Dedicated to serving them. Thats what va is to veterans and thats why you dont find veterans demanding Community Care as the only choice. The demand for that only choice comes from elsewhere. It doesnt come from veterans. Veterans know better. I have tested this during my time as secretary, when somebody tells me that veterans should only have the choice of the Choice Program, i ask them are you a veteran . And by and large the answer is no. And then i ask to be here in between votes and, mr. Secretary, pleasure that you are here with us as well. I have a specific set of circumstances that ive addressed to you in a letter and want to follow up in this setting today. And i have no doubt but what you and other officials at the va are sympathetic and concerned and want to resolve the circumstances we find ourselves in with a particular employee at a particular va hospital in our state. We have the circumstance just to set the background for my questions, we face one of the worst examples
Just a reminder as soon as the session is over mr. Reid will be signing books and a portion of all proceeds will go to the Public Library foundation. So to avoid any confusion there are at least two public figures named eli reed. One is the journalist is with us today and the other is a talented singer that goes by the name of eli paperboy agreed. [laughter] so if you came here this afternoon expecting to hear this guy we have the real eli reed. And we are in the presence of a great artist and a great storyteller and a great conscience if you can understand how he could interpret the joy of the people, if you can appreciate how he could sketch the range of emotions with the pen, then you know how he is able to capture and deserved the deserve the essence of our humanity with his camera. During his time with such publication is National Geographic people, newsweek, the washington post, spurs illustrated, you get the picture he covered the war in Beirut Lebanon which he covered between 1
Contrary to conventional media about consumption, and new survey finds that the nature of news itself the idea of the socalled filter bubble. There are relatively few differences by generation, party or socioeconomic status in the level of interest with which people report following different topics. We want to learn from you this morning as we go through the papers in this first hour on the washington journal how you get your news. Whered you get your news and how do you get it marco you can also make a comment on our twitter feed. You can take part in the conversation currently going on on facebook facebook. Com cspan. And you can send an email to us. Heres a little bit more of this study by the Media Insight project. There are five devices or technologies that majorities of americans used to get news in a given week. First call up is from ralph in manoa, new york. On a democrats line. Caller i am a uaw worker from upstate new york. I get my news straight from my union from cspan als
A big win for mitch mcchonl. Reporter a big win. They havent heard, wolf. So the viewers are getting the news before the supporters here at the headquarters in the marriott in eastern louisville. When they do find out, this place is going to go crazy. And there is already optimism. This is a bit of a foregone conclusion, this is what folks are expecting but they want to hear it officially. Im told Mitch Mcconnell is upstairs and watching presumably watched this announcement with his wife and top advisors. It has been a very good night for Mitch Mcconnell as he retains his seat in the u. S. Senate, wolf. Mitch mcconnell, we have projected, will win. He will be the senate from kentucky the senator from kentucky and he hopes to be the majority leader in the United States senate. We have some other key race alerts to go with right now. We cannot make a projection in georgia between Michelle Nunn, the democrat and david purdue, the republican, we dont have enough information yet. And simila
Votes from various precincts but at this hour ted cruz is leading in the state of kansas. Voting kind of formally closed about an hour ago. That was the time you had to be online and voting and set to do so. Then they have the rest of the night to figure it out. Early on, ted cruz is leading here. We have a lot going on including with cpac right now. That poll, again, those conservatives attending this big conservative conference at maryland are going to Northern Plains who they like, who is their prepared candidate. It is anyones guess how the fallout of donald trump canceling out on a speech today before this august rightleaning group will weigh on the results but likely this hour well know who they pick. Does that instantly mean a coronation of that conservative . We have no idea. But it is better to get there than not get it, so well focus on that as well. A number of live rallies going on concurrently right now. Weve been showing you earlier whats happening in florida where marco