Krn about our vets. I want to thank David Shulkin for being here. Hes the secretary of Veterans Affairs. Its really good youre here, mr. Secretary. Especially since in a couple hours youll be across the street in the white house for a bill signing passed by both republicans and democrats that President Trump will sign the bill which will give you some tools to reform the v. A. And if anybody can reform the v. A. You can. Youre a strong leader and were lucky to have your service for our country. [applause] you know, a lot of times you hear people gripe about the v. A. And im sure there are some flaws in the system, but its important for our citizens and our vets to know the vast majority of people who work for the Veterans Administration care deeply about helping our vets transition. I want to thank people from our team, ken and holly and miguel for being here and putting on this conference. With us today are three educators from three parts of the country. Ken from Syracuse University
President bush laura and i are honored you all came. Thank you for opening your door to the concerns about our vets. I want to thank david for being here, secretary of President Trump will sign the bill. This will give you some tools to reform the v. A. If anybody can reform the v. A. , you can. You are a strong leader and were happy to have your service for our country. [applause] a lot of times, you hear people gripe about the v. A. Its important for our citizens to care deeply about our vets transition. This today, three educators from three parts of the country. It spends a lot of time on Veterans Issues. My predecessor at the bush center is now head of the from they of north i university of texas system. A meaningful higher education. They felt a little out of place. Primarily because of age and partly because of experience. I want to thank you for being here. We have a lot of thats here today. I wish you would stand out so we could recognize you. Vets and families. [applause] may
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, Hari Sreenivasan. This is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening, thanks for joining us. The war of words between republican president ial nominee donald trump and the parents of a decorated Muslim American soldier who died in combat escalated today. The father of the u. S. Army captain who was killed in iraq in 2004 and who denounced trump at last weeks Democratic National convention criticized trump again today. He is a black soul, and this is totally unfit for the leadership of this country. The love and affection that we have received affirms that our grief that our experience in this country has been correct and positive. Sreenivas
[inaudible conversations]. And were live this morning awaiting remarks from defense secretary Ashton Carter being interviewed by politicos correspondent mike allen and defense editor, brian bender. Should get underway in just a moment. Live coverage here on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. Ladies and gentlemen, the program will begin in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome politicos chief White House Correspondent mike allen and politico defense editor, bryan bender. [applause] good morning. Thank all of you for recovering from your st. Patricks days festivities to make it out here for a early playbook breakfast. We appreciate. Welcome to all of you in live stream land. Were grateful for you tuning in as well. Im grateful being joined by bryan bender. A bunch of you know him. He came from politico from the
Basket, many which congress will have to approve, well be discussing that with them and hearing their ideas and trying to come up with the best possible ideas for the country going forward, the, i depend on the joint chiefs of staff and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to do that integrating. I do that every day. I depend on them. I would like to strengthen their role in doing that. I dont want to do that in any way that subtracts from their ability to give independent military advice, which i dont favor putting the chairman in the chain of command per se. The chairman gives, i just watched this every day, gives me and the president of the United States a very valuable, independent, professional military advice. That is really key that that be independent. But we can have both of those things at the same time. So i expect that to be something where i will be making proposals and also in areas of acquisition and structure. Getting rid of some of our excess headquarters. I talke