his father who sent all of these americans over there. i think that was one of the great mistakes our country has ever made. now we have to make sure that those brave americans who stepped up, took those orders from the republican presidents are taken care of. i think you are worried about that and have every reason to worry, especially since we are spending more money to send more troops in. i don't be

[applause] jeff miller, my homegirl from the chicago area, could not be prouder of her.ause] tim, thank you for the great work. just to be clear about the bipartisanship, this is an area we cannot have an argument. clay's parents are texas republicans. they worked with this entire spectrum and that is a reminder of what we can accomplish when we take a break from the partisan bickering that often dominates this town and focus on what matters to the american people. i wish i had gotten the chance to know clay. in a way, i feel like i do. there are a lot of men and women across this country who, like clay love their country and want to serve. host: if you want to see that in full, go to our website. every week at this time, we focus on your money. this week, we are focusing on the social security disability insurance program. thank you for joining us. can you explain a little bit about this program and what it does? guest: you often think of the retirement program. that is the larger part of social security. there is also a sizable disability program. the program was expan

senator mccain, leader mccarthy in the house jeff miller, chairman of the house v.a. committee.rich called it the most historic reform in 94 years at the department of veterans affairs. we hope this report which will restructure the v.a., give veterans choice and focus on service connected disabilities can start a new conversation about how you really hold bureaucracies accountable, how you really put the veteran first so that veteran gets quality and timely care. it's not about the bureaucracy at all. it's about veterans. and this report tries to rebalance that equation. >> here's some of the main talking points and some of the main tenets of this. make the v.a. independent. veterans choice, we talk about choices centered around that. and prioritize service-connected disability. first off by making the v.a. independent, are you breaking it from the government but yet asking the government to finance? >> right now it's just the hospital system. we're going to take the provider function and spin off an insurance system as well so that the v.a. can both deliver insurance plans so

. >> so many people inside and outside, john mccain, ours, jeff miller on the house side has been a champion. let me ask you the question we have been talking about around the table. >> that is we see these polls. some polls show as many as 60% of americans want boots on the ground and mica and i in all the speeches we've given and the book tours, that's not what we're hearing at all. i'm curious, what are you hearing when you go home? do people in connecticut want boots on the ground? >> not in my experience. americans do not want a massive land war. they do not want massive commitment so u.s. combat troops on the ground. i believe that military force is a necessary component to defeat isis, with i is why i asked the president to submit another aue map. but military force alone will not be sufficient to provide the political and governance solutions that are necessary there. it may provide some space to enact reforms, but there have to be involvement, commitment engagement of our partners in that part of the world. >> senator, when are you home in connecticut this week i'm sure you pick up

and i have to admit i talked to jeff miller and bipartisan support and i have concerns they are not takingare of us now. they haven't built hospitals and 45 years. we are not getting our benefits. i would like to hear your comments on that. thank you very much. guest: you are rightfully worried. i just have to say with this administration, we know there was a cover up of the condition of the actual of the lack of efficiency going on. this administration oversaw a covering up of that and adequacy of them doing their job at the v.a. i think veterans -- i do think we need to take care of our veterans. we need to make sure we understand and we republicans understand that it was george w. bush and his father who sent all of these americans over there. i think that was one of the great mistakes our country has ever made. now we have to make sure that those brave americans who stepped up, took those orders from the republican presidents are taken care of. i think you are worried about that and have every reason to worry, especially since we are spending more money to send more troops in. i don't

michelle miller is in new england. jeff glor reports more than 4,000 planes -- claims have been filed to deaths and injuries linked to the defective gm ignition switches. >> they could have prevented this ten years ago. >> pelley: manuel bojorquez in buenos aires on the mysterious death of a prosecutor just hours before he was set to point thing centers a deadly car bombing. and they'll be talking about this for decades. jim axelrod on the rookie who snatched the super bowl. >> it's got to be one of the dumbest calls offensively in super bowl

michelle miller is in new england. jeffo deaths and injuries linked to the defective gm ignition switches. >> they could have prevented this ten years ago. >> pelley: manuel bojorquez in buenos aires on the mysterious death of a prosecutor just hours before he was set to point thing fingers a deadly car bombing. and they'll be talking about this for decades. jim axelrod on the rookie who snatched the super bowl. >> it's got to be one of the dumbest calls offensively in super bowl history.

michelle miller is in new england. jeffthe defective gm ignition switches. >> they could have prevented this ten years ago. >> pelley: manuel bojorquez in buenos aires on the mysterious death of a prosecutor just hours before he was set to point thing centers a deadly car bombing. and they'll be talking about this for decades. jim axelrod on the rookie who snatched the super bowl. >> it's got to be one of the dumbest calls offensively in super bowl

michelle miller is in new england. jeff glor reports more than 4,000 claims have been filed to deaths and injuries linked to the defective gm ignition switches. >> they could have prevented this ten years ago. >> pelley: manuel bojorquez in buenos aires on the mysterious death of a prosecutor just hours before he was set to point thing fingers a deadly car bombing. and they'll be talking about this for decades. jim axelrod on the rookie who snatched the super bowl. >> it's got to be one of the dumbest calls offensively in super bowl history. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. today winter made history. the storm that dumped 20 inches of snow on the midwest over the weekend moved into the northeast, and in parts of new england, this is now the snowiest ten-day period on record, with accumulations totaling five feet. we have a team of correspondents covering this latest storm. first we'll go to michelle miller in boston. michelle?

and, jeff, thanks to the last nine days of this, this was the sixth snowiest january on record here. >> glor: michelle miller, thank you. to the latest on the forecast now, eric eric fischer is chief meteorologist at our boston station, wbz what is ahead? >> jeff, this is a south no nor'easter, a west to east moving, you see the bands of rain and snow together working their way toward the east coast storm warning from nebraska all the way to new england and blizzard warnings continuing for city of chicago strong winds plus the snow. so we will track all of this heading into monday morning's drive and also watching the potential for some ice, southern pennsylvania in around new york city, that could really complicate things for the early morning, before things wrap up late monday night. >> you see in area in purple, essentially across southern michigan, new york into new england could see a foot or more of total snow that would bring some places around massachusetts up to 50 inches of snow in nine days an entire winter's worth and behind it it is about the brutal cold heading into monday evening and tuesday w

and, jeff, thanks to the last nine days of this, this was the sixth snowiest january on record here. >> glor: michelle miller, thank you. to the latest on the forecast now, eric eric fischer is chief meteorologist at our boston station, wbz what is ahead? >> jeff, this is a south no nor'easter, a west to east moving, you see the bands of rain and snow together working their way toward the east coast storm warning from nebraska all the way to new england and blizzard warnings continuing for city of chicago strong winds plus the snow. so we will track all of this heading into monday morning's drive and also watching the potential for some ice, southern pennsylvania in around new york city, that could really complicate things for the early morning, before things wrap up late monday night. >> you see in area in purple, essentially across southern michigan, new york into new england could see a foot or more of total snow that would bring some places around massachusetts up to 50 inches of snow in nine days an entire winter's worth and behind it it is about the brutal cold heading into monday evening and tuesday w

a bipartisan way with republicans in the senate a number of senators including senator mccain, jeff millerouse on what turns out to be one of the more significant pieces of veterans legislation passed in recent years. i also led the effort with representative jim clyburn to put some $12 billion into federally qualified health center's which has resulted in 24 million americans lower income americans now getting health care, dental care which is a huge issue for our country low-cost prescription drugs, and i am proud of that. with senator bob menendez i hope it passed the energy efficiency block grant program which put billions of dollars into weatherization and sustainable energy as we do our best to try to reverse climate change. that is my life and political history in five minutes. let me to do something more important now, and that is the future of our country. on saturday, just as last saturday, i've been invited to speak in harrisburg, pennsylvania, and my friend and i were driving back to d.c. and we drove through gettysburg and we stopped there for a while at the battlefield of mon

senator mccain jeff miller in the house i what turns out to be one of the more significant pieces of veterans legislation passed in recent years. i also led the effort with rep. jim clyburn to put some 12 billion federally qualified health centers which has resulted in some 4 million americans now getting health care, dental care, which is a huge a huge issue in our country, low-cost prescription drugs. with the billions of dollars into sustainable energy. that that is my life and political history in five minutes. let me get to something more important important, the future of our country. on saturday i i had been invited to speak in harrisburg pennsylvania. we we were driving back to dc and drove through gettysburg and stop there for a while. billington statues and read from the gettysburg address. we all know about his extraordinary gettysburg address. the hope that this nation would have a new birth of freedom and a government of the people, by people by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. what an extraordinary statement. as we drove back that struck m