ukraine. putin doesn t shrink from any action to get what he s. and we have no leader capable, nowhere in the entire west do we have a leader capable of standing up to this ruthless, ruthless man. a couple of observations interesting. i have been doing this program 18 years. no unrest in ukraine. no persecution of russian nationals or russian speakers. this just happened offer the olympics. just suddenly popped up. so, come on, it s a contrived issue. we all know it. yes. crimea is gone. russia now controls it so you firmly believe that putin is going to roll in but, see, i m not so sure. because, once putin does that once he rolls in to eastern ukraine, invades this nation, then the west will be forced to being a. now, you may be right. it might be paper tiger stuff. it might be not effective, but they are going to be forced to do something. and, you know, merkel and germany is going to be forced to do something. obama is going to be forced to do something here. and that will hu
ukraine. putin doesn t shrink from any action to get what he s. and we have no leader capable, nowhere in the entire west do we have a leader capable of standing up to this ruthless, ruthless man. a couple of observations interesting. i have been doing this program 18 years. no unrest in ukraine. no persecution of russian nationals or russian speakers. this just happened offer the olympics. just suddenly popped up. so, come on, it s a contrived issue. we all know it. yes. crimea is gone. russia now controls it so you firmly believe that putin is going to roll in but, see, i m not so sure. because, once putin does that once he rolls in to eastern ukraine, invades this nation, then the west will be forced to being a. now, you may be right. it might be paper tiger stuff. it might be not effective,goinge forced to do something. and, you know, merkel and germany is going to be forced to do something. obama is going to be forced to do something here. and that will hurt putin
studying from, the military. and 21 years late, i work for the va now, so it is an honor to be part of that. and then you have the side thing where you sing. you can sing. yeah. thank you. praise god. the moment we have all been waiting for, he s going to perform silent night. take it away. silent night holy night all is calm all is bright round yon virgin mother and child holy infant
jeff miller is chairman of the house committee on veterans affairs. of the million dollars he specifically gave to care for vets on the waiting list, only a third of it was used for its exclusive purpose. at that same time the waiting list kept growing. in just five months from 2500 patients to a backlog of eight 32, some patients waiting eight months for appointments. they will say that we redirected those dollars to go somewhere else it was needed. where would it be more needed than to prevent the deaths of veterans? these are real people we re talking about that are being harmed, either made sick, will be sick in the future or had died. reporter: and it s not just delayed colonoscopies and not it s not just in south carolina. the va now says other facilities have been under scrutiny under
of alex, bringing heavy rain to texas and louisiana. plus we re watching storms across florida and your fourth of july plans may be stormy or extremely hot. i ll have a look at the forecast for the holiday coming up. also coming up, we have got our hands on what appears to be an internal memo from the va cracking down on some not so very nice practices when dealing with sick or injured vets. our barbara starr is investigating, talking to the va now. the story is still developing but we ll bring you up to speed at the top of the hour.