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Witnesses. The director of defense and Suicide Prevention office for the office of forest resiliency in the department of defense, the acting director of Suicide Prevention program at the department of Veterans Affairs, the Suicide Prevention branch chief at the center for Mental Health services and Substance Abuse at the department of and a and Human Services family professor of Health Care Policy, department of Health Care Policy at the harvard medical school. Thank you all for being here and ...

Killed far too off by Police Officers without justification. Thats a problem we have to tackle. All right your emails. This one from ptaylor who writes about the president s response and eric holders response. Makc gardners death about race. Guest this is a free country. I support the right of those st. Louis players to express sympathy with the people all across america who are protesting Police Brutality. Charles barkley has a right to express his views as wrong as i believe they are. But this...

Vigorously prosecute offenders and hold commanders accountable for establishing zero tolerance policies. Policies. Mr. President , to say that general caseys response was disappointing, would be an understatement. I am convinced that if the military had heeded the concerns that i and others like senator mikulski raised back then, a decade ago, this terrible problem would have been addressed much sooner, saving many individuals from the trauma, the pain and the injustice that they endured. Back t...

The new policies are designed to provide health services to troops stationed in areas where medical services are restricted.

Its taken out of the chain of command. but there is this independent panel chaired by a woman with a mostly female composition did not find evidence it would increase reporting. is there evidence you have that taking it out of the chain of command will protect the victim, increase reporting or increase punishments? >> i have the evidence of most of the victims who have actually filled out a d.o.d. survey about why they didnt report. the number-one reason given is they didnt think the chain of co...

Had an opportunity to sit down yesterday with senator gillibrand and talk to her about a variety of topics including the criticism shes currently getting for her military sexual assault legislation. congressman michael turner of ohio, co-chair of the sexual assault prevention caucus. he had this to say. "she seriously misrepresents the circumstances of the defense department because she ignores the legislation that was passed. i think at this point its certainly not an issue of sexual assault, i...