The president needs to make the call today. If you are not going to call call this woman. Father,ans child is a i need to Say Something else i did not say earlier. The reason why i jumped out and decided to become public this is not about me i have a daughter right now who is going through Cancer Treatment fouryear. Shes in her second round and came back. The worst of it the last couple of days. June has sentnce a prayer to my family every day for my daughter. Those who wonder why im here, this is a father and a mother who have to ill children and i know a lot of us who have suffered from posttraumatic stress dont like to use that term. But if we use it appropriately and use of the right way, it can be treated. It is an illness. I would beg the president make that call. If that cant happen, i would beg that maybe this committee, we issue a joint statement to the president in mexico and say the world is watching. Its time for you to act. Thank you all very much. The chair recognizes the
Important work. In many ways, it seems like he has done a good job. Everybody has heard about the claims backlog. Is underle dont know bush, do you know how we did claims . We did them by paper. That meant an individual veteran could have files this page. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of veterans. Our member talking to shinseki and he said i will convert that from paper to electronic. We will have those claims down accuracy. S with 98 they have cut the backlog in half. They are on the way to fulfilling that goal. One of the National Embarrassments is the level, highlevel of homelessness among veterans. Vietnam vets living on the streets. Since shinseki has been an office, we have reduced that by 24 . Also, as a result of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, we have seen an increase of folks coming into the v. A. No one denies there are problems. But if you talk to the average veteran who is in the v. A. We held a hearing last week. The largest veterans organizations in america. T
Just like the analysts and special agents who are working these issues, we aim to stay on top of the threat picture and to help devise tactics and strategies and tools for getting ahead of it. Today its standard it is standard procedure for agents conducting counterterrorism investigations to consult throughout the process with attorneys and prosecutors in the National Security division. That is to ensure that all potential avenues for destruction of a threat, intelligence gathering, investigation and prosecution are all preserved. If you asked me to break down how much intelligence versus how much Law Enforcement work we do, i would be hard pressed to give you an answer. We are almost always pursuing multiple tracks at the same time. We no longer have to across organizational lines to bring tools and talent to bear against a particular threat or problem. For instance, our Office Lawyers in the office of intelligence work day in and day out with the Intelligence Community to secure aut
Then the analysis that suggests you cant draw the causation creates a great question that actually undermines most of what is in the report. If you say that it contributed, that would be the headline. If you are an american person sitting at the Kitchen Table today we can play with semantics all we want but it was acknowledged that the way this contributed to the deaths that is an accurate statement. Would you agree with that as well that if it contributed to the cause of death . Who i think a careful reading with a show that in some of those cases they might have lived longer and they could have had a better quality of life at the end and so on is that true or not . Who would you agree that it contributed to the death of veterans . I would say that it may have contributed to their death but we cant say conclusively that it caused. And you cant say that it didnt so we will use the word contribute. It may have contributed. Not being able to answer that question did it contribute to cont
Shakeup for the west wing and Jared Kushner President Trumps soninlaw in Senior Advisor has been stripped of his high level security clearance cutting off his access to highly classified information like the president ial daily brief. Nbc news has learned that kushner who has been working under the highest level interim clearance for all this while, more than a year learned about the downgrade in a memo on friday. The decision comes as white house chief of staff john kelly moved to overhaul the White House Security clearance process after the resignation of Staff Security rob porter amid allegations of spousal abuse on his part. Tonight a senior official told our Kristen Welker that had the president quote, has faith in this soninlaw and his Senior Advisor to continue to work at the level he has from the beginning to continue to make progress in his major pieces of his portfolio, a sentiment the president also emphasized just days ago. Jareds done an outstanding job. Hes a high quality