there are also many organizations that represent young veterans, women veterans, minority veterans, lgbtqo been very vocal in this fight. and in the fight for justice for minority and women veterans. what is really important to highlight is that it is not about me. this is about creating a safe and welcoming environment for women veterans, for survivors of sexual trauma, and other veterans who feel marginalized. >> do you think the v.a. is aware of how prevalent these incidents of assault and harassment are within the military and within the veterans hospitals and such? are they aware and they are turning a blind eye to it, or are they not away? >> v.a. is fullyware aware. in early 2019 v.a. found at least 1 in 4 women veterans experienced sexual harassment or gender-based harassment in health care environments at v.a. facilities and surveyed around the country at multiple facilities and that was the average. the range was 40% to 10% depending on the facility. in addition in 2016 the board found 1 in 4 women are experiencing harassment on the job at the v.a. it should be enough, it should

for women veterans, it would ensure that the v.a. health care system is more prepared for and responsive to their needs and help instill a culture that's more welcoming, inclusive and safe. for veterans who have experienced medical sexual trauma, it would streamline benefits and make it easier to get the care and compensation they deserve. for veterans struggling with homelessness and housing insecurity it would increase funding for traditional housing providers, increase the h.u.d. voucher program, provide additional funding to allow service providers to care for those with children and meeting rising demands associated with covid-19. authorize grant funding for legal services and support those within the criminal justice system. for veterans worried about their finances it would address a major root cause of veteran debt by allowing them to remove dependents. for veterans concerned about the general management an operation of the dotcht veterans affairs it would improve v.a.'s work with congress and the government accountability off

development, finance -- financial institutions to help small business minority owned businesses, women, veterans, native americans, businesses to participate because they are not big and they do not have financial relationships. sometimes, they are overlooked and that's essential to what our legislation has done. childcare. children learning, parents earning, very important, especially in a time of pandemic when children cannot actually in many cases go to school. therefore, their parents cannot go to work. childcare. issuesnd so many other that are so essential to the kitchen table needs of america's working families, that has always been my focus and that is the democratic difference between what we have succeeded in doing and what was not even present in any way in any bills the other side put forward on the senate. in addition, we are pleased that investments in the transportation system and what that means to our economy, jobs, etc., it's in this legislation. we are pleased that bipartisan, bicameral support, that is a job as well. retention tax credit. some of these things made it in late

assistance for community toelopment, the institutions help small business, minority owned business, women, veterans, native americans, for businesses to participate, because they do not have a natural relationship. sometimes, they are overlooked, but that is central to what our legislation has done. childcare. childcare. children learning, parents earning, they are important, especially in the time of pandemic when children cannot actually in many cases go to school. therefore, their parents cannot go to work. childcare. again, these and so many other issues that are so central to meeting the needs of american working families. that has always been my focus, and that is the democratic difference between what we have and what wasdoing not present in any way in any bills that the other side put forward in the senate. in addition, we are very pleased with investments in our transportation system and what that means for our economy, jobs, etc. in our legislation, we are very pleased of bipartisan, bicameral that bodes job creators well. the employment retention tax credit. some of these things made it

even more welcoming to all veterans, including women veterans, veterans of color, and lgbtq veterans. mind caregivers, because we need to have their backs too. to the men and women of the ba, many of you veterans yourself scott -- the v.a., many of you veterans yourself, work to take care of all veterans. to you and to the many dedicated service organizations who include vets, survivors, and their families, i look forward to being your partner in one united team in delivering care and support that is second to none. finally, taking care of our veterans is not a job for the v.a. alone. every federal department and agency has a role to play. i will fight like hell to make that happen. even though only 1% of americans wear the uniform, under present biden every american will be called upon to embrace our response ability to support our veterans and nila terry damme -- our responsibility to support our veterans and their military families. on behalf of my family, thank you for this opportunity to serve. may god bless our troops, veterans, and their families. may we always give them our ve

even more welcoming to all veterans, including women veterans, veterans of color, and lgbtq veterans. and keeping faith with our incredible military families and caregivers, because we need to have their backs, too. to the men and women of the v.a., many of you veterans yourself, you worked tirelessly to take care of all veterans. and you're demanding jobs have been made even more difficult by the pandemic. to you and to the many dedicated vets' service organizations who include vets, survivors, and their families, i look forward to being your partner in one united team in delivering care and support that is second to none. finally, taking care of our veterans is not a job for the v.a. alone. every federal department and agency has a role to play. and i will fight like hell to make that happen. and even though only 1% of americans wear the uniform, under president biden, every american will be called upon to embrace our responsibility to support our veterans and their military families. -- and our military families. mr. president-elect, madame vice president elect, on behalf of my wif

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it means giving them every opportunity, making the va welcome for all veterans, including women veterans, veterans of color and lgbtq veterans, and keeping in faith with our incredible military families a families, because they need to have our back, too. the veterans themselves, your demanding jobs have been made even more difficult by the pandemic. to you and to the many dedicated vets' service organizations who include vets, survivors and their families, i look forward to being your partner, one united team in delivering care and support that's second to none. finally, taking care of our veterans is not a job for the va alone. every federal department and agency has a role to play, and i will fight like hell to make that happen. even though only 1% of americans wear the uniform, under president biden, every american will be called upon to embrace our responsibility, to support our veterans and our military families. mr. president-elect, madam vice president-elect, on behalf of my wife kari on our family, thank you for this opportunity to serve. may god bless our troops, our veterans a

staff, were engaged in this smear campaign against this congressional staffer who worked on women's veterans' issues. and they really just tried to dig up dirt on her when she said that she had been assaulted at the va hospital in the district. so, in the course of his investigation, mike missel, the ig, discovered that he felt that wilkie had possibly perjured himself in his testimony to his investigators and that also by tasking one of his public affairs people to hitch a story, you know, a kind of hit job story on the woman, that that was interfering with the underlying investigation into her claim she was assaulted. so, what i did want to say is, this was not -- this referral was mostly, as i understand it, not necessarily to prosecute wilkie, but to get permission from federal authorities to allow the inspector general to compel the testimony of his staff, because they had stopped cooperating completely in the investigation. >> that is fascinating. my next question was going to be if this is going to be -- if this is going to end for wilkie, essentially. i mean, being accused of perjuri

community development, financial institutions to help small business, minority-owned businesses, women, veteransnative american owned businesses to participate in a way because they're not big and they don't have financial relationships. times they're overlooked but that's central to what our legislation has done. childcare. childcare. children learning, parents earning. very important. especially in a time of a pandemic when children cannot actually, in many cases, go to school. therefore, their parents can't go to work. childcare. again, these and so many other issues that are so central to the kitchen-table needs of america's working families. that has always been my focus and that is the democratic difference between what we have succeeded in doing and what was not even present in any way in any bills that the other side put forward in the senate. in addition, we're very pleased that investments in transportation system and what that means to our economy, jobs, et cetera. we're very pleased that bipartisan, bicameral support for a job creator as well. the employment retention tax credit. som

that i think is possible that honors what has been said before about small businesses with women, minorities, veterans, native american owned businesses, small businesses, being able to cbsi's to and the meet their needs. nydia velazquez is working in a bipartisan way on that issue. so whether it's in the omnibus or in the covid or some combination thereof, that is the work that's being done right now. i'm very excited about the fact that in a very strong bipartisan way about 80% of the house voting for the national defense authorization act. i commend, as i have before, again and again, chairman adam smith, chair of the appropriations committee, mr. thornberry, for whom this -- the bill is named, and the ranking member on the committee, for their leaership. in presenting a bipartisan bill. the president threatened to veto the bill largely because it has a provision in there championed armed teran on the services committee who has fought to have the renaming of these bases an important priority. the bill received a rousing vote on the floor, i think it was 337 -- it was like 80% of the house voted for

veteran status. to me, these women are veterans, they went to france, they were there on the front lines operating the switchboards, so why wouldn't they be veterans? women made a huge impact and i think if anyone came out of the war in great shape, it was women because they earned the right to vote in 1920. i talked earlier about the advent of fake news during the war and i will give you a couple examples of this. first off, our largest ruhr here in washington, d.c. was christian herrick and the brewers in the country were german-americans, so of course the moment we declare war against germany, the sources begin spinning beer drinking into treason. there is this rumor that goes around, it is reprinted in the whereby he has erected as farm out in , a large concrete flooring has established so german r. kelly can be established on top of that and bombard the nation's capital. this is complete fake news but the new york times printed this, this was an hysteria leading up to the war. at that time the bureau investigation -- of investigation, the precursor to the fbi sent a man out to his house, they sea

up the citizens for ike campaign which was a genuine army of volunteers made up of legions of veterans, women's groups and republicans who wanted a candidate who could win, plus they really liked ike. at 16, at my dad's tow, i was a sergeant at arms at the 1962 convention back when the conventions actually chose the nominee for president. i vividly remember two lasting experiences, the renowned senator from illinois, everett dirksen was a key leader of the bob taft campaign. he was in the midst of his convention remarks when the entire new york delegation, led by former governor and presidential candidate tom dewey, marched in and with considerable noise they took their seats. dirksen paused and pointing directly at dewey and with his booming voice said this, you, sir, have led this party, this republican party, down to defeat in 1944 and again in 1948. don't do it again. where upon the entire new york delegation stood up and gave dirksen the raspberry, and i thought this is what adults do at a convention. one morning i was in a meeting with my dad with the top ike campaign brass, dewey, lodge,

up the citizens for high campaign that was a genuine army of volunteers made up of legions of veterans, women's groups and mostly republicans wanted eight candidates who could win. plus, they really liked ike. at 16, i was a sgt of arms at th 1952 convention. back when convictions chose the nominee for president. vividly remember my two lasting experiences. the renowned senator from illinois everett dirksen, was a key leader in the bob taft campaign. senator dirksen known for his long eloent speeches was in the midst of his convention remarks when the entire new york delegation led by former governor and presidential candidate tom dey, marched in and with considerable noise they took their seats. dirksenause and pointed directly at dooey and wit his booming voice said this. use or outlive this replican party down to defeat in 1944. and again in 1948. don't do it again. whereupon the entire new york legation stood up and gave dirksen the rpberry. and i thought, this is what adults do at a convention? [laughter] one morning i was in t meeting with my dad with the top ike campaign bss dooey, lodge

institutions to help minority owned businesses as women and veterans and native americans to participate in a way because they're not big and they don't have natural relationships and sometimes they are overlooked. child care, children learning and parents, especially during a time of a pandemic when children can't go to school. that's where their parents the can't go to work, child care. again, there are so many issues that are so essential to kitchen table need of america's working families. that always my focus and that's the democratic difference between what we have succeeded in doing and what was not even presented in any way. in addition we are pleased of our transportation system and what it means to our economy and jobs and etcetera, we are pleased, bipartisan and bicameral support, employment retention tax credit. some of these things made it in late this evening, that's why it is takingoing us longer to write bill to bring it on the floor. these are the later developments. we are proud that the surprise billing was apart of this. one thing that we did not achieve, money left o

many men and women veterans have died protecting the constitution and we want them to uphold that andhat's our message and we've announced we'll continue on with the bus tour after day. and people can find our schedule. >> thank you, as we found out here, this movement at least the bus tour will continue beyond today. leland: it says a sense where the crowds have come from from around the country. griff, thank you ♪ >> california democrat eric swalwell is facing growing backlash over alleged ties to a chinese spy and for a house ethics investigation. christina coleman has the latest on the story. hi. >> hi, yesterday, g.o.p. rep jim sensenbrenner filed a complaint with the house ethics committee urging them to find out if swalwell has been compromised by a chinese spy and kicked off the intelligence committee which gives him access to the nation's secrets. >> and that involves an investigation into the nature and contact that this apparent spy had with the congressman, whether or not there were people in his office or close to the congressman who were being directed by the spy and whe

how is the vfw going to respond, how are the next generation veterans going to respond, how are women veteranse same way we got a damning ig report in that the current secretary created the culture of discrimination and there's only 40 days left, but the chairman of the house veterans affairs committee called for the chairman the secretary to resign this week. we need one to make the case to the american people this is not just the veterans affairs administrator. this is the world's largest most important veterans advocate. this is the person who tells our stories, who interprets memorial day and veterans day. they have to be a translator. it's very hard to translate for a community you don't come from. >> hey, paul, it's willie, good to see you this morning. as you know better than anybody, veterans have been frustrated again and again by the v.a. they have sought the benefits they deserve, they don't get them. they don't get the treatment. we talk about applauding our vets but we don't execute very well on that. so what are the challenges for denis m i p understaunderstand. what is the chall

why would they not be veterans? women made a huge impact and i think if anyone came out of the war in great shape, it was women. because they have earned that right to vote in 1920. i talked earlier about the advent of fake news during the war. i will give you a couple of examples of this. first off, our largest brewer here in washington d.c., was christian hiring. the brewers in the country where german americans. of course, the moment we declare a war against germany, the anti--- temperance forces began spinning we are drinking into treason. and, there is this rumor that goes around and effect it's reprinted in the new york times. whereas -- farm and hide spill. has a large concrete flooring that he has established so german until we can be established on top of that, and bombarded the nation's capital. it's complete fake news, the new york times has printed this. this was in that hysteria, leading up to the war after the cinnamon telegram that was posted. the federal at that time, the bureau of investigation, precursor

women in that. they get lost in the in their. overall tapestry of promises i mean everybody's breaks for their children 1st of all and rightly so then there is the veteran then there is the mentally ill by your word the resist specific population old women that are having their is specific needs to a week long to use and do enough so you know we made it a priority and by that we pushed through in it any beds available to them or to listen to a year ago there were hardly any beds available for them and it's an unsafe for a place for women to. tell all of gotos to not walk in the street or at night in a dark neighborhood that's the sort of imagine that you have no work to go. or know what i did when something. or were. were. in the us is being told in equality a good way to figure out which song to beat your on is with yoko many planes on h.b.o. to. me shit like bush workers calling for a much higher minimum wage workers at mcdonald's wendy's domino's pizza and more will want not the job getting. the look at the federal 'd minimum wage is one create $938.00 under the fair labor standards act ok which was in response to a 1000000 people wandering our natio

women in that. they get lost in the in their. overall tapestry of armistice i mean everybody's heart breaks for their children 1st of all and rightly so then there is the veteran then there is the mentally ill. you were there is a specific population called women that are having very specific needs that are we going to use and do enough so you know we made it a priority and by that we pushed through in it any beds available to them or to listen to a year ago there were hardly any beds available for them and it's an unsafe place for women to. tell all our gotos to not walk in the streets or at night in a dark neighborhood that's the sort of imagine that you have no work to go. or know what to do and something. or worse. were. always on us income inequality a good way to figure out which side of it your on is with your company planes on each of the o.e.c.d. . you should like workers calling for a much higher minimum wage workers in mcdonald's wendy's domino's pizza and more will want not the job. you were looking to federal 'd minimum wage is one created $938.00 under the fair labor standards act ok which was in response to a 1000000 people wandering our nation

caller: congressman ryan, i noticed a sign behind the about the women's memorial bridge. i'm a disabled veteran from the war. i don't want generic answer i always get. my congressman is mo brooks. he is coming on after you. i have called every office about my problem. with the health care my son had. once they graduate, if they don't go to college, and then if they don't go to college it cuts off at age 23 and they are always behind. i just got the affordable care act permission to buy blue cross blue shield through alabama. which i thinkonth is ridiculous. in the war, they still would have dropped his insurance. all i have been asking for is a change in the school requirement and bump the age up to the age of 36 like they did in the affordable care act. on the affordable care act, toerans were put on page -- update the systems between the v.a. and dod. host: thank you for bringing your story of. congressman ryan, do you want to respond? caller: -- caseworkat is a situation. you have to go through your congressperson because my staff is overwhelmed with the 700,000 people we represent. i will m

public servant who is going to represent all californians, all middle class, all seniors and veterans, women, to make sure that he puts their priorities and gives opportunity with dignity. look, as chair elect of the congressional hispanic caucus i'm going to welcome senator alex padilla into our membership so we can get some real results for the american people in congress and i'm thrilled. i'm also thrilled, by the way, john, of president-elect joe biden choosing miguel cardona for secretary of education. we have a lot of firsts in this administration. >> let me ask you because last time you and i spoke you were not happy with the number of hispanics that president-elect biden had announced to be part of his cabinet. it wasn't enough as far as you were concerned. is it now? >> well, we have -- at that point we had one hispanic in the cabinet, now we have two more, so we broke the two hispanic cabinet member threshold, now, look, we're not stopping because the hispanic community is the largest minority population in the entire nation and we need a latino. we need a woman in the cabinet. we

veterans. too often our men and women come home with be invisible wounds of war. the legislation that my team and i crafted and got across the finish line gives them the lifesaving treatment they earned and deserve allowing them to heal and reach their full potential. those who sacrifice life and limb for this country, who bear the scars of battle, both seen and unseen, who ran towards the sound of guns, these are the heroes we can never forget and to whom we owe a profound debt. my deepest hope is had that the work we did to fight for our veterans is a cornerstone of the legacy we leave in the senate. over these last few years, i met so many inspiring arizonians as i traveled through all 15 counties and engaged with people from many different backgrounds and experiences. it was the honor of a lifetime to meet four navajo code talkers. to visit with world war ii vets like george cross while participating in the 75th anniversary of d-day and normandy. to encourage arizona sailors. to secure and pin on an overdue purple heart on an iraq veteran. to tour the border w

women negotiators. and afghan political veteran and nominee for the nobel peace prize who some say could one day become the country's 1st female president. thank you so much for joining me on outfront there have been 2 attempts on your life here the most recent by unknown shooters but the 1st by the taliban and your daughter witnessed both of those attacks u.s. envoy says this latest attack was meant to be rail the talks how much faith do you have that the taliban will uphold their word in any sort of agreement that his reach. you're right it's very very early to say that you know the taliban have actually changed views and perception towards some of the realities of afghanistan in particular 2 worlds 2 wars woman and especially vocal woman but in the meantime i know that the taliban are not unfortunately the only group that contribute to violence there are isis in afghanistan or dies or other groups military extremist groups. in talking with taliban what we're trying to do is at least many is the level of risk that afghanistan have is facing not only in terms of the number of people that they're losin

veterans community in white city. america is blessed to have these brave men and women who risked their lives so we can enjoy our lives in peace. america owes them a debt we can never fully repay. having grown out -- grown up in cherry orchard in oregon, i always had great respect for those who grow food to feed us. i stood up for their wauther rights, protected their land and ranching way of life and i'm proud of the cooperative mountain protection act and the cooperative approach it envisioned. i supported efforts throughout the district. while we made much progress, my one regret is we could never find the key to unlocking a durable and fair solution to the water crisis in the clamuth basin that could also pass in congress. i'm disappointed congress has dragged its feet in enacting much-needed reforms to make our forests healthier and more resilient to climate change. 17 years ago last week, president bush signed the healthy forest restoration act into law. pefully next congress you'll eed the advice of our yale graduate, mr. westerman, before it all goes up in smoke. i'm proud of the bipartisan work we did togethe

veterans. recently released people out of the penal system single women single women with children substance abusers alcoholics. really really all the different factions but now we stood back and looked at the folly of that approach and realize that in order to really deal with it in this society which is couples we view them as. this whole as a group that falls into $22.00 factions those who can work and those who can't work so we walk away with this way it's $77.00 in the quarter and 'd but i live in america and anybody who's lived in america has traveled anybody who's traveled is travel to some place which is more expensive than where they came from and they travel some place with less expense right now the government uses the concept of one size fits all. so they keep doing it's like 70 court for everybody so whether you live in washington d.c. or whether you live in a harley engine texas they're going to set it at 7 decor right now this talk of there is you $10.00 an hour well the day that that's passed a $10.00 an hour that's the president's promoting for. something to get one minimum wage hom