america. at least nine mass shootings with all eyes on congress for any action that can help stop the killing. ukraine says russian forces are renewing their offensive as the battling for the donbas griends on. they reported russian troops suffered losses amid a push towards the key city. in the neighboring luhansk region, they expect russians to redouble their efforts. and cnn teams on the ground reported seeing a long line of cars leaving ukrainian controlled areas in the donbas region this morning. ukraine says president zelenskyy travelled to war-torn areas in the east and met with displaced residents from mariupol,b which fell under russian control last month. he reportedly visited front line troops in the donbas region. translator: i am proud of everyone i met, communicated with and supported. something was brought for the military but i will not detail it and i brought something from them to you. it s imported. we brought confidence and strength. mr. zelenskyy s v
shared my va. which is in line with the rule said we have in place. and that would be etoday. the threshold of 15% has been passed. it s complicated. term should not be until the ends. i think it s not a bad description of what was taking place. therefore, we reached the point where i could commune quate with the prime minister yesterday and as i said, he agreed with me that we should conduct as quickly as we can.
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walking out of the v.a. hospital in phoenix, it s been documented, and because as a veteran i received medical care at the phoenix v.a. hospital and my records were being rifled through by different employees. and we have proof of that, and instead of firing those employees for violating hipaa, the phoenix v.a. circled the wagons, and just keeps them around. so you filed for you asked congress for a whistle-blower protection and you got it. you are still there at the v.a. in phoenix. and how are things? have things really gotten better? because we had the v.a. secretary on a couple of days ago, and he cited all sorts of statistics that sounded like happy days are here again. yeah, the statistics can be taken a lot of different ways. you know, when the secretary talks about my v.a., the my v.a. program is generals and high ranking officers, and no disrespect to their service, because they served their country honorably but they don t know the first thing about getting v.a. health
to many members of congress. and some of the senators said to me you know, would you tell me if we should just blow up the v.a. and give out vouchers. what i discovered is the v.a. is not only essential for veterans it s essential for american medicine and american people. three-legged stool. take away any one of the legs the stool falls over. leg one is research. we spend $1.8 million on research that s led to three nobel prizes. it s led to seven lasker award. we invented the nicotine patch. we did the first liver transplant. we did the first implantable pacemaker. a couple of our doctors i think vented the shingles vaccine. it was a v.a. nurse that came up with the idea of using a bar code to connect patients with medicine electronic medical record. we know more about prosthetics than anyone else. we re on the cutting edge of traumatic brain injury. that research is very important. second leg is training.