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Family. Nine members of the family have worked at the white house. I talked to one of the butlers who works every week at the white house. His uncle was the head butler. He told me my uncle ram the white house. They brought him in when he was 17 years old in 1959 during the eisenhower administration. He is still working there. He described how he used to work in the kitchen and they kept on giving him ice scream ice cream because he was skinny. It is incredible he remembers how the eisenhowers w...

The way advanced appropriations work. I support that and the frustration i have here is the billion dollars we spent. Last year about this time chairman remembers this very well, where we couldnt have an integrated Electronic Health record where the va and dod we flushed a billion dollars and still cant make it work. Thats something that i think this is my sixth year here. I cannot understand in todays technology why a veteran Service Member cant lead and electronically transfer their record. It...

Request i want to thank you, mr. Chairman, for allowing me to ask that question in case i have to leave. Thank you. Senator heller. Thank you for your testimony and everybody thats here today. Its good to see you here. At 4 30 this afternoon i have the secretary coming into my office and im going to ask him a lot of questions. Im going to ask him obviously about the veterans backlog issue and progress if any are being made. The issue of lack of communication between my office and reno will be an...

Get a fully develop the claim . I would make just a general comment before i turn this over to my staff. We believe that the reduction of the backlog is a combination of a claim process and dbqs and then also accountability thats passed onto the review officers. We think those three things are exactly the types of answers to not only reduce the claims but to a manageable level but then reduce the backlog entirely. Let me if i can ask a followup question, i know they work hard to encourage vetera...

We would be proud to serve. That is why this country is never going to be overrun by an enemy force as long as we all draw breath. This completes my testimony and my staff and i would be pleased to respond to any questions you may have. Take you for allowing me the opportunity to appear before you on behalf of the dav. Bless america preposterous soldier, sailors, who are in harms way. [applause] thank you for your testimony. Since would like to do, the senators may have to go back to the senate ...

And towns devastated by the terror group. The next stops for secretary kerry, turkey and egypt to discuss how to bring stability to iraq and syria. From australia to britain, rallying the usual allies in this isis fight is one thing but todays news, the support of these arab countries is an asset that cannot be understated. And incidentally, its the very game of friends and enemies that may be the ultimate destruction of isis and my next guest is here to explain, contributing editor at vanity fa...

Kicked off. You have to stick up for your rights. When youre treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights. You have to do it. Now, with trump not on the big stage last night, at the debate, it is told to us reportly, the Second Lowest debate this cycle. Thats according to preliminary ratings. Right now, out of the gate, the fox news moderators acknowledge the, quote, elephant not in the room, which prompted an interesting response from ted cruz. Let me say im a maniac, and everyone on thi...

The first votes in the president ial election are six days away, and the republican race in iowa is as tight as it can be. A new poll out today shows donald trump leading ted cruz by two points, essentially a tie. Marco rubio is the only other candidate in doubledigits. Heres major garrett. Reporter donald trump won endorsements today from evangelical leader jerry falwell, jr. , and arizona sheriff joe arpaio, giving trump credibility on both abortion and immigration. We have so many incredible ...

Jon of you remember that event, the one he held after skipping a president ial debate hosted by fox news before the iowa caucuses. Chief Political Correspondent paul cameron why trump tower with more on this. Reporter hi john. There have been questions really since january about what and how much donald trump would be contributing to these veterans groups. Back in january, he identified about 20, 22 or so he felt would be appropriate to receive the donations that he had solicited when he skipped...

Facing donald trump today, how much did he raise and where did it go . Pretty basic questions. At the time he said that he had raised 6 million. He said it that night at the event. Since then reporters have been asking for an accounting of the money. Those answers have been harder to come by. Lets get to senior White House Correspondent jim acosta. He is in the room. Hes at trump tower waiting for this press conference to happen. Jim, what are you seeing, what are you hearing . Reporter kate and...