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with your questions for leo shane, the deputy editor of the military times.are you hearing from veterans groups and even on capitol hill about these changes? guest: from veterans groups and veterans it is panic right now. a lot of concern about how deep these cuts will be, how well they are thought out. we have seen some of the veterans groups pull back from their concerns. we heard from the administration and from secretary collins that they will do less of a chainsaw approach and more of a scalpel approach trying to really look for wasteful positions, things that might not be needed. we've heard some optimism for veterans groups saying if they're looking at making v.a. more efficient over the long-term of course they support that. they are worried about are those friday night 5000 6000 people laid off or dismissed for questionable reasons without really any context of what they provide and what they are doing. on capitol hill it's been interesting. democrats have been furious over this, they say the administration is eviscerating the department and cripplin

with your questions for leo shane, the deputy editor of the military times.are you hearing from veterans groups and even on capitol hill about these changes? guest: from veterans groups and veterans it is panic right now. a lot of concern about how deep these cuts will be, how well they are thought out. we have seen some of the veterans groups pull back from their concerns. we heard from the administration and from secretary collins that they will do less of a chainsaw approach and more of a scalpel approach trying to really look for wasteful positions, things that might not be needed. we've heard some optimism for veterans groups saying if they're looking at making v.a. more efficient over the long-term of course they support that. they are worried about are those friday night 5000 6000 people laid off or dismissed for questionable reasons without really any context of what they provide and what they are doing. on capitol hill it's been interesting. democrats have been furious over this, they say the administration is eviscerating the department and cripplin

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as leo shane -- was saddled six times last night. as the ocean mentions, there was no mention of veterans or veteran issues in the speech. trump only said better and wants in reference to the man killed at his campaign rally over the summer. that is some of the speech by the numbers. we will get more into it throughout these three hours on washington journal today. host: and we will hear from you. john in san antonio, publican line, go ahead on the president's speech last night. caller: yeah, i think the speech was excellent, it was one of the most i think i ever heard. my question, has a member of congress ever been thrown out like that before? i don't think i've ever seen that. host: good question, we can try to find that out. frank, delaware, democrat. caller: i listened to it, and he said you can have free speech as long as you don't speak that about him. he threw that guy out, and, secondly, i did not hear him say anything about how he will lower medicine to help people. and nothing about medical. and he is talking about all the

as leo shane notes, there was no mention of veterans or veterans issues in the speech.trump only said veteran once in reference to corey comperatore. that is some of the speech by the numbers. we will get more into it throughout these three hours today. host: we will hear from you during the course of this time. john incentive tony of starts us off. go ahead on the president's speech last night. caller: i think the speech was excellent. it was one of the best i think i've ever heard. my question though is as a member of congress never been thrown out like that before? i don't think i have ever seen that. host: good question. we could try to find that out. frank in delaware. caller: i listened to it and he says you can have free speech as long as you don't speak bad about him. he threw that guy out and i think that was uncalled for. secondly, i didn't hear him say anything about how he will lower medicine to help people. nothing about medical. he's talking about all the fraud in social security and so forth. he's a habitual liar. and i tell you, i watched it for a while