Call this meeting to order. Welcome, everybody. Hope yall had a great thanksgiving and hope everybody has a wonderful Holiday Season coming up. This is a very important hearing for the United States senate. On november 4th, if my memory is correct, we had a meeting at the va. Sloane gibson, dr. Schulkin and some others were in the room. In terms of Va Health Service delivery to our veterans, veterans choice, consolidating programs, reimbursement rates so there wasnt any preference over another. A reality in our lifetime and in their lifetime. With that will come a number of decisions. This will not be the first time i heard most of this information. We had that meeting before. It will be the first time a lot of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. Of people have heard it. This is a critical there are a critical number of decisions we will have to make to make my va work. The new veterans choice work and make sure that va does what it does best well bu
What youve probably thought about in terms of the enabling legislation for this particular program. If you dont do that, then youre building the transformed system on outdated policies that may or hey not have ever been appropriate. They just happened to get through congress and you have to live up to them because theyve been mandated to you. Im not going to get into a lot of questions except that the reason i continue to have this flavor to my discussion is i want to help you establish a plan that transcends your tenure and your positions. So do we. That continues when we get another president. That needs to be articulated. And we need people in the va to put the mirror back on us, saying youre asking me to do this thats shifting away from the other thing you asked me to do. If we do at that, and you put the mirror in, its our problem. If we make a request, and you dont reflect back on us, its your problem. And i want to make this our problem so that we can help facilitate the transfo
Now opposes it, sort of. May have been smart shortterm politics, but is it blatant opportunism . Joining me this morning are radio talk show host hugh hewitt, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, and Nathan Gonzales of the nathan and gonzales political report. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If youre one of those who does want a revolution, guess what . I think the two parties have two of them for you. The Democratic Left and the republican right are pulling away from the center. Bernie sanders strong polling is frustrating the Hillary Clinton captain and forcing her to switch positions and move to the left. Well have my interview with Bernie Sanders coming up in a few minutes. On the republican side, the revolt by conservative house members has thrown the party, at least in congress, into disarray. Having already defeated majority leader eric cant
Opportunism . Joining me this morning are radio talk show host hugh hewitt, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, and Nathan Gonzales of the nathan and gonzales political report. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If youre one of those who does want a revolution, guess what . I think the two parties have two of them for you. The Democratic Left and the republican right are pulling away from the center. Bernie sanders strong polling is frustrating the Hillary Clinton captain and forcing her to switch positions and move to the left. Well have my interview with Bernie Sanders coming up in a few minutes. On the republican side, the revolt by conservative house members has thrown the party, at least in congress, into disarray. Having already defeated majority leader eric cantor and forced out speaker bane, they claimed their third victim this week when Kevi
And after supporting the president s asian trade deal dozens of times, Hillary Clinton now opposes it, sort of. May have been smart shortterm politics, but is it blatant opportunism . Joining me this morning are radio talk show host hugh hewitt, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, and Nathan Gonzales of the nathan and gonzales political report. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. If youre one of those who does want a revolution, guess what . I think the two parties have two of them for you. The Democratic Left and the republican right are pulling away from the center. Bernie sanders strong polling is frustrating the Hillary Clinton captain and forcing her to switch positions and move to the left. Well have my interview with Bernie Sanders coming up in a few minutes. On the republican side, the members has thrown the party, at least in congress, into d