To increase local contracts to include for primary care and we are removing leadership where w appropriate. We are going to we have suspended all s. E. S. Performancs awards for vha for fy14. Ng we are focusing our hr hiringay efforts on bringing clinical engineering and administrative staff to the field. Secretary gibson will travel ton a series of facilities over the weeks to meet with veterans, their families and employees toh identify obstacles to Quality Health care. Ee and secretary gibson has said we must restore americas trust in Va Health Care system. We must restore that one veteran at a time. Our dedicated workforce over a a third of whom are veterans are engaged. Mr. Chairman, thank you to your dedication to and your care fore our nations fete rans. Mr. Griffin, you are recognized for five minutes. Chairman miller, ranking mmi, member michode and members of the committee, thank you for th opportunity to testify tonight e to discuss the results of the office of Inspector Gen
Financial trouble by the coronavirus pandemic. It was part signing ceremony, Part Campaign rally. It happened at his new jersey golf resort. The president railing against china, Congressional Democrats and joe biden. Also accusing democrats of steering pandemic relief money into political projects and trying in the president s words to, quote, steal the election. As for the actual executive orders the president signed, they target the sticky issue of enhanced Unemployment Benefits and a dollar amount the democrats and republicans couldnt agree upon. The three other orders are designed to take the pressure off of americans who are dealing with the financial impact, which is now of course this pandemic, now entering its sixth month. I want to bring in Kristin Holmes and daniel dale. Kristin, you were at that press conference. There was a lot of politicking, there was a lot of Campaign Rallying. Talk to us about the substance, though, of these executive orders signed by the president. Rep
Legal trouble. All of these, though, are so important to americans who are sitting at home looking for some help and for some answers. Yes. They find themselves in a situation hes sending a message. Beyond their control. Hes sending a message that im going to help you on the bills that are happening right now. Right . The issue here, for me, thats so interesting is that the democrats already passed a whole bunch of this, except for the payroll tax holiday, back in may, 3. 5 trillion worth of economic stimulus for the economy heading into the election and republicans have a much smaller deal and theyre not on the same page at all. So, the president is sort of stepping in here in the breach. I think the optics are to tell main street, real, working americans and out of work americans that help is coming on your bills right now. We know theyve faced this brick wall, weve just run into this brick wall. We have 13 Million People who have lost their jobs and are still out of work but the ext
This is cnn breaking news. All right. We got special coverage for you. Multiple breaking stories on our watch, tonight. You got this monster hurricane, laura. You got unrest over Police Shootings. Youve got the coronavirus death toll, now, nearing 180,000. While, at the Republican National convention, theyre sayi saying pandemic is over, essentially. And dont forget, you got nba players saying, you know what, were not going to play in the play offs. And especially, we are tracking hurricane laura. All night. The dangerous category 4 storm. Look at your screen now. It is barreling toward the gulf coast. Up to 150mileperhour winds. Heres what the National Weather center is warning of. Okay . And i quote here. Pay attention. Unsurvivable storm surge. More than 4 Million People are in this hurricanes path. Landfall getting closer and closer and closer, chris. And cnn is on the ground covering all of this for you. Its happening, right now, as were on the air. Were going to take you through
Theres nobody that feels more strongly about our soldiers, wounded warriors, our soldiers that died in war. Than i do. Its a hoax. Just like the fake dossier. And the russia russia. It was a hoax. No collusion. Just like so many other things. Its a hoax. Its like a broken record. A bad record. One that the needle keeps sticking. Hoax. All the time. Hoe us hoax. Cnn confirmed the report. But we do know its this president repeatedly disparaged members of the military. And did it again tonight. He threw john kelly under the bus. Former chief of staff. I know john kelly. He was with me. Didnt do a good job. And he was petered out. He was exhausted. This man was tote will exhausted. He wasnt even able to function in the last number of months. He was not able to function. He was sort of a tough guy, by the time he got eaten up in this world, its a different world than he was used to. He was unable to function. And i told him, you have to go. Please give me a letter of resignation. And we did