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Omnibus. everybody was going for their pork. the last big deal before the midterms. we get it. you guys had a deal they were banging out about really needing reforms for the v.a. it didnt make the cut in the omnibus bill. maybe if you have someone who thinks is his guy, maybe you dont get cut out. >> that shouldnt be a driver. that is a problem for the president, not the secretary. the president watches cnn. he has to get on cnn and appeal to the president, thats what they should do here. this i...

Critically important. >> this is going to be a very complicated thing. cant just wave a magic wand and fix va. its where politicians big ideas generally go to die. >> a major backdrop to all of this is a bitter battle over privatization. the idea that our nations veterans would be better served by the private sector. trump himself has pushed for more choice and suggested privatizing at least some aspects of va care. but a lot of veterans groups fear it would be ineffective and expensive and for ...

Kill it. and now theres renewed talk on capitol hill of a deal to resale and replace obamacare. how do you make sense of all of this? if youre a trump republican this stuff might look pretty darn good. i think we miss that sometimes. it might look even better if you were starting to worry that president trump was shape shifting into a mental of the washington establishment. remember we were talking about flip-flo flip-flops, his promotion of steve bannon and jared kushner? but promotion isnt nec...

That happened in april of 2014, the wait time crisis. congress stepped up with a plan called the choice program. they designed it very well intentioned plan saying you either need to live 40 miles away from a v.a. or have a wait time of 30 days. and what i have been said to congress and i have been very clear if i were designing a system it wouldnt be based on 340 miles, 30 days. we need to design a system in a better way. thats what were committed to doing. changing the system more supportive t...

Totally out of control. chicago needs help. abby: just two weeks on the job new v.a. secretary dr. david shulkin is tasked with cleaning up one of the countrys biggest bureaucracies. steve: hundreds of you emailed us with your questions for pete to ask the secretary and you asked a bunch of them. pete: hundreds of questions is an understatement. this is a small fraction of what we got just asking one time a vast military families of veterans what are your questions to ask him. abby: shows they c...

Not eligible for medical benefits? >> there is a category that our veterans that were not service-connected and make more money than minimum threshold that we do serve. but we use our resources as wisely as we can to try to serve in that order. and somebody like scott may be falling out of that. and so what were trying to do is design an efficient system so were able to spread the resources that we have to as many veterans as possible. pete: interesting. okay. shannon asked this question. said i...

Business channel. >> thank you very much, everyone. steve: our rundown here on the fox news channel, president trump threatened to send the feds to chicago to help with the trouble out there. well, maybe now is the time. pete: and will americans veterans finally see change at the v.a. >> i think the larger question here is why do the veterans feel like they have to fight the v.a.? pete: more on this interview, i took your questions to the man in charge. your viewer emails next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ �...

Or urine test i need to travel 180 miles to the v.a. hospital in minnesota. my question is are you planning to fix v.a. so vets like me can go to our local doctors and hospitals? >> glad to hear from thomas and thomas thank you for your service. we do need to do better. and asking people to drive 140 miles to get simple tests isnt a system thats designed to meet the veterans needs. so, yes, thomas, we are looking at different ways to expand the types of options and choice to be able to use care ...

That he sees as accomplishments. pete: exactly. so after eight years of the fundamental transformation of ram that, honestly ask yourself whos accomplished more in the first month of their presidency, reorienting the direction of the company and saying, no, were going to have borders, rebuild our military, fix v.a., were going to bring jobs back, strip away regulations. predictably, to your point, clayton, the failing new york times this morning has articles about trump, both negative. they woul...

Great again. were making america great again. were going to make the v.a. great again. were going to make the v.a. great again.