to carry out its mission, in march senator guardier and mike kauffman proposed using the $360 million set aside for v.a. bon uses bonuses to help defrayed the cost. it s embarrassing our veterans have had to suffer this long. why won t washington worked? incompetent, lack of oversight, zero accountability and at the end of the day you pay for it and vet advance suffering. to reduce costs, the v.a. has cut the construction of two of the hospitals facilities small things like the nursing home and post-traumatic stress clinic things that don t seem all that posh are important, right? still no final word on when the doors will open to welcome patients. pope francis comes out swinging on his swing through latin america, he called greed the dung of the devil and called world leaders cowards. next a live report from his
congress while victims wait and sexual predators walk the streets. it is a frustrating and infuriating example of how congress was continually walking by and is the latest installment of our ongoing series, why won t washington work? i will sentence you to 47 years to the department of corrections. reporter: this serial rapist was just sentenced to prison for sex crimes but he could have been caught decades ago if dna from a 1988 rape had been tested sooner. you have demonstrated a pattern of identifying, targeting vulnerable young women. reporter: think of all the more recent victims that could have been protected. when he threw me on the bed and he was raping me, my son had a plastic bag and was hitting him. reporter: his dna was found in at least 1 of 11,000 untested
president. he s got the money and also the i would say the drive on key issues, immigration, guns, food, the health of our country, to make his own place in history. yes. and i think he s i ve known him since his days on just the media side, and there s no question that he wants to stay engaged in these issues more than actually he wants to go back into the private sector side. interesting. all right. joe, i m reading your piece out of politico. why won t washington address long-term debt, you ask? maybe barack obama and republicans in congress are incapable of addressing the united states long-term debt while avoiding the kind of harsh austerity measures that have led to a triple-dip recession in great britain. erskine bowles, former president clinton s chief of staff, has spent the last three years of his life warning of a coming financial crash if washington continues its reckless ways in dealing with medicare and medicaid. as bowles explains to audiences across the count
megyn: it s very nice when they have that beautiful music playing, with the jet. in reality, the soundtrack for most of us would go something like this. aaaaaah! exactly. megyn: help! reporter: orioo exactly right. mig not quite the same. doesn t have the same flare when you have that screaming! sounds of death! or fear thereof. trace, thank you. reporter: we re going to get you a ride megyn on this thing. one day you are going to be with the jetman. megyn: i want that about as much as i want a hot poker in the eye. thank you t.j.! all this stands between u.s. consumers and a billion barrels of oil is a bridge across this river in alaska. so why won t washington let this bridge be built? we ll show you. first penn state, now syracuse university, basketball coach bernie fine, fired, following allegations of sexual abuse from three young men. but in three minutes, see why this scandal is unlikely to stop there. and newt gingrich picks
gingrich is of course he has a negative impact on many swing independents. we have seen this in virtually every poll for years. not just for ones in the current campaign going back to the 1990s. he was one of the best allies president bill clinton had. megyn: on issues like immigration you have gingrich moving more to the center and romney moving more to the right. larry, thank you. thanks, megyn brand-new. megyn: he was the head of the world bank. a contender for president of france and one of the highest profile rape suspects in u.s. history. allegations dominique strauss-kahn may have been set up by political rivals. why won t washington let the bridge go up in alaska.