frankly less constituent cases than i was, objectively. i asked at the time why was i given the lower raise? the answer was that my colleague had recently gotten engaged and was going to be a breadwinner and needed more money. fast-forward about a month later, and i was it was the august recess. i was waiting to present a proposal to mr. miller, my member of congress, and at the end of the presentation, he got up and asked if i would he mentioned that i looked fabulous, just stunning, just amazing that day, and asked me to twirl in his office. i was stunned. i was young. i was about 22 at the time. pretty inexperienced. again, that was my first job, and i respected him a lot. he is a good man. he s helped a lot of people, but
agency nearly 60% of children they spoke with reported being forcibly displaced because they suffered or faced harms that indicate a potential or actual need for international protection. the countries that the children call home, honduras, el salvador, guatemala, have some of the highest murder rates on t the planet. many of the children reported vulnerability to widespread gang violence as their primary reason for leaving of the some told stories about the the every day challenges of trying to avoid threats like beatings and robberies and rapes and murders and the inevitability of falling victim if they stayed. from where i m sitting, representative miller, that isn t a matter of national security or immigration policy. that is a humanitarian crisis. emphasis on humans. thousands of children who are running for their lives. and they won t be made any safer
for senior executive level personnel, given their track record over the last couple years, absolutely. do you expect it to happen? yes. okay. would you just go through it for us, please? you blew the whistle on this. then what happened to you? well, actually i blew the whistle on something else is when the retaliation started. i d rather not go into. and several i started with the safety issues. i was making trouble, as they would say. i would say bringing up very serious issues. and i sent my letter off in october and the va i.g. came out briefly in september and basically nothing further was done. i sent a follow-up letter in february. nothing further was done. it wasn t until representative miller announced what the problems were in phoenix that the media jumped on it, cnn in particular, and the story became
the american heroes who are not getting the care they deserve. former marine who died while waiting to be treated. last week, we spoke to his widow. up next, we ll find out what she has to say about the resignation of the va secretary. and conservative republicans gathering in new orleans to map out a strategy for 2014. john roberts is right in the mid of it all. john? three possible presidential candidates on display today including ted cruz, rick santorum and rick perry. we ll tell you what everybody s talking about in new orleans, coming up right after the break. what does shinseki s resignation mean? our prime time team is tracking. first, representative miller offers you neek.
where do you think this is going to go? what do you think about the response from the administration in terms of wanting to crack down and find out what happened? has that been acceptable? the administration is defending it and cheryl lied to the media and senator. she said she had no idea about a list and first heard about it from representative miller but it truth is she new about it from at least july of 2013. they are defending this so hard because there is a secret that the phoenix va and washington don t want to let out and that is there is a huge mismatch between the demand for care in phoenix and phoenix va s ability to supply that care. and it isn t the employees, it isn t the patients, it isn t the