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Prepare and equip our military families and friends to better understand military life. >> and senator sinema and daniels parents are with me now. senator, nice to meet you, welcome. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> howard, let me start with you, because its been six years now since daniel took his own life. and the solutions in this bill seem to be born out of -- stemming from the frustration daniel encountered. can you remind people, some of the obstacles he faced and how this bill...

He had to go to va hospital. that was resolved and va is now taking people as they present at the door other issues were lack of psychological treatment at the phoenix va, senator cinema has called daniel the first whistle blower in phoenix, because with his experiences, with the letter, everything came out about phoenix va and the issues they were having at that time. >> so we did not know -- >> and -- >> im sorry. >> no, no, go ahead. >> we did not know how to help daniel, how to approach dani...

Being as one journalist put it, devastating in its eloquence. daniels parents chose to express his words. the many times the va failed him and his attempts to seek help. his father shared the letter with me on this show back in 2014. >> the illness i have has caused me pain that not even the strongest medicines can dull and there is no cure. all day every day a screaming agony in every nerve ending in my body. it is nothing short of torture. my mind is a wasteland filled with visions of incredib...

La. >> four years after the scandal rocked the va the president continues to pledge that care will improve for veterans. >> have already made tremendous strides in delivering for veterans including passage of long-awaited veterans accountability legislation. >> in fact, the va intermittent showing significant gains from many hospitals. but in phoenix, consider ground zero in the 2014 scandal after dozens of veterans died while waiting for care, the facility once again ranked as one of the worst ...

Veterans here in arizona, why are the improvements not happening faster? >> they need to happen, we all know that. we still have a lot of work to do. our work is incomplete. >> nelson tells a dramatic drop in patient work times, slashing the duration to get an appointment over the last year from an average of 30 days down to just 11 days. but in a statement arizona senator, jeff flake tells us he is truly disappointed in the continued poor performance at the phoenix va. wearily, greater oversigh...

Threat. navalny team was broadcasting about this today saying that the time they were taken off the air but not before calling for the police to step in front of the cameras and show themselves. navalny, eric, has been pretty much visible on the scene for at least seven years now. he is not for calling out corruption and for naming them influence party the party of quote - crooks and thieves. he is as you mentioned, intermittently in and out of jail. and even with attacks last year with green pa...

Arizona, one of the original phoenix whistle blowers, brandon coleman, has been promoted to the new v.a. office of accountability and whistleblower protection in d.c. >> were taking a proactive approach instead reef active. thats a big change. >> coleman is traveling across the country to meet with v.a. whistle blowers to hear their complaints. >> we didnt have anything like this two, three years ago when i was going through my stuff. it was just me versus the world. >> were all in this together...

Including passage of long-awaited veterans accountability legislation. >> in fact the v.a. enter bureau ratings show significant gains for many hospitals. in phoenix considered ground zero in the 2014 scandal after dozens of veterans died while waiting for care, the facility once again ranked as one of the worst in the country in 2017. the report gave phoenix one out of five stars for the second year in a row. >> we are worlds away from where we were when 2014. i think its, you know, the veteran...

Drop in patient wait times, slashing the duration to get an appointment from an average of 30 days down to just 11. but in the statement arizona senator jeff flake tells fox news i am truly disappointed in the continued poor performance at the phoenix v.a., clearly greater oversight is necessary. >> i am disappointed, we are not where we are. we want to rate ours as 10, were not there yet, we have lot of work to do. >> would you feel comfortable getting your healthcare at fat silt here? >> absol...

The secretarys hands are tied. we need things like the v.a. accountability first act. the senate needs to act so we can give the secretary the power to get rid of a lot of these bad apples. pete: referring to pa bill passed the house. big bill to get it passed and said he would sign it the v.a. secretary says he wants it. would you give him the ability to finally fire employees like this. another big development at the v.a. the v.a. published the waited times. the one you worked at 56 days, whic...