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Appreciate his noble services as a war hero, but apparently, as va director hes incompetent. its time to get somebody in there who is going to be going to the hospitals, who is going to be on top of it. you have got to be on top of it and let people know that they cant be sure where youre going to show up. youre going to show up and ask for both books and make sure they are not treating people the way they got treated and he hasnt done that, eric. >> congressman, i want to play the sound byte of...

Committee but last night they informed him they couldnt make it. millers annoyance was obvious. >> i will ask one thing real quick because i dont see any faces, familiar faces from v.a. and the central office. is anybody here from v.a.? >> no one there from v.a. while some in congress are demanding that v.a. secretary erik shinseki step down, heres what the house speaker john boehner said about that when asked by our own chief congressional correspondent, dana bash. >> ive not called for general...

Tweeting out its an excellent choice. and then you have mitch mcconnell hinting that republicans will use the confirmation hearing to pounce on obamacare, rather than get right to the point of confirming sylvia burrwell so she can mitigate some of the difficult circumstances with the affordable care act. >> well, if that -- if i may, rich -- >> there it goes. >> the president has the bully pulpit. because the mainstream media is supporting the liberal general at that. usually im not for hearings...

Voters in 2004, its kind of hard for them to lose. so this is a critical issue. however the republicans come down on it that they show themselves not as being anti-immigrant. >> not just politically stupid but politically suicidal to not vote someone that can get 40% of the hispanic vote. his thought was he can be loosy goosy this year. theres such a vacuum now because theres no front runner. hes being pulled into it. he suddenly has to watch what he says. he cant be his normal philosophical sel...

She is going out now with this around her neck. >> remember where she was her stature coming into the obama administration. d.p. nomination. run for president one day. she doesnt have that legacy now. but, in some ways thats what you take when you take on one of these big jobs in d.c. >> interesting dynamic. she endorsed president obama in 2008, not secretary clinton. interesting dynamics in all of this, isnt it? >> thats right. and she wasnt the first choice for h.h.s. secretary. >> thats right...

That. i think its too strong to call kathleen sebelius a victim of obamacare, but she certainly is a casualty of it. she does have talents. she was a politician, daughter of a politician. also an ideologueideologue. obviously not a super capable manager and was given a job for which she was inadequate. she was not the architect of obamacare. obama was and nancy pelosi, they got it through. but she had to implement it, and that is her legacy. that will absolutely define her for all time. i dont k...

The time. she is going out now with this around her neck. >> remember where she was her stature coming into the obama administration. d.p. nomination. run for president one day. she doesnt have that legacy now. but, in some ways thats what you take when you take on one of these big jobs in d.c. >> interesting dynamic. she endorsed president obama in 2008, not secretary clinton. interesting dynamics in all of this, isnt it? >> thats right. and she wasnt the first choice for h.h.s. secretary. >> t...

Owning a gun and where that fits on actuary tables and things like that, it doesnt matter. you dont get to have rational statistical arguments on guns in our political arena. >> right. >> and i think to chucks point. thats part of what the nras agenda is not to have their agenda cabined by science but rather to get a jump on when science through government policy may restrict some of what they consider their gun rights. thank you both for joining us. well actually have more on this story as the ...

>> fair and balanced. you should have been invited. at any rate, this isnt the republican party. free advice from someone who is in a non-partisan role at the wilson center to the republican party, start being a serious party. start holding meetings about how to change the nomination process for president and what the party stands for, not just what it stands against. >> what about this specifically, this issue of reaching out to women and minorities? >> i know there were women there. sarah pali...

>> fair and balanced. you should have been invited. at any rate, this isnt the republican party. free advice from someone who is in a non-partisan role at the wilson center to the republican party, start being a serious party. start holding meetings about how to change the nomination process for president and what the party stands for, not just what it stands against. >> what about this specifically, this issue of reaching out to women and minorities? >> i know there were women there. sarah pali...