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Support for what she said. >> the acting head of the veterans administration says an additional 18 veterans whose names were kept off official appointment lists have died. that comes as the senate fleshes out a deal agreed to thursday to make it easier for vets to get health care outside of the v.a. system. it authorizes them to lease 26 facilities in 18 states. hire more doctors and nurses and fire executives and regional administrators for poor performance. a whole new meaning to secondhand ...

How about you gave out to every veteran, lets say a red card if youre 100% disabled, a white card if youre 50% and a blue card if youre 25 and had service-connected disabilities. you could go to any medical facility in america, any doctor in this country, any physicians assistant and get the kind of medical care that you need without having to wait in line for the va bureaucracy. all they would do is pay the bill. novel idea? and yet its been impossible to get that through the congress of the un...

Those red, white and blue identity cards. >> thats a very good idea, by the way. >> i would suggest that what you really need is a congress that exercises its oversight authorities and really do pay attention and a white house that really does care. i put it very baldly here on this d-day. you need people who will give a damn. the fact is too often they have forgotten the extraordinary sacrifices that so many have made. in my particular case, not to make it too personal, if i didnt have the fox ...

College commencement speakers withdraw or have their invitations reskinned after protests from students and to me shockingly from senior faculty and administrators should know better. liberals silence a voice. this is an outrage and we must not let it continue. >> so universities used to be a place where you went to open your mind and it seems come to a place that you narrow it. according to the fec, 96% of all campaign contributions from ivy league faculty and employees went t barack obama. are...

>> a college fraternity may have run afoul of the police. the chapter at university of california irvine, accused of being racist. for a fundraising party where students dressed in coconut bras and grass skirts. administrators are forcing the frat and other organizations into ongoing discussions about offending others after some minority students groups complained. are we being too sensitive on college campuses in general for this sort of thing? maybe this is too offensive. >> thats ridiculous. ...

Administration, how could you say is the senior administration that you were not aware of something was going on. how could you say as the president in the white house, i just found out about it? what type of update reports, what type of statuses are being received or asked for by the obama administration by the people in charge up in washington, d.c. of these government agencies and bureaucracies? we need to make sure that we have good oversight in a lot of these committees. im very upset with ...

Was criminal. you talk about this being dangerous for the white house. certainly would be if that were the case. >> well, criminal -- i dont think theres any indication the white house knew about this. criminal in the sense that there are a number of indications, a number of whistle-blowers that said that people in the va, managers in the va, were purposely misstating the wait times for these veterans because part of the way they were judged, their success and fail your as administrators-was if ...

>> right. i never figured out who batman was. were you able to figure that out? >> yeah. we knew who it was. >> it is the season for commencement speeches. we told you yesterday about the west point speech given by president obama and the icy reception there. well -- of course, condoleeza rice rice at rutgers and how there was a disruption and she said she didnt want to be a disruption and backed out. michael bloomberg made these comments and said its the left thats trying to silence the right. ...

Between a half to two thirds of what doctors in the private sector are paid for doing in some cases much more challenging work. now, this comes back to us. it really does. >> it does. >> and here we are, ive been here for five years, and the constant mantra has been cut the budgets, cut the budgets, cut the budgets. guess what? >> yep. >> that has implications. >> and i do hope that congress stays on this after the storm passes. congressman jim himes. thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> i can und...

Dictate that she marry. well, this is going to be a tough thing for the american people to accept. it should be. i hope it will never, ever be something we can imagine, much less accept. and thats "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. good evening. from new york, im chris hayes. the political scandal surrounding the department of veterans affairs got more intense today while the underlying issues remain stubbornly unresolved and frankly under...