Blake burman at it white house with more on that. Reporter neil, there are details coming out of Northern Syria that the ceasefire is not holding up as you say. One Nongovernmental Organization telling fox earlier this morning that 30 people were injured by force house are backed by turkey. Just moments ago the president announced on twitter that he has spoken with the turkish president erdogan today. It was a lengthy three tweets. Let me tick through them, neil. The president just tweeted the following says he has spoken with erdogan. He told me, this is the readout from the president , quote, there was miner sniper and mortar fire quickly eliminated. Very much wants the ceasefire or pause to work. Likewise the kurds want it. The ultimate solution to happen. Next tweet the president goes on to say there is good ill with on both sides and a chance of success. Third fine tweet, president says i notified some european nations willing for the first time to take the isis fight thats came f
Is killed by his really strikes risers above 5 thousands of to 17 days of relentless amount of tearing catastrophes shows no signs of using the spice. Small amounts of aid that has been elastic and the occupied westbank. Israel intensifies raids and mast attention to palestinians or kills during an attack on number the well as the war on gauze or reaches its 17th day, as well as stepping off its bombing campaign. The number of lives austin garza has now suppose to 5000 a mouse says the killings will not go on punished. Its minute 3 ring says to drones had been launched deep into israel for the 1st time. Was early in his randy. Soldier was killed during around right in gaza, to free prisoners being held by him off it is really strikes has killed hundreds of experience in the gaza strip. Gone eunice and central gaza. Among the latest targets that weve seen, a truck is in con unit, so off sourcing relief packages for delivery in gaza. Thats off to a thought humanitarian convoy into the st
We are working hard to collect every penny that we can. I am out of time, apparently. Mrs. Titus. Thank you mr. Chairman. A lot of that money leftover though, was used quietly to pay for the continuation of the denver project, wasnt it . Are you talking about the money from the treasury for the last five years . Wherever you found that. Its not available to us. We cant use that money. We thought we could, and its money that essentially becomes, as i said deobligated as expenses come in and also sometimes that there are new expenses for whatever might have happened in, lets say, in 14, and that money is used in that year, so you can become antideficient after the fact, so to speak. So that 1. 3 billion was not available to us. We had hoped it would be. I was the staff person that had the cryptic conversation with the house staff back in june and we had we thought we had a plan when i mean, in my opinion, quite frankly, we are a victim of our success. We have gotten many more veterans ca
At the v. A. Have any accountability or any responsibility at all for this happening . If so, how much . Of course we do. As was laid out in the last hearing on the same subject just a few weeks ago, there are many reasons that we are where we are. I think we all share some of the response ability. We have a new program called the Choice Program. We have seven different ways of providing in the community. Im sorry. Did you want to interrupt . My time is limited. You have described with the layout of the land is. Is going to show you what accountability we half. Ok. Do you have any role in this . One of the things you learn is to have no excuses. One of the things that baffles me this case is we are dealing with a Computer System that is over 30 years old call the fms system. It is written in a language i wrote in 1973. We have got to change the Management System of the financial of this enterprise. Our i. T. Budget is about 50 of what a Health Care System i. T. Budget is. We have got t
You at this point. Mr. Kaufman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, thank you for your service in the United States army. Although the president id like to think the president chose you in recognition. In proctor and gamble. And we had in this committee, my predecessor on the over sight subcommittee had requested a study of Major Construction products and that was done and published in april of 2013. At that time, it said there were four ongoing projects one in las vegas orlando, new orleans aurora colorado listed as denver. That the average 366 Million Dollars over budget. And that they were each on average about three years behind schedule. We clearly knew there was a big problem. If you and proctor and gamble were to step in and you had an apartment that was that dysfunctional, you would have fired the management team. Straightened it out, spotted off when i look at the v. A. , your core competency is benefits to veterans, health care being a significant part of that. Constructi