he sits in a mexican prison cell. we don t if he will be released or even if he will be released but on the record is on the case. sergeant tahmooressi had recently moved from florida to san diego to go to the v.a. hospital there we spoke with sergeant tahmooressi s home state senator senator marco rubio about the marine s detention. what do you make of the fact that the marine is sitting in mexico prison waiting for judicial action. first of all, this is not the first time this has happened. unfortunately. we have been in contact with his family and the state department trying to get more information about this. we are deeply concerned about this. it s not the first time it s happened now. i think it s a caution to people about being careful near that border area. we have asked them to make it a priority. i thought was preporter russ story. how you can accidently drive into mexico? we went down there and retraced the steps. the roads you drive are bizarre.
explain exactly how he got lost at the border. and to tell the truth about that night. so sergeant tahmooressi wants to talk to us. his mother jill wants to talk to him. we want him to tell his story to you. the mexican prison is playing games making false promises and preventing sergeant tahmooressi to explain to you. we are not going to arrest americans and make bad turns and put him in mexican jail. and then just one day after returning from mexico the united states marine corps told jill tahmooressi her son andrew must report for duty on june 14th or face punishment if he doesn t show up. i was so worried because it said if he didn t show up he would possibly have a dishonorable separation and lose his v.a. benefits. so i did reach out to the u.s. consulate services if tee yuanna, mexico. and mr. whitcher intervened and i did receive an email back from mr. whitcher that said that his orders for mustard would be could you excu. united states excuse ago marine from training
action. there is a lot of blame to go around. and let sed a one more thing on this. president obama was a member of the senate veterans committee. he very rarely showed up at those meetings. it would be interesting for your staff to go take a look at that but he these issues about scheduling and the backlog, these were discussed at senate veterans committee meetings and i m not certain he was paying much attention then. he was probably busy running for president. karl, thank you. we will check that out on those dates. thank you, karl. you bet. the the house has just passed legislation that would make it easier for the v.a. secretary to fire workers for misconduct. so now it s the senate s turn. senator marco wriewbio is the sponsor of the v.a. accountability bill in the senate. he joins us. nice to sigh, sir. thanks for having me. senator, what s the status of the bill in the u.s. senate. so the house passed it. we have in the senate. i stood up on the floor today. i as
taken taken actively and conclusively to resolve the situation. here we have the president sort of saying. i got my deputy chief of staff. go out to to phoenix. hope these things don t turn out to be true. if they are, i m going to be darn angry. mr. president, they are true. all right. well, they are true and he knew in 2008 when he ran because he was talking about some of the problems with the v.a. so i don t like that. i don t like the fact that he is making the v.a. well i want to defend the president there. all right. well, i know because it s also there are problems leading into president bush 43 administration. but here s the thing that bothers me. the last thing president obama should be doing is waiting for anything. since that is the crux of the problem here. making these vets wait for medical care and doing the most dirty thing you possibly can by phonying up some list. that should be the last thing. he should be decisive, not waiting. yeah. i want let s make
would have done it would 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 to