wrong with the va. and one of the things that s wrong is a lack of funding and resources for our va hospitals and our benefits offices. you bring up secretary shinseki. are you were you supportive of his resignation or do you think the president should have fired him sooner? i don t think releasing any one person is going to fix the syst systematic problems with the va. i m meeting with my veterans advisory council later this week in anticipation of a meeting that i m going to have with the assistant secretary joe mooney, along with senate majority leader harry reid to discuss the systematic problems, including the fact that we have a va clinic that we ve been waiting on for two years to be built in a community that has more than 40% veterans here in nevada, who
shinseki didn t know? that s hog wash and you know it. the law required shinseki to receive those i.g. reports. 51 of them. the government accountability office, the i.g., the american legion, the press, and veterans themselves for years raised the issue of long wait time. what the hell was shinseki doing? playing golf with you? now in 2007, even you before you became president, knew of these problems. no veteran should have to fill out a 23-page claim to get care or wait months, even years to get an appointment at the v.a. your recommended? shorten the patient wait time to 14 days. and give unions bonuses for doing so.
report. you know, alex, like most people across the country i was shocked when i learned of the depth of the mismanagement. and frankly, the fraud and abuse that occurred at the phoenix va. as you know, alex, i represent the phoenix va hospital and many of the veterans who have been seeking care at that hospital for years. i m curious, did the veterans families, before this all became such a public firestorm, did any of them reach out to you and say we are having problems with our va system? absolutely, alex. my office in phoenix is staffed with msws, masters of social workers, and our job is to help resolve the issues that our constituents face. our caseload is made up primarily of veterans who have been battling with the va system since i entered office in january of 2013. in fact, when i called secretary shinseki several weeks ago, i said to him, i know this investigation is going on. but i am ready to give you the names and share with you
regulatory regime is that attempts to foist on us the obligation to monitor transactions. and the house echoed that when it voted to choke the funding for operation choke point saying banks are put in a position discontinuing long-standing profitable relationships with licensed and legal businesses or face a lawsuit by the department of justice and in many cases across the country, banks have decided not to fight the feds, megyn? trace, thank you. well, just hours ago the head of the troubled veterans administration resigned but this did not start with secretary shinseki and will not end there. congressman jeff miller who has been on this case for quite sometime now is here on what is next and so is ralph peters. a dramatic twist in the donald sterling case. details from a lawsuit. this is becoming a hot mess, becoming. coming up. and what is the u.s. doing to help a woman sentenced to death for being a christian? she is the mother of two american citizens.
because his people were lying to him. so he wasn t actively lying but delivering that information. delivering information people had given to him, the very reason that we re talking about this issue today is because of a hearing that we had in the house committee on veterans affairs on april the 9th that actually broke this story. dr. foot called us when nobody else would listen to him and started listening and investigating and saw there was a serious problem there and we went about our business. so congress, everybody has probably some blame. if you want to blame me and that would solve it, go ahead and blame it all on me. but the truth is the commander in chief, the man who put secretary shinseki in the job does not understand the gravity of the situation that s out there today. people have told me that for decades, we have tried to reform the department of veterans affairs, we now have an opportunity, opportunity to change it for the better and i m glad ralph talks about my bil