It is about health care and medicare and then it is about the broken tax system. Back in the summer of 2011, dealing with the debt ceiling, it was clear those would be the issues. I started pushing hard for braurp approaches on both, medicare and the deal with tax reform. I still think we should deal with those issues other were going to have these rolling fiscal cliffs go on and on. Are you seeing movement in that direction . I am. Ive been talking to senators on both sides on tax reform and medicare and there is a sense there is time to get on with it. Let me ask a question about the sequester and Energy Policy. Are you concerned there will be impact because of the impending and presentnow cuts from the sequester . Anything specific on an Energy Environmental policy that will be hurt because of these cuts . A number of specific areas concern me. First, we got to get our folks back to work. Im concerned that the sequester is going to hurt our ability to do these large landscape projec
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Scandal first broke with all the news from the phoenix system. Arizona senator john mccain, a noted veteran himself, he said the president has had years to take action . Where is the president s priorities . In 2008 as you mentioned in transition he said wait times were too long. On several other occasions he was aware of things still wrong in the va. He is in his second term now. Where was it on his priority list . It seems to me it couldnt have been real high because really nothing changed at the va. In fact things got worse. Martha steve hayes, Senior Writer for the Weekly Standard and fox news contributor. So, steve, this is the biggest, most recent revelation the specificity which the president was briefed, there were attempts to sort of mislead with these wait times. There were inaccurate reports that were being filed. Fraud really on the part of these agencies. Yeah. I think what is interesting about this he was briefed about this or his team was briefed about this in any case a
Told me there are concerns at the white house. A biden candidacy would end badly. Damaging his image as elder statesman in the democratic party. This person said im not getting any sense of a joe biden caucus inside the white house. This white house is invested in Hillary Clinton. With several aide working in prominent positions for Hillary Clinton. It would offer a dilemma for the president. A lot of, as you said, a lot of his former Campaign People are already signed on for Hillary Clinton. And also just to try to maintain president obamas legacy. Do they believe Hillary Clinton would do a better job of that . Yes. You know this would put the president in the difficult position of having to make a choice. Between two of his top members of the socalled team of rivals. Even the he ough he is unlikelyo Something Like that publicly, he could do that privately. At the same time, anderson. Top democratic sources have told me inside and outside the white house. They believe Hillary Clinton