in the va. these are people who served our nation and deserve the best care they can get, the mortgage lending, health care or the variety of other stuff that the va serves or provides to our veterans and i think what the president has done is talked to dr. coby cosgrove and other business leaders to providing a better approach to serving the needs of our veterans. wait times are unacceptable, care that s unacceptable. we have to address that. david jackson? sean, during the campaign, candidate trump repeatedly said he was going to void the iranian nuclear deal. i think today s action speaks for itself in terms of the sanctions. he s made it very, very clear, david, that the deal that was struck was a bad deal, that we gave iran too much, and we got too little for it, and i think that he is going to continue to be tough on iran in a way that wasn t done the last eight years. i think today s actions and the way we expedited those sanctions are another example of how he ll
bass for haley made it concern with russia s occupation of crimea. so i think she spoke forcefully and clearly on at. if ian i d like to go to the thirdkype question, christopher seine from abc 15 in arizona. sean, thank you for doing this, hello from sunny and beautiful phoenix. with the likely confirmation on the horizon with the new veteran affairs secretary, there s discussion about ties in with the va and wait times, overall care and some reports regarding the suicide rate. what is the reform that the administration is seeking here. also, will the administration protect whistleblowers? second part of the question, we ve seen protests here in phoenix, as in nationwide as well. when you ta you can about unity, what is the administration doing to bring more unity to the nation, and even more transparency, as here in phoenix we saw that secret meeting on the tarmac, we talked about how is the administration repairing all of this? thanks, chris.
of our concern with russia s option of crimea. i think she spoke forcefully and clearly on that. i d like to go to the third skype question. thank you for doing this. hello from phoenix. with the likely confirmation on the hoe rrizon with a new veter affairs, there s privatizing the va and wait times and reports regarding the suicide rate. what is the reform that the administration seeking here and will the administration protect whistle blowers? second part of the question, we have seen protests here in phoenix as nationwide as well. when you talk about unity, what is the administration doing to bring more unity to the nation and even more transparency. we saw the secret meeting on the tarmac. how is the administration preparing all of this?
first, i think the president mostly through deed continues to show he wants to bring people together in this country, figure out how to move the country forward economically, job wise. i think that s something that continues to show a desire for. he talked about it at his inaugural address in the prayer breakfast, so i think he s going to continue to go through word and deed his desire to move the country forward. can you go back to the first part? that s all right. the confirmation, likely confirmation. first and foremost on va reform, the number one thing is to get confirmation and so many of these as i brought up in the past couple of days it s hard to talk how we ll enact an agenda when senate democrats continue to slow walk some of the folks, that s a big problem. dr. shoken is the right individual to reform the va, understanding whether it s lending or medical ca, the problems and challenges we face