appointing to this house select committee on benghazi. let s have a huge discussion on this, the ramifications, politically, et cetera, with wolf blitzer and mime willis congressional reporter for the hill. mike, let me begin with you. do we know specifically what led to this decision on behalf of leader pelosi to say, yes, we will participate. it had been a tough question for the democrats. in the end i think very simply they decided to have a seat at the table of this investigation than be on the sidelines. it has divided the caucus over the past two weeks. there was one camp that said we have to boycott it, if we participate we re legitimizing something that s essentially a witch hunt, that republicans want to embarrass the white house. there was another camp that said, wait a minute, this panel is going to have subpoena power. it s going to bring in witnesses, could bring in hillary clinton. if we don t have democrats at the table to defend the white house, president
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The County Seat looks at rural EMS
Last year there was a big push by EMS directors to bring the issue of losing volunteers and needing funding for EMS to the legislature. There was a lot of work done and several bills that came out of this effort. Then COVID-19 hit and the state had to go back and make cuts to the budget. This cut funding for HB389 in half (about $1.5 Million for EMS funding).
This week on the County Seat they looked at Representative Dan Johnson s effort to codify EMS as an essential service and what legislators are considering for 2021 to solve the rural EMS problem.
Manipulated or falsified records at va facilities has to be held accountable. the inspector general at the va has launched investigations into the phoenix va and other facilities. some individuals have already been put on administrative leave. i know the people are angry and want swift reckoning. i sympathize with that, but we have to let the investigators do their job and get to the bottom of what happened. we have to talk about this, mike willits, you re wearing this story, congressional reporter from the hill. cnn s drew griffin live in phoenix. it was drew and this team that broke this story wide open. drew, beginning with you, president obama, he says he will not stand for this. we know that the white house has been aware of some of these problems for years. we knew he had to address this publicly, what really did we
Your reporting discovered these fake wait lists existed. now we learned that the phoenix va director got a pretty nice bonus last month in addition to last year, correct? that s right. i think this is what they call in d.c. bad optics. out here in phoenix they call it disgusting. the director of the phoenix va in april at the very same time the inspector general was out here investigating allegations manage 789 received an $8,500 bonus. this is just last month. the va has explained this to congress as some sort of a low-level clerical error. but, again, it is as i said, brooke, bad optics and disgusting. it is disgusting. drew griffin thank you so much for your reporting. mike willits, thank you. stay with me, we ll keep a close eye on what we re seeing on capitol hill, watching and waiting for house leader nancy