problem much earlier in 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
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
what we didn t know that was happening is secret waiting lists putting people on. people were being denied care. people were dying because of secret waiting lists. why didn t how did these concrete secret lists come to light? why didn t president obama know about them? why didn t president obama act on it. i don t know why congress didn t know. they came to light from pretty strong whistle blowers came forward and said this is happening at the v.a. and the dam broke. congress is on top of it and bringing it to the attention of the howard k. stern people. look, general shinseki is a great guy. a hospital administrator to come in or the ceo of a company. somebody who knows how to fix a backlog and get this done. just doesn t have to be someone who has a military background. how about eric holder the attorney general of the united states convening a lot of grand juries because when you start fooling around like that, and when you start falsifying records for bonuses, you are ste
our veterans are dying and so far president obama holding anyone accountable. he says is he awaiting the results of a v.a. policy review by his deputy chief of staff. and right now more than two dozen v.a. hospitals across the country are under investigation for treatment, delays and preventable deaths. yet, president obama has not fired v.a. secretary eric shin shin seq.y. waiting for the president i didn t hear anything from the running for office. we have to take care of this. he said that at the. shinseki is a great guy and great american. is he not the right fit for this job. he has had six years. and meanwhile our veterans are going without treatment.
factor internally. 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. we 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