Command general and they are in regards to addressing a group of airmen this month. What he has said to have made in comments to the airmen was anyone who is passing information to congress about these capabilities is committing treason. As part of those comments he has also said that if anyone accuses me of saying this, i will deny it. Let me just tell you general welsh. Do you find those comments to be acceptable in any way to accuse our men and women in uniform to say you are committing treason if you communicate with congress about the capabilities of any other of our Weapons Systems . No, maam, not at all. There is investigation currently ongoing with that incident. And i actually contacted the general involved and his commander and the department of defense is overseeing an investigation being run by isaf eiji. And they will present that as soon as the investigation is complete. I hope that this is a thorough investigation because obviously, i think its very serious to accuse peo
Affordability, tax reform and health care. This is live coverage on cspan2. For those of you out there who want to comment on twitter the hashtag is sanders brookings, thats at, not the sign. I want to say at the outset before i do the formal part of the introduction that it is a pleasure to welcome a selfdescribed proud democratic socialist here to brookings. You know these days the word socialist is thrown around as an end that the, and the socialists i know are insulted when president obamas called a socialist because they argue he is too moderate to be a democratic socialist. But the thing we forget is the vibrancy of the democratic socialist tradition in the United States. And bear in mind were talking democratic, small d socialist ie scandinavia not the old soviet union. And in the american tradition were talking about people from eugene debs to Michael Thomas to people like Barbara Aaron right. This is a lively american tradition that has influenced policy in our country in a gr
Important work. In many ways, it seems like he has done a good job. Everybody has heard about the claims backlog. Is underle dont know bush, do you know how we did claims . We did them by paper. That meant an individual veteran could have files this page. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of veterans. Our member talking to shinseki and he said i will convert that from paper to electronic. We will have those claims down accuracy. S with 98 they have cut the backlog in half. They are on the way to fulfilling that goal. One of the National Embarrassments is the level, highlevel of homelessness among veterans. Vietnam vets living on the streets. Since shinseki has been an office, we have reduced that by 24 . Also, as a result of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, we have seen an increase of folks coming into the v. A. No one denies there are problems. But if you talk to the average veteran who is in the v. A. We held a hearing last week. The largest veterans organizations in america. T
The modifying video competition report, some of those things. I have got a piece of legislation weve passed out of the full house twice now, very bipartisan, i think it was unanimous earlier in this Congress Called the fcc consolidated reporting act which really tries to take a broad view and to eliminate a lot of the outdated reports, to streamline the reporting process. Something that i think you have seen bipartisan support to do in the house. Were trying to get the senate to take that up. Im not sure if you have a comment on what you think should happen there, if thats something youre supportive of generally, especially as it relates to the bipartisan bill in the house trying to move through the senate to ultimately become law to streamline the process as your staff has suggested. So on the senate side, its senator heller who has been pushing on this, and i know that he and senator rockefeller are talking about it in terms of their package of legislation over there. I definitely ag
It is a simple message. Do your job. Thats all for us tonight. Thank you for watching. Cnn tonight with don lemon starts now. I gave the whole network, cnn tonight. Thank you, chris. Were going to do our jobs. Youve been doing yours. Were going to keep folks to the facts here and hopefully the people in washington will do as you say, do their damn jobs. Is lets continue on, my friends. See you tomorrow. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. The Trump Administration is trying hard to deny and deflect intense criticism of its immigration policy, separating undocumented parents from their children at the southern border. They can and are trying to deny those facts. Our job on this program is to bring you those facts, and we will do that tonight. But first you have to hear this. Its the sound of what propublica reports are the voices of little kids from Central America being held at a customs and Border Protection facility last week, sobbing for their parents. [ children crying ] its heartbre