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>> yesterday eric shinseki resigned and that did not come as a big surprise to anybody. the first thing is the replacement and interim sloan gibson. good idea? >> somebody needed to move in. sloan is a good man and he will at least in the interim period start the process that needs to be done. there is a lot of confidence that needs to be restored in the department of veterans affairs and i think he can get that started and i talked to him after the president made the announcement and he would t...

>> yesterday eric shinseki resigned and that did not come as a big surprise to anybody. the first thing is the replacement and interim sloan gibson. good idea? >> somebody needed to move in. sloan is a good man and he will at least in the interim period start the process that needs to be done. there is a lot of confidence that needs to be restored in the department of veterans affairs and i think he can get that started and i talked to him after the president made the announcement and he would t...

Albeit some of them out in phoenix, are apparently on their way to being fired. >> i want to bring in barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara, i am just vexed by the notion that senior leadership has admitted this is not a money problem, this is not a broke area, this is an administration, this is a department that had a surplus of $500 million rolling over to next year. so when it comes to veterans, when it comes to those who need the care the most still flooding off the battlefield, if money wa...

System. they prolonged appointments. they have fake lists that demonstrated they only had veterans waiting 14 days for an appointment when in reality they were waiting over four, five, even six months, if not longer to be seen. >> whats the problem with the va? as long as i can remember, the president was saying this was a decades long problem and technically hes right and its growing as more veterans retire. the fact of the matter is it is well known to be a poor responsive agency. do we just k...

Portions in restaurants? you can make an argument that youre served too much in restaurants. >> oh, yeah. no, were often overserved, which doesnt help in terms of obesity. but also leads to a whole the of food not being used. and so, yeah, being more sensible on portion sizes, or if youre served too much, taking that food home. and having that food the next day as leftovers, that will certainly help. >> yeah. and you mentioned the money. i mean, this garbage project estimates 25% of the food we ...

Good morning, im carol costello. thank you for joining us. stories were watch negotiate newsroom, at 31 minutes past the hour. opening bell rings on wall street, stock futures get a bump on news that a bailout for cyprus could be hours away. investors keeping an eye on the tiny countrys money problem, which could be the key of the euros future. a deadly shooting spree at marine base quantico. the shooter was a marine. he killed himself after shooting two others people. christopher xzahn, marin...

One of the keys to the election was that between april, when he became in effect the nominee in august, he was out of money and that is when the obama campaign really bashed him both on tax returns, and also bain capital. and i asked him about that. i said i know you didnt have money but couldnt you have done more to blunt that? you know, we tried and we did have a money problem, we did try to do it but it never moved the meter when we would do things like that. the only thing that would move me...

Congressman is pretty impressive. certainly it was tim scotts old seat. mark sanfords old district is not exactly that district either. its been redrawn and its sort of a new district that tim scott just won. back to what jamie said. we dont have a money problem in washington. we have a spending problem in washington, and still would contend that sequester is on its way. well start tightening the belt of the federal government. its gotten too big, too intrusive and -- >> is this a way to make it...

All of those were badly handled and nothing is as badly handled as sequestration because of the shackles on the service for moving money around in the services and putting money where its needed most. particularly, when were an army at war. because we have to be able to send trained and ready soldiers into the combat zone ap move them back to the united states before they-- before the stress of combat gets to be too much. >> so its really sort of a structural problem more than a money problem an...

The american taxpayers, and im taking the last word on that. thank you. and the federal government face ago money problem, turns out the federal government is going to run out of money sooner he than we thought. mid february. what about our credit rating? thats just starters. and eric hill joins us, nice to see you. weve seen the debt the end of december, now what. >> timothy geithner is taking extraordinary measures to prevent the u.s. from defaulting on obligations such as social security bene...