sanders who is our guest tonight for the interview. senator, i want to ask you about veteran's issues. in part, because even though support for veterans is usually a pretty nonpartisan thing, there are some particularly radical takes on veteran's issues among leading republican candidates this year. their frontrunner this week did an event on a battle ship with a group he said represented hundreds of thousands of veterans. it's a group that no real veterans organizations have heard of. they apparently have no membership. they have $30 in the bank and there's one person in the group. mr. trump said that event on the battle ship means he has veterans support. mr. trump has no platform whatsoever on veterans issues. that comes as several other candidates on the republican side including the guy running second ben carson say they want to abolish the va. they want to privatize the va. you just finished up a term as