the republican running to replace tom coburn in the senate will be james lankford. that might have been a very different outcome had all of the national attention in this race and all of the conservative attention nationwide in the country not been on mississippi for the past three weeks. lots more ahead tonight, stay with us. >>> holyfield and mike tyson, a fight promoted as the sound and the fury. at the time, it was the richest and most watched a boxing match. it became known ever after for one thing, mike tyson took a bite out of holyfield's ear. he bit a chunk right off. his face tattoo, mike tyson, tough guy with a squeaky voice. you definitely know that mike tyson wants to off that guy's ear. today, 16 years in 361 days later, round two happened. kind of. that story is ahead. stay with us. we're moving our company to new york state. the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now i

corresponde >> reporter: according to a new report from republican senator and physician tom coburn more than 1,000 veterans may have died between 2001 and 2011 due to va mall practice, it cost billion dollars in partnership outs to veterans and families. quote the waiting list cover ups and uneven care are reflective of a much larger culture within the va. where administrator manipulate both data and employees to give an appearance that all is well.

in oklahoma, senator tom coburn's decision to retire early set off a scrambled to find a replacement and a backlash against a tried and true tactic. chief political correspondent carl cameron is in oklahoma city tonight watching a special election for a coveted job.

the latest allegations come from senator tom coburn who is congressman's top watcher. he's been tracking this story since even before the phoenix va facility. he actually offered amendments earlier this year on the senate trying to get to the bottom of this. his new report goes over that pelvic exam and breast exam situation you talked about. it also has instances of whistle blowers who tried to come forward and were punished and people were delaying care that were rewarded and it has really shocking instance of a police chief at a new york va facility so the chief of the police of this facility who has pleaded guilty to charges he was part of a conspiracy to kidnap, rape and murder basically a cliqolleague relative. bad acts discovered that were part of the 1r56r7va. >> was there not a bill that the house passed that would allow the people in charge of the va to be able to fire these managers, some of them who received bonuses for doing the wrong thing? whatever happened to that bill? >> reporter: that bill was going to house senate conference later this afternoon pro

to last fall when this story first aired. >> tom coburn: go read the statute.re's any job in the economy you can perform, you are not eligible for disability. that's pretty clear. so, where'd all those disabled people come from? >> kroft: the social security administration, which runs the disability program, says the surge in claims is due to aging baby boomers and the lingering effects of a bad economy. but senator tom coburn of oklahoma, the ranking republican on the senate subcommittee for investigations-- who's also a physician-- says it's more complicated than that. in 2012, his staff randomly selected hundreds of disability files, and found that 25% of them should never have been approved; another 20%, he said, were highly questionable. >> coburn: if all these people are disabled that apply, i want them all to get it. and then we need to figure out how we're going to fund it. but my investigation tells me and my common sense tells me that we got a system that's being gamed pretty big right now. >> kroft: and by a lot of different people exploiting a vulne

particularly for a seat that's been held forever and a day by republican tom coburn who is, himself, institution. i mean, the machine is there. the machine is in place to slide congressman james lankford into tom coburn's seat where oklahoma is red enough he could probably hold on to it for life if he wanted to. which is why it theoretically mattered so much to this senate race whether or not anyone was paying attention to it outside the state. because, frankly, nobody's been paying attention to it outside the state. i mean, if you want to beat the establishment, if you want to beat an entrenched establishment like that in oklahoma, you really need to be able to make some noise. you need some forced multipliers. you need national attention. but no noise has been heard from this oklahoma senate race because of the deafening din coming out of mississippi that started up three weeks ago. had it been different, had the mississippi senate race been settled, had thad cochran held on to his seat or chris mcdaniel beat him cleanly and there was no runoff tonight, we would have been talking a

in oklahoma, james lankford won the gop nomination to succeed tom coburn. he avoided a runoff by defeating six opponentrs including a tea party candidate with over 50% of the vote. >>> former president bill clinton came to his wife's defense after critics said former secretary of state hillary clinton is out of touch. it all began when hillary clinton said she and bill came out of the white house dead broke. today business insider ranks bill and hillary clinton as the wealthiest of the living first couples at over $30 million. in an entire with "meet the press" moderator david gregory, mr. clinton said it is true they were several million dollars in debt at that time. >> do you understand as a political matter that that could strike people as being out of touch. >> yeah, but she's not out of touch, and she advocated and worked as a senator for things that were good for ordinary people and before that all her life, i remember, she was working on trying to -- believing in paid leave for pregnant mothers in the 1970s. >> the entire exclusive interview with for

my name is tom coburn. as a physician and three-time cancer survivor, i know firsthand how frustrating the wait to see a doctor can be. the department of veterans affairs admitted this week that veterans must wait up to three months to get a doctor's appointment. these delays have been linked to unnecessary deaths and complications. this is unacceptable. it screams of government incompetency. but the problems at the va are far deeper than scheduling. getting to see a doctor, after all, does not guarantee quality care. just like the va is cooking the books to make wait times appear shorter, the department is also glossing over the growing number of hospitals with poor medical outcomes. in some locations, like boston and pittsburgh, va care is top notch. at others, such as at phoenix, it is very subpar. high death rates and complication rates are occurring at more and more va centers. and this information is not being shared with our veterans. i never served in the military, but like all americans, i have the

a race to replace senator tom coburn. a slight lead over former oklahoma house speaker.st as the establishment candidate, although the label does not really fit. shane, however, has the backing of tea party euros ted crews and it sarah palin's. we will see how that works out with much more on the implication of all of these races on midterm elections talking with former house speaker in just moments. on wall street today stocks fell with the dow down 119 points in the s and p13, nasdaq 185. the big board up to 3 billion shares to all of that in reaction to unexpected overflights of jet fighters and iraq which utilities the best performing sector. settling above $106 a barrel. gold up. the 10-year dropping. home prices up nearly 11% in may sales of new homes surged 19% to the highest level in six years. and consumer confidence rising to my highest level since january of 2008. the fed has been granted a 6-month extension of four large banks to the capital plans were rejected by stress tests earlier this year. a reminder to listen to my financial reports three times a day c

house correspondent and host of daily rundown chuck todd and from capitol hill, republican senator tom coburnk, first to you with poll numbers and then to our good friend tom. we always hear that foreign policy doesn't matter, foreign policy doesn't matter. it's hard to believe as you look at these poll numbers that bowe bergdahl and iraq and all of the -- >> syria. >> let's not forget ukraine. >> all these other foreign policy crises are weighing the president's numbers down. >> a total drag. never mind that at home va also hit him. this poll is a disaster for the president. what's interesting about it is it's not a disaster for the democrats. i'll separate that out in a minute. you look at the presidency here, lowest job rating, lowest on foreign policy. his administration seen as less competent than the bush administration, sorry nicolle. >> she's happy about that. >> she doesn't like that that's the standard. >> then on the issue of do you believe you can still lead, and a majority believe not. essentially the public is saying your presidency is over by saying a number like that, 54% sayi

tom coburn. here's what he took from the video. >> he had been drugged either with an antipsychotic or hypnotic drug. >> why do you say that? >> you could tell. his speech was slurred, he was having trouble reading. e he had been drugged. >> coburn emphasizes his observations are being made as a physician. he said he cleared a health check when he arrived in germany but his psychological condition may not be stable. >> when bergdahl left his post in 2009 and fell into the hands of the taliban, apparently it was not 9 first time he had wandered off from an assigned area. a report completed two months after bergdahl vanished says it happened twice before. came back both of those times and the report stopped short of saying he was a e deserter. the army sergeant is still recovering from the five years in captivity in a hospital in germany. that's where we find matthew chance this morning. matthew, give us a sense. we have learned more about his condition, haven't we? >> reporter: well a little bit m

the seat opened up when senator tom coburn announced his resignation. te politics last week on "morning joe." >> i think there will be a backlash from their -- oklahomans don't like being told who to vote for. if you'll recall in 2004 when i ran washington was telling them what republican to vote for and spent millions of dollars backing that individual. that individual ended up getting about 30% of the vote when i got 62. oklahomans -- as a matter of fact, there's been op eds written on it. they'd just as soon everybody stay out. >> tom coburn -- >> he is a smart guy, yes, he is. people listen to him in oklahoma. they certainly did last night. >> they did. what's interesting, coburn was very careful. he didn't fully take sides. boy, any time he thought things got over the line in the attacks on langford, he stepped in. it was interesting, he played referee here. campaigns matter. langford ran a good old-fashioned smart, statewide campaign, sort of nose to the grindstone, didn't play -- didn't worry about star power, didn't worry about the -- some people

in oklahoma, senator tom coburn's decision to retire early set off a scrambled to find a replacement backlash against a tried and true tactic. chief political correspondent carl cameron is in oklahoma city tonight watching a special election for a coveted job. >> reporter: republican congressman james langford is longing for more than 50% of the vote to win the special election primary and avoid a runoff with his top rival, t. w. shannon who is backed by out of state super p.a.c.s. >> what's the impact? >> amazing to me. they put over a million dollars just into negative ads. >> reporter: they portray shannon a conservative who won't compromise. >> i'm looking for somebody to stand up, be a fighter for oklahoma. >> reporter: the super p.a.c.s portrayed langford as weak. >> washington insiders like james langford will never change washington. >> reporter: many have attacked the out of state spending. >> no, i definitely don't know. it wasn't a negative ad. i do not. >> reporter: langford says shannon lacks experience. >> he thinks we should shut the government down and leave the gover

>> kroft: senator tom coburn says the congress pays out $135 billion to americans claiming to be disabledd a lot of them are not. >> if the american public knew what was going on in our system, half would be outraged and the other half would apply for benefits. >> kroft: we decided to look into what appears to be a large- scale disability scam. look, there are a lot of allegations out there that we wanted to talk to you about. >> i understand. >> pelley: you don't realize how overused the word "breathtaking" is until something actually takes your breath away.

>> yeah, we're failing. >> senator tom coburn, thanks for taking time out on a busy day. we appreciate it. >> you bet. >>> now to phoenix where a whistleblower claims the phoenix va tried to hide the deaths of at lea seven veterans. pauline typed deceased for the reason why a veteran missed an appointment. she says that was later changed to entered in error as if the patient was still alive. my next guest, not surprised, he blew the lid off this va scandal. dr. sam also worked at the phoenix va. doctor, you knew her, i believe. >> yes, we were working together very closely. i want to say pauline is really the unsung hero in this. had it not been for her i wouldn't have known nor would anybody else have known of the deaths at the phoenix va. >> part of senator coburn's report there criticized the possibility that whistleblowers would be retaliated against. and i just want to quote from a letter sent to the president by special counsel carolyn lerner. in it she writes "too frequently the va failed to use information from whistleblowers to identify and address systemic conce

>> kroft: senator tom coburn says the congress pays out $135 billion to americans claiming to be disabled, and a lot of them are not. >> if the american public knew what was going on in our system, half would be outraged and the other half would apply for benefits. >> kroft: we decided to look into what appears to be a large- scale disability scam. look, there are a lot of allegations out there that we wanted to talk to you about. >> i understand. >> pelley: you don't realize how overused the word "breathtaking" is until something actually takes your breath away.

he's looking to replace senator tom coburn. >> the solutions we bring are not for a certain group. they actually work in every state in our nation. >> and senator jiff hoffman went for his bid for a fourth term. he's now looking to secure a 23rd term. these primaries are seen as unlikely to be part of the makeup but they could cold lake the tea party. the most recent c bbs new york poll, it's down 51% from last december. >> thank you, susan. >>> this morning flood warnings and watches are posted in parts of texas and oklahoma, and severe thunderstorms are possible for the plains later today. damaging winds, hail, and tornadoes may develop as the storm system moves east. >>> a tornado hit central indiana yesterday afternoon. winds of 100 miles per hour threw an r.v. into a home. more than a dozen homes were damaged just southwest of indianapolis. no injuries are reported. >> scared to death. i didn't know what was going on. so i had to calm my grandkids down. i got one 6-year-old and 2-year-old and take care of them. >> when the guys come here and saved up, they said is anybody here

shannon lead a crowded republican field trying to fill senator tom coburn's term.tablishment. one leadership in washington and the other in oklahoma city. the latest sooner poll had langford in the lead narrowly. still undecide voters meaning there's enough candidates on the ballot to keep either one of them from getting to 50%. if neither candidate cracks 50%, get ready for round two. telling national review that langford says he supports a pathway to citizenship and, indeed, for juveniles and tried to connect the current crisis on the border to that. congressman james langford joins me on the phone now. happy election day to you, sir. >> happy election day to you as well. this is fun for you and the media, to be able to track us is sport. >> well, you're right. it's not always sport. t.w. shannon about your support essentially for a modified dream act. >> right. it's interesting in the last 24 hours that they're very, very behind it. now it's a launch out. the implication is these children coming from central america, somehow i would support them being able to st

very exclusive for the smallest area, and i don't see that coming at all. >> just give a sense, tom coburn is a frequent face here that we see. "morning joe," my show and some others. what will make you different from senator coburn? >> there are not two dr. coburns. this is like for conservatives to say where's the next ronald reagan. there's not another ronald reagan, there's not another dr. coburn. he's a very unique individual. we have very, very similar passions about debt, about budget, about trying to get some efficiency, about being an independent voice. we're very similar in those aspects but you're not going to get another dr. coburn on that. i do take the responsibility to walk into that seat if god willing i'm elected in november but i'm going to be exactly who i am and not try to repeat dr. coburn. but those things that he worked on, there's a lot of unfinished business. after ten years of him hammering away on duplication in government, we have yet to get rid of a lot of areas of duplication. we've got to get rid of those things. >> a lot of reporters love his annual report o

establishment contest and tonight there is actually seven candidates for tom coburn's senate seat.s he going to be retiring. this is a special election primary. james lancaster ford a two term congressman who came in on the 2010 wave and prior to that has spent most of his adult life in christian services industries didn't have much of a political experience at all is running against t.w. shannon former house speaker here in oklahoma. first ever black speaker and youngest speaker as well. in between these two candidates heck of a battle. much waged by super pacs. some aligned with the tea party and others from washington and antiestablishment mode. they put a lot of money into shannon and beat up lancaster ford quite a bit. most oklahoma republicans don't like the negative attacks and in the case of tom coburn outgoing senator himself who has iconic stature in this state they say the ads are unfair should shut up and let okys make the decision. polling mid 40s. takes eplus% in order to win this outright there. is a distinct possibility he could be doing that tonight. if not it will

i hope that my colleagues democrat and republican will follow the leadership of senator tom coburn republican from almost -- oklahoma and a swingman tom carper democrat from delaware who is supporting this nomination. with that i yield back the floor and i note the absence of a quorum. cbs this afternoon we are going to vote on the nomination of ms. burwell to be secretary of hhs. i'm going to support that nomination. i take the floor now to other people to some problems that i think she is going to face and hopefully she can correct them. .. em. it's our responsibility to make sure that those are enforced according to the intent of congress. when they aren't, we have a responsibility to point that out. that's what i will be doing. and i hope that these things i point out along with what other colleagues will be saying this morning, she will be able to correct. but we also have a situation but we also have a situation we also have a situation where congress passed the affordable care act, and in that process the president has done a lot of things the some of us think are illegal and maybe in

in an exclusive interview with cnn, senator tom coburn, also a medical doctor, flatly disagreed withsident obama's assessment. >> you saw the proof of life video. >> yeah. >> what did you think of it? >> he'd been drugged. either with an antipsychotic or hypnotic drug. >> reporter: what makes you say that? >> because you can tell. it's easy. his speech was slurred. he was having trouble reading. he had what's called mistagmus. he'd been obviously drugged. >> reporter: you're not just speaking as a senator? >> i'm speaking as a doctor, yeah. >> reporter: you don't think it's possible he just could have been beaten up? >> no, not at all. that's a total response to medication. >> you might be wondering where can you see this video? well, you can't yet. president obama has arrogantly decided we americans are not smart enough to see it and make up our own minds, but have faith, i'm certain in the near future the taliban will release it. in the "crossfire" tonight, mark jacobson and claire lopez. mark, don't you think it's reasonable, since this apparently was said to the senators last nig

. >> reporter: senator tom coburn claims 1,000 vets may have lost their lives waiting. >> when i hear about we need more providers or more money, i just go nuts. >> this is ludicrous. >> reporter: lawmakers fear it could cost $50 billion to allow veterans to see private doctors. but they're concerned if they don't allow veterans to see private doctors when the v.a. is backed up, then the situation will just get worse. richard? >> nbc's tracie potts in washington for us, thank you. >>> some other stories we'rele toing, backtrack after gary oldman apologizing after controversial comments in a playboy interview on mel gibson's 2006 anti-semitic remarks saying gibson is a town that's run by jews and he said the wrong thing because he's actually bitten the hand that bit him. yesterday oldman initialized saying, quote, upon reading my comments in print, i see how insensitive they may be and how they may contribute to the furtherance of a stereotype. >>> a girl allegedly asked to leave a kfc because of facial scars insisting it's not a hoax. her grandma sticking by the story. >>> two android

he is a huge fan long-standing but tom coburn and i only got to know her for the last year now. we think she has done a terrific job at omb and she will do a terrific job at the department of health and human services but i want to say a special thank you to her parents who are still alive and live in west virginia. the real thank you for raising doubt one but two young women including sylvia's younger sister stephanie instilling values and the kind of education that have enabled them both to go on to do extraordinary things with their lives. i wanted to say thank you to steven who propose marriage to then sylvia matthews at the bluestone dam on the new river all those years ago. i want to thank him for sharing his wife at their country. the start tough and demanding jobs and in some cases thankless jobs. he is willing to take on extra responsibilities as a dad to help raise the children who were under the age of 10. i think matthew was maybe four years old and they know that their mom is changing jobs and they know she still has a job. it's a huge job. is there work to do? sure

have putch, tom coburn together proposals in the senate .e basic point is that republicans do need to be better about articulating solutions and not just saying we don't like the law. >> we would all agree that there is a problem that needs to be solved. you can have millions of americans with no health insurance. you have to find some way of getting them on board. otherwise it makes it more expensive for those of us who do have health insurance. >> the status quo before obamacare was unacceptable. republicans have to own up to that fact. the basic point is that they have to be able to say, we have a weight which were people who have previous conditions are able to get access to affordable health insurance. disrupt that does not those who already have insurance. >> do you think the obamacare push was the only compromise democrats could think of? they knew it would not work out well. >> that is the unfortunate reality of our political system. people have to say things to sell a particular piece of legislation. a lot of things were said about

james lankford is leading state rep tw shannon in the race to replace tom coburn. watch, carl? >> this doesn't represent what is happening on the ground but it is put in national slogan. this is a seven candidate rate for a vacant soon to be senate. there is a tough battle for the first ever black legislative speaker. there are seven candidates running. lankford leads the pole but it takes 50% to win or it will go to a run off and if there is it will be between lankford and shannon. he was campaigning in edmond this morning and trying to combat the ongoing battle against tea party ads that have been putting money into shannon's campaign and calling him essentially s the argument necessary experience that shannon lacks. >> tom coburn and jim inholfe served in the house first so there is yunique preparation fo that to get the foreign policy and the federal budget that is different. so there are those dynamics. >> he was an 83 percent plus rating from the conservatives. and mr. shannon is a poplar republican and making the argument he is not a washington insider. this

. >> tom coburn leading the charge.find out more what is going on teva, started well before the scandal erupted, absolute financial malfeasance. what's the recourse? >> one of the recourses is replacing someone who can do the job. 80% of the phoenix va management were given performance bonuses. 100% of senior management in the va system, systemwide received a positive job review. $10 million to phoenix in bonuses, $400 million systemwide for performance bonuses. you have to stop that. this whistle blower said she was told to take a picture of people who were on a waiting list and put it in the desk because it wasn't going to get on the waiting list. she said she had literally thousands of pieces of paper. it's a failure of management. there's plenty of money there. they just need the right people in place. do a sweeping change. get rid of a bunch of people. >> greg, to that point, get rid of a bunch of people that would include the bureaucrats. how does it happen that a culture develops in an organization where they thi

lang ford was a church camp director and now republican candidate for that senate seat that tom coburn is leaving. and in the meantime charlie rangel is calling himself the winner. though a draino espaill at is not consoweded yet. >> fox news alert. and a federal appeal's court ruled that utah cannot ban gay marriage. we heard that ruling from a federal judge regarding indiana earlier in the day. and this is a federal appeal's court that upheld a lower court ruling and striking down utah's gay marriage ban. the panel put that ruling on hold so that it can be appealed to the entire u.s. circuit court of a polls and perhaps to the supreme court. this will affect utah and the other states that are part of the 10th circuit and the ruling is on hold now. and a lot of people think it is something that the supreme court will take up because a number of states and federal judges ruled in state after state that gay marriage must be allowed to proce proceed. whether or not the supreme court agrees is yet to be determined. we'll stay with that on fox. >>> and revise settlement on the concussion c

senator tom coburn releasing the findings the results of a year long investigation of va hospitals around country. coburn allege the problems go way beyond wait list. va paid out more than $1 billion to veterans and families as a result of medical malpractice. it alleges criminal activity including drug dealing, theft and murder. coburn blames not only the agency but congress for poor over sight. >> well a lot of rain expected in the midwest. if you lived there this morning. >> maria molina is standing by. she can bring us the latest. >> hello heather and ainsley. we have this weakening cold front moving eastward. with it we have a lot of moisture. we are seeing areas of rain across the midwest in states like illinois even across eastern parts of missouri and south across the state of mississippi. this system will move forward over the next few days we are expected to see efrl inches of rainfall across interior portions of the northeast and across texas. today we expect impacted travel. showers and storms in the forecast so we could be seeing delays. delays as well forecast in atlanta and

tom coburn released a scatting report. over the past decade a thousand veterans may have died because of va ma lfesance. and the va paid out thousands for medical malpractice. it is reflective of a larger culture within the va where admen straighters manipulate data and employees to give an appearance that all is well. the departmental review is launched and due to be completed in 14 days. in the meantime va officials are taking heat on capitol hill. numerous law makers expressed concern and saying that the admip straighters get the gravity of the situation. here is the colorado republican. >> i am stunned that you would call this with all of the information that has come out, i don't think we are at the bottom of all of this yet, that you would call this a good system? i think it is absolutely stunning, and i just, i just think that the veterans administration is the most mismanage approximated agency of the federal government. >> both the house and senate in response to the va croisis. they will hammer out details to get

in oklahoma, seven candidates are compete to go replace tom coburn.ody issue. williams said it didn't dawn on her that she would have to take off her clothes. >>> she's been one of the biggest stars in women's golf for years. but since she turned 13. this weekend michelle wie scored her first major title and believe me, she's smiling right now. her two stroke victory gave her that trophy. you keep it for a year. congratulations. >> thank you. >> how special is it being that they predicted this years ago? >> it's crazy. i feel like i'm in a dream right now. it feels like a dream come true for me. i'm on cloud nine right now. so grateful. so honored to be part of this club. >> we are so impressed and congratulations. you've been making good use of the cup. i saw an instagram. we have a photo we'll put up. i believe someone special is behind that. who is taking a drink out of the cup? >> it was a big joke. we were like, drink out of the trophy, like in a putting stance. just did that. we had fun. >> how much different beverages do you think through the y

a very crowded field of seven candidates battling it out to replace retireing senator tom coburn but the winner was tom lange ford. chief political correspondent carl cameron live with more. carl? >> reporter: out-of-state super pacs were making a lot of noise in the state and voters didn't pay a lot of attention to it. james lankford, two-term congressman, elected in the 2010 tea party revolution won his race last night with better than 50% to avoid a runoff, 56%, beating tw shannon, first black house speaker and youngest speaker in the history last night. two conservative candidates, both popular battled it out. tea pare and super pac ads came into the state and couple of cases sort of hijacked with the race with messages neither candidate actually approved of, ultimately didn't help shannon pull off victory. the establishment because mr. lankford is number five in the republican leadership is being credited with victory. this is local oklahoma voters decided who they liked best and not liking to be told how to voight with outside interests. mississippi race, thad cochran, the long-

in september, oklahoma's republican senator tom coburn asked just that question.he pro sports act which would strip professional sports leagues of their federal tax exemption if they earn more than $10 million. the nfl obviously makes much more than that, but to be clear, the organization does point out that only the league office is tax exempt. the 32 member team dos pay taxes on their income. the chaps that coburn's bill will pass are slim to none. if want to know how powerful these leagues. listen to this. this week the minneapolis star tribune published what was a confidential list of demands provided by its sources, demands that the city had to meet in order for the nfl had to meet in order to award the minneapolis the super bowl. the super bowl host committee declined to comment on the document. it was 153 pages and it requested, among other things, all travel costs for 180 league officials to take a familiarization trip before the game. police escorts for all team owners, as if they're heads of state or something and exemptions from city, county, and state

. >> tom coburn leading the charge.find out more what is going on teva, started well before the scandal erupted, absolute financial malfeasance. what's the recourse? >> one of the recourses is replacing someone who can do the job. 80% of the phoenix va management were given performance bonuses. 100% of senior management in the va system, systemwide received a positive job review. $10 million to phoenix in bonuses, $400 million systemwide for performance bonuses. you have to stop that. this whistle blower said she was told to take a picture of people who were on a waiting list and put it in the desk because it wasn't going to get on the waiting list. she said she had literally thousands of pieces of paper. it's a failure of management. there's plenty of money there. they just need the right people in place. do a sweeping change. get rid of a bunch of people. >> greg, to that point, get rid of a bunch of people that would include the bureaucrats. how does it happen that a culture develops in an organization where they thi

senators tom coburn and members of congress, probably a dozen of them over the last 12 years.t, you know, probably our best selling author and most well known, three-time number one new york times best seller is michael savage, the radio talk show host. we've also had a number of number one best sellers by jerome course city who's a staff writer for us. the secret to wnd is we publish books a lot of other publishers would be afraid to publish. [laughter] it's the philosophy of wnd, you know? we started as a watchdog news agency kind of with, you know, the tradition of american journalism where, you know, minute needs to be the watchdog -- somebody needs talk about the watchdog on government and other powerful institutions. and we've translated that into books over the years by printing , publishing edgy titles. by the way, both christian and secular. we've had a lot of success in the christian field, because a lot of christian publishers don't like controversy. we love controversy. >> host: what are some of the authors you have coming out this fall? >> guest: well, we have one

disturbing revelations including a new report from republican senator tom coburn alleging more than 1000s died over the last 10 years as a result of veterans affairs misconduct. let's bring in jesse jane duff, military advisor for concerned veterans of america. jesse, i have to say 1,000 people is shocking to me. do you think that the senator has this information correct? >> absolutely. i have stated publicly my own thought and what i read, when we looked at 1.5 million records deleted by the va, this is discovered by the government accountability office, gao, there was no record whether the vets were ever seen. we don't even know if they were talked to or didn't know they were alive. i guessed it wasn't just 40 dead veterans in phoenix. i guessed thousands, thousands literally. gerri: drip, drip on this horrible story every day. yes, a thousand vets dead. also the va paid out to a billion to vets an families due to medical malpractice. overpayments, wasting money that could have been used well for veterans. va health providers losing their medical licenses. female patients, get this, re

i hope my colleagues, democrat and republican, will follow the leadership of senator tom coburn, republican from oklahoma, and his wing man, tom carper, a democrat from delaware, in supporting this nomination. with that, i yield back the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i ask the calling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: this afternoon we're going to vote on the nomination of ms. burwell to be secretary of h.h.s. i'm going to support that nomination. i take the floor now to alert people to some problems that i think she's going to face and hopefully she can correct them. for starters, i hope everybody remembers checks and balances of the government. congress passes laws. the executive branch enforces them. it's our responsibility to make sure that those are enforced according to the intent of congress. when they aren't, we have a responsibility to point that out. that's what i will

the other big race tonight, sean, the request to serve out the remaining term of tom coburn has gone to congressman james lankford. he has handily defeated the former state house speaker, t.w. shannon, in a race that brought plenty of outside money and outside attention. shannon had the support of the tea party, considered a star in national party politics. this was a shocker in that it was decided early, and even the lankford campaign was caught offguard, saying they were going to come out a little built later, because they didn't think it was going to be this much this fast. he had to get over 50%, and he did. >> brett, let me ask you this question, the final days of this campaign, we know that cochran was attacking mcdaniel as a tea party conservative extremist, and the daily caller actually got ahold of a robo call that was courting democratic voters to crossover and vote in this primary for cochran. let me play it for you. >> the time has come to say no to the tea party, their obstruction, to their disrespectful treatment of the first african-american candidate. chris mcdan yald

contained in this 123-page report just released by oklahoma republican senator tom coburn and the title says it all. "friendly fire, death, delay, and dismay at the va." it does not paint a pretty picture of what our veterans are going through. historic wait times at va hospitals. billio

. >> let me run a clip of tom coburn, who is way over to the other side of you and came on and we had the same discussion. he's getting out after 16 years. let's watch this and see what you say about his point on this. [video clip] >> the american voter is not stupid. the question is if they have limited choices. they have a choice of a career republican or career democrat most of the time. i got into politics never having been in it before, which means you can do it, but it's difficult. that is why term limits will change some of this. that's not the answer. the answer is real leadership, speaking the real truth. the american people already know, they just don't have the focus on the details of what they know. they do not trust us because they have not earned our trust. they do not trust us because we have been expedient as we have dealt with them. they do not trust us because of the actions of the typical person whose primary motive is to get reelected, not to fix the country. >> what do you say? >> that is a generality. much of it is pretty accurate. first of all, you have to contr

tom coburn is retiring a bit early because he's battling cancer. langford is a republican, t.w. shannon on the right. these are both conservatives. but the tea party forces have gone with speaker shannon. if he were to win this nomination, then win in november, that would make two african-american republicans in the senate. close to where you are out in harlem tonight, charlie rangel has been in the congress for 44 years. a longtime democrat. he's had ethics questions in recent years. he said either way this would be his class campaign. you see the gentleman on the left, adriano espaillat. whether rangel can hang on this time. most americans think of harlem as the center of african-american culture and business in the case. it is now plurality latino and white voters have moved into that district. we'll see if charlie rangel can hang on one more time. >> that will be a fascinating one. and the fact that you have two african-american republicans in the senate to one democrat, i think that's something that would shock a lot of people and not somethin

senator tom coburn reported that there weren't 40 deaths attributed to the mismanagement 1,000.hese are people who survived the battlefield, but couldn't survive a bureaucratic minefield that protected v.a. workers at the expense of our returning warriors. even the liberals on the supreme court couldn't abide the lawless and req his regard for appointments to the labor board. they voted 9-0 to overturn his heavyhanded and autocratic rule of his famous pen and phone. >>> in two other rare unanimous votes, the supreme court ruled that government can't just snoop through your smartphone, because they stop you do speeding. also, that the government can't strip the first amendment rights of pro-life advocates who stand on public sidewalks next to aboorgs mills. >>> now, if you detect a pattern in all of these stories, it's because in every one of them, government is working against the people instead of for them. government can be like fire, a little can cook food and warm a home. too much and the house burns down. our world is on fire, because whether it's the state of massachusetts