hello, i m ray swarez. it is an administrative perfect storm. the vietnam veterans are hitting their years of highest need in healthcare, just as the client rolls are coming up with hundreds of thousands of people that fought in the latest wars. it s long been known inside and outside, the vast veterans healthcare system, that wait times for care can be long, backlogs were enormous, and it was promised over and over again, in congressional hearings that the department of vet reps affairs understood it s problems. and would take care of them. and they did. or said they did. by minute niplating dates reported between the time a vet asked for treatment and when he got it. now congress is looking at dysfunction in the enormous healthcare system, and summoned the cabinet secretary in charge, retired genre rick to testify. of secret waiting lists at veteran hospitals. many adverse incident like this makes me as makes me mad as hell, i could use stronger language, but in deferen
hello, i m ray swarez. it is an administrative perfect storm. the vietnam veterans are hitting their years of highest need in healthcare, just as the client rolls are coming up with hundreds of thousands of people that fought in the latest wars. it s long been known inside and outside, the vast veterans healthcare system, that wait times for care can be long, backlogs were enormous, and it was promised over and over again, in congressional hearings that the department of vet reps affairs understood it s problems. and would take care of them. and they did. or said they did. by minute niplating dates reported between the time a vet asked for treatment and when he got it. now congress is looking at dysfunction in the enormous healthcare system, and summoned the cabinet secretary in charge, retired genre rick to testify. of secret waiting lists at veteran hospitals. many adverse incident like this makes me as makes me mad as hell, i could use stronger language, but in deferen
hello, i m ray swarez. it is an administrative perfect storm. the vietnam veterans are hitting their years of highest need in healthcare, just as the client rolls are coming up with hundreds of thousands of people that fought in the latest wars. it s long been known inside and outside, the vast veterans healthcare system, that wait times for care can be long, backlogs were enormous, and it was promised over and over again, in congressional hearings that the department of vet reps affairs understood it s problems. and would take care of them. and they did. or said they did. by minute niplating dates reported between the time a vet asked for treatment and when he got it. now congress is looking at dysfunction in the enormous healthcare system, and summoned the cabinet secretary in charge, retired genre rick to testify. of secret waiting lists at veteran hospitals. many adverse incident like this makes me as makes me mad as hell, i could use stronger language, but in deferen
hold back in his interview with cnn. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m paula newton. and i m errol barnett. this is cnn newsroom. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin this hour with new security concerns about barack obama s trip to the african continent this week. besides visiting ethiopia he will go to kenya, his father s homeland for the first time as u.s. president. and as barbara starr reports, soft targets near his tour route are a big concern. al shabaab militants in east africa posing new worries for president obama s trip to kenya. cnn has learned in the last week the u.s. military has conducted nearly half a dozen secret air strikes in somalia against al shabaab forces. an attack against kenyan troops there was imminent by the al qaeda africa affiliate. this sends a clear message to al shabaab not a try to attempt anything against the president. reporter: the u.s. does not believe that al shabaab can get an
e of the conversation. let s take polls. first, washington post poll monday. great news for you. huge lead in the republican field. the poll today, not so good news for you. in the general election voters, colorado, iowa, virginia, you have the worst favorability ratings of any one. republican, democrat, negative favorability of 2:1. hillary clinton did badly. i haven t seen it. do favorability ratings worry you? i don t think so. i turned a lot around. in north carolina it was negative. now tremendously positive. when people hear what i say about the vets and how strong my commitment is to the vets treated badly and to the border which is horrible. every time people listen to me all of a sudden it becomes very favorable. good exam pull would be north carolina, weren t so positive. i haven t seen that. i think generally speaking we are doing very well. certainly doing well in the abc/ washington post poll, and every other poll i have seen in the last couple weeks.