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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140530:03:12:00

And so it s been hard to predict over the last several years, you know, what the demand s going to be. but there s always been a conversation about fully funding the va versus discretionary funding. look, the true issue here is that general shinseki really isn t to blame at all for anything that s going on. i mean, i m very disappointed in house democrats this week. really? house democrats have been a huge disappointment this week. voting for conservative bills to attack workers at the va system when mitch mcconnell s single-handedly stopping a $21 billion bernie sanders veterans package because he s concerned about a tea party election in his home state? i mean, there s a $21 billion bill in the senate. general shinseki s not a bad administrator. what he is is a bad public affairs officer. and the first thing i would have done when i was him was say hey, mitch mcconnell, you re the senate minority leader and you re blocking a $21 billion package we need so i can do my job? that s ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140530:00:12:00

I mean, there was a time when under president bush s administration they were short $2 billion. and so it s been hard to predict over the last several years, you know, what the demand s going to be. but there s always been a conversation about fully funding the va versus discretionary funding. look, the true issue here is that general shinseki really isn t to blame at all for anything that s going on. i mean, i m very disappointed in house democrats this week. really? house democrats have been a huge disappointment this week. voting for conservative bills to attack workers at the va system when mitch mcconnell s single-handedly stopping a $21 billion bernie sanders veterans package because he s concerned about a tea party election in his home state? i mean, there s a $21 billion bill in the senate. general shinseki s not a bad administrator. what he is is a bad public affairs officer. and the first thing i would have done when i was him was say hey, mitch mcconnell, you re the sena ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140530:23:19:00

jay has become one of my closest friends and is a great press secretary and a great adviser. he s got good judgment, good temperament, and he s got a good heart. you can t beat that from the president of the united states. beth and john, thank you for your service, john, and cofounder and chairman of votevets.org. thank you, both. beth, it doesn t look like our friend jay was forced out. it sounds like he went out with kisses from the president. the president really sort of pierced the boil today. he said look, let s stop the talk about getting rid of shinseki, but what is the rest of the story going to be like, the problems far worse than anyone said they were, far worse than the president said they were, far worse than shinseki did. this is a president that distained the rituals of washington. walk something down the plank, toss them over, and he resists ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140530:07:12:00

I mean, there was a time when under president bush s administration they were short $2 billion. and so it s been hard to predict over the last several years, you know, what the demand s going to be. but there s always been a conversation about fully funding the va versus discretionary funding. look, the true issue here is that general shinseki really isn t to blame at all for anything that s going on. i mean, i m very disappointed in house democrats this week. really? house democrats have been a huge disappointment this week. voting for conservative bills to attack workers at the va system when mitch mcconnell s single-handedly stopping a $21 billion bernie sanders veterans package because he s concerned about a tea party election in his home state? i mean, there s a $21 billion bill in the senate. general shinseki s not a bad administrator. what he is is a bad public affairs officer. and the first thing i would have done when i was him was say hey, mitch mcconnell, you re the sena ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140319:21:14:00

They re not alone. we will not defend them militarily. much like we didn t for budapest or the prague spring when the old soviet soon went in. that limits have to be demonstrated by our economic financial sanctions. all right. joe sestak, we will have you back on this. great resource. great to have you with us on the program. love youren sight. we want to turn to john saltz, veteran of the iraq war, chairman of votevets.org. good to have you on tonight. this dynamic between iraq and ukraine, it s totally different. the reasons are going to be different. do you think the american people would accept any kind of military advancement by the united states to protect nato s alliance. it s an interesting question. we say in the military we train to fight one war and we continue to train that way after the war s over and it doesn t prepare us for the next one. i think unfortunately here what ....

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