the va is not think much about it. they won't tell us a budget or the problems veterans call with are getting resolved and we found out it was located in this building in west virginia, not the white house which brings up these questions of is this what the president intended with this hotline? are veterans really getting help? how does this help with other call lines, is it a good use of resources? i talked to some veterans who felt their calls were getting sent back to their local va offices instead of being acted on by the executive branch. i heard there are some veterans who had good experiences. it is just the fact this is operating in the shadows in west virginia and everyone wants to know more about it. >> host: nikki wentling is our guest, graduate of the university of kansas, spent time in little rock, is a veterans reporter with "stars & stripes". her work available@stripes.com. derek is joining us in pablo, california. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i want to say i am a first-time collar but i have be

so the va secretary wasn't even going to the meeting at mar-a-lago about the va. it seemed odd to me. except it won't. we now know about the true rulers of the va. there is ike perlmutter. bruce moskowitz and wealthy attorney marc sherman. none of them were veterans, none of them elected. and none of them confirmed. yet because they are friends with trump, and pay dues to his private club, they have been allowed to run the department. take us through the details of this absolutely insane example i am joined by isaac. this is one of the nuttiest stories of the trump era i have read. how involved really are these three gentlemen in overseeing the va? >> they are involved with everything. they speak with va officials every day on the phone. they have a hand in all manner of policy and personnel decisions that have been coming out of the va for the past year and a half. >> every day? >> as often as every day or multiple times a day. >> this is like how everything about the policy for the largest health care system in the united states. >> yeah. this is like how much he

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to accommodate soldiers into the va really a visionary. >> reporter: the president promised veterans if they need to see a private doctor the government to pay for to make sure vets are seen in a timely fashion. wilkie pushed back on repeated suggestions that he and the president are intend on privatizing the va. >> we don't turn veterans down. a private facility might. >> reporter: the first test will be to deal with the low morale of the 370,000 people who work for the va and address the brain drain exacerbated by years of turmoil. the va is short 33,000 doctors and nurses. shannon: thank you. tonight, time for a midnight hero, a pair of delta passengers hail heroes after helping to restrain a violent passenger who was punching overhead lights and windows and threatening to, quote, take the plane down. former corrections officer and another man with the coast guard were able to handcuff the man to his seat and keep an eye on him until the plane landed and police took him into custody. they had visions of 9/11. good fo

the va is currently short doctors and nurses. >> a pair of delta passengers being hailed as heroes, aso, quote, take the plane down. former corrections officer and another man who identified himself as being with the coast guard were able to handcuff the man to his seat and kept their eye on him. most watched, most trusted, and most grateful. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. no matter who, there are over 10,000 allstate agents riding sweep. call one today. are you in good hands? experience the versatility of utility, with a range of suvs perfect for any adventure, at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. no matter how much you clean, does your house still smell stuffy? that's because your home is filled with soft surfaces that trap odors and release them back into the room. so, try febreze fabric refresher. febreze finds odors trapped in fabrics and cleans them away as it dries. use febreze every time you tidy up to keep your whole house smelling fresh air clean. fabric refresher even works for clothes you want to wear another

>> billions of dollars. >> the vfw t says problems exist at other va facilities nationwide. the backlog of rarnz maintenance is > they physically can't perform all these tackles in a yearly basis. it would involve a major effort to do so. >> as for edgar gleason, he's a healthyin but was so frustrated that hot night in july he left. before being discharged. >> 36 hou later, you're walking out. >> right. >> those discarded flu shots were replaced and the fda tells the i-teamnu it will con to inspect the blood bank at the center. we'll keep watching the medical center, too. >>cott mcfarland, news4 i-team. e> when we come back, more reaction from th redskins game including the rookie star on his injury and it's sounding like good news. it was always my parents dream for me to go to college. and to this day, one of my biggest regrets is that i never finished if you're the first in your family to go to college, if you took time off to raise your kids, or if you're in one career and you hear another calling, i get that and strayer university gets that that's why we're teaming up, t

some people believe there should be more privatization in the va. what's wrong with people arguing for more privatization? >> this because big part oftr presidenmp's campaign, but most veterans oppose that. and the major veterans groups oppose that, because their view is that they get better care in the va and it would be much more expensive and serve veterans worse to have them out in the private sector. >> schifrin: melissa bryant, let me turn to you i want to ask about your notion of privatization, but this tion of outside influence from the outside and formal adviss and also turmoil at the top of the veterans affairs, that influence the care? >> it absolutely does. what we see from theeterans service organizations and my colleagues across the veterans space is that we've seen fits and starts for a program and for policies throughout the last particularly eight months since dr. hulken has faced his ethics challenges and then he was ousted.en but ollowing that we saw a lot of challges to contrac such as healthcare, a contract, a $10 billion contrac

these are the types that are healthcare advances he va does best. we would love to see infrastructure being ind ves within the va to continue to serve the milary community and particularly for the wounds of war that we know germain to our population. >> schifrin: quickly, in the time we have left, we have a nei secretary, first full week to be job. what are you looking for in his decision-making this week to know whether the va can fix some of these problems going forward? th we would lik see secretary wilkey have the autonomy and authori able to do what's right for veterans. we know this is near and dear t. his he he talks about how this is a part of his family legacy. i get that to.mi this is fa business for many of us. my father was a vietnam vet. i'm an iraq war vet. so we want to ensure that that commitment to service translates into commitment to care for those who are born to battle, our survivors and ourde ndents. we hope secretary wilkey has the latitude the make the right decisions and not be influenced by outside money andncutside infls wh

who is running the va? >>> breaking news from routers, the special counsel recommends that the judge sentence george papadopoulos for up to six months in prison for lying to investigators in the russian probe. what do we know about this story? >> we are scrambling trying to get ahold of this document. it has been clear in recent months that the notion that george papadopoulos was cooperating with the investigation was breaking down. and it was starkly clear most recently when his wife went on ari melber's show and said she believes he should withdraw his plea deal because he wasn't getting a fair shake and that is consistent with a number of interviews she has been given. all is not well in that relationship and if they are recommending prison time and suggest they don't believe he is fully cooperating. remember, he pleaded guilty to one single count of lying to investigators about his contact. the russians had e-mails, incriminating e-mails about hillary clinton and what we don't know is who in the trump ca

va the driver was fired andsuhe company an apology. lk about a joyride, not realizing -- i know you're going to say it's funny. it's a little humorous. >> i have been on the end of getting in my car and soaked head to toe. you know how dissting that is? >> yes. >> i feel bad for every person splashed. >> so do i. >> graduationhotos are a time to be creative, capture a moment. e student took her shoot to another level. >> that student's graduation pictures are giving see you later alligator a whole new meaning. i didn't deliver that well. >> see you later alligator, after a while crocodile. >> lindsey posed with a gator named big tex. >> is that for real? >> yes. she posted the capti not your typical graduation photo. she took a few shots of the gator at gator country. she was an intern there. there's a classing on the gator's nose, right? she's doing too much. >> i hope that gator is reallol or, you know, slowing down, because any second -- the size of that thing. >> she's getting a degree in wildlife, so she knows what she's doing. >>

the va has a massive department, it's bigger than most people think. n of the va that deals with health care, they have 33,000 vacancies. right? i mean, what does president trump get out of this parade nonsense? >> self gratification. i think it makes him feel important. you know, i guess theoretically everybody would be saluting him when they walk by. >> i mean, even the conversation about it, well, now we're not going to have a parade so we can buy more jets. that's not the problem right now with u.s. military. we're not short of jets, we're short of doctors and treatment. >> we just added 10% to the military budget out of thin air. $70 billion. we have a massive, massive military budget. it doesn't need to be half this size. we are so much larger than the rest of the world combined that it's ridiculous. i mean, so, the idea that we would buy more jets, this is just him making excuses. i don't even think the 9 millimillio 2 million. >> pro public has a story how the va is not being run by anybody, it's being run by a bunch of trump cronies without par

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there's three departments within the va. the one that we're most focused on is the one that delivers health care benefits to veterans. by the va's own estimation, there are over 33,000 job vacancies, and these are health care providers, doctors, nurses. >> stuff you actually need. >> absolutely. so that's a critical capacity for the va to be able to deliver on america's promises to our veterans. >> and we have particular issues among the veteran community. we have suicide issues, we've got 20 veteran suicides a day are estimated. and the opioid crisis is also hitting veterans so there are real needs. this isn't like it's all taken care of, it's okay, let's have a parade. >> sure. those two issues are hitting the veteran population at a disproportionate rate compared to civilian counterparts. if you're in iraq or afghanistan or syria and you get blown up by an ied, you're going to have some serious issues that need to be addressed. when you're looking at chronic pain and traumatic brain injury and the relief that comes from that

why can't the va -- >> washington journal is live everyday at 7:00 on c-span. previous "washington journal" programs available on c-span.org. we are leaving the last few minute of the segment as the senate is coming back into session after a 12 day work period. they will recess at some point this afternoon, returning it to:15 for debate on the nomination of martin bottle bound to be a judge on the court of appeals to limit debate it 5:30 eastern. then we begin work on an $857 billion spending package that would combine the largest annual appropriations bills including defense and labor, hhs and education. now live to the senate floor on c-span2. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. glorious god, the source of our strength, fill us with life anew. strengthen and guide our lawmakers by the light of your counsels, directing their steps. lord, open their eyes so that they may discern your truth and courageously obey your precepts. give them reverence for yo

the key is that va is putting the regulations in place and it's very important that we don't create a new regulatory barrier in place of the old regulatory barrier and not accomplishing what we're trying to do. so i'm asking for your help and your support and i've already approached department of labor. secretary of labor is on board with this. secretary of the va is on board with this. and i want to make sure that you're on board and that as these regulations are written, we end up with one set of regulations and inspections and so forth, whether that long-term care facility, home-based or institutional care, whether they use -- are getting medicaid, medicare or va reimbursement. >> yeah, i think it's very important that our veterans have access to the care that they need and different choices about the care that they receive. as you know, president trump started something called cut the red tape. and as part of that, cms has initiated our effort which is called patience over paper work. as we're talking about the high costs of health care, one of the things we know that drives the h

in terms of the va, i got to the senate in '07. the va backlog was 600,000 claims. en i left it was 900,000 claims. and part of that was the increasing difficulty of the system with the attorneys involved in a way that they hadn't been before. a lot is just plain leadership inside the va. i worked very hard on. that one of the other lessons from vietnam is that the gi bill for the people who served in vietnam was tiny compared to the world war ii gi bill which enabled the futures of eight million of our 16 million world war ii soldiers. i wrote and passed what i was the senate in 16 months the post 9/11 gi bill, the best gi bill in the history. >> i like to say that everything that happens with the va is a reminder that wars don't end when the battles end. they go on for the rest of the lives of the soldiers that fought in them. >> joe is next. also a vietnam veteran from silver spring, maryland. good morning. >> yes, good morning. qu the question about winning the war, the people that won the war are those that supplied the bombs and bullets in vietnam. i read and i

in terms of the va, when i got to the senate in 07, the va backlog was 600,000 claims. part of that when i left, it was 900,000 claims. increasing difficulty of the and part of that was the increasing difficulty of the system with attorneys involved in a way they hadn't been before and the litigation. but a lot of it was just plain leadership inside the va. i worked very hard on that, and one of the other lessons from vietnam is that the gi bill for the people who served in vietnam was minuscule compared to the world war ii gi bill that enabled the futures of 8 million of our 16 million world war ii soldiers. i wrote and passed when i was in the senate in 16 months the post-9/11 gi bill, which is the best gi bill in the history of the country. i'm very proud of it. >> i'd like to say everything that happens with the va is a reminder that wars don't end when the battles end. they go on for the rest of the lives of the soldiers who fought in them. >> joe is next, also a vietnam veteran from silver spring, maryland. good morning. >> good morning, gentlemen. how are you doin

joining us now victoria toensing, jo degeneral va, the founding partners of the digenova and tin sing law toens. let's start with strzok being fired. the fie fbi has been moved on ad demoted for actions outside the responsibilities of their office and assaulting this president in point of fact. victoria, your thoughts on what we've witnessed at the fbi. >> well, it was well-deserved. there's a thing in the law meaning that it speaks for itself so the patient down doest have to show negligence if the scissors fell in him after the operation. we have strzok's vile expressed texts, we have him declaring he has a plan to stop trump and then lo and behold we have him trying to stop trump by opening up counter intelligence investigation based on this dossier that's been discredited paid for by the democrats. we don't need to go into any angst about his motives. they're right there. lou: joe, the clearance today being revoked for john brennan. do you have any objections or do you think perhaps there should be far more obama officials who will have their scur churt secuy clearances lifted? >>

we passed the biggest va reform in half a century, veterans choice. if our veterans can't get the care they need from the va they will have the right to go see a private doctor, pay for the doctor and save a lot of money, help a lot of vets. everybody said trying to get it for 45 years everybody said you can't get it, think of it, veterans choice, great people, these are our great people, who is a veteran in this audience? you like trump? you like the job we are doing? think of it. 45 years, everybody said you will never get it passed. i used to say before i was really well versed on the veteran situation and healthcare i used to say all the time why don't they just let folks go to a doctor, 7 days, 9 days, 14 days, 21 days, some of them started off with a very modest problem, they end up being terminal because they can't see a doctor. i said why don't they let them see a local private doctor, pay the bill and trying to get it passed for 38 years. the other one is 45 and that is va accountability. if somebody treated made a big difference. that was ano

employees who were removed went up 25%. >> reporter: the law makes it easier for the va secretarye. it also expedites the appeals process for senior executives. i'm erin colman for nbc news. >>> oh, my gosh. look at that. new video from a safari park. a rhino caught on camera as you see repeatedly ramming an suv. this happened at a animal park in mexico. it looks like some park employees tried to distract the rhino but it clearly did not work. the rhina kept slamming the suv and even chased it as the driver tried to get away. yikes. >>> now back here locally. there are many occupationings we never realize exist until we need them. one oakland artist has done one of those jobs for thousands of families. today we see what he does and why most people will never know his name. >> reporter: there are some jobs that require a special level of care. >> they call me a perfectionist. >> reporter: every time manuel alvarez sits down to work, there is no such thing as mailing it in. >> you have to do it pretty much right every time. >> reporter: alvarez's work begins where life ends. for 34

the marla go crowd spoke with the va officials daily. officials traveled there at taxpayer expense to hear the views. everyone has to go down and kiss the ring a former administration official said. if the bureaucracy resists the trio's wishes, perlmutter and others involved in the informal group, a powerful ally, the president of the united states. you serve on that veterans affairs committee as i said. were you aware of this arrangement? >> of course not. and this is yet another astounding revelation that the president trump does not abide by any kind of ethical limitations and i find it astounding for an agency there to serve the needs and provide the programs so that the veterans earned and deserved, astounding to me that this group of totally unaccountable, unelected and behind the scenes people can exert this kind of influence. but they obviously have the protection of the president. this is why the president is not above the law but he's certainly acting as though he is. so i would hope that the veterans affairs committee on which

with the -- first of all, when you read that the marvel entertainment chair is calling the shots at the vajust seems like parody. >> it does. i think it all goes into this idea that trump is running a grievance campaign where he sees -- he paints everyone as attacking him and so no allegation sticks. if you look at the connections, his love affair with vladimir putin, if he could get away with that, then this idea that he has other people running the va, the idea that he's sort of benefitting from his presidency in a financial way, it's harder to make those things stick. >> everybody that does an argument only goes so far when you have to choose on election day. >> that's why they like hillary clinton on the ballot. kimberly, bill, howard, thank you very much. >>> up ahead, creating a safe space. the first survivor of alzheimer's disease is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. join the fight with the alzheimer's association. are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi.? a more powerful way to stay connected. it

i had great experience with the va. of the persian people. of persian gulf soldiers said don't celebrate without us. don't celebrate without the vietnam vet and i was welcomed home in 2010. >> thank you, michael. to roger in pennsylvania and then back to our guests. hi, roger. >> caller: hi. the vietnam war documentary was excellent, by the way. i turned 18 in 1972. my lottery number was 217, and i was 1a. i remember a little differently. i went to college with a lot of vietnam vets and i had a business partner that was a medic in vietnam. and i have to disagree. i think they were all -- everybody wanted to hear their stories. people -- i don't ever remember anybody talking down to them. everybody seemed to hold them in a high esteem. we got a lot of higher end work in north jersey because my friend was a vietnam vet and the doctors and stuff wanted to hire him and hear his stories, that he was a vietnam vet. my father was a platoon sergeant in the philippines, i mean, the pacific theater in world war ii. came home and never talked about the

we passed the biggest va reform in half a century. veterans choice. our veterans can't get the care they need from the va, they will have the right to go see a private doctor, we'll pay for the doctor, and frankly we'll save a lot of money. we'll help a lot of vets. everybody said they've been trying to get it for 45 years. everybody said you can't get it. think of it. think of it. veterans choice. they have to stand -- our great people. these are our great people. who's a veteran in this audience? do you like trump? do you like the job we're doing? well think of it, 45 years, everybody said you'll never get it passed. and i used to say before i really was well-versed on the veteran situation and health care. i used to say all of the time, why don't they just let the folks go to a doctor. they'd wait in line for seven days, nine days, 14 days, 21 days. some of them started off with a very modest problem. they end up being terminal because they can't see a doctor. i said, why don't they just let them go see a local private doctor, pay the bill, and tak

the va medical center in d.c. has added shuttle buses to help patients with disabilities move around i campus. as scott macfarlane tells us, the change came afte started asking questions about the lack of parking spots. >> reporter: yeah, doreen, we showed you you tell problems, some veterans walking the length of sevenootball fields to get from their cars to and from the front doors of the medical center. a parking garage is being rebuilt but it won't be ready until at let march. the va acknowledges there is a serious shortage of spaces. we began asking questions about this in july. anda as patients told us, ts august 1st, they added a new shuttle to fleet in addition to this one, an suv accessiblee to pe with disabilities to help patients get through the lot. many veterans say they've been struggling to navigate the jammed parking lot, some tellins head ofve hours their appointment so they have extra time to search for a spot and make the walk. sometimes if i have a noon appointment, i will leave her by 8:00. >>

the va choice act allowing our veterans who cannot access timely quality care through the v.a. system, which most say they can to go into the private sector and access those options. and not have to pay out of pocketed for them. the whistle blower and accountability act was really remarkable, helping folks to ferret out abuses or fraud and be protected in the meantime and more accountability in the v.a. also, this president through the gi education bill, he said that you use your benefits at any time. there was real uncertainty in that. the list goes on and on. and the opioid space which i work on here the v.a. has been a tremendous partner in helping our veterans understand that pain management may not always mean pain medication. we don't need a parade to celebrate all this president has done for those brave men and women in uniform and all the people are so anti-american, america was never great, abolish ice, spitting on men and women in uniform. disrespecting the flag when they have the opportunity. i'm very proud to work for a man who loves this country and the men and wom

we passed the landmark va accountability act. now if a bad government workers abuses a great veteran, we turn to them and say, you're fired, get the hell out of here! you are fired! we also passed veterans choice. so if our veterans can't get care from the va in a timely manner, they have the right to go and see immediately a private doctor and get taken care of. they have been working on that one for 45 years. we got it passed. i'm good at getting things passed. we are going to get the wall passed, don't worry about that. the obstructionist democrats. the democrats are obstructionists. the only thing they do well. they are lousy politicians, they have stupid policies, let's get rid of law enforcement, let's get rid of the military. let's not build a wall. they are haters. they do anything they can to obstruct or resist. their word is resist, resist. i used to see that word, i said why are they doing senate but they want to resist. i withdrew the united states from the horrible iran nuclear deal. and so many things have happened.

a picture worth 1000 words but the va says not so fast. on a hospital floor is not what it seems. >> unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs. the deceased read in november. we give the military a $700 billion budget increase which they didn't even ask for. jillian: alexandria ocasio-cortez doesn't always have her facts straight. this time is different. carly shimkus with what she said about the middle class, outrage flooding social media. ♪ call on me brother ♪ when you need a hand ♪ lean on me, when you're not strong ♪ ♪ and i'll be your friend ♪ ♪ i'll help you carry on ♪ ♪ lean on me ♪ mmm... ♪ lean on me... ♪ mmm... ♪ lean on me. rob: touching video from 2016 going viral of mollie tibbetts telling a personal story about prayer. >> whatever happened, i knew that the power of prayer was something. jillian: a sad story. carly shimkus with serious xm 115 here with thoughts and prayers that continue to pour in for the missing iowa university student. >> reporter: mollie tibbetts's and shows her speaking at high school faith event w

the va has had its eye on this medical nter for some time because of problems. s one of the largest va medical centers in the nation, in february it was deemed high risk and low performing, which means there were concerns about ttient care, t it's getting worse means two things, whatevee dies that were put in place aren't necessarily working yet, but this medical center is getting closer and closer to what the va says a takeover by agency headquarters because conditions have fallen so far below standards. >> the new director, is he getting the blame for all of this? has h had enough time? >> a lot of this predatesis appointment. the time frame that led to all of us was a different acting director. so there's a new acting director who replace an actin director. they have had four people running the place in 1 months. a fifth leader is coming at some point soon, probablyt in aug or september, the lack of permanent leadership could be causing so many--. >> so where do we go from here? >> there is a new va secretary, sworn in on monday, so there's a new person in cha

it turns out it's a because of huge parking problem at the va's medical center here in d.c. scott macfarlane and the i-team show us how even with an n'pointment, some military heroes say they caalways get to their care on time. >> reporter: getting most places takes just a little longer for sequoia pointer these days. >> when you have a traumatic situation happen to you, you just, you just don't recover as fast as they think. >> reporter: three decades after serving in the u.s. army poiiger is fing another battle. he's recovering from aro stke, and still struggles to use his left arm and leg. >>> youet aside 30 minutes just to find parking. >> just to find parking, yes. >> reporter: 30 minutes? >> yes, at least 30 minutes. >> reporter: but getting to his e d. ntments recently at cv a. medical center has turned into a lesson inie ps. >>> you watched this. does that seem reasonable to you? >> no, not reasonable at all. >> reporter: the trip to the v.a.ars a mhon for her husband. we watched him unload the scooter then make the long trek from the back of the lot just to get insid

months in june, president trump had put forward an executive order to try to help problems at the va, theeterans administration, and they had let go over 700 employees who are not performing on behalf of their veterans. how did they give life with this general decision? >> you have to go slow when you're talking about the justice department, you have to go slow when you're talking about the fbi. there's a reason because what you don't want is a situation where the director can force people out because they are coming upon facts that are inconvenient, politically inconvenient for the party in power. so what they did with peter strzok was essentially park him, give him a desk job, put him behind the desk sitting somewhere biding his time. and i'm sure that the president's defenders would have wanted this dealt with more quickly or him shot out of a howitzer over the tidal basin, i don't know. but the justice department was probably okay to go a little more slowly so you can let these processes work their way out over a couple of months. >> dana: it just occurred to me, that if he is no long

this important panel discussion and the va we are releasing are among many of the resources of the department of justice's tool kit we are using to fight the scourge on behalf of the american people. office of justice programs with with dja leading the way has been on the frontlines of the attle of the oipt abuse -- opioid abuse. last year we launched the program to reduce opioid misuse and help bring down the number o of overdose fatalities. we're continuing that program this year and we'll continue the program every year, and we'll have more grants to announce in the coming weeks. in addition, the fy-2019 resident's budget includes $103 million for programs authorized by the comprehensive diction recovery act including $20 million for ojt's comprehensive opioid abuse program and $43 million for the drug court program. i want to thank john and his team for leading our efforts. i particularly want to thank carol and dave, the inhouse experts, who have been guiding our work. many thanks as well to our many partners for their help bringing us together today. they've worked hard to make this gat

>> the would it constitute a va ligs the oze. >> the critics are there's a lot of things going on, including witch hunt as the president calls it, to moving robert end. >> and one of the key a keen or tars for vladimir putin. for more than a year, robert mueller has been working to secure an interview withing a hair rez, there that people interviews is still unclear. the information justice gathers would be starving problem for his new jersey. >>> let's get some perspective, at "titanic." >> good to be with us. >> he admits to when trump jr. and was designed to get information on his political rival, hk hk. he says it's all he'll. he's done all the time in politics? >> i think it's not all times of a fornl country, to get that opposition material, it is night. you don't get information on your rivals, with agents of a born country. in the uni2016 meeting, in trump tour. >> what are the politic and lyleal running the application, changing their diversion of what was discussed at this strump chaur hitting. what did he know, as when did you know it. it's a question put to people about president

we passed the landmark va accountability act. now if a bad government workers abuses a great veteran, we turn to them and say, you're fired, get the hell out of here! you are fired! we also passed veterans choice. so if our veterans can't get care from the va in a timely manner, they have the right to go and see immediately a private doctor and get taken care of. they have been working on that one for 45 years. we got it passed. i'm good at getting things passed. we are going to get the wall passed, don't worry about that. the obstructionist democrats. the democrats are obstructionists. the only thing they do well. they are lousy politicians, they have stupid policies, let's get rid of law enforcement, let's get rid of the military. let's not build a wall. they are haters. they do anything they can to obstruct or resist. their word is resist, resist. i used to see that word, i said why are they doing senate but they want to resist. i withdrew the united states from the horrible iran nuclear deal. and so many things have happened.

the car. >> ma, you ready? you ready to go 300 miles per hour? >> she's already saying -- >> well that's okay, vait's a professional guy that's probably okay to trust. >> let's see his mom's reaction. >> his mom barely hanging on. then she appears to get a little woozy. >> no, she did not faint. >> she goes like this, the driver louie nudges her, gives her the elbow. >> i think it was too much. >> va tally is like prank's over, they're calling the ambulance. >> she was getting them back for all the things they've done to her. >> va tally is not quite sure she was faking it or not, but this one goes into the file of did she or didn't she? t general, it was just a fun some of the cars they got to see in the garage, just spectacular. >>> care i have going out do something most of us wouldn't necessarily do on purpose. >> i am going to be trying on different sizes from different stores varying from like a size 6 to a size 12 because i thought it would be interesting to find out what fits me in what way and also because i feel like i have recently been getting a lot of comments saying things like ther

and there were many many blacks who came back as combat, wounded, deserved the same treatment in the va hospital as did the white soldiers. that stuck with german -- with truman. that changed his you that we have to change this and bradley became commander of the troops in normandy. 164 black officers and eight white officers. if we are going to give them up and they are going to fight. i wonder if you know about the role that truman and bradley added using the experience from where youa hospitals had black guys shut up and white guys shot up getting equal treatment. >> he had better relations with bradley than his successor eisenhower. than iw more about it do. bradley asked chief of staff at the army that there is a the navy the fact, as was desegregating and actively doing so and the air force was ahead of everybody, that chief of staff bradley was not pushing as hard as even the administration would have allowed him to. in part that could have been due to secretarial leadership. i do not know if this arsenal views -- of his personal views. i just know he said those were not my order

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but the decision, which i guess applies to all the cemetaries, is that the va, the veterans administration, regards confederate dead in those cemetaries as americans and only the american flag is appropriate and allowable for them. >> first of all, thank you for your presentation. it was one of the best presentations on the history of the confederate flag, battle flag, the government flags i've ever seen. very good, sir. my question is simply, what does it matter, though? what i mean by that is, to the best of my understanding, in south carolina when david beasley took it down in 2000, it was a compromise if they keep it on the state house grounds, it was also in conjunction with a confederate memorial. but there were individuals who were climbing the pole to remove it from a historical marker after dylan roof, i'll say his name, killed those individuals in charleston in 2015. so here we have a compromise, one like you proposed, for instance, that we just have it in a historical conconnotation,t yet that compromise said, no, that's no good. and you also have the national park service no lo

the areas in orange like tri-va locations in the middle part of the week, temperatures climb th 100 degrees. that with air quality issues, smoke at times, could drift back towards the bay area, and, of course, ongoing enhanced fire danger. coming up, how hot the temperatures get and how long the heat will be sticking around in the forecast in 12 minutes. >> thank you. >>> see how hot it will be where you live, and all you have to do is download our nbc bay area app. as always, it is free. >>> missing for nearly a week, a search party canvassed the neighborhood today looking for any sign of 14-year-old taylor, the san ramone teen reported missing in the early morning hours of july 31st. there's no indication of foul play, theye sfar. >>> the president made waves on twitter once again. this tig concerns that donald trump jr. met with russians at trump tower in 2016 calling the media enemy of the people, and the president tweeted, "this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal, and done all the time in politic, and it went nowhere. i did not know about it." critics say th

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