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Campaign finance that took place at the Constitution Center. You can watch it tonight in its entirety at 8 00 eastern on our companion network, cspan. [inaudible conversations] and taking you live today to the Heritage Foundation for an update on the Global Response to ebola and the defense departments role in fighting the disease. This should be getting under way shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we ready . [background sounds] good afternoon welcome to the Heritage Fo...

Instituted, this court had approved it. And there was this process of briefing in congress. And i dont think theres anything classified. You can tell me if it is and if you cant answer it. But could you just explain to me. If im a member of the congress, an ordinary member, not a member of some special committee, what exactly was i told . I dont mean what was in the classified briefing. What was i told about you better go read this before you vote for this. What memo did i get from whom . So, i ...

At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes t...

The form of non v. A. Care and choice care to get this right. If i can make two quick observations. Youre absolutely spot on. First of all we have to force ourselves to make certain decisions about what care can be most efficiently delivered in the community. So weve talked before my example the chairman remembers optometry. Why would we send a veteran 100 miles to get his eyes checked and get some glasses . We can do that anywhere. We wouldnt we routinely be referring that out to the community ...

Are new developments in the Police Shooting of an unarmed man in South Carolina investigators are looking at dash cam video to shed more light on exactly what happened. They are looking into prior complaints of the Excessive Force. Omar villafranca has latest from, North Charleston. Reporter witness who recordedded a South Carolina Police Officer shooting an an armed man spoke out for the the first time in an interview with nbc news. I remember police had control of the situation. He had conn tr...

To the south and you will see that here on doppler 9,000. The last of the showers are moving to the south and east. Its still raining pretty steadily in culpepper county. Can you see where that rain is still actively falling. As we he head through the day we are going to see a return of the sunshine and temperatures will also start to get milder. So we are going to get back into the 60s where we should be this time of the year, actually. Our average high in d. C. Is 70 degrees by today. We like ...

Chair Martin Dempsey whether i have a concern or whether it is true, the government of iran is responsible for their behavior so we are concerned about their behavior. There is about six things that concern me about irans behavior. One of which is the nuclear issue. Im certainly supportive of the effort to try to resolve that the politically. We will have other issues with iran. Resolve that diplomatically. On occasion, there are efforts to threaten freedom and navigation. We have to work these....

The final death sentence for those groups in those areas. Those groups tend to overplay their hand. They have to be careful. They have to be very careful about how to act. I do not to mention the role of and reining in those groups, maybe not militarily but he still very influential. You dont want to cause trouble and you dont want to be direct enemy every day because in iraqi will come out on top. Its very difficult. And, finally, i dont think there will be a hezbollah anymore. Ive heard differ...

Affairs adviser for concerned veterans for america. Joseph violante, National Legislative director of disabled american veterans. Mr. Bill raush who is missing in action right now. Or awol. Political director for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, and carlos fuentes, senior legislative associate for the veterans of foreign wars. Well start with you, mr. Butler. Chairman, Ranking Member blumenthal, and distinguished members of the committee, on behalf of our national commander, michael ham...

Disease and you dont have money to treat them and, frankly, i think its time to talk to the manufacturer of this drug and ask them if they are being very generous in providing these drugs, hepatitis c drugs, for free. Very generous. For whatever reasons they are doing that. But maybe at a time when their profits are soaring, maybe they might want to respect the veterans of this country who might die or become much sicker because they dont have access to this wonderful product. And as senator blu...