you can imagine some kind of political football. this is on its face doesn t make sense that the mexicans would be interested in detaining him. actually he has ptsd. he has got some problems. his vehicle got hit by ied. he had actually gone to san diego to v.a. hospital. another topic to get help. this does appear to be a victimless crime in that sense that if there were some mexican citizen who had been injured or hurt in this. it would make it a much much different situation but since you have this apparently accidental crossing. you have the voluntary admission that mr. were firearms in the car. armed almost all the time. explain how much this means to us and we want to get this straightened out. it would have worked its way out on its own very quietly. both two neighbors, two allies to try to work this out very quietly. you and your team has done this family a service by raising it to this level where now the state department is going to have to put a little more
unbelievable. you have a bureaucracy more interested in protecting their jobs and protecting their bonuses. right. than protecting the people that protect them and it s outrageous. i think the president should have fired shinseki. i agree totally. this is a problem that preceded president obama s administration before 2008. he ran on it in 2008. but, also, congress has oversight. where has congress been on this? a lot of people asleep at the wheel on this. congress does things like increase funding, right? and there has been a massive increase in funding for the v.a. at the end of the day, the buck stops with the administration to ensure that it s this is being done correctly. they have oversight over. this look, and i do hold the president acouldn table for. this but i didn t believe that oversight committees didn t know this was going on. if they didn t they should have and should have been scream from the treetops. i think everybody knew there was a wait. we have been tr
have gone straight to the president. bernie sanders stood up and objected to it. he said one day we may pass it but i want to have a hearing first. i don t understand that it s a simple bill. all it says is that the secretary or any future secretary appointed by this president, a democratic president, can fire executives in the v.a. who aren t doing their jobs. right now he can t do that. and they blocked it. so, unfortunately, members of congress will head home for memorial day and veterans will keep waiting for accountability and that s outrageous. couldn t senate majority leader harry reid corral senator sanders and say look don t could that or did he expect that and know that he would try to block this. they organized the block. the bottom line is that they spent a couple hours today figuring out who they would get to go down there and object to it. they came one with all kinds of excuses why it couldn t pass. if they wanted to it would have passed today. passed something cal
today 100 senators that agreed. we could have sent this bill to the president. next week when the preliminary investigation returns, shinseki could have started firing people that weren t doing their jobs. instead, we ll have a hearing in june, according to the chairman just unacceptable. why would anyone object to someone being a ceo like the secretary is of the v.a., having the authority to fiber people who are not doing their jobs at the highest levels and are actually causing big problems for others the argue. was that they want to be fair to executive employees. they don t want some new secretary to come in and start firing people. they want to make sure that they are protected. in essence, we want to give these bureaucrats protections that veterans don t have. and no one else has for matter. again, there is no logical reason other than the fact that, you know, they don t want to do it because it s our idea is the best can i come up with. you know what i don t understand? i will
pressure on. in fact you are putting pressure on the mexican officials. i don t know how many thousands of prisoner in mexico. one mother. think of the people who go to prison accidently in our country any place ant don t have a mother to put the spotlight on. and we have had instance incidences like this before where it had to be a spotlight to really put the pressure on both government. in this case you have it s an american who served in combat in afghanistan crazy situation. seeking help from the v.a. that s why he was in san diego and gone over to tijuana like everybody. if he had spent the day in mexico, last thing he wanted to do was go and get his car and drive back in mexico. anyway, panel, thank you. this is criminal. american veterans dying while waiting for healthcare. congressman and air force vet adam constituencyinger says it is time to act and throw people in jail. we re going to talk to him and karl rove about the v.a. scandal next. plus, new twist in the shock