Health care, decreased wait times and modernize the va i. T. System. Good morning here today were pleased to welcome back our good friend dr. David shulkin, the new secretary of the department of Veterans Affairs. The last time you appeared before our committee you were v under sector for health. Now youve been kicked upstairsp after a Unanimous Senate confirmation vote, we become unanimous and that says a lot in this political environment so congratulations. We come with your background i know you a great background inph philadelphia. I just learned you certainly bring a lot of experience to the job. Although im sure these days the challenges are very daunting for you. We realize this ring is a bit unusual. Ua rather than a typical budgeting where you have at this time of year we are limited tod discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget mentors that omb sent to the hill in march. The two page entry for the va doesnt give us much to go on in terms of Program Priorities or plan
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May 1st of 1961, an Incredible Program for young people. He started with the alliance for progress. And he engaged in the space race. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin testified recently on his departments operations. He addressed several efforts to better serve veterans who seek and receive care, including full implementation of choice 2. 0, wait time reduction, and improving and modernizing the departments i. T. Systems and Veterans Crisis line. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Good morning. Today were pleased to welcome back a good friend, dr. David shulkin, the new secretary of the department of Veterans Affairs. The last time you appeared before our committee, you were va undersecretary for health, now youve been kicked upstairs in a unanimous vote, that says a lot in this contention environment. I know youve got a great background in the philadelphia area. I just learned you were in morristown, in chairman f
Thanks for joining us. Im melissa mollet. Im erika gonzalez. We start with President Trump slamming the appointment of a special counsel in the russia investigation. He tweeted, with all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton Campaign and obama administration, there was never a special counsel appointed. The president goes on to call the investigation the greatest witch hunt of a politician in american history. With the man now in charge, exfbi director rub ert mueller is being praised by lawmakers. Edward loorns hawrence has t details. The man who made the decision to appoint Robert Mueller special counsel said nothing while walking through reporters. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein briefed on the after appointing a veteran to head the fbi. Got to give the American People confidence. We frankly dont have confidence that it can be done in the current situation. Robert mueller is, i think, a fantastic person. I think this is a positive thing. Many republicans say this
Tweet us and let us know what your thoughts are on this. Use that 5at630. Well show some of your tweets. Lets get to it. Well, i respect the move but the entire thing has been a witch hunt and there is no collusion between certain and my campaign but i can always speak for myself and the russians, zero. I think it divides the country. That was of course President Trump reiterating in fact what he tweeted earlier this morning. He once again called the naming of a special counsel to investigate russias meddling in the president ial campaign a witch hunt. Former fbi director Robert Mueller will be heading up that investigation. Hell have the Broad Authority to subpoena records bring criminal charges against people he is also able to decide what he wants to disclose to the Justice Department during his probe. Hm. So it will be interesting to see exactly what comes out. Its going to be a long process im sure but he has a lot of respect also on the hill to see what happens here. Absolutely.