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of the government s that every administration is going to have some trouble in some agency somewhere. i think george w. bush and his problems with fema and hurricane katrina. that was epic at the time. and this administration, i think, it's getting to a certain critical mass, people are going to wonder these people don't know what they are doing and they are not finding out. >>> put aside the security concerns for this person and his job, what about here at home, the politics of how this and the size of the blunder? >> well, first of all, the comparisons i think to the valerie policemane -- plaim case. where karl rove by scooter libby whoven the person who leaked the name. this was a woman, even though her status was supposed to be classified, she was working at a desk in virginia. this is a guy on the front lines in afghanistan. it's a very different matter and i think it's fair to say much more serious. i think the public will recognize that and as i say, i think it feeds into this question whether these are people who can run anything. >> finally, going back to the afghanistan drawdown announcement. your thoughts on that and how it plays? >> well, look

administration about the same problems which have festered now for 10 or 15 years? >> there was outrage. i remember the walter reed scandal. it was a gigantic firestorm. it became together with katrina to create an image of incompetence around management of the bush administration that did so much damage in the elections of 2008. >> what happened there? where is walter reed now? that's one of the problems with journalism is that we don't follow up. have things improved at walter reed? >> walter reed's been converted into housing i think. it is going to be no longer a hospital. it's going to be a big new development -- >> that was a great expose by the "washington post." but i think because there are so many va facilities around the country -- haven't we all become inured to this, oh, va is a mess, we've all known that. and then i think until we got the secret waiting lists and the suggestions of skullduggery and cover-up, that's what the story had been lacking. >> but in defense of the va, again, going back to all they have to deal with with so few resources, they don't do such a bad job in the aggregate. the marketing studies that have been done show that the average patient of the

it is a way to give cover for the failure of the administration and immediate response to katrina. >> they always vote their conscience. their conscience i think will tell them that this is a sham. that's how nancy pelosi kept a reign on her democrats. this is 2005 and they polled out, republicans went ahead. and everybody knew the democrats weren't participating and it was republican only. and they went ahead. when that republican only report came out, had precisely two sentences in the whole report about how president george w. bush did. this was the verdict. it does not appear the president received adequate advice and council from disaster officials. earlier involvement might have resulted in a more effective response. other than that, he did a heck of a job. that's all they said about him. so that is sort of the immediate precedent for the democrats' own decision whether or not to participate in what they also believe is another sham partisan republican inquiry in the form of the latest select committee the house just formed. nobody took the republican only select committee inves

when the then-ruling republicans launched a committee to investigate the bush administration's failed handling of hurricane katrinamocrats wanted a nonpartisan, independent commission, a la the 9/11 commission. but when republicans said no, democrats boycotted what the m ares were doing. they refused to join in. and that republicans-only committee produced a report that contained all of two sentences on how president bush maybe, maybe could have responded a little better to hurricane katrina. and when republicans reached that laughably partisan conclusion, democrats had the advantage of not having been dragged into it. they never signed on to that. and so, basically, they won a round. and everybody laughed off that report and it disappeared as the republicans' effort to whitewash their own party's failures. that's strategy number one, the boycott strategy. strategy number two, i like to think of as the elijah cummings strategy. this is the one where you decide to show up, knowing that you have no real power in the room, other than give the other side a chance to make themselves look terrible. and when it works, it

katrina, but very serious. people died because of what was happening at the vshlgsa. the administration always seems to be reactive to these kind of scandals in cabinet agencies. there have been gao reports going back more than a decade on exactly this problem at the va. the question remains, why doesn't someone proactive. in the case of healthcare.gov, why did it have to become a crisis for the administration to send in their s.w.a.t. team. >> we heard the hearings in congress this week. congress was not happy with all the answers it got from eric shinseki. on the campaign trail, scott brown running for senate posed the question, how many veterans have to die before somebody gets fired? here is mitch mcconnell who has a primary campaign of his own saying he doesn't see the urgency now in the president that he saw in the health care crisis. >> that was on the website fiasco. when he led it be known his people would not rest until a solution could be worked out. incredibly so far the president has made no such pledge when it comes to the treatment of our veterans. >> that's mitch mcconne

panel, and, democrats did the same thing with probes into the response to hurricane katrina during the bush administrationare doing their thoughts on the select committee looking into what happened september 11, 2012 in benghazi, libya. some other news, and politics. this on the front page of the washington post instead of crafting an appropriately ambiguous response, rubio said, i do. i will be 43 this month. people don't realize i have served now in public office for the better part of 14 years. senator rubio was on abc's "this week," and was asked about the benghazi investigation. here's what he had to say. >> i'm sure she is going to go on bragging about her time in the state department. whether it is the failed reset with russia or the failure in benghazi that cost lives. her as arade to give secretary of state? >> at a different passing grade. if you look at the diplomacy that was pursued us -- at her time in the state department, it is failed everywhere in the world. if she's going to run on her record as secretary of state, she is also going to have to answer for its massive failings. rubio asked

administration. the response to hurricane katrina was a big blow. iraq war went terribly in 2006 and 2007 before the surge. iraq is still in an iffy situation today. all the things we have been talking about in the obama situation came' top of things that happened in the bush administration. you really see that decrease in faith and trust in government going down over 10 full years. martha: it doesn't appear there are too many folks out there willing to do anything about it. you hear these issues come up in congress, then you hear maybe in the next cycle we'll be able to tackle that. thank you of tax reform. americans across is country, they are all in favor of tax reform by large majorities. but nobody seems to have the political will to change these things. >> one word we heard in washington is accountability. government officials know the public wants accountability but there doesn't seem to be any. who was fired for any of these scandals. whose behavior is exposed and prosecuted? you don't see it in action. >> you think of eric shinseki saying w

bush administration, jeb is going to get asked about medicare part d., no child left behind, the iraq war. >> katrinaight. there, george w. bush saying we haven't really talked, i think we're going to see that interesting dance happen over and over again. >> perhaps the more interesting thing from what president bush told me yesterday was he basically made a case for his brother. one that had to do with electability. take a listen. >> have a big state, he's confident he can reach out for people who believe that the republican party doesn't listen to them. >> that's an interesting thing to say, that jeb can reach out to people who jeb thinks people don't listen to him. presumably he's talking about younger voters, latinos, women. it's pure electability. >> absolutely. even as they fear that some of the baggage from the bush name would be a problem for him, even as they fear that he might have a hard time getting through a republican primary, he looks like someone who knows how to win an election. as his brother said there, was the governor of the -- the popular governor of a purple state and they are

administration about the same problems for 10 or 15 years? >> the creed scandal was percent began dick and came together with katrina to create an image of incompetence. >> what happened there? where is walter reed new? that is a problem with journalism, we don't follow-up. have things improved at creed? >> creed is being converted to housing and it will be no longer a hospital but a big new development. >> because there are so many v.a. facilities around the country, and we have all been enured to this, that it is a mess and until we got the secret waiting list and the suggestions of coverup, that is what the story was lacking. >> in defense of the v.a. going back to all they deal with, with so few resources, they don't do such a bad time with the marketing studies done she that the average patient of the v.a. gives it a high score, in some cases higher scores than civilian hospitals. i have heard a last veterans can't get in. it is the lack of access. >> a problem is, the rules forgetting access, getting benefits, those rules are kafkian but that is a separate problem from those in the system. >> you have to look, now, there has been a decision mad