you saw him in that piece and ralph peters a fox news analyst. gentlemen, thank you both for being here. let me start with you. in the words of barack obama, this is a disgrace. what has changed, what has changed in the last month versus what we've been seeing over the past six years when it comes to the treatment of veterans in this health care system? >> unfortunately, we see nothing changing. that's the problem. we really expected the secretary shin second -- shinseki and make changes necessarily immediately but we haven't seen that. >> ralph, i know you were a defender of general shinseki and he has few because people are so concerned about veterans. make the case for why this distinguish man that served our country so loyally and nonetheless is overseeing an agency plagued by such failures should stay in his role. >> well, megyn. blaming general shinseki for problems that have developed over more than a half sen cu cure -- century is like blaming your doctor for cancer. who would you replace him with? who wants this thankless job. people say

you want a name ralph peters? >>eah.y. >> guy up in maine answered goal with you. >> need somebody who has run large organizations. >> come on, you know if a commander is embarrassed like that, the commander is replaced. you know that. >> so shinseki, maybe it's not his fault. it doesn't matter. under his watch, this is chaos. he goes. bring in new blood. >> okay, i am convinced the v.a. will never have a better more dedicated leader than shinseki. bill, let me use this great platform have you built to talk directly to congress. democrats and republicans alike. stop playing politics with this issue. it's about our vets. it's not about your re-election or election campaign. and by the way. blame shinseki, congress holds the purse strings, congress refuses to reform the civil service regulations that allow this to happen. congress is supposed to exercise oversight of it. instead you have somebody like senator burr attacking the fbi because they won't call for shinseki's resignation? and by the way i don't think senator bur

jeff miller chairman of the house committee and lieutenant colonial ralph peters who is an analyst.nks both for being here. let me start with you. it's a sad day to see general shinseki go but in the end, did it have to happen? >> it did. he had lost the faith of the american people, and certainly, the people that were mid level burr ocrats didn't feel they had to tell him the truth. it was a sad day because this gentleman is a good american. the focus has been on him thus far but you can hear john boehner there redirecting to mr. shinseki's boss. your thoughts on the president. >> the president took three weeks before he came out and acre knowledged the gravity of the situation. we've had veterans that have died. they have known this for a number of years. they admitted 23 veterans died because they were waiting for care and for the president to have gone forward with the attitude just showed another lack of leadership on his part but again, i'm trying not to make this political. this is about the veterans and the people who have earned the benefit that they are supposed to get and

lieutenant colonel ralph peters has a concern. >> stop playing politics with this issue!ds the purse strings! congress refuses to reform the civil service regulations and allow this to happen! congress doesn't exercise oversight and instead you have someone like. >> reporter: bird attacking the vfw because they won't call for shinseki's resignation? i don't think senator burr ever served in the military. congress, you're a disgrace! >> the vfw now has called for mr. shinseki to step down. >> yes. colonel ralph peters, big supporter of shinseki, saying that give him more time and he should be able to do it and calling on congress and saying you're the ones to blame. but the problem is, you just heard there from elizabeth's report, this has expanded to 42 medical facilities for the v.a. and that there i phoenix, they were showing up, waiting for 24 days when it was really 115 days. if congress doesn't have the correct information, how are they supposed to know what to do? >> i like your plan from the first hour. let's start winding it down. let's just get some of that money

colonel ralph peters has spoken out on behalf of shinseki. says it's a vast bureaucracy not easy for anyone to manage. and those who say general shinseki is a veteran who was wounded in combat and he wants to help these veterans. but the real thing they want to get at is we understand general shinseki cares about veterans but can he effectively manage this massive department in order to fix it and get the benefits to the veterans who need it? bill: some are saying it's bigger than shinseki. explain that. >> reporter: yes. it's also about the commander in chief. house majority leader eric cantor came out with a strong statement saying he thinks there has been a pattern here at the white house where basically cabinet secretaries take the heat for the president. they take the blame and the responsibility on healthcare. there are other republicans like the chair of the house veterans affairs committee who says the president has to get for involved. >> they have sent somebody over from the white house. unfortunately i think it's more crisis mode,

question to you, david, as somebody who has some political experience is, former lieutenant colonel ralph peters on fox a couple times this week saying where was the outrage in the bush 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

leave shinseki alone, they say. >> colonel ralph peters said blaming shinseki is like blaming your doctor cancer. it is something that has been going on for decades. the root of the problem is not shinseki. it is the bureaucracy. >> it is a problem that has been ongoing for 50 years. it is not a new thing. he's been in control of this for four to six years. this is getting to a different point. we're having our military vets especially this weekend saying this is a problem. a lot of local grass roots efforts are saying something has to be done. >> if the administration is not going to do anything about it, been sort of quiet on this, the president didn't address it, he made passing mention of their health yesterday in afghanistan. a lot of talk about if the congress isn't doing anything, the president, where is eric holder, the head of the department of justice? and senator blumenthal saying we need to have a d.o.j. investigation on what exactly is unfolding at the v.a. listen. >> i believe that the department of justice has to be involved. i've urged secretary shinseki privately and in f

we're joined by loot colonel ralph peters, fox news strategic analyst.ave you with us this morning, colonel. >> thank you, martha. martha: you say you support eric shinseki. do you expect that the president is going to fire him this morning? >> well, i hope not because martha, i will tell you, the veterans administration is never, never, going to have a better, more honorable and dedicated boss than eric shinseki. he is not the problem. the problem has been that, in the federal system, whether civil service or federal unions, you can't get rid of the dead wood, you can't get rid of scrammers, you can't get rid of the bums. by the way, it is very hard to hire quality people. now general shinseki undo 350 years of neglect and underfunding in five years. he actually made progress. while the va has a lot of room for improvement and you've got to get the bad actors out of there like people in phoenix, nonetheless i have to say i think the media has been very one-sided. my personal friends get treated by the va system i don't know one that feels they had infer

ralph peters has said this isn't general shinseki's fault. obviously the problem has possibly grown. who would you put at the helm of this investigation. where do we go from here? >> we agree this is a complex issue. the reason why was general shinseki hired? he was hired to come into the va he brought him into the va and make these problems go away. this isn't something that is new. it was 20010 that outlined this exact problem. we have seen failed leadership there. if this is a venue you relieve the duty. >> this is really, are willy, really hard. it takes time to fix it. it breaks my heart vets are being treated so badly but suddenly it's a crisis. i am not a defender of president obama by any means. this is a long standing problem. >> let me ask you this. i get that. why didn't barack obama come out this week and say he knew about this. this is a severe backlog for patients trying to become backers. they were actively working to cover it up. they were told about that and also about the coverup. why a wouldn't he come out and say this is w

colonel ralph peters fox news strategic analyst. the things i mentioned in the lead what is the most dangerous to you, colonel? >> most dangerous thing is what you alluded to but didn't mention and that's the collapse of america's strategic capability under the obama regime. now, the specific cases, bill, long term i would worry most about china. midterm, boy, you better worry about iran's continuing nuclear programñr because it is going to start a significant war in the middle east that could spread. short-term, of course. in the place of loss of american credibility. syria. not only because on our watch, over 160,000 people have died. 160,000 plus but also, the president's empty threats encouraged bad actors around the world. including vladimir putin and strategically beyond our shores, the number one issue i worry about is putin, establishing or reestablishing the precedent that you can invade a neighboring counj2- with military force and pay no penalty. i will tell you, bill, our strategic position is an absolute shambles. it's

lieutenant colonel ralph peters. appreciate your time. >> thank you, bill.artha: an hollywood icon being protested by the hollywood's elite. why the beverly hills hotel is connected to sharia law. we'll tell you what is going on there. bill: mace terry now. an 88-year-old man found brutally murdered. his elderly wife missing. no sign of a struggle. the house, quote, in immaculate condition. what happened outside of atlanta, georgia? >> it's a tremendous darkness around this whole thing and we don't know the source of that darkness. we don't know what the motivation was. avo: with expedia you always get the lowest price book any flight or hotel and if you find it for less we'll match it and give you fifty dollars back that's the expedia guarantee trwith secure wifie for your business. it also comes with public wifi for your customers. not so with internet from the phone company. i would email the phone company to inquire as to why they have shortchanged these customers. but that would require wifi. switch to comcast business internet and get two wifi networks

war and he's an iraq and afghanistan veteran and another veteran among us, lieutenant colonial ralph petersst. welcome to you and thank you both for your service before we get started. >> i was only a veteran of german burros. >> a veteran nonetheless. colonial, i'll start with you. there are a lot of folks calling for the secretary to step down. he's a decorated guy, he is an experienced guy. the va is a mess. what say you? >> first of all, i certainly feel our veterans deserve the very best care this country can give them at any cost and i certainly believe that the va has a long way to go to continue to improve, but you can't blame general shinseki for 50 years of under funding and neglect. he can't fix that in five years, and shannon, i am not going to join the lynch mob, the washington lynch mob to not only get an honorable veteran, lost a foot, served in uniform for almost 30 years, retired as chief of staff for the army and you know what, shannon? he could do what so many senior admirals do, he could have got out and prostituted himself to the defense industry, made millions of dolla

. >> here with reaction, fox news military analyst colonial ralph peters.aking one more step and that next step would be oh, it's the united states' responsibility and if only we would help them out financially then they would like us more and there would be less terrorism in the world. do you take it that way? >> no, these people are cowards who won't face the facts. we know prep school john kerry didn't understand poverty. it's clear he doesn't understand terrorism. if poverty causes terrorism, pennsylvania where i come would be terrorists. black america, christian america is poor. look at the poor christians and latin america. look at the poor hindus, why is it that islam, radical islam produces and has a monopoly on terrorism? this is crazy to say it isn't about religion. if it's not about islam, help me out here. where are the orthodox jewish suicide bombers and methodists in the marketplace? the first step, sean, in solving any problem is recognizing it. the problem is not every muslim and islam but radical islam fosters terrorism. there is nothing cl

ralph peters is clearly a right wijer, always has bad things to say about the left.support the left. but you know, let's be fair to say the left is not mindful of this. >> that's not true. jon: i think it comes back to the point that jim was suggesting earlier, that to send out a tweet is different from, you know, getting your hands dirty, getting involved in the issue. >> one does not mean you're not doing the other. >> it sort of does. >> it does not. >> the obama ainistration did. they're not naming the nigerian terrorist group as a terrorist group. they were worried about their multi cultural responsibilities or and like that so they didn't do it. this is how this thing happened. the french were much tougher in and a few countries to the north in mali because they didn't let this happen there. and we have not been living up to the standards set by the french. >> what we're talking about here in terms of social hashtag activism is raising global consciousness and that is a very, very important thing to be able to do and it's one of the gret benefits of living in t

colonel ralph peters fox news strategic analyst.he things i mentioned in the lead what is the most dangerous to you, colonel? >> most dangerous thing is what you alluded to but didn't mention and that's the collapse of america's strategic capability under the obama regime. now, the specific cases, bill, long term i would worry most about china. midterm, boy, you better worry about iran's continuing nuclear programñr because it is going to start a significant war in the middle east that could spread. short-term, of course. in the place of loss of american credibility. syria. not only because on our watch, over 160,000 people have died. 160,000 plus but also, the president's empty threats encouraged bad actors around the world. including vladimir putin and strategically beyond our shores, the number one issue i worry about is putin, establishing or reestablishing the precedent that you can invade a neighboring counj2- with military force and pay no penalty. i will tell you, bill, our strategic position is an absolute shambles. it's am

ralph peters analyst. the chairman of the house armed services committee, all right? buck mcken none, is he a republican, all right? republican congressman from california. he says that lovell, the man you just heard, the general over in europe in charge of the afri-con situation. didn't have reliable insight into operational options available during the benghazi attacks. plk ken none basically saying ignore this guy. what do you say colonel peters. >> i don't reads it that wait a minute general lovell, who is a j 2, central intelligence in afri-con never claimed. i heard in his testimony. he said he did not know exactly what options were available militarily. but what he did know, what every man and woman in uniform, what every man and woman who ever wore a u.s. military uniform knew is you do all you can to rescue americans under fire. and, you know, you just can't blame this on the military, bill. as you know, our military cannot act independently against a sovereign state. >> i was going to ask you that the military in europe where the forces would have to come fr

ralph peters with a full throated defense of shinseki. >> peters can be a con contrarian.research, i'm very interested in the military people you are going to have on the air. what's the essential problem? why can't they get the treatment they need in a timely manner? >> it sounds to me like from talking to the witnesses this could boil down to a big government problem. i mean, it's a huge agency. it services so many veterans, including, you know, today with the retirement and aging of the vietnam veterans and now so many combat vets coming back from war. it's not an excuse. but it's it the explanation in part for why the problem has gotten so bad. we also seem to have a president who trusts his cabinet secretary and doesn't necessarily get his own hands dirty when he has a problem. you know, he doesn't really get in there get the elbow grease going and figure out what's happened and how to fix it until yet another coffee catastrophe has taken place. he hasn't met with general shinseki one-on-one in two years, bill. despite describing this as the cause of his presidency wh

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colonel ralph peters on that. >> even if you do not think there is one chance in hell you connect tocans you try, you go after them. our military is put on a short leash. martha: we have some breaking news for you. the house oversight committee chairman darrell issa has issued a subpoena for john kerry to testify before congress about the ins and outs of the benghazi documents, 40 some of which have had some light shed on them this weekend brought a whole lot of attention back to this benghazi story. requiring john kerry to appear before the committee to answer the question at a public hearing on may 21. the state department's response the congressional investigation of the benghazi attacks has shown a disturbing disregard the department's legal obligations with a subpoena for these documents is not a game because they are failing to meet the legal obligations commission a new subpoena you to come before the committee to answer those questions about your agencies space bar the investigation of the benghazi attacks. strong words from darrell issa. bill: now you start to see this momen

colonel ralph peters is here.merican left, and all the feminists, have spent more energy defending a handful of terrorist thugs in gitmo than defending the rights of brutally oppressed women throughout the islamic world. now suddenly it's the beverly hills hotel and the polo lounge. they're protesting that, even though -- for years, the stars have been staying at the fairmont, which is owned by saudis, staying at the four seasons. it's almost half owned by a saudi. how are women's rights doing in saudi arabia right now? my problem essentially is simply this: tell your viewers something, i'm not a republican. i am an independent and on ethical jon stewart middle ground. i am pro-choice. but the notion that the left has created this lie about republican war on women while they are ignoring the brutality, brutal treatment of women, boko haram, obviously. you have women being punished for being raped. you have general mutilation -- genital mutilation. you have stoning to death, but also the slavery, oppression, the la

. >> we have colonel ralph peters that was on the show yesterday.said eric shinseki should stay because it's not his fault. it's congress's fault to get answers, the oversight. they have received $150 billion at the v.a. why does congress and the oversight capacity push the v.a. to do more? >> we have done that in the house. i'm chairman of the v.a. military construction appropriations committee and i found the fastest way to get the bureaucracy to move is to restrict their access to money until they get the job done. so when it comes to, for example, electronic medical record to be read by the v.a. when someone leaves the services, we fence off their money and say you don't get access to the rest of the mown until you get a electronic seamless medical record that can be read by the v.a. immediately. and we are approaching that in the house in the same way on all these issues doing everything we can through the appropriations process and the bills you mentioned, the dozens pieces of common sense legislation to make the v.a. responsible and move rapi

. >> here with reaction, ralph pet peters.'s a theme here and i think they take it one more step. the next step is it's the united states responsibility, if only we would help them out financially, they'd like us more and there would be less terrorism in the world. do you take it that way? >> no. these people are just cowards that won't face the facts in front of him. he doesn't understand terrorism. if poverty causes terrorism, people in my hometown would be terrorists. look at the poor christians in latin america and hindus in india. why is it that radical islam produces -- almost as a monopoly on modern terrorism? it is crazy to say this isn't about religion. if it's not about islam, please help me out here. where the orthodox jewish suicide bombers? where the methodists in placing bombs in the marketplace? the first step, sean, in solving any problem is recognizing the problem. the problem is not every muslim or everything islam. but radical islam fslam fosters radical terrorism. throughout history, the men who have founde

if you play lieutenant colonel ralph peters' sound from last night on bill o'reilly, that will set upou personal experience, bill, that at state there is a hard core lefty cadre who looks at our military as a bunch of blue collar -- >> but even if that's true -- >> come on, bill. give me 15 seconds. in a case like this, the military would have wanted to go. the white house would have said stand down. that will still come up because look. >> that would be huge. >> the rule is this, even if you do not think there is one chance in hell you can rescue those americans, you try. you try. you go after it. >> you have to try. that's when the air force colonel said -- general said yesterday. >> admiral mike mullen appointed by president bush, says there was no military assets available. i have investigated this from the air force assets to the special forces in tripoli and in italy and in other places. whatever was available in our fleet resources, there was no u.s. forces that could have intervened. there was no gunship available as the myth suggested. there was no stand down order given by c

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surprise in store for 2016, it looks like 2008 will have been the last time that ralph nader's presidential aspirations petered out in public. 2008. but he was not the only third party candidate running. there was also a libertarian candidate the for president in 2008 who got way more media attention than ralph nader did that year. he actually got quite a lot of fawning national press including this long, vaguely positive profile in "the new yorker magazine. "even with all that attention and lots and lots of cable news attention, he even appeared here on this show, with all that attention with none of the spoiler baggage that ralph nader carried over from 2000, still, that other third party candidate, that libertarian party candidate in 2008, he did even worse than ralph nader did that year. he came in fourth with 0.4% of the vote. he just bottomed out. and that was former georgia congressman bob barr running as a libertarian. bob barr had been a fire and brimstone social conservative, hard core republican. the he treated the impeachment of bill clinton as almost a religious crusade in the house. he was a lock