The bill would have given drivers licenses to any oregon resident even if you could not prove you were in the country legally. This conservative zillionaire decided he was against that. He personally funded an opposition effort. He personally put up 70 of the money it cost to get that law up for a referendum. It would have bn become law in january of this year but it didnt. Instead it will be on the ballot this november because this one guy paid for the services of all of the paid signature gatherers that it took in order to get that law delayed by getting it put on the ballot. Without him it would be law already. With him its not law. At least not yet. His name is lauren parks. He made his fortune in medical devices including doppler flow ultra sound manslaughter and a device called the plethsymograph. Used to measure the arousal of sex offenders. Many pl parks is not a doctor but fashion ed himself more than a hobby and less than a year in being an amateur hypnotherapyist. Especially an amateur sex hypnotherapyist. This video is for women. Its about sexual guilt. Mr. Parks claims to be able to cure people of basically anything you can think of that has any remote relationship to sex. If you peruse the dozens of self help and hypnotherapy videos he has uploaded to you tube, he thinks that everything is related to sex including his baroque and insistent theories on weight loss. This video is about being fat. And it is aimed at women because thats where i have the experience. I dont have the experience with men. Maybe it will work. I dont know. But at any rate, there are a multitude of reasons why women are fat. Long time ago, back in the 80s, when i was doing large groups of people, and using ied owe motor finger signaling, we came up with a bunch of reasons that the women who were overweight gave for their being fat. You would be surprised at what some of them were. But i will tell you this choose one of those things that came to mind to be disconnected. Just have it in your mind, not a bunch of them, just one. When i sound the buzzer and say disconnect, it will disconnect all of the causes of that habit and perhaps youll end up losing weight. [ buzzer ] disconnect. Disconnect can, disconnect. That is him hypnotizing you on you tube. Disconnect. He is a donor to causes in oregon. She the mother of all political donors in oregon. He gives more money than everyone else according to people that study politics in or other but his interests and past make him an awkward donor for conservative candidates and causes. This is from the same profile in the las vegas journal. He says he has been sued a number of times usually by women who dont want me to leave. One female employee sued him even after she signed a contract that stipulated she would have sexual relations with him during business travelers. Quote, she enjoyed our trip so much and then turned around an said she didnt want to do it. Why would someone that signed a contract do that . After those remarks and his time in court one candidate for the oregon house this year returned a 30,000 donation that lauren parks had given him. This guy is running for a house seat in northeastern oregon. The primary is tomorrow. We will see if he will overcome having to give back a 30,000 donation that late in the game. I generally do not think it is appreciated broadly enough how weird or other republican politics have gotten. Oregon has its primary tomorrow. Republicans have been excited about running a campaign against the incumbent democratic senator jeff merkley but if we are honest, i have to tell you covering the republican primary for that senate seat, which is tomorrow, its been like sitting in a dunking boovp booth at a pitchers convention. Every time you think you have your bearings, boom, there you go back in the tank. It is something new. Theres lauren parks the amateur sex hypnotherapyist with contracts to have sex with him on business travels. Hes a zillionaire who has funded a lot of causes but right now he is funding a pact that is supporting monica web by. The other person who is substantially funding the same pack is reported in the oregon press to be monicas boyfriend. One issue with that obviously is the idea of anybodys boyfriend just comingling money with disconnect, disconnect with that guy. Thats just me. Its a free country. The other issue is more pedestrian and specific. Candidates are supposed to be totally, legally forbidden from coordinating anything with packs that support them. Theres supposed to be no contact between the candidate and the pack supporting them, including the people that fund that pack. It is hard to say theres no contact between you and somebody you are dating. Right . If monica webby is the candidate and in a romantic relationship with one of the fund ers of this pack how can you have no coordination. So it raised questions if the pack is operating legally. That led in fact to Democratic Party in oregon filing a complaint about that pack spending on this candidates behalf. Since then, though, in the closing days of this primary in oregon, just this past friday, oregon and everybody else in the world learned in a very blunt, unexpected way that actually the candidate, monica webby and the supposed boyfriend funding the pack, they are apparently no longer in a relationship. They used to be but they have broken up. The way everybody found out about this is when politico published the Police Report from when he called the police on her accusing her of stalking him and asking the police to come throw her out of his house because they were having a bad breakup and she was harassing him and would not leave him alone. That solves part of the Campaign Finance worries about there being too much contact between the candidate and the guy funding the pack, now there is the issue of whos leesking the Police Report four days before the primary. Later that same day, also leaking the 911 call to the oregon press and National Press days ahead of the primary. Today, one day ahead of the primary, the oregonian published another Police Report, this time not from the ex boyfriend but the husband of the same candidate. It reflects her exhusband called the police to their home during their divorce and accused her of ongoing harassment of him. The first Police Report four days before the primary and the 911 call later that day. The second Police Report one day before the primary. The drama and the twists and turns in whatever is going on in Oregon Republican politics would be weird enough, if that was just it but it doesnt touch the cast of characters involved here. Outside of the hobbyist hypnosex therapist and the no longer boyfriend funding the pack. The other is this guy. He just got a splashy spread in National Journal magazine as the future of super pacs. This is him posing with models on a hay bail. It is a video of him from his winery website showing himself. It is a parody of the robin i dont know. Any way. Reporter so if his name is john jordan. He runs a winery, very rich, conservative guy, republican donor and lives in california. Doesnt live in oregon or appear to have a connection with oregon. What is he doing weighing in with huge bucket loads of none the oregon race . Oregon republican politics turns out are just like that. On the other side the guy running against monica webby, a guy named jason conker he has his own disinterested zillionaire funding him as well. It is a Hedge Fund Guy from new york who decided the outcome of the Oregon Senate primary is worth some of his hedge fund bucks for some reason. This is a thing in oregon. Oregon of all places. For some reason attracts this. Four years ago, you may remember we took notice of a mysteriously wellfunded out of nowhere challenge to Peter Defazio. It is perennial crank candidate who lived on a compound he called his own Science Institute and sent out a letter saying hiv doesnt cause aids and people shouldnt take their hiv drugs and radiation is good for you and we should consider sprinkling radiation over the United States over parks and backyards. It would help everybodys health. That candidate was mysteriously running a campaign with super slick flyers and well put together ads and professional operation against Peter Defazio. None of it made sense. Not like this fie was a tea partier who was too conservative for the district or rand paul, ron paul guy who wanted us to have gold instead of paper money or something. It wasnt that normal, well understood breed of republican out thereness. He wants to sprinkle radiation so kids play in it and get healthy. Radiation. It made no sense he was able to run this campaign against Peter Defazio at the level he was running it until Peter Defazio himself figured out there was randomly a new York Hedge Fund republican zillionaire who decided three time zones away, on the opposite side of the country, with no interest in the congressional race he was going to fund art robinson self declared super scientists to run against Peter Defazio. So that inexplicable new York Hedge Fund zillionaire gave money to run a big campaign against pete per defazio. And art did not beat defazio and we reached out to the hedge fund zilli ork naire. We did not hear back but after losing to Peter Defazio, he went on to become the chairman of the Oregon Republican party. Thats his current job. Hes now running for congress again. Still against Peter Defazio but without the hedge funder helping him out this time. While Peter Defazio excuse me, while art robinson is running he is sending out mailers that look like this. Sending them out across or other asking people to send him jars of their urine. Because he wants your urine for science or for his version of science. He wants you to send him your urine for five years. Like a news letter in reverse. The worlds worst news letter made of urine that you have to send to art robinson, chairman of the Oregon Republican party. Yes. His apparently disinterested hedge funder in new york is not to be confused with the other disinterested hedge funder in new york funding the other republican candidate in oregon and they are not to be confused with the sex hypnotherapyist guy that is against drivers licenses and his is the same pac with the guy accusing the now candidate of stalking and Police Report got leaked to the press four days before the primary, as oregonens are to be headed to the poll s to see if they would like any of them to be their statewide elect officials. No republican has won statewide elected office in the state of oregon since 2002 as best as i can tell. But the Beltway Press keeps reporting on the merkley reelection race in oregon as if republicans, you know, got a real shot of pulling this off in oregon, you know what, take a closer look at what is actually going on in oregon. There are a lot of interesting Republican Partys in this country and having interesting, interesting, interesting fights among themselves. There are a lost interesting things going on in local and state republican parties but there is not one anywhere in this country more bizarre than what is happening in the great state of oregon right now. I defy you to find me a weirder one. Joining us now is jim moore a political scientist in oregon. Professor, thank you very much for being here. Its great to be with you. Am i being unfair . Are there states out there that are weirder than oregon and oregon is more normal than it seems in terms of its republican politics right now. Well, lets put it this way, without a tea Party Faction thats strong at all, we are right up there with everybody else in terms of strange things and its been going on like this for the best part of 25 or 30 years. Well, i can can understand there being fits and starts of not just sort of impotence at state levels but in leads to a power vacuum and end up with some sort of spikes in different parties taking control. How has it been so sustainably weird and how does somebody like art robinson not get turfed out of the party when they realize who he is and end up being in charge . In oregon because we have not had a statewide elected republican since gordon smith our u. S. Senator was defeated six years ago by jeff merkley and so in oregon, the chair of the Republican Party becomes in effect the de facto representative of all republicans. Its like theyre the governor in waiting and theres always a fight about what that chair of the Republican Party ought to be. Should it be somebody who is kind of a pure republican whose social conservative wants to cut all taxes, all those kinds of things. Those people get elected as the chair and then they cant raise money and they cant recruit candidates. Ah. So then the party goes the other way and finds a moderate who can raise money and recruit candidates but theyre not ideologically pure and the party gets rid of them after a term of being the chair. So were on the more ideologically pure side right now ainge the party is suffering because of that. In terms of the funders of these people funding pacs and have been behind robinsons candidacy on both sides of the Senate Primary tomorrow, why is it that oregon seems to attract individual donors from across the country who arent involved in any other Political Races or maybe just one here or there, you really picked up some strays here and there. Is there something specific about oregon causing that . Well, lets start with lauren parks. Lauren parks has been giving money in a big way for over 20 years but the money he gave throughout the 1990s into the 2000s was for ballot measures. Oregon is one place where its easy to get measures on the ballot. You can get big money going for them and you can change state law and he funded a lot of things. For instance sentencing guideline kinds of thing, things that had to do with what gay rights ought to be, you know, all sorts of stuff out there. He was successful on a few of them. But not very many of them. Because he wasnt successful, in the past four or five years he switched towards candidates and thats what were seeing right now. Hes going especially for the congressional candidates. Hes also as you said, hes going for some of the state legislative candidates, havent gotten any elected but he said thats how i can change policy going with candidates rather than the ballot measures. The other guy, Hedge Fund People you were talking about, the winery guy, wow, its clear that they are looking at oregon as a place where their relatively small for big bucks, you know, this is not california, you can spend a million or two here and make a big difference in a campaign if you were in california or new york or someplace like that you wouldnt even be noticed so oregon is a place where people see an opportunity because they perceive that in this case jeff merkley is weak and so they see an opportunity to get their ideas out there and to get their candidates out there and, so, you know, there we go. Oregon republican primaries are becoming a playground for billionaire dilettantes. Wow. Im absolutely. I envy you the chance to see it up close every day. Jim moore, political professor. Thanks for being here. Youre welcome. Big primary day tomorrow particularly in the great state of georgia. 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Tomorrow there are primaries in pennsylvania and idaho and georgia and kentucky and arkansas and in my beloved oregon. Weve been reporting, oregon has a high whackadoo factor but the race supposed to be the one to watch was, of course, the one in kentucky. Tomorrows tea Party Primary challenge against the Top Republican in the senate, Mitch Mcconnell. That was supposed to be the big showdown this year before it fizzled out when the Tea Party Challenger guy ended up being the guy who attended a cockfighting rally and gave a speech about cockfighting and said afterwards he no idea the thing he was at was a cockfighting rally. Jim newell at salon. Com wrapped that up and put a bow on it today so who the who me cockfighting guy is slated to lose by double digits against Mitch Mcconnell if polling holds up. Mitch looks like hell have a good day in his primary tomorrow but then sadly from Mitch Mcconnell after that hes going to have to go back to his regular life. Mitch mcconnell has been in that seat for 30 years and even after this primary is over tomorrow, the polls show that hes polling neck and neck basically even with his democratic challenger, first time candidate 35yearold Alison Lundergran grimes. Everybody talks about how hard a time Alison Grimes will have in kentucky because president obama has such low Approval Ratings in that state. Well, Mitch Mcconnells favorable ratings in kentucky are the exact same numbers as president obamas. And kentucky has had 30 years to get to know Mitch Mcconnell and over the years hes brought home so much pork half the state is called the mcconnell something or other. Even if mcconnell does win the primary tomorrow and does win his reelection effort in november against Alison Lundergran grimes, which is no sure bet, even if that happens then it turns out thereafter he will still have another problem. Will you support Mitch Mcconnell in kentucky as the leader of a republicans in the u. S. Senate. My answer is no, jim. Im going to support whoever will sign off on my drive to change the status quo. I dont know. The answer is no. Yes, jim, because in the problem with senator mcconnell, isnt that hes ineffective. Hes ineffective because hes in the minority. Absolutely not. We need new leadership with new people there and that means we need new leadership in the leadership too. I think this is not really simply a yes or no answer, jim. That was from the Republican Senate candidates debate in georgia. Only one of the seven running said if hes elected to the senate he would vote for Mitch Mcconnell to stay in chief justice the Republican Party and the man who said that, no offense, is one of the candidates who has zero chance of winning tomorrow. The other six either said though or they wouldnt say. Republicans are also running for national in oklahoma and in nebraska and in louisiana all while refusing to say if theyll vote for mcconnell to stay in charge. So even when Mitch Mcconnell likely wins this primary hes still going to have a hard day because he knows thats head of them. That georgia race tomorrow, though, that is going to be a really fascinating one. There is genuine suspense there in georgia and the stakes are high. Theres this rule they almost never talk about, a constitutional rule that says you cannot hold on to your house seat and run for the senate at the same time. So its a particular leap of faith for a member of the house to commit to run for senate. You have to give up your day job in order to run. You cant keep your seat if you want to run for senate. But three members of the house from georgia did that, tried to get the senate seat, Jack Kingston gave it up and phil gingrey and paul brown gave up his house seat and gave up seats to run for senate tomorrow in georgia. And none of them is expected to win. Jack kingston might have a shot of making it a night a runoff if hes a top two finisher maybe but the other two if things go as expected tomorrow they are not only going to be out of luck, they are going to be out of a job. Do you remember the kerfuffle about the countrys highest profile Breast Cancer charity trying to cut itself off from its relationship with planned parenthood . Remember that. Holy cow did that make people mad. So much so that the susan g. Komen Breast Cancer foundation reversed the decision to cut off planned parenthood after four days. The fundraising plummeted, a number of their staffers including eventually the founder and ceo of the organization quit. The group still hasnt quite recovered two years later. That whole disaster was the brainchild of this person, who is another one of the real contenders for that seat tomorrow. Her name is karen handel. Running in part on the basis of that disastrous decision she made at komen. Shes got endorsements from Rick Santorum and sarah palin but heading into tomorrows voting, Jack Kingston has an endorsement from a pop Fox News Channel host named sean hannity and yet another one of the contenders david perdue, businessman, cousin of the last governor also named purdue, he has an endorsement from herman cain because, yes, one of the things that happens now in our country people seek out and get the endorsement of herman cain when theyre running for the United States senate but with this split ticket, right, with three different candidates in this primary tomorrow endorsed by these three different conservative brands on legs, whats going to happen tomorrow in georgia . Theres seven people in that primary, three of them gave up house seats to run. Five considered to be contenders. In georgia tomorrow it is that rarest of all things in our politics these days. It is a legitimately open question as to what is going to happen in that primary. 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If it wasnt wed join the west western world and stop doing it. Part of me likes to see that but then you see the historical footage this. Is what it looked like at the last public execution in the United States. In owensboro, kentucky, august 1936, hundreds or thousands of people turned out. There were hanging parties. The contemporaneous press says the bars with full all day with people getting drunk and celebrating. They were not there to watch a man slowly strangle to death when the rope he was hanged from did not break his neck. When he fell from the gallows and just slowly died as he hung there over a period of 16 1 2 minutes. Quote, a few persons near the gallows grabbed bits of the hood as souvenirs after the two physicians pronounced him dead. Kentucky was the last state to outlaw public executions. After that Massive Party in the streets in owensbor 1936 the state decided to do away with them joining the rest of the country in concluding that mass executions in public were no longer acceptable. That standards of decency had evolved past making a huge stadiumstyle spectacle of the Death Penalty. Since then, executions carried out by the state as opposed to those carry out by lynch mobs state executions were all moved indoors and away from general public view. What you see here, reporters reading out what they saw while witnessing executions, reporters have been allowed in to witness executions in order to tell the public what happens, but general members of the public dont see it anymore. We dont see pictures of it the. We dont see videotape, we dont see anything. We get read out or written out descriptions. Would it change anything about how we feel about the Death Penalty in this country if we did see it . And if so, would it be a step back toward the blood lusting mobs getting drunk and celebrating or the private pornographic enthusiasm of people enjoying a snuff film or would it put trust in the other selection and make the public disapprove of killing prisoners and put pressure on lawmakers to stop doing it . Three weeks ago a prisoner in the state of oklahoma survived his execution, at least for awhile when the warden in the corrections director realized they botched the intravenous line with a prisoner neither dead or unconscious and writhing in pain they pulled the blinds to block off the view of the witnesses, they called off the execution. They still wont say if they tried to revive him behind those close blinds after they said they were stopping their efforts to kill him but 43 minutes into it they do say that he died of a heart attack. There was no protocol in oklahoma for what to do if the prisoner survives your attempts to kill him. And if you want to try to stop killing him. No state has that protocol as far as we know. But now the country is poised to do its first execution since what happened in oklahoma. Its scheduled for a minute after midnight tomorrow night and in missouri that mans lawyers is trying to hit a pause button in a motion they argue until the botched execution in oklahoma on april 29th, the possibility of a prisoner surviving an execution seemed perhaps remote. Now the possibility of a failed execution is plain. The mans lawyers have further argued that this next execution, the first planned execution since oklahoma, theyve argued that it should be videotaped. They want it videotaped for evidence. They have concerns about the drugs being used the drug excuse me being used which is apparently made at a Compounding Pharmacy in the state Wont Disclose the source of it. They have concerns about tumors that the condemned man suffers from which they say may affect the way the drugs work on him in the Execution Chamber. The state has already twice altered its planned protocol for the execution to account for the mans medical condition. So the first execution after what happened in oklahoma is missouri trying to do it in a way thats its never been done before with drugs from a seek source. Secret source. The mans lawyer say they want it videotaped. That doesnt happen in this country but want it dong for this one and say if missouri officials are confident enough to execute Russell Bucklew they should be confident enough to videotape it. It is time to raise the curtain on lethal injections so says cheryl pilate, a lawyer for him and miss pilot joins us now from missouri. Thanks for being with us tonight. I appreciate your time. Thank you for inviting me on your show. Well, first let me ask you the status of your motions and appeals at this point. Is the execution still at this point planned to go forward tomorrow night . The execution is still planned to go forward. Were actually at a difficult point. We got a denial from the Federal District court this afternoon on a variety of our constitutional claims under eighth amendment as well as the first and the 14th amendment, and we are now planning to go straight to eighth Circuit Court of appeals and if deny there had seek review in the United States supreme court. Why specifically did you ask for the execution to be videotaped . Why would that be valuable obviously if it was at that point it would be where your client was going to be killed. I think we need an accurate record that is not subject to witness bias or misrecollections or failure to perceive or not remembering or any of the other things that may affect a witness ability to report. I think we need an accurate record of what goes on inside the Execution Chamber and if executions are going to be done in our name as a society i think we as a society have a right to know what goes on in there. There is no more potent expression of any states power than its ability to extinguish the life of one of its citizens and i think its in that act that we most need transparency and accountability. And a good way to begin with that is to tape the execution. Do you think there is a reasonable interest in keeping executions from being performed as they once were for public consumption . Im very sympathetic to your argument and look back at the historical record and think about the snuff films that exist of executions around the world and see the way theyre treated. I just wonder, are you risking that if mr. Bucklews death was taped and then that was made public or leaked. Well, obviously a court could control the the circulation of the tape and say who may have it or who may not if its done for a particular case. But were not talking about hanging, you know, in the Public Square or anything like that. Were talking about a very extreme act committed in our name often on people who have either mental defects or in my clients case physical problems and i just think the public has a need and, frankly, a right to see what is being done in their name. My client has a severe and lifelong condition that causes the entire right side of his head and his neck and throat to be filled with unstable vascular tumors and the truth is that the state cant say for certain what is going to happen if hes executed tomorrow. Those tumors are very unstable in his throat. They are friable. It means they rupture easily. They bleed if theyre touched. Cheryl pilate attorney for Russell Bucklew. I imagine the next 24 hours will be a very intense time for you. 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Today, ten years after that they lined up in against in oregon but not just in that one county because today in oregon a federal judge issued a progay marriage ruling for oregon that was the 12th consecutive such ruling from a federal judge since the big u. S. Supreme court case last year that apparently paved the way for equal marriage rights from sea to shining sea. In his dis sent from that ruling last year Antonin Scalia predicted this would happen. Gay couples would soon get the right to marry everywhere. He did not mean it in a good way when he said it but in case after case after case he has been right, red state, blue side, Piggly Wiggly supermarket or skyscraper skyline, it is happening everywhere across the country. 12 consecutive states now with oregon today. So much so and so many times now that we are almost getting used to it. This is another picture from ten years ago in oregon. All these pictures were taken by jess leota who was working as a Delivery Driver that day. On the left there you can see the woman whose sign says how proud she is to have a real husband. And on the right the guy who says one day he will be proud too. We dont know what happened to that guy, but ten years later the one day he was hoping for, the someday he was counting on, and that that lady there was so against, that day today in oregon came. That day happened in oregon and couples started getting married today right away just as soon as they could. It almost doesnt feel like news anymore, but it really, really is. Cut [bell rings] this. Is jane. Her long day on set starts with shoulder pain. And a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for. All day relief. Hmm. [bell ring] roll sound action add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance. And well replace destroyed or stolen items with brandnew versions. We put members first. Join the nation. Nationwide is on your side and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase i make a lot of purchases for my business. 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A just the facts transcript of a briefing of a senior official on the purpose of the Vice President and dr. Jill bidens trip to romania and cyprus. Its everything. Statements and releases is everything that happens at the white house every day. And some of it is momentous stuff. Like 348d of honor is a momentous thing. But a lot of it is just the workaday minutia of running the giant federal government. Anywhere from 3 to 20 statements and releases put out on any given workday at the white house. You can always find them right there. And this statement that the white house released on may 1st, this is the prototypical boring announcement thats not going to make any news. Its a long list of 13 people, none of whom youve ever heard of, whom the president intends to nominate to these Key Administration posts that you mostly have not heard of either. And this is just very easily skipped. It is just as boring as it looks. But that superdry announcement ended up being really, really important to a really big story in the news right now. Late last week you might have seen some big headlines that popped about the ongoing troubles and recriminations at the veterans administration. That big news followed the Senate Hearing on thursday, where va secretary Eric Shinseki got grilled over Va Health Centers not only having long wait times to get doctors appointments but those Va Health Centers also being found to have workarounds and tricks and second sets of books to make it look like those long wait times didnt exist. And weve been reporting repeatedly on this show that this type of problem has happened with Va Health Care before. As va has been trying to reduce its wait times, they have created all these incentives to make their employees make the wait times not look as bad as they are. And those incentives have created systems by which employees make it look not so bad, but its still really bad. This has happened before. This recent round of criticism. The newest revelations that this type of thing is happening even now. They started last month in phoenix before they ended up spreading all across the country. And at that initial site in phoenix the Inspector Generals Office asked va secretary Eric Shinseki to please suspend the director of the whole Va Medical Center in phoenix while the Inspector General investigation went forward. That happened on may 1st. Shinseki suspended that director. And at shinseki hearing on thursday the big dramatic moment in the whole thing was when senators sat there in the hearing room and told the secretary that four days after he suspended that health chief one of his own top executives at his own agency, in fact the guy sitting right next to him during his testimony, had publicly criticized and undermined the va secretarys decision to suspend that facility chief in phoenix. On may 1 you publicly stated that you had removed miss hellman as the medical director. On may 5th dr. Petzel conducted a Conference Call with all visiting directors, all medical directors and the chief of staffs, a rather large group. I have been told by source thats were on that call that during that call dr. Petzel made the statement that the removal of miss hellman was, i quote, political and that shes done nothing wrong. I was not aware of the phone call you referred to. And ill look into it. Ill look into whether i suspended someone and then four days later this guy sitting right next to me who supposedly works for me got on a giant Conference Call and told everyone that my decision to suspend that person was purely political and was all bull pucky. Yeah, ill look into whether that happened. On thursday secretary shinseki said ill look into it. On friday that guy got fired. At least thats what it looked like from all the headlines the story made when the story popped. But check this out. Go back to that super boring list of the president s intention to nominate people youve never heard of to Key Administration posts youve never heard of. One of those job titles for which they announced they had found somebody new . Its that guys job title. Not even three weeks ago the white house announced who the new guy is whos getting that guys job. And look, back in september the va had already announced publicly that that guy was retiring. Grateful to dr. Petzel for his distinguished service, blah, blah, blah. So they announced his retirement in september. The white house announced his replacement 2 1 2 weeks ago. And now its big news that the guy is resigning . He may be resigning, but he was gone already. If this was the big accountability moment to make it look like they were canning somebody in charge because thats what everybody was clamoring for, this was not that moment. Fixing what is wrong with wait times and Record Keeping at the va, which is the Biggest Health care system in the country, that problem is not going to be fixed at a Senate Hearing, and it is not going to be fixed by expressions of outrage. I continue to think that it is not going to be fixed by firing any one person at headquarters, although there are definitely those who disagree with me on that. But presumably everyone can agree that the resignation of someone who has already resigned will do nothing to fix this problem and nothing to make it even look like the problem is being fixed or taken seriously. All that sort of thing does is make everybody involved in this look ridiculous in addition to already looking like failures for their inability to address this problem which is not new, which has been around for a very long time, and that the whistle has been blown on countless times before. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow night. Now its time for the last word. Thanks for being with us. You know, tomorrow voters will decide what kind of candidates they want running for congress. Hopefully, theyll be able to pick some who know more than just the word benghazi. Karl rove this week reportedly suggested that Hillary Clinton suffered brain damage after a 2012 blood clot. No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Its clear republicans are testing a line of attack. I didnt say she had brain damage. She had a Serious Health episode. He then turned back into puddinglike goo and oozed through a drain in the floor. This started because karl rove started talking about brain damage and roves fellow republicans have proven all too susceptible to the anticlinton fever. Talking about whether she had Plastic Surgery or not. Hillary clinton. Is there any real reason she shouldnt run for president . Theyre running on old