we need flexibility to move money from va community care to choice and from choice to va community care. both are care in the community. we need flexibility to transfer both directions depending upon demand because we will not ever be able to predict the demand exactly. we owe it to veterans and ourselves to be more agile 15 years into the 21st century. it was february we asked for flexibility to move resources. it was may when we again asked for flexibility to use some choice program funding to provide care in the community. i'm asking again for the simple flexibility to serve veterans with the money you have already appropriated so we can resource the capacity that we've grown. more flexibility will go far toward meeting veteran care and increasing access across the country. pun for the denver replacement medical center will be depleted by earlier october and work on the project will cease unless we receive congressional authorization for the full cost of the project and flexibility in fiscal year '16 to transfer $625 million of our existing resources to the major construction account

we need flexibility to move money from va community care to choice and from choice to va community care. both are care in the community. we need flexibility to transfer both directions depending upon demand because we will not ever be able to predict the demand exactly. we owe it to veterans and ourselves to be more agile 15 years into the 21st century. it was february we asked for flexibility to move resources. it was may when we again asked for flexibility to use some choice program funding to provide care in the community. i'm asking again for the simple flexibility to serve veterans with the money you have already appropriated so we can resource the capacity that we've grown. more flexibility will go far toward meeting veteran care and increasing access across the country. money for the denver replacement medical center will be depleted by early october and work on the project will cease unless we receive congressional authorization for the full cost of the project and flexibility in fiscal year '16 to transfer $625 million of our existing resources to the major construction account

on top of va care we provide congress has new entitlements for veterans. there are many programs that the act doesn't cover. because authorizations and community care authorizations are different rockets, we have a shortfall in spite of the fact that both types of care our community care. -- are community care. we expect it will cost an additional 2.5 alien dollars. new hepatitis c drugs for veterans will cost an additional $500 million. always seek is flexibility. lex ability through limited authority to use money for community care to the extent exceeds our fiscal year 2015 budget. to meet this growing requirements next year, va needs adequate funding of the president's budget request provides. the house proposed $1.4 billion reduction. meaning as many as 70,000 veterans may not receive care. further, it means no funding for four major construction project and six cemetery projects in 17,000 veterans and family members may not receive va honors. distraction -- the construction budget was cut. the increase in requirements we are seeing anticipate greater c

titus the biggest difference between the non-va fee care of what sits in there today and the choice, the non-va fee care money so that was the biggest thing that was done from our standpoint. >> and mr. secretary i appreciate you coming. this is a very difficult discussion for me. i had great hopes we would move forward in the last two years to fix some of these programs, but as i see it you are coming here before us with the most massive short fall in va history, nearly $3 billion. i am not certain, when did you personally know when you had the short fall? >> around the middle of may. >> if i understand the numbers correctly in this particular line item it's approximately 50% over the budgeted amount? is there a level where they come to you than halfway through the fiscal year to say, hey, we have a problem? do they not come to your attention until they are 50% over their budget? >> when there is budget overage, you try to fix it. >> there's a $10 billion source of funds called choice and what we are talking about -- >> i do know that. i do know that. what i would like to know is why

>> to put it in a nutshell the va cares more about its public image than patient care. the front line staff and the thursday i have worked with are some of the best in the va but some are less than ideal or should not be working in the va. i don't think that mixture is any different than in the private sector. what i do believe the difference is that speaking up and identifying problems the first knee-jerk reaction is not to acknowledge the issue and fix the problem the knee-jerk reaction is not to let the problem be known by anybody else. people have disparaged the va there are millions of quality care episodes that occur across the nation because the va does do incredibly good work but when they drop the ball they drop it so significantly that people die. >> i think we have to be careful in the sense of not disparaging all the people working very, very hard and there's tremendous people, and a vast majority of people in the va they are doing a good job. it's trying to figure out what in the culture of the va gets us in these situations where you have the experiences th

titus, the biggest difference between the non-va fee care of what sits in there today and the choice, the non-va fee care money, so that was the biggest thing that was done from our standpoint. >> and mr. secretary, i appreciate you coming. this is a very difficult discussion for me. i had great hopes we would move forward in the last two years to fix some of these programs, but as i see it you are coming here before us with the most massive short fall in va history, nearly $3 billion. i am not certain, when did you personally know when you had the short fall? >> around the middle of may. >> if i understand the numbers correctly in this particular line item it's approximately 50% over the budgeted amount? is there a level where they come to you than halfway through the fiscal year to say, hey, we have a problem? do they not come to your attention until they are 50% over their budget? >> when there is budget overage, you try to fix it. >> there's a $10 billion source of funds called choice and what we are talking about -- >> i do know that. i do know that. what i would like to know is

care. this results in more veterans treated outside of the va. i also think it takes care of the veterans with hepatitis c. many of whom are vietnam veterans, who we recently honored in a celebration in the capital. it should be one of the highest priorities. this is fundamentally due to lack of planning. today, let us seek out what to do to make sure our veterans are getting the health care they earned. let us take the steps to prevent any more 11th hour budget crises. in february, the secretary asked this committee for more flexibility to move money between accounts that will allow him to run his va more like a business. in february -- and march -- he asked us to give him the flexibility to run theye va like a business so he can better care for the veterans. we had to decide whether or not to allow flexibility. i want to present for the record that the va productivity is up 8.5% and it gives the category of service veterans of fiscal 2015. you want to submit that to a record -- to the record. in addition to that, i want to submit for the record

care in the community. you either waited in the va or went some place else. we chose not to have that happen but rather to continue to buy care for patients that could not get care through the choice program. and so today, because of that, we find ourselves not having money out in the field to be able to make payroll and stuff during the month of september. and that's really what we're asking today is to be able to use choice money set aside to buy care in the community to pay for care in the community. >> the last thing -- i know one of the discussion was -- i know we're having some problems in certain parts of the country. but some of the veterans particularly those in florida, they like the care that they've received from the va. and i don't personally want to see va just going to a specialty. we need comprehensive care in certain areas and i do know around the country it's a real problem with getting comprehensive care. but when you look at the approval rate veterans is like -- what is the percentage from 80 something to 90 something like the care that the

in fact, over 100 recommendations we've made that va has not implemented just in the health care area alone. so -- so -- there are 22 recommendations, and i don't want to use all your time up but let me give you a couple examples. one is, we recommended that va keep track, wait times, for -- for veterans that went to non-va providers. they have not yet done that. we've talked to them about it. they still haven't done that. >> what's the reason for them not having done it? >> we don't really know. >> when you ask them you tell them, how -- >> i think what they're looking at. they want to close a case from the time the veteran starts the process of getting an appointment to the time the claim's paid. they want to do that in 90 days and they are tracking that. but for some reason they're reluctant to track the 30 days. >> why? >> good question. i don't know they've given us a great answer on that. >> what would be a good answer? is there a good answer? >> they probably don't have the systems to do it. it takes a lot of work. it does. it does take some good data. but that's not a good rea

in many instances va employees receive care. in several cases medical records have access without adequate justification possibly to discredit them. i've also notified the va that it should consider corrective actions which could deter these types of breaches. certainly i want to comment briefly on two whistleblowers. received va reports generated in response to disclosure made by mitchell and nee. after i review and have the opportunity to comment on the reports we will submit information to congress and president. i can't provide details at this time. doctors mitchell and nee obstacles to change in an organization like the va. their efforts will lead to improve care at phoenix and i want to thank them both. in conclusion, we appreciate the committees' interest. thank you for the opportunity to testify and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> thank you. i would like you to go into detail, the method of retaliation you described, goes into the employees medical record maybe that employee has been a veteran and

historically, va had seen home base as competition. competition to provide the care for veterans with post-traumatic stress or with traumatic brain injury. well, i don't think that way. we in the va don't think that way. we embrace all organizations trying to help veterans. we want to partner with them. because home base not only provides great outcomes for veterans with post-traumatic stress or traumatic brain injury, but they can serve the 15% of veterans that got less than honorable discharges that we in the va can't serve by law. so these strategic partnerships are not only critical and not only smart to achieving our strategy but in my mind they're also about ethics and morals because we need to make sure no veteran is left behind. we also work with public housing authorities to set aside section 8 vouchers. recently i went on a multicity tour with secretary of a labor tom perez. secretary of housing urban development castro. we wanted to demonstrate that we in the federal government are working collaboratively across our departments and we would like to work co

the va reached out to vets across the country to get them off those wait lists and in for care. ng energetic new leadership. he's working to hold people accountable and make sure the whistleblowers are protected instead of punished. with the new resources, the va hired thousands of new physicians nurses staff, they are opening more clinics. so that all the veterans who spoke up, i want you to know we heard you. we changed the rule. now if it takes you more than 40 miles to drive to a va facility we'll help you go to a doctor outside the va. [ applause ] today the va is handling millions more appointments inside and ousds the va and delivering more care. on average veterans are waiting just a few days for an appointment and that's all good news. vet rans continue to tell us that once they get through the door, the care is often very good. a lot of folks across the va many of them veterans themselves work hard every single day and we thank them. but we have to acknowledge our work is not done. we still have a big challenge. even with all these new resources, the va is still struggl

va. and a lot of veterans have other care. if the va is their choice, bill their insurance. get on the plan. they have insurance somewhere else. a lot of veterans don't use va because they want more funds to be there for those who need it more. so if they have private insurance, we do bill their insurance. sometimes that is medagap coverage. we don't get paid. but -- and we don't have the authority to bill medicare or medicaid or tricare. >> well, medicare and medicaid is robbing peter to pay paul as far as the big picture of taxpayer dollars. but private insurance is a different story. >> we do bill those. those collection rates are going up year after year after year. >> dr. abraham? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here, gentlemen. i guess a statement first on just fiscal responsibility. i was reading the nig's report last week. i think he said that the va didn't know they had $43 million in an account. all of a sudden it was just found. after just sitting there for three years. that's somewhat of an astounding thought. then i look at the choice act. i read

secretary bob mcdonnell is saying he has a shortfall of $3 billion in the va and without being able to transfer that money to carea, we're going to see a real crisis and a cutback on va services. this is not an additional appropriation. this is shifting money that congress has allocated. >> there was about 41,000 job opportunities that aren't being filled right now. correct? >> that's right. this $3 billion would help fill those jobs and care for veterans with this money for the choice program, only 37 veterans -- 37,000 veterans have had appointments. in a shorter period of time, 52 million veterans have. appointments in the va. so it is putting that money to use for the veterans in the va. >> president cox, thanks so much for coming back on "taking the hill." where we very much appreciate your leadership and perspective. >> thank you very much, patrick. thank you for being the veteran and the fine service that you gave this country. >> thanks, sir. >>> in a moment a final thought about veterans searching for a second chance. you're watching "taking the hill" on msnbc. you show up. you stay up. you listen. you l

also in the last year a spike in the survival of non-va care solutions for veterans. help from private caregivers. they're not getting it from the system. >> you add the fact that the government says the va can't keep count of how many people have actually died waiting for medical assistance. does it just seem to you like it's overbloated and now they're with a budget deficit? >> this is a huge issue. they have tried to overhaul their tech systems, they've brought in contractors, but it's led to a very adversarial relationship with this committee sometimes. there are people on both sides of this argument that have serious intentions of overhauling this system but a lot of problems lie in between them and coming to that kind of solution. jose you talked about them not even knowing the number of people who are still on wait lists. this is a committee that from people i just talked to before i went on here still wants answers. they released a statement saying they're not going to let furloughs happen. the chairman of this committee came out and said we're not going to al

. >> the non-va care money is of a discussion of the department of veterans affairs where the choices at the discretion of veterans. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the topic of consideration day. this is a difficult discussion for me. i had great hope that we would move forward. the most massive shortfall in the a history. when did you know that we had the shortfall? >> what i said was around the middle of may. >> if i understand the items ultimately to percent over the budget amount? we have got it problem. is that a normal manner? it is not coming to attention a list it is 50% over budget? >> your essay tried to resolve the issue as quickly as you can. >> there is a $10 billion source of funds. what we're talking about is -- >> i do know that. i would like to know why you lowballed the estimates. new gaming projected they'd be 25% -- you came in and projected they'd be 25% less. they are actually coming in as 1.5 dollars over. -- 1.5 billion dollars over. >> let me give you these figures that you provided. this will 2014, actual spending. he said really need 1.9? you are s

properly project how many are going to need health care from the va in the future. for more money saying they're going to have people asking for health care it's disturbing and shows problems that led to the scandal last year have simply not been fixed. >> talking about wait times, not getting better people still waiting. people probably still dying. yet the president's ultimate message is va needs more money. listen to this. >> we actually now have 2.7 million more veterans seeking services. if the amount of resources doesn't change then they get shortchanged. the very same folks going to cut services are the first ones then to say why is it folks have waiting times so long? >> he admits that he needs more money to get the job done. we're still spending so many hundreds of millions on the corrupt system. out of curiosity, since the scandal, how many have been fired and held accountability? >> according to house veterans affairs committee, only two people have been fired. only two. we don't know 100% for sure if they were fired for wait list or something else. for e

va. this is the i care values at work. no other group of people better personify that mission or these values than you do. so i thank you all and i hope that -- and i pray that god will continue to bless you all in your work. you're helping one of our priorities. you're helping veterans return or reintegrate with communities and families successfully. now you showed us this way. veteran treatment courts is a huge innovation and since judge russell kicked things off, we now have 351 veterans courts nationwide. we're working every day to increase that number and increase the number of counselors we have to work with you. while va leads the way in health care, we've done things like the first liver transplant the first cardiac pacemaker, the first time that a nurse came up with the idea to use a bar code to connect patients with medicine, with medical records. the first electronic medical record. we invented the nicotine patch. we also invented the shingles vaccine. so a lot of innovations have come from the va and as a resul

care. i choose to go to the va. found more dedicated professional health care people doctors and nurses and staff and everything else at the va than any system i have ever seen. so va is okay. do we have some challenges yes. should we fix them yes. >> it's a real pleasure to speak with you. thank you for your time. i do appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> jonathan allen joins us now. i want to play something that harry reid said this morning and i'm going to get your response. it's about donald trump and the original issue that got him in some hot water, immigration. >> when trump insulted mccain, republicans couldn't denounce him fast enough. but when he called immigrants rapists, there was silence. no republicans can name a single way in which they disagree with trump's policies on immigration. >> when we hear and and lindsey graham's campaign manager is talking today because of trump being in south carolina and taking down lindsey graham there, but the people benefitting are barack obama and hillary clinton. democra

he did not want a va system that cannot care for veterans, or an irs system that was not held accountable. he wanted a government that was efficient, accountable, and did not take one dime extra to do its job. we should embrace that. in the house today, we should think about big ideas and big reform. that is why we are talking about tax reform this year. that's why we're talking about 21st century cures to transform the fda. that same debate that ronald reagan had on the eve of his election about government and agencies being too big, it is back again and only larger. the national association of manufacturers, last year they did a study -- what does regulation cost of business? two big business, it is one cost. do you realize that to small businesses, the cost is greater. we love to do manufacturing in america today, but small businesses, less than 50 it costs $35,000 per employee. how do you compete with that? this administration has added hundreds of thousands of new pages of regulation. i was up in napa county, speaking to a high school. i was talking about the challenge of holding us

s like caring for veterans at the va. veterans died while waiting for care at the va hospital last year. only two people were fired for lying about the wait times. who -- two people. we trust veterans, we trusted them to fight for us. we should trust them to be able to choose their own doctor, and reforming va will be a high priority. [applause] the partisan abuses of the irs and the coverup that followed, all of which to this day have gone unpunished. and then there's the wholesale loss of personnel records and security information the cyberhackers in china because the political hacks in charge of opm ignored official warnings. you remember the inspection 'er general reports? there was one for opm and it said we have lax security challenges here that we'll have security breaches. it had already happened by the time that report has taken place, and today we now know that 22 million people war faked and that the information taken included inintrusive questionnaires used to vet people for security cleanses. those are 100 pag

. >>> a house committee's looking into non-va health care services for former soldiers who usually receive medical care from department of veterans affairs facilities. testifying were v.a. executives who oversee contracts for external care, federal oversite official and an army official who experienced troubles with contracted care. the energy and commerce subcommittee hearing is about an hour and a half. >> good afternoon. this hearing will come to order. i want to welcome everyone to today's hearing titled circumvention of contracts in the provision of non-v.a. health care. this hearing is the second in a series of hearings examining illegal v.a. procurement practices resulting in massive wastes of limited taxpayer resources in serious jeopardy to the quality of health care received by our nation's veterans. in our previous hearings we focused on the mismanagement and misuse of purchase cards and avoidance of contract requirements spending limitations and warrant authority. v.a. senior executive testified that these andunauthorized were in the billions of dollars. -- abuse in the procure

veterans died while waiting for care at the va hospital lest year, but only two people were fired forut the weight times. we trust veterans to fight for us, we should trust them to be able to choose their own doctors and reforming v.a. will be a high priority. [applause] the partisan abuses of the irs and the cover-up that followed, all of which to this day have gone unpunished. then there is the wholesale loss of personal records and security information, the cyber hackers. the political hacks in charge of opm ignored official warnings. you remember the inspector general report we always got in our department? there was one for opm and it said we have lax security and we're going to have security breaches. it had already happened i the time that report had taken place and today, we know 22 million people were affected and the information taken includes intrusive questionnaires used to vet people for security clearance. i found out the vetting process is 100 pages long with all sorts of information, a treasure trove of information for a country seeking to gain an advantage over our co

care. this is understanding the ba has a very strict budget that they have to adhere to -- the va. and if they are able to bill medicare for nonmilitary related conditions, it would save them money. taxpayer money is going to pay for this care which is one of the reasons there is so much opposition in congress over this. if you make sure that the v.a. has the resources to deliver care much like you would for a private insurance company. host: when a veteran goes to a veterans hospital, does it have to be strictly related to service, or does care fall around that? guest: it is a full spectrum of care as a matter of fact. this is something the veterans community advocated for a long time ago. the reason it is full spectrum of care is to keep up competencies for v8 -- v.a. doctors. one of the questions we get asked a lot is the v.a. should really only treat service-connected conditions. i ask back, what is a service-connected condition. what about plantar fascia is a -- the shiite us, or other conditions that result from military service? those are also covered. the v.a. delivers a ful

i think to me, what i've learned from this is that it's not as easy to get health care in the private sector for the va as one might think. i think the tricare model is interesting, but they pay tricare, the medicare rate and then tricare pairs the actual providers less than the medicare rate. in my district nobody really wants to sign up for any of this stuff because it doesn't pay very well. and it's been you know, problematic. some of the choice people offer choice, but there's no providers that will do choice, because they're actually getting paid less than medicare rates, because they pay triwest medicare rates, but triwest doesn't pay the actual people in the that are producering the care those rates and to get those numbers it's been tough for me to figure that out. my concern more is about, for today a little bit is about this -- apparently legal activity illegal activity that's been happening. i'm just wondering -- let me ask mr. doyle. are you aware that some of these things were illegal, mr. doyle? i mean, that's what mr. frye seems to is telling us. that all of these purchases are illegal a

care? >> members of congress expressed shock at the magnitude of the budget crisis many said closing some va hospitals was unacceptable. >>> social security disability payments could be slashed by congress next year. that's according to a report that finds the fund will run out dry in about a year. benefits will be cut by 19% of congress. lawmakers could shift more taxes to social security but republicans say they won't agree unless disabled workers are some how encouraged to re-enter the workforce. >> months of negotiations with the iranians might prove easy by comparison. president obama escalated the push to get their nuclear deal approved by congress. republican leaders are vowing to kill it. secretary of state john kerry and energy secretary ernest moniz came to capitol hill to sell the nuclear deal they made. president obama says in effect it's this deal or the military option. many republicans are demanding a better bargain. >> it's not disagreement or war, it's disagreement or doing the right thing for the american people. >> and because a bad deal threatens the security of the ameri

va. how many veterans died while waiting to sign up for health care? that's amazing to me. it's a bit of a hyperbole. at the headquarters in particular, the administration and logistics are improving dramatically. but the delivery of health care to veterans is localized, and there's a large number of local vas, centers, that are doing very much better but some are not. it's going to take a great deal of supervision to bring them on line. they have the administrative problem of dijgitizing all the records, and having the headquarters talk digitally to the local va centers. they're going to have to work on that harder. >> yeah and i mean the fact they can't even put a number of how many of our vets died waiting for medical assistance is inconceivable. >> it's a fragmented system. you've got headquarters and then you've got hundreds and hundreds of va centers around the country, and coordinating them into one coherent group means that you're not -- you got to do that before you'll ever get any real statistics on what's going on. >> colonel jack jacobs always a pleasure to see

the va says it's about to run out of money and soon because of a surge of new veterans seeking care. there are two million more medical appointments this year than last year and because of soaring costs for a new expensive treatment for hepatitis c. congress in the coming days must pass a new law allowing a shift of billions of dollars in the budget to hospitals. congressional leaders not happy about it. >> for them to come up at the 12th hour and tell the congress that they need $3 billion more or they're going to shut hospitals down is the most agreejeous thing they have done to date. they said call headquarters and headquarters said no answer to that question but are focused on providing world class care to veterans and congress needs to act before month's end. >>> a government lab is confirming tonight that a federal police officer who was injured in an explosion has resigned. an explosion happened at the national institute of stan tards and technology on saturday. the officer said he was burned while filling a butane lighter. sources tell news 4 chemicals and a recipe to make me

i can think of no more important group that we can care for in the va and the caregivers.roup, no more kind of group. and we are working hard to do that and to share our knowledge with others. thank you david. [applause] >> that's fantastic. and it's true the reach of the work goes far beyond veterans. we are all taking advantage of what you're learning and exporting it to the wider committee, so thanks for that. okay britney. so as we said you are a mother of a small child and you are taking care of -- of dementia. that's the definition of the sandwich definition by the way caught in the middle. i'm just wondering what it was like come with a diagnosis and theand aprocess for dealing with your dad was like and what your daily life is like? >> my daily -- did it come on? okay, sorry. my daily life is very difficult time balancing a 12 hour work shift, also a very, very, very energetic two year old -- [laughter] -- and my dad who can be stubborn at times because he's so used to being independent it's very difficult. for our medical appointments. that are prescription genera

care. there is a whole list of things that is wrong with the va. it is one of the stories that sent like a culture that needs to be revamped. host: john in florida on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. one quick comment. then i will listen to your reaction. as we all know, the irs is involved in the aca. i was totally amazed when i filled out my tax form -- only one line that asked to you have health insurance? yes or no and then you move on. they do not ask for any validation at all. you get your registration and they asked for your insurance company and number. they don't ask for anything. what is stopping someone from lying and moving on. thank you. caller:guest: going forward, there will be a matching of the income. there is the initial part of that was whether your employer provides your help and for -- insurance that shows on your w-2. now you have the obligation to be insured. that is an individual mandate. there will be more checking to make sure subsidies and incomes are right. we know that. host: a couple minutes left with am

va hospitals around the nation. so -- >> you're not leaving anybody out, are you? >> we have to take care of our veterans.reatest generation, my dad world war ii. my mother was a rosy the riveter. >> no wonder you're doing what you're doing it's in your dna. >> my father my past father he passed last year. he was a huge combat veteran in okinawa and asia. the generals tell me it's going to the front. you meet one of these guys -- we call them our kids the generals and i, our kids. you meet one of them and you say were you there for super bowl or fourth of july. they said i had the pizza. you're like what is this. >> they remember it. i know it's chicago style, right? what about new york style? >> all pizza is good let's be serious. i prefer it to be tangy. i like it a little strong my pizza. all pizza's good. we're blessed. >> thank you mark. >> i was going to have pizza for you but they took all of them and shipped them all to afghanistan. >> thank you. i'm going to get my shirt from you later. >> here you go. >> it's pink. >> i brought you a special shirt. the pizza for patriot shirt. what do you think?

care. that from president obama speaking at the convention of veterans of foreign wars. the president said the va is handling millions more appointments. the president also talked about the nuclear deal with iran. and called for tehran to release american detainees. >> we're not going to relent unless we bring home our americans unjustly detained in iran, journalist jason rezaian should be leased. pastor syed ra mehdi should be released. iran needs us to find robert levinson. these americans need to be back home with their families. >> some is critics said it should have been part of the nuclear agreement. the president said all along they're trying to keep everything nuclear separate. and secretary of state john kerry said he brought it up at every meeting. president obama also spoke about the shooting that killed four u.s. marines and then an american sailor in chat had nothing chattanooga. meantime, a lawyer says that the uncle of the suspect of the shooting has been in custody in jordan since the day after that attack. i should say, so the uncle over in jordan has been in custody ever since t

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va hospitals open until october. the bill is expected to be voted on today. it expends federal highway funding through october and also shift to the department of veterans affairs care in the program. state officials vowing to help members of the military to protect themselves on the u.s. soil in the wake of the tragedy in tennessee. the seal carry permit for active service members and veterans after four marines and one sailor were killed in the attack on two military facilities in chattanooga. putting body cameras on allstate troopers. it is necessary to maintain trust between law enforcement and communities. the policies the hot topic issue after last year's death of michael brown in ferguson. south carolina has a similar law and connecticut and alabama are discussing the ideas as well. >> severe storms could wop up in the midwest today. >> maria molina is tracking it all for us. >> we are looking at the threat of severe weather. that will be associated with high temperatures in the south. we will see numbs in the triple digits across texas. high temperature 99 degrees even along the east coast that heat wave is building in atlanta and raleigh. you think of the a

. >>> va officials warn this week >>> we have live coverage coming up for the health care market. a panel will look at what coverage plans are available in what markets and what the different costs are, and it's hosted by the alliance for health reform. >>> we will give you an update on the horizons to pluto. we are told there will be new images to see and that will be live at 2:00 eastern and we will have it here on c-span 3. today live coverage from the national governor's association. and you can watch all that live today on our companion network, c-span. >>> the house is not in session today but the senate is and lawmakers earlier voted to move forward with debate on a six-year highway funding bill. a couple key things came out of the session early, and we learned mitch mcconnell is mounting another attack on the affordable care act and he will produce an amendment to the highway amendment that could repeal the health care law. there was also drama as texas senator and 2016 ted cruz came to the floor and accused mcconnell of lying for included an amendment for authorizing some

care program. and this is to deal with an impending closure of certain va hospital's. that is still something that is being figured out. there is some kind of offset for that. that is what i'm hearing for transportation advocates and other staff. it would extend authorization through the end of october. it also includes $8 billion from the general fund. the same amount of money put into the transportation program this $8 billion transfer fund the bank account essentially that the federal government uses to reimburse states for products. they would keep an $8 billion in this three-month extension. while authorization would only stretch through the end of october, financially they could keep it afloat. it faces a shortfall at the end of the summer. the house in the and the senate don't ask for the federal government will be unable to reimburse for projects they have been working on. >> speaker boehner met with reporters earlier today and said he would do everything i can to get a long-term highway bill. what is the likelihood that the house passes a long-term bill before

we ended the i think are necessary for the medical care veterans but also necessary for american medicine. we have a project -- we in the va -- called and million of that project where we of the blood samples of a million veterans who have volunteered. are not yet at them and we're working our way the. we are doing the genome mapping on all those veterans. at the same time for most of them went 40 50 years of medical records because they spent their careers in the military so we have everything that happened in their lives. and that genome mapping, those medical records, are going to be available for research to be done so that we can do research and discover precision medicine. how do we understand using the genome wide medicine to prescribe, how to care for people in order to do a better job of identifying the potential for alzheimer's before it occurs. i think this is incredibly exciting, and i think it's a very important part of research that we are doing which makes me very optimistic for the future of the getting ahead of some of these diseases before they begin. >> and with that particular gene pool that you can dis

care they need right here at home. >> are you accepting any new patients? >> the vateran who shot that video. he joins us live from atlanta. give us a little background on that video. >> i walk into the oakwood clinic that morning just to try to get some counselling for my ptsd and i know the video speak for itself as to what happened. >> tell me a little bit about your -- your history. i know you were diagnosed with ptsd back in 2005 and tell me about the treatment that you've been seeking. >> in 2005 they put me on all kinds of -- tried all kinds of different medications, none worked. made me feel like a zombie all day. it wasn't the route i wanted to go. over the years, they tried counselling. that's what's helped. that's what i was seeking. since this issue has came up the chief of staff of the va has been very helpful with my issues getting me the appointments that i need. i've also been contacted by many many veterans around the country with their issues and mr. neighbors has also reached out to several of those veterans but, you know the fact is the treatment

care of the veterans bill. >> reporter: mr. trump likes to say nor mccain has a lot of control over that. but the committee with jurisdiction over the va is the veterans affairs committee and john mccain doesn't sit on that committee. martha: a leading in the newspaper is calling on donald trump to drop out of this race. an editorial in the des moines register saying this. the best way trump can serve his country is to apology to john mccain and terminate this ill-conceived campaign. >> i don't think he cares at all. he's surging in the polls and he's take on the establishment. he thrives on controversy. can he go the distance in that's the big question. especially because the gop establishment is so worried about hip winning the nomination. martha: when you look deeper into this editor yailt's quite scathing. if he were just a b-list celebrity his unchecked ego could be look at at as mild amusement. but he's sorely unqualified to sit in the white house as president. people are responding to something here. what lesson is there in this? >> he's plain spoken. he's tapping into voter anger. it's a free country. donald trump can run for p

care system and everybody panics. the fact that you actually have one in va and medicare and medicaid is something politicians don't acknowledge back to greece. and that is let's say greece doesn't come back to the table with a deal. is that beginning of the end of the euro zone? if that's the case what follows that? >> i don't think it's the end of the euro zone. i think it's the end of greek participation in the euro zone. i don't think it's the end of the euro zone. the next test would be spain or portugal. i think there will be lots of efforts to keep that in. greece itself is what less than 3% i think of the gdp of europe. i think it's pretty containable. that is the calculation of the europeans and the germans. they actually think it may be sala torey. they think by making an example of greece putting it in the penalty box it may help bolster the discipline of the rest of the euro zone. >> all right. let's move to some domestic politics here. back to the hillary clinton interview where she took on the questions over her e-mail habits as secretary of state and defiant about polls that show voters are concerned about her t

care? since when? >> efficient is the key word. people tell you it is not efficient and the va is an example. list scandal 110 va hospitals with a waiting list scandal, only to employees of the veterans administration have been fired because of that just two. >> you don't think stings have gone better? someone who goes to the same hospital where the scandal first arrived, has gotten very -- very happy with them in the last several years. you have to wonder if this has brought a better situation for our veterans now than a year ago. a lot of good doctors out there do care. >> the administration is holding veterans hostage because there mismanaging the funds at the veterans administration say we will shut down hospitals? what good is the hospital if they shut it down because they need more money? ashley: give them all vouchers. stuart: spend this voucher in any hospital. we don't want -- go to get the care you think is best for you. adam: they have a limited program if you don't live within 40 miles of of the a you can go to a doctor outside the system and that is what they say is creating the