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Distraction because his priority is to fix the problem and make sure our vets are getting the care that they need. my assessment was unfortunately that he was right. >> and here is general shinseki today just a short while before the announcement. >> i was too trusting of some and i accept it as accurate reports that i now know have been misleading with regard to patient wait times. i will not defend it because its indefensible. i apologize as a senior leader of the department of veterans affair...

The president of the united states with everything going on, especially with the crisis at the v.a. hospitals. i just think it makes him look completely check out and detached. >> its not in his job description to worry about this. >> i agree. the government cannot do anything about this. they should not do anything about this. they should let the nfl figure it out, let the market figure it out. i cannot believe that they had the president do this event today. they should have canceled that inte...

Wrong with reports on alcoholism and prostitution. one area im very familiar with, the other im somewhat familiar with. >> the turtle tunnel? >> you put those costs up against a half a trillion dollars then you are talking bsh. >> obamacare is a trillion bucks. >> it is in the private health care system. >> and dont you think the veterans are worth at least a trillion? >> okay. you keep talking about deficits, go ahead. >> no one has been arguing until today until they tried to do a little bit o...

Games and that had nothing to do except call around the white house and executive building and yell at the press secretary. the worst journalists in the world are in the press corps. >> josh earnest, does he have the best name in pr? >> a lot of people dont feel jay carney was being earnest. on bobs first point on the fact that he had a really tough press corps. i disagree. i think they were lap dogs for a lot of it. i dont think that after watching dana perino having to deal with what you had t...

Bygones. >> on the second point she talk about i didnt want to focus on what happened leading up to it, i want to focus on how to prevent this. have they really focused on how to prevent this? they havent brought anybody to justice and there hasnt been an explanation on what they have done to secure from future terrorist attacks? >> she says we may never know what happened. thats the line you are going to hear. everybody will be on the same page on the democratic side and they will say we may ne...

Have government act like a business, you have to do it all the way. you cant just do it part way. if you do it part way, then you end up with this situation. theres also an interesting thing, historically speaking at the v.a. you have not had officers being the head of the v.a. because most of the people that are being treated under the v.a. were enlisted people. they werent necessarily officers, and so theres always a little bit of wariness between the two. there was somebody that was a really ...

Speak, accepting responsibility but at the same time pivoting saying its not his responsibility, although he said he was aware of this as a u.s. senator and serving on that committee, i dont think that helped him very much. >> while this is his completely responsibility to oversee, since he is informed, it is his responsibility. every single abusive and dysfunctional issue with the v.a. system, you can find in europe with a single payer model and this is a system that republicans and democrats m...

Spent his day as opposed to to how best to rescue your loved ones anden then prevent it from happening again? season the strategy -- isnt it a strategy to say ive addressed it in my book, lets move on to something else? >> its probably a good idea. if you are a clinton, thats the way they do business. thes hoping this will put a bow on it, slide it down the table, hope it falls off and nobody talks about it anymore. dwhrong thats going to happen. its true, bob, there are people that want to make...

The president of the united states with everything going on, especially with the crisis at the v.a. hospitals. i just think it makes him look completely check out and detached. >> its not in his job description to worry about this. >> i agree. the government cannot do anything about this. they should not do anything about this. they should let the nfl figure it out, let the market figure it out. i cannot believe that they had the president do this event today. they should have canceled that inte...

Situation and look to reck fie it in the future unless, of course, we fall in love with another white guy first. >> im here. >> his reaction is priceless, too, sitting there just waiting. >> they did acknowledge the problem and will try to reck fie it they say and they did that well. >> so clever. the man who set the president set the bar for the modern legal thriller is back. >> author scott turow is joining us to talk about twists in his latest book. my asthmas under control. i get out a lot...