Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
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of my book coming out about women in politics, but you look at the field of women candidates, it is a system that tends to reward candidates that could build consensus. those are traits that are associated with female candidates. so it is interesting to see how and if that shakes out in alaska with the heavily female primary fields. thank you. an your new book out is next weaken titled electable why america hasn t put a woman in the white house yet. and i just got my copy. congratulations and we look forward to talking you to more about your book. thank you. it is now 1 minute past the top of the fourth hour, 9:00 a.m. in the east and 6:00 a.m. out west. and jonathan lemire is here with us. and boy do we have a lot to get to this hour. following up on ali s report and talked about this rank voting that alaska avoting for, it makes people connect a little bit better, try to be a little bit less harsh and add a little bit of civility. you heard sarah palin saying we hav
[inaudible conversations] good to see you guys. call this hearing good to see you guys. let s call this hearing to order. today considering what we are dealing with i m sure there s going to be a lot of good questions. to look at the budget for fy 2023 as i said earlier we are very close as you know to having this become a reality. it s a big deal because we are taking care of all areas after decades of inaction by the government. this bill has had a broad bipartisan support with a vast majority of senators voting to move it forward, and i think everybody on the committee would agree we don t need to waste a lot more time to get the benefits where they are due. there is a negotiation on amendments going as we speak. the ranking member and i couldn t do this, but we did agree on a couple of amendments when this bill went out. both republican amendments. unfortunately [inaudible] so, they are continuing to hopefully move forward on that. so, we have a lot to visit about today
had gathered to help family and meet. one man arrested and a suspect in another killing. more news in the don mar-a-lago search. trump commenting on the documents take. and that federal action, not the only investigation that the former president is facing. we will look at the georgia case that could spell even bigger trouble for trump. we begin with some breaking news, nbc news has learned that the fbi and dhs have issued a bulletin, describing a spike in threats to federal law enforcement in the wake of the mar-a-lago search. senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news that the bolton as dated august 12th and was sent out in an abundance of caution and its sights reads in a recent attack on an fbi office in cincinnati, urging law enforcement to take precautions. we ll have more on the story coming up. msnbc national security analyst clint. we also breaking news from washington, we want to stress there is no information on what motivated this but a man after crashes