bonus was due to administrative error which is another bad sign. last year helmand received a bonus of more than $9,000. just today the v.a. is announcing it is rescinding that bonus. why was she awarded that money in the first place? retired u.s. air force colonel the first american female combat pilot joins us from arizona. colonel, what do you think? this is just unbelievable. this is dereliction of duty all the way around. you know, general shinseki should resign immediately. he should know better that he he is responsible even if he is not personally responsible. as a military officer, you are responsible in the chain of command and you are accountable for what happens. so he needs to go. if he won t step down, he needs to be fired there are veterans right now, greta, that are probably waiting for care with life threatening illnesses. these are people who have put their lives on the line to defend our freedoms and we have got political maneuvering going on this. is a failure o
if grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. the gap begins to close. so let s simplify things. let s close the gap between people and care.
think to most americans who haven t served is that, you know, we deeply appreciate what the members of the military have done for us. and their huge sacrifice. i mean, some lose their lives. some lose their limbs. some just aren t home for when their children are born. that s terrible. this is what we give them in return. exactly. i mean, as a veteran myself. we raise our right hand. we put our lives on the line and there is a covenant from america to those who serve. that we re going to take care of them. we shouldn t be sending our men and women to war unless we re going to care for them when they get back. this is egregious. i mean, this is a travesty. so, lives are at stake here. right now as we speak. and it needs to be fixed starting today. and shinseki should resign. i agree. it shouldn t be painful we go through weeks and weeks and weeks trying to talk about this. just go. do the right thing. anyway, colonel thank you. very disappointing. thank you. is the white house
speaker john boehner shrugged that off and said the president s outrage is no substituted for real accountability. as you say the president declined to fire v.a. secretary shinseki or ask for his resignation. instead he told him he wants a report from him next week about whether this problem is system wide or isolated to a few or a few dozen v.a. facilities. he sent his chief of staff, rob neighbors to phoenix. thats watt first of what are now 26 v.a. facilities, which are alleged to have involved been involved in hiding the real scheduling of medical care or other improprietors. aides athe president has focused since taking office on improving the lives of vets and families. made easier for them to get treatment for agent orange or post-traumatic stress disorder. they acknowledge that stressed the system but said it was the right thing to do. when you did that, combined with the wars in iraq and afghanistan, you added 2 million people to what is already an overtaxed
speaker john boehner shrugged that off and said the president s outrage is no substituted for real accountability. as you say the president declined to fire v.a. secretary shinseki or ask for his resignation. instead he told him he wants a report from him next week about whether this problem is system wide or isolated to a few or a few dozen v.a. facilities. he sent his chief of staff, rob neighbors to phoenix. thats watt first of what are now 26 v.a. facilities, which are alleged to have involved been involved in hiding the real scheduling of medical care or other improprietors. aides athe president has focused since taking office on improving the lives of vets and families. made easier for them to get treatment for agent orange or post-traumatic stress disorder. they acknowledge that stressed the system but said it was the right thing to do. when you did that, combined with the wars in iraq and afghanistan, you added 2 million people to what is already an overtaxed