Good morning, new york city and good morning america. Today is a centennial new york city veterans day parade. For 100 years, americans of come together on this day to honor americas veterans and their families. On veterans day, we start the conversation with thank you for your service. We continue the conversation with a friendly how can i help . How are you doing . Tell me about yourself. Today is not about charity, its about honoring the best and brightest talent has to offer. Veterans have a Proven Ability to lead. We are highly trained and skilled workers. We know how to collaborate with our peers and deliver positive outcomes. As chairman of the United War Veterans Council and the producer of today centennial parade, i welcome you. They say freedom is not free, well it is not. 80s hard to achieve and its even harder to maintain. Today, youaudience know this is youve lived at. On behalf of the city of new york, the United War Veterans Council, are assembled via sows and corporate
For us. Now, it is our duty to serve and protect them every single day of our lives. It is truly an honor to come back to new york city right here at Madison Square park to be the first president ever to attend americas parade. [cheers and applause] pres. Trump to every veteran with us, to the thousands fifthing to march on avenue, it will be something, and to the 18 million veterans across our country, the first lady and i have come to express the everlasting love and loyalty of 327 million americans. I want to recognize the department of Veterans Affairs deputy secretary james byrne for joining us. Thank you, james. Thank you, james. [applause] great job. Pleased to report that our administration and all of the work weve done, the veteran satisfaction with the v. A. Is it is at 90 , the highest rate ever recorded in the history of this particular program, and that is awfully good, and we are proud of you and the secretary, thank you. Great job. [applause] also with us as new york cit
Number one i was able to get a significant amount of money into providing job for young people in this country. Javier from the Associated Press . In latin america, what of the big trend to you see . What do you have in mind . Senator sanders i voted against nafta for a number of reasons. In my view if you look at the impact they have had on mexico that we have got to own up to his massive dislocation of small homes in mexico. Drive and workers off of those forms and into the cities and that chew asian. Second of all, i will tell you that i am concerned when i see how aggressive china has been in moving oil all over the world. Obviously, latin america is our neighbor. I am not impressed at agree that we have been reaching out with latin america. I strongly support the president s initiative in normalizing relations with cuba. We had rather work with them in intelligent ways. I dont have to tell anyone in this room what we have seen in guatemala, honduras, the kind of violence there tha
Been reduced by half said is the only changes and though lot. It did not grant any type of new power to give me the ability to walk into our room to fire people . It is clear the secretary and those advising him remain confused about what the law actually does, which is much more than simply reduce the appeal time. The secretary cannot simply walk into a room and fire without evidence warranting faction. But the law does give him the authority to remove that employee for corer performance or misconduct. The secretary has cited a plethora of numbers he says illustrates the commitment to hold individuals accountable. For example, he says there is one list of 1,000 names of employees being removed and another list of 5,600 names of employees being removed and another list of 42 names of Senior Executives the v. A. Is proposing action on. But may take a moment to set the record straight. Based on their briefing that v. A. Provided to staff yesterday covet v. A. Only has one year of aggrega
Shinseki forced out today amid charges veterans died waiting for health care. Its widespread across the nation, and it has been happening for years. More officials likely will go. And tonight there are calls for criminal investigation. Jim acosta has the story. Reporter for president obama, there was no time to wait. Secretary shinseki offered me his own resignation. With considerable regret, i accepted. Reporter according to white house officials, the resignation of veteran ace fairs secretary Eric Shinseki was over in one hour. First shinseki met in the oval office with the president and the Top White House aide now overseeing the v. A. , rob nabors. Then the president and shinseki went for a walk on the south lawn for a private conversation. Minutes later, mr. Obama said shinseki had concluded he was too much of a distraction. And so my assessment was unfortunately that he was right. I bre regret that he has to resign under these circumstances. Reporter shinsekis departure came as t