patrick murphy you have a family member in the room with the president right now? >> yes, my cousin colonel geno rapone is there in bagram air force base and i know that his child and wife are back home watching and pretty proud. >> when you were in iraq, did you get a visit from the president? >> yes, in the second deployment deployment, yes, and president bush surprised us and came over to the then baghdad airfield for thanksgiving. and it was surprising although those of us on the ground knew it was coming to prep for it. >> and one of the lines that came out of the speeches there, and kristen noted the bilateral security agreement, and how large of a footprint should we have in that country moving forward? >> well, it is interesting, because president obama when he got into office tripled the size of afghanistan and smoked out bin laden and then smoked him out out, and then he did start to drawback. the first comment in the speech was about the size, and then the bilateral security agreement -- >> well let's listen to what the president said and for the viewers

patrick murphy was the first veteran of the iraq war to serve in congress.now a msnbc contributor. patrick, i start with that question. you just heard that john boehner is actually kind of waiting to see what happens, and is not immediately calling for shinseki's resz ig nation, but so many of his colleagues on the other side of the aisle are. what do you suppose that's happening now? >> well, because these allegations, joy, are so outrageous. to have over 1,400 veterans on this phantom secret waiting list to get care, care they've earned, is potentially criminal negligence. because allegedly there's 40 veterans that have died because of it. it's not often, joy, i agree with speaker boehner. but in this case, i do. shinseki made it clear when he found out about these allegations, he immediately ordered the ig to investigate. and he's now called just about 30 minutes ago, called for a face-to-face audit in every va hospital across the country. that's the least we can do. we have to get over on top of this to make sure these veterans are getting taken care of

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and joining me now to discuss all of this is patrick murphy, a former congressman and iraq war veteran contributor. thanks for being here. is the american legion right? ? >> well, ari, i'm a member of the american legion. and i don't think we need to take the step of saying -- calling for general shinseki or secretary shinseki's resignation. but i will tell you that if anyone has known or should have known of veterans' records being falsified they should absolutely be fired. there are two instances of two whistleblowers, one in phoenix, one in fort collins, colorado showing that records were falsified. we need to get to the bottom of this asap because let me tell you, the real tragedy, ari, are these veterans who lost their lives and their families and also the 99% of those men and women that work busting their tails every day supporting these veterans within the va clinics all across this country. that's who's -- they're the victims, beside those veterans who tragically lost their lives. and it's these knuckleheads who falsified documents to make themselves look better that need to be

here is patrick murphy, and lynn sweet of the chicago sun-times. patrick, i don't know. there that this is a ten-year thing and they have to keep the pressure on and look where we are winning these other races. i look at it and i say, the battle looks like it is over. the tea party scared the republican establishment. the republican establishment responded by embracing the tea party. am i missing something? >> no. the tea party has already won. they have brought the republican party so far to the right that after these primaries, they saw, because people like dick lugar and castle and delaware, every republican, their playbook is, we can't get primaries. will that motivate the democratic base to come out and vote. will they be scared enough and will the independents be scared enough. you look at places like north carolina, which should be the republican strong hold. tillis is on record saying he is not sure if he is for the minimum wage. he is denying global warming and places like in arkansas where tom cotton has talked about raising the medicare age. they are going so

>>> i'm patrick murphy. thank you for joining us.in a surprise visit, president obama just landed in afghanistan where he's meeting with his military commanders and will be addressing our troops. he also brought along the gift for the troops. a concert for brad paisley. alex. >> that's a very big gift for those troops. thank you so much. the president will not meet with afghan president karzai today. for more on the tripl let's tur to kristin welker. do we expect to hear from the president? >> reporter: we do expect to hear from him later today. he's getting briefed about the situation on the ground in afghanistan. i'm going to read you some of the people in that meeting right now. joined by the president ambassador cunningham, general dunford. susan rice as well as john pedesta who is a counselor to the president. he has a son who is serving in afghanistan as well as ben rhodes and other top officials. once that briefing wraps up then president obama is going to head to that concert that you're looking at right now with brad paisley

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. >> former congressman patrick murphy was the first veteran of the iraq war to serve in congress.nd host of "taking the hill which airs on msnbc. what happens next, sir? >> craig, heads need to roll. anybody who falsified or knew about the falsification of the veterans records needs to go. the general has suspended several people. let's make sure we get accountability and justice. it needs to be swift. this week the general will testify at congress. i'm glad the media and congress is providing oversight. we can't let this happen. let's make sure we make the system issic changes needed. i know the v.a. has put forward a new administrator for the veterans health care system. dr. jeff morowski. he needs to be confirmed asap to make sure it never happens again. >> there have been a number of calls for shins secki's head. do you think he bears sole responsibility for what happened? >> as of now the facts i know, no, i don't. i joined the legion 20 years ago. i disagree with them. i side with speaker boehner and veterans of foreign wars who have not called for his resignation. until we

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former congressman, patrick murphy, first iraq war veteran elected to congress. governor dean, from a management perspective, having run the party in a state, what do you think is most important here? >> first, let's look at shinseki's record. only one telling the truth when secretary of defense and the vice president were lying through their teeth about the war in iraq. shinseki told congress how many troops would be needed and got fired for it. a guy with integrity. from a managementer speck tiff. they have 24 hours to fix this or he has to go. i don't think he has gun anything wrong. he need to clean house. he need to fire a whole lot of people. and, both he and the president are notorious for being so careful and thinking everything through before nay act. now is the time for action. i think he can be saved. but he has got to act now. they have 24 hours to fire about 25 or 30 people. >> congressman. what's your take. how about the governor's point that, that they may be too careful on rolling out what they're doing to reform this when obviously a certain leve

political columnist congressman patrick murphy and he's the first iraq war vet to serve in congress and he's also an america s nbc contributor. gentlemen, thank you so much for your time. >> hi, tamron. >> patrick, i'll start with you on this, and looking at the numbers and the information coming from the report we were told a lot of the decisions would be made pending this information that's been revealed that's been stunning. the numbers are absolutely staggering to hear that people waited 115 days. it goes beyond unacceptable. >> i absolutely agree with you, tamron. this is criminal negligence. the folks who doctored the books and may have resulted in veterans' lives being lost is absolutely unacceptable and general shinseki called me yesterday on this issue and the report that he ordered which came out yesterday, he's now relieved seven people, the three people in phoenix, one person in wyoming and one person in north carolina and then the head of the veterans health administration. so his top person for health care in the va was asked to resign early. so that happened now, but he a

. >>> joining me now is iraq war veteran patrick murphy and host of msnbc "taking the hill." two tours in iraq and leadership fellow for the afghanistan veterans of america. thank you for joining me, fellows. >> thank you. >> patrick, we heard from pete on the possible criminal charges. you're a lawyer. do you believe there were criminal actions here? >> there might be, alex opinion a -- and i wouldn't be surprised if they were. bloom bloom bloomenthal has called for an investigation. we know cooking the books and falsifying data up the chain of command but if they knowingly did that to get a bonus, that is frauding the government. so, quite frankly, there could be. now, again, we need to have an investigation and need to see but a different type of investigation with the ig is doing right now within the v.a. it is a separate department of justice fbi investigation that folks like senatthe senator is calling for. >> do you think the right decision for shinseki to resign? >> i served under general shinseki and will tell you he is a man of integrity. he served over five decades

patrick murphy also. one of these gentlemen should get the job or someone else? the job next if they don't have the direct access to the president and if they don't put forth an honest assessment of the v.a. needs. v.a. has their own analysis of construction which is roughly $2 billion a year. they have not asked for. it so what we need is an honest assessment. the next person coming in needs to do that. >> do you think more people other than shinseki need to go as well? do we need to see an entire new leadership there? >> that, i don't know. i certainly think that we allow these inspector general to find out how in depth this nd wrongdoing is and hold those people accountable. also the secretary has started audits. the v.a. believes we need independent third party experts go out on the audits and look what the we found. >> i wonder if the modern v.a. with as many veterans, thank god to modern medicine, they are surviving, but they are coming home and they need care. can the modern v.a. care for every veteran should some get vouchers and the v.a. hospitals reserv