sees other vets suffering. is the president now listening? less than two days after montel was giving him ent obama was kicking his veteran s secretary to the curb. there has been no area where i put more priority than making sure that we are delivering the kind of budget that is necessary to make sure our veterans are being served, but it still may not be enough. but is more money the answer, or is it a case of throwing good money after the bad. charles, what do you think? that press conference was disapointing. he mentioned money three different times. it s a great ahreubgser, and if this is not fixed in the future, it s not my fault, i couldn t get the money from congress. a lot of money has been thrown at the problem.
us. but again, this is where true leadership comes in. the president needs to engage our allies and he needs to be serious about the sanctions that we placed on russia. he needs to be serious about making sure that it is unacceptable to act mr. putin has been acting. he s been acting as an adversary and not an ally. we need to treat him as such. we need to garner the support of our allies and demonstrate that america will be out there and lead. congressman, we had montel williams on the show a little earlier saying it s a waste of time to talk about whether the guy running the v.a. should get fired or, you know, drawn and quartered. the bottom line is we got to fix the mess at the v.a. and he s calling for a surge in care, much as we had the troop surge that turned around things in the war. what do you think of that? because it also sounds like it could be a lot of money. well, first of all, this is about our veterans. this is about our living up to the obligation that we have made
branch of the service can put on temporary active duty any corpsman that just went off active duty because their service was over. bring them back, let s surge for the next 90 days, clear the entire back log of appointments that have been missed. understand what we need to do because there are soldiers who haven t seen doctors for three years. we don t even know the level of illness they have. but montel we don t even know how much we have to pay. but would you be nervous about giving the v.a. more money if it has a record of losing it or not covering it or maybe the v.a. itself is not up to that job. well, put the money into the military just so we can pay for the salaries of the soldiers we can bring back on. i spent 22 years in. and let me explain my service so
i don t care about politics at all. we don t either. what i care about is the fact that this country lives up to its obligation to all of us veterans and provides the care we deserve. some of you guys don t know about me. the last four years i have done over 30 visits to walter reed, sitting bedside, every single month trying to see every single soldier, army, air force, marine. please, that is expected of me. wow. let s just say montel williams is a guy you want on your side. because before he was a hell of a host, he was a hell of a soldier. 22 years in the military. a marine who graduated from the u.s. naval academy, the first
african-american enlisted marine to the complete both the academy prep school in annapolis itself. his superiors said he was a standout, even if now and then he had a habit of speaking out. that was then, you should see how little montel williams has changed since. welcome, everybody, and boy do i have a special show for you now. i m neil cavuto, and with apologies to the hulk, you don t want to get montel williams angry. well, he is here, first, on what if anything washington is doing, michael? well, on the other growing calls here on capitol hill for eric shinseki, the v.a. secretary to either resign or be fired by president obama. this comes following an internal watchdog report which says that 1700 veterans at the phoenix v.a. facility where the scandal