john mcardle: thank you, sir. you, too.n the studio to help with the questions, we are joined by rebecca adams of cq roll call and matthew daly of the associated press. senator, i want to start with -- this weekend marks the one-year anniversary since the resignation of former va secretary eric shinseki. in the year since that resignation, are veterans getting the care and access they need, in your opinion? senator isakson: well, in the last 12 months since he resigned, we have begun the process of reforming the v.a. to give veterans better access and better choice and to begin to deal with the systemic problems of the v.a. we have a long way to go, but we are making improvements. rebecca adams: senator, thank you for joining us. i wanted to talk to you about some comments that house speaker john boehner made on wednesday. he said that not enough has changed at the v.a. and that more people need to be fired. i know you have called secretary robert mcdonald a change agent but you also talked about the need to change the cult

john mcardle: thank you, sir. you, too. in the studio to help with the questions, we are joined by rebecca adams of cq roll call and matthew daly of the associated press. senator, i want to start with -- this weekend marks the one-year anniversary since the resignation of former va secretary eric shinseki. in the year since that resignation, are veterans getting the care and access they need, in your opinion? senator isakson: well, in the last 12 months since he resigned, we have begun the process of reforming the v.a. to give veterans better access and better choice and to begin to deal with the systemic problems of the v.a. we have a long way to go, but we are making improvements. rebecca adams: senator, thank you for joining us. i wanted to talk to you about some comments that house speaker john boehner made on wednesday. he said that not enough has changed at the v.a. and that more people need to be fired. i know you have called secretary robert mcdonald a change agent but you also talked about the need to change the cu

john mcardle: and on "newsmakers" is memorial day -- this memorial day weekend, we are joined by senatornny isakson, republica

john mcardle: that is all the time we have for our "newsmakers " program for this memorial day weekend. i would like to thank rebecca adams and matthew daly. >> for he, today, that sheds his blood today will be my brother. this day shall gentle his condition. and gentlemen in england now abed shall think themselves accursed that they were not here. >> one drop of blood -- drawn from thy country's bosom should need thee more than streams of falling gore. >> director of the shakespeare library, michael whitmore, talks about shakespeare and how politicians use quotes from the famous playwright. >> sometimes, you just have to go with the music of the words the poetic images, and also the way in which, as senator byrd did, you are able to pause and linger over a long phrase. i think he is really using the rhythms of the language, which is something that shakespeare did so brilliantly, so that he can take english and put it into high gear at one moment, and he can slow down. that is something that shakespeare lets you do. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> good that