Hospitals where too many of our nations warriors have not gotten the care they deserve. Waiting on lines for seven days, eight days, nine days, two weeks. Some instances were horrible. They were waiting so long, they had a very curable problem and they died before they got to see the doctor. Its not going to happen any long longer. Leland joining us live, senator jerry moran from the Veterans Affairs committee. From the banks of the susquahanna river, welcome to americas news headquarters, im Leland Vittert from harrisburg, pennsylvania. Where hes celebrating his 100 days in office. Elizabeth im Elizabeth Prann on the ground of the capitol in washington where congress extended the deadline to fund the government for one more week. Will the major sticking points be preventing a deal . Well debate coming up. Well, its been 100 days, believe it or not, the Trump Administration has hit its first major milestone. And the president is marking the day with a rally. Kristin fisher is live at t
that tonight in harrisburg. garrett tenney manning the desk back home. thanks, garrett. liz has more. elizabeth: joining me now to talk about the next steps for congress. south carolina congressman tom rice who sits on the ways and means committee. thank you so much for joining us on this beautiful saturday. my pleasure, elizabeth, happy to be here. elizabeth: so a big week ahead. i assume you have a lot of constituents who are eager to know how are you going to come to a compromise with the latest cr? should they have faced that negotiations can take place in a matter of a week and will get done? they can take place. i wish we d done it sooner myself and could have handled it in a more organized fashion, but you know, the honest truth is, the president wants to get the votes done right, but the hard fact it in the senate he ll have to have eight democrats to bring the spending bill across the finish line. that s 60 votes in the senate and they ll negotiate as well as they can fo