An audit revealed more than 57,000 veterans on too long waiting lists to be scheduled for medical appointments and in addition to that there are other veterans seeking care at va who were never even added to these wait lists. This is clearly unacceptable and must be dealt with immediately. I couldnt agree mor with senator mccain when he said on the senate floor in the debate, and i quote, if theres a definition of emergency, i would say that this legislation fits that. It is an emergency. It is an emergency what is happening to our veterans and the men and women who have served the country and we need to pass the legislation and get it to conference with the house as soon as possible. End of quote from senator mccain and i fully concur with what he said. Veterans in this country must get quality care in a timely manner and we need to provide the funding the va needs to accomplish that goal and to do it as expeditious a manner as possible. The simple truth of the manner is the va needs
That interview is sat 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Michele flournoy is our guest on this weeks q a. In government, youre dealing with the daily tyranny of the inbox. Youre focused on the crisis of the day. Part of my responsibility as undersecretary of defense was representing the secretary of defense on the socalled deputies committee, which is sort of the senior level group thats working through the issues, developing options for the principals and the president. A lot of Crisis Management focus. When youre in a think tank, your real utility is not trying to second guess the policymaker on the issues of the day but help to do some work to raise their day, help them look over the horizon to see what are the issues that im going to confront a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now, and how do i think more strategically about americas role in the world . Former undersecretary of defense and cofounder of the center for National American security, Michele F
First. Anyone of you. So, isils incursion expanded the conflict. A border that iraq does not recognize and has very little meaning given the fact that violence is spanning the border. It will take some pressure off of assad because the forces fighting in iraq are not fighting in syria. It could mean that the other jihadist groups in syria are going to make inroads into isil territory in syria, which, by some accounts they already have. Dynamics,ll have some but it wont change the fundamental dynamic of the syrian conflict, which is, you have a government under bashar assad who is trying to retain control. It is fighting in opposition that is largely. Extreme. I would love to find that mythical moderate secular opposition in syria, but i am afraid one really does not exist, at least not in large numbers. Itterms of turkeys role, will be very interesting to see what happens in the kurdish region. Turkey and the pkk have come to some court of some sort of agreement recently, which is nice
And i think that has caused huge problems in the ability to build coalitions to move things forward. Tune in six months, and ill lay out the whole thing. Thanks for doing this, sir. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Thanks everybody. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] were learning today that one of the people suspected of laying a key role in the 2012 benghazi attacks is currently in the u. S. The suspect was captured by the military two weeks ago in a town does outside of benghazi, libya. The Justice Department has charged the suspect with recharges and in connection with attack thatsulate killed four americans. He is being held in washington, d. C. According to government officials. An arraignment expected today, rarer admiral john kirby smoke about the suspect and the charges against him in yesterdays pentagon briefing. Here is some of what he had to say. Allegations from intelligence and special opera
The reason so who sees me, i cant see a cardiologist because the cardiologist isnt already there. I go to a private cardiologist at a considerable expense. If someone would take a few minutes and go to a va. You would find there are no two alike. Getting in the first part is the hardest part if you can see a real doctor, at a time chances are the Veterans Administration will be more than helpful. You are a World War Two veteran how would you say that the va service, the Healthcare Service has improved or gotten worse over your years as at veteran . When i first got out of the service, i was diagnosed with tb. I went to sunmount. They were wonderful, couldnt do enough. Tb at that time was a death sentence. So i have formed feelings for those people at the sun mound facility. If asked a question, some nigerian would hand you a piece of paper. I am a fphi beta capa. I never got an answer. When i preferred to york in tennessee, i have been very happy with the people there. They just dont h