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Today law enforcement officers from around the country will honor a police detective killed in the line of duty. jorge del rio was shot during a federal drug raid in dayton, ohio last week. he died from his injuries days later. a public memorial will be held at the university of dayton arena today. ahead of a funeral service tomorrow. detective del rio leaves behind a wife, five daughters, and several grand children. 2020 hopeful bernie sanders and pete buttigieg releasing their veterans plans o...

Speaking with nbc. he came out and talked to our producer. because he says he was disturbed about the treatment of ronny jackson, right in the presidents doctor, the white house physician formerly who was picked to be the va head. way going to ask you about jackson and where that stands in this new investigation the pentagon is opening. but theres some breaking news i understand coming from you guys in our unit related to the next step forward in the search to lead the va, to replace jackson. fi...

Hes thinking about a tv presence for the va head, theres going to be probably televised confirmation hearings on the hill and theres going to be a lot of people, i imagine some republicans, too, who are going to want to nail him. hes going to have to be, you know, on a game he may or may not be capable of playing. those could be quite ugly. and i assume will be pretty closely watched. >> all right. rick, youre leechlg us. thank you for starting us off. are you staying or going? no one tells me a...

It has been a system that has decades of really dis repair, and we have a lot of work to do. of course, as you know, the president feels very strongly that we have to get this right for veterans, and so were acting in a way that really makes sure that were doing things as quickly as we can. >> neil: it is different, i know, prior to becoming the va head, you were the undersecretary of health there appointed by barack obama. there was only so much you could do. you credited your predecessor for d...

Was bemoaning the fact they spent $8 million on care outside of their facility. they should have said we provided $8 million of care to veterans it wasnt a hit to their budget. >> congressman, im not the sharpest tool in the shed but heres frontal boundary. the inability of leaders there to fire people. and im not up for firing people, firing incompetent people or people who make our veterans wait. if a new va head comes in and a lot of people are not signing up for this job because they wont ha...

Pruitt to keep fighting and that the administration has his back. of course, a supportive call from trump isnt worth much. last week trump called now fired va head david shulkin for a friendly chat on the very day that he got the ax. >> he was very inquisitive about the things that we were working on making sure that we were focused on the job at hand. >> wait, thats before you were fired? >> thats correct. >> you spoke to him. he made no mention of the fact he was about to terminate you? >> tha...

Va head david shulkin for a friendly chat on the very day that he got the ax. >> he was very inquisitive about the things that we were working on making sure that we were focused on the job at hand. >> wait, thats before you were fired? >> thats correct. >> you spoke to him. he made no mention of the fact he was about to terminate you? >> thats correct. >> at a photo op today trump was noncommittal whether he asked about pruitts status. >> is scott pruitt staying. > thank you. >> scott pruitt. >...