adults. all right don, thanks so much for sharing and for joining us. and, now, our political panel. the national journal s ron foreign yea, the national review s rich lowry and wall street journal s jason reilly who is also author of the book: please stop helping us. which should be interesting in itself. i m going to start with you, ron, i mean, what do you think of this? why are is this happening now? why are we more than double half way through the year of last year? what was the precipitating factor here? well, a sharp increase in gang violence. a big downturn in the economy. and we have a lot of kids seeking refuge in another country. and this was happening somewhere else, we would be opening our hearts and opening our waltz in church and trying to help what we would sees a a humanitarian issue. unfortunately, because of the politics in this country, and because it s in our backyard, it gets wrapped up in politics.
legislative authority has. ma am. has responded to over 100,000 requests for information. ma am, ma am, ma am. veterans died get us the answers, please. and joining us our political panel, abc news political director rick klein, the national journal s ron foreign yea and chief political correspondent byron york. rick, how long does secretary shinseki last or does he? we are counting hours at this stage rather than days. jay carney from the white house podium was as clear as he can be be in saying that this is a guy who is on borrowed time right now. i m surprised that he still has a job right now. you have this extraordinary scene where members of congress are flocking to issue statements to get him to resign more than 100, a quarter of them democrats saying that he has lost confidence and he should go or be fired. i think this is just an indication of where the president is headed at. get a report back from shinseki before he makes a move. it can t be long now.
ron, i keep hearing people like press secretary carney say we have got to wait for the report. i mean, that is like the last thing i would say because waiting is what sort of got us, you know, forcing these vets to wait. this may be the time to make to fire now and ask later. you know, usually i want to be prudent and wait but it s gone way over the line. yeah, because we have known about most of these allegations for weeks and months. we re to the point now where words don t matter. pity doesn t heal a wound. anger doesn t fix this bureaucracy. the president needs to fire him six months ago. replace him with a manager who is really competent and sit on that manager and make sure that the problems are fixed and radically overhaul the v.a. as he promised to do almost six years ago, period. why doesn t speaker boehner call for he has taken the wait and see. that is very unusual. he stayed back from this. i think one of the reasons he is not doing it is a political calculation t
legislative authority has. ma am. has responded to over 100,000 requests for information. ma am, ma am, ma am. veterans died get us the answers, please. and joining us our political panel, abc news political director rick klein, the national journal s ron foreign yea and chief political correspondent byron york. rick, how long does secretary shinseki last or does he? we are counting hours at this stage rather than days. jay carney from the white house podium was as clear as he can be be in saying that this is a guy who is on borrowed time right now. i m surprised that he still has a job right now. you have this extraordinary scene where members of congress are flocking to issue statements to get him to resign more than 100, a quarter of them democrats saying that he has lost confidence and he should go or be fired. i think this is just an indication of where the president is headed at. get a report back from shinseki before he makes a move. it can t be long now. ron, i keep
pushing him why the white house is complaining about what they are calling this major wage gap when the white house appears to have one of its owns a you suggested. jay carney couldn t answer the question and at one point seemed to resorted a homonym attack look, jonathan, i don t hear these questions coming from women. it was really sort of a cheap shot. and i think it was not good form for the white house press secretary. ron, the white house defense at least yesterday was the reason women only get 88 cents on the dollar at the white house is because the men have the more responsibility jobs, the higher paying jobs to which i responded having giving the women the good jobs? what i don t the women get the good jobs. same excuses and hemming and hauling that the democrat excuses say when you have got to get your act together. the exact of the matter is there is a problem. they were throwing rocks from a glass house and jay