On cspan. I was tremendously grateful that god would give me another chance. I had been rescued. When i was confronted with addiction, i made my mind i was going to survive that. Program on betty for today at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and live monday night our series continues. They covered my Mental Health work, the first few meetings i had, and then they never showed up anymore. Walking on the floor in the white house, i met one of the press people. Said nobody ever comes to meetings. She said it is not a sexy issue. Foundred the country, and that what was needed, develop legislation, and past the Mental Health assistance act of 1980. Monthsed congress one before he voluntarily retired the the white house and next president never implemented it. One of the greatest disappointments of my life. Next, a subcommittee examining the disability claims backlog at the veteran affairs department. This first group of what mrs. Two veteranut affairs. This is 50 minutes. This meaning will now c
Under ronald regan and one of the most decorated veterans of vietnam. United states senator. Celebrated author. Lawyer. And i thought he made a pretty strong, persuasive case. So did many of us. Lets turn to cybersecurity. I was pleased that you mentioned Cyber Security in your initial remarks. They have moved expand its Cyber Security efforts. I have to talk about colorado. The air force academy is well positioned to train those. Would you talk a little more on your take on Cyber Security and what sort of resources we need. Ive been to those facilities in colorado a few times and dont know as much about them as you do, but i am familiar with them. They are essential to our National Security. Cyber, i believe represents as big a threat to the security of this country as any one specific threat. For all the reasons this committee understands. Its an insidious quiet, kind of a threat that we have never quite seen before. It can paralyze a nation in a second. Not just a power grid or bank
Carl levin chairs the Armed Services committee and makes the Opening Statement. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] good morning, everybody. The Committee Meets today to consider the nomination of former senator chuck hagel to be secretary of defense. Before i begin, i want to first welcome senator inhofe as the new ranking republican on our committee, succeeding senator mccain. Senator mccain has been a great partner over the past six years, and i thank him for all the work he has done to get bills enacted, his leadership on a host of issues, his support for the work of this committee, and for always keeping our hearings likely. Lively. Senator inhofe has shown his strong commitment to the National Defense over his 20 years on this committee. And i know that we are going to work well together and continue the bipartisan tradition of the committee. We are also pleased to welcome the eight senators who are join
And of course, are very happy easter. Welcome to americas news hq from washington. Elizabeth brand. Leland nice that one of us got the message to wear pastels on easter. Happy passover to render throughout the show with april fools. We start with a new set of the winter white house. The president down in maralago. President trump not taking an easter break from politics. Before heading to church, he went on what you might say would be a twitter rant, saying democrats blew a deal on daca. Peter doocy traveling on west palm beach. He doubled down on the streets when he saw the cameras. Wright, peter . On this Easter Sunday, the president will feel the porous border and give permanent legal status to people giving temporary residency when they were brought to this country illegally as children. Hes trying to do it all without the help of congressional democrats. They had a great, great chance, but will have to take a look. Mexico has got to hope is that the border. They send them into the
public. leland: do you think they re firing shulkin was a good idea and by that you applaud the president for nominating ronnie jackson. you fill that s a good choice? i think the vetting process will show the qualifications. we know he is a clinician. he understands clinical medicine, which i think it s high time we had somebody like that in the secretary s position. we put together a list of the past three secretaries of veteran affairs. very different backgrounds. you talk about a clinician. it appears as though it david shulkin was a clinician in the beginning parts of his career. bob mcdonald who was a west point graduate, highly decorated member of the west point class and an army captain. general shin seki was a four-star general and a decorated vietnam veteran. what about admiral jackson? what qualities does he not have or does he have that the other three men don t have that you