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the question we have for you this morning for republicans only, what is your advice to president trump? if you live in the eastern and central time zones, call 202-748-8000. mountain and pacific time zones, 202-748-8001. we are on social media, as always. on twitter and facebook. announcement ended days of speculation about bannon s future. even steve bannon himself wasn t sure how long he would stay in the office. here s the headline in the washington post. trump s presidency floundering and his legislative agenda in shambles. john f kelly moved to fire bannon to bring stability to a white house and risk caving under its self-destructive tendencies. it continues easily his ideas were batted away by other senior advisers in the white house. if he were to leave the white house, the conservative populist movement that lifted trump in last year s campaign would be at risk. let s go to an interview that steve bannon gave the weekly standard on his way out. said the tru ....
but if we could come to agreement on a proportionate increase on both defense and nondefense, that is something i could support. washington journal continues. host: joining us is tim graham from the media research center. to discuss their recent report examining media coverage of president trump and its biases. thank you for joining us today. by telling our viewers with the media research center is. ourt: we are celebrating 30th year this year. our job is to research the kind of politics one television first and to some degree in the print press. we record television programs weost 24 hours a day, and have a staff that watches those, transcribes those, makes videos of those programs, and studies them over time to see what the tone of coverage is. host: what is news busters? guest: it is our blog that was started in 2005. we are trying to bring this research, and we find it as quickly as possible while it is still cogent, and we are trying to give examples of what ha ....
it started with the tenth introduction and tents introduction and it did not get much better from there. a possible what she is as secretary of state and then a conversation between donald trump and billy bush and this is sexual comments about women a last night. with the presidential election. right now the campaigns are here in colorado. tim kane in the area people are starting to show up what time is the event actually set for tonight? things will get underway in open 30 minutes ago you see the line of people already starting to for them form to get inside of course the rally follows a heated debate continuing hillary clinton s message and dave matthews band will take the stage admission is free you do need a ticket to get through. we spoke to reporters as they arrived about the reason they are here today. mostly tim kane matthews on the site. and in support and hillary because first of all i believe in them and believe in their and experience and levelheaded ....
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the hearing today, what does it deal with? guest: something called the commission on care. something that was part of the choice act. when congress asked the robert to carve out six $2 $60 of our budget million of our budget. time, they came up with 18 recommendations. of the 18, we said we agree with 15 of the 18. 12 of the 15 are already underway or already completed. for us, the commission and their findings reinforces but we are trying to do with our my v.a. transformation in transforming the work of the v.a. to better care for veterans. host: although care delivered by the v.a. is comparable or better than clinical quality generally available to the private sector, it is inconsistent from facility to facility. how would you respond to that? the biggest issue was inconsistency. some were leaders and lean technology as a way to provide care. there are some who had never heard of lean. we tried to defuse best practices across. i came from the private sector, i was 3 ....