besides abortion that republicans would be able to shift that funding to, say, community health centers to make up the gap. but it s hard. you can t just felipe switch. there are enough brick and mortar locations that can t be replaced. i think republicans are going to have to figure out how do you ensure women can still receive non-abortion forms of care outside of planned parenthood if they can t solve that problem, that could make it more politically challenging. another battle certainly the president, even republicans on the hill is russia and hacking. you had the country s most senior spies on the hill today saying there is no doubt, in fact, they have less doubt today than they even had a couple of months ago. david, it seemed to me that their audience was really one. it was donald trump almost. absolutely, and he has been mostly quiet today on twitter. i would have bet 24 hours ago that he would have tweeted at john mccain and that hearing. i m sure he s watching. intellig
take ta systa system that is un take it and process it and then flood it and you have an entirely new problem. what the acting secretary is doing right now is a band-aid to try to fix the immediate problem here, but that won t take care of the overall problem and neither will what the house is doing now. i mean, there are many pieces of this, and i mean, it is going to involve a lot more money of course, or a completely new way of thinking about this, and nobody is ready to talk about that yet. and congress is considering legislation that would allow some veterans, colonel jacobs, to seek care outside of the v.a. i know that you are a proponent of this and what do you make of the legislation? is that a good step? well, it is a first step. but it is just going to be a stop gap measure. it is only congress way of making sure that people who are entitled to the car get enfranchise and get the care rather than having to get an
forsyth county, georgia. cumming, georgia, is the town outside of atlanta. reports of shots fired outside. an officer involved. we re tracking that down. more on that breaking news in matter of moments. i m bill hemmer. thank you for by being with us today. you as well. thank you, have a good weekend. jon: fox news alert on three developing stories at this hour as we honor the service and sacrifice of so many fallen american heroes. the descendants of general eisenhower and president roosevelt mark 70 years since the d-day invasion at a wreath laying ceremony at the world war ii memorial in washington. a bipartisan deal reached for the v scandal. it allow veterans to access care outside of va system. documents depict a dark side to
was bemoaning the fact they spent $8 million on care outside of their facility. they should have said we provided $8 million of care to veterans it wasn t a hit to their budget. congressman, i m not the sharpest tool in the shed but here s frontal boundary. the inability of leaders there to fire people. and i m not up for firing people, firing incompetent people or people who make our veterans wait. if a new va head comes in and a lot of people are not signing up for this job because they won t have the power to do anything, why is it we can t enact now to expedite this or something that would tell the new head coming in you can fire people who are treating our veterans poorly or forcing them to wait. on-the-spot. neil, we passed a bill in the house. it s sitting in the senate.
delays for veterans at va hospitals, allowing vets to seek care outside of the va if private doctors offices, military bases or community health centers. it also calls for emergency funding to hire new doctors and nurses. so many doctors and nurses needed. this would forgive college loans for health care professionals who agree to work at va medical centers. that is a really, really interesting, interesting initiative there. we re learning details this morning about the nsa s global surveillance program, citing documents from former nsa contractor edward snowden. the new york times reports the agency is building a comprehensive facial recognition database by intercepting millions of electronic images, often from e-mail, text messages, social media. the report says nsa officials believe this new technology will revolutionize how they find intelligence targets around the world. president obama kicks off a four-day trip to europe today. the goal, strengthen ties with u.s. allies