is diversity of opinions. but from folks you ve talked to, people you re close to, how are they responding to the last five days. they re disgusted and img on some levels they re did he moral iced and some folks are pulling away from the discussion, pulling away from politics. and i think we re looking for leader shim. i think this country is starved for leadership. and i think we re looking for a call to action. often it comes from the white house, so that s the opportunity here for the president. what should everyone do? if they really want to support gold star families, what should they do. the president can direct money. he can direct attention. he can direct the media. he can also focus on other things like in phoenix today a 33-year-old veteran shot himself at the va. we have a massive suicide problem. he just has to shift that twitter account on to something else and everyone else will follow. i will say, admiral, i felt like i personally have had more discussions with gold
appear to be doing. you said a lot. there is for folks you ve talked to, people you were close to how are they responding? they re disgusting and i think at some levels they are demoralized. some people are pulling away from the discussions and politics. i think there country is starved of leadership. what should everyone do, if they really want to support gold-star families what should they do? we recommend they support nonprofit groups and reach out. the president can direct money, attention and media, he can also focus on other things, like in phoenix today a 33-year-old veteran shot himself. there s a massive suicide problem. he can take care of so much more else he just have to shift that twitter account to something
about. she also ended up talking about drug use and access to drug treatment and mental health and other related issues that have come up to her on her listening tour. she said when i started running, thinking about this campaign, i didn t believe i would be standing in your living room talking about the drug abuse problem, the suicide problem, but i m now convinced i have to talk about it. i have to do everything i can in this campaign to raise it to end the stigma against talking about it. if they are running it as a listening tour, the beltway doesn t necessarily talk about or care about but that really does matter to regular people at these small events where sometimes the press are allowed to show that the event is happening. every once in a while the press get treated to remarks but mostly the press is boxed out. the press is left running around after her and not getting any comment. the reason they re all so happy is hillary clinton today spoke with reporters on purpose in a del
by the way, one of the things that people never ever acknowledge is, you know, what is true of two-thirds of the gun deaths in america, they are suicides. we have a suicide problem in the united states. we have a suicide problem that wouldn t be possible if people weren t so armed. if you were suicidal, but not armed, you couldn t do it. i want to talk one other thing about tone. you did talk about one of the things we need to address. one other concern i have. i m not going to broad brush ovrnt right because you are a gentleman. there is a tone that is also very harsh toward women. i was reading a piece in mother jones about women who are part of moms richard martinez has now joined everytown.org. some of the women that are involved in that have been spat at. you have a tone on the radio on right wing talk radio that refers to women in the worst ways, that refers to femi-nazis, and it seems like a constant attack on women for not wanting to go back to the 1950s era. do you think
would you save vladimir putin? i realize it s a joke. it s a light-hearted moment. they took time to ask our president about that today, no one bothered to ask him about the dead veterans on american soil at the va in phoenix. there have been stories coming out of the va for years and very little accountability, very little oversight. almost no response from the president. we ve been talking about the backlog for years, over 350,000 vets backlog is bad enough. yeah. this is affirmative behavior to hide the backlog knowing you may be costing lives. yeah. take this to another level. we need them to call every member of the senate and get involved in the care. you ll see a lot of folks running for office this year and you won t talk much about veterans care. we need them to be held accountable. there are over 20 million veterans and we got a suicide problem. today, bad nufmbers came out of the pentagon. we got about four co-sponsors