all right. thank you very much. it s becoming clearer by the day, lawmakers in washington, d.c. won t be able to solve the va s problems. so we asked for your ideas. fox news legal analyst, america s lawyer, peter johnson, jr. is here. the democratic congress for the senate had an opportunity to do something yesterday. you talked about it earlier. you have it there. three-page bill. senator sander, who is the chair of the senate committee on veterans administration says, i haven t read it yet and we can t pass that. it s 37 lines! it s designed, senator reid, to ensure that the secretary of the v.a. has the ability to make command decisions. general shinseki, show his picture. he s on the way out. general shinseki is on the way out. i predict he s done. he s toast. he s finished. he should be. that s what your e-mails were telling us. you also had some real substantive solutions to the problem.
management of the vessel. not only is he seeing that the watch is being conducted properly but he s making sure that all the commands are being done, that the steward services are being done and that the vessel is on maintaining its course and doing what it s supposed to do during its daily routine. captain has a lot of different jobs. but he s not physically standing there staring the vessel, steering the vessel as most people seem to think. he s not at the helm say as a captain of an airliner. he s generally going about the vessel doing his daily business but overseeing all the operation of the vessel. he is the one who makes all the command decisions. it sounds like he was not on the bridge at this time when the incident happened. so when he arrived at the bridge, he probably found, seems to be, a very chaotic situation. captain, he s ultimately responsible though, even though he wasn t there, he s ultimatically responsible, right, because he isn t the captain. oh, absolutely,
was in afghanistan at the time. and while that battle was unfolding, i was not near the battle itself, but i was in a command center that was monitoring the battle. the battle raged on for five, six hours. with each succeeding hour, it got more horrific. i can t tell you how concerned all the commanders who were surrounding me at the time were as they heard this battle unfold. and you pretty much hit on one of the biggest problems. it was located at the bottom of a ravine surrounded by those mountains. the enemy had the high ground and the advantage. now, a military investigation found there were a number of bad faulty command decisions made along the way that led to the deaths of those eight soldiers. one of them was the fact that the command post was set up originally to make contact with and protect people in the nearby village. but the soldiers were so busy trying to save their own lives,
party opposition said needed parliament s approval. there is no more serious issue than the life and death matters of military action. command decisions taken and defended by u.k. prime minister theresa may. so we have not done this because president trump asked us to do so. we have done it because we believed it was the right thing to do. and we are not alone. france, too, sent its jets and missiles as a part of the strikes. french president manuel macron claimed over the weekend he was independent voice. convincing president trump to keep troops in syria a longer time. i convinc assure you we convd him to stay for the long term. today walking back. again, basically the white house asserting that president trump makes his own policy on syria. also today nato and the european union backing the strikes. a donor s conference is planned in brussels for next week. officials here are hoping that this military response can somehow nudge diplomacy