Motivations with kqed politics editor scott shafer. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Thank you for having me. Youre spending a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars on ads calling for the impeachment of president trump. Youve never held office. Youve never run for office. Why are you, tom steyer, the guy to be saying its time to impeach the president . Well, i dont think its at all about me actually, scott. What were really trying to do is empower the voice of the American People. What were doing is letting, at this point, over 4 Million People put their voices together to say this is a dangerous president. Hes unfit for office. We need to get him out. So it really isnt at all about me. Were not convincing anyone to do this, i assure you that. Were enabling them to put together a collective National Voice to speak up to elected officials. As you know, youre getting a lot of pushback from democrats, starting with House Minority leader nancy pelosi, who says its too soon. We need to wait fo
Motivations with kqed politics editor scott shafer. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Thank you for having me. Youre spending a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars on ads calling for the impeachment of president trump. Youve never held office. Youve never run for office. Why are you, tom steyer, the guy to be saying its time to impeach the president . Well, i dont think its at all about me actually, scott. What were really trying to do is empower the voice of the American People. What were doing is letting, at this point, over 4 Million People put their voices together to say this is a dangerous president. Hes unfit for office. We need to get him out. So it really isnt at all about me. Were not convincing anyone to do this, i assure you that. Were enabling them to put together a collective National Voice to speak up to elected officials. As you know, youre getting a lot of pushback from democrats, starting with House Minority leader nancy pelosi, who says its too soon. We need to wait fo
He discussed his political motivations with kqed politics editor scott shafer. Welcome to kqed newsroom. Thank you for having me. Youre spending a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars on ads calling for the impeachment of president trump. Youve never held office. Youve never run for office. Why are you, tom steyer, the guy to be saying its time to impeach the president . Well, i dont think its at all about me actually, scott. What were really trying to do is empower the voice of the American People. What were doing is letting, at this point, over 4 Million People put their voices together to say this is a dangerous president. Hes unfit for office. We need to get him out. So it really isnt at all about me. Were not convincing anyone to do this, i assure you that. Were enabling them to put together a collective National Voice to speak up to elected officials. As you know, youre getting a lot of pushback from democrats, starting with House Minority leader nancy pelosi, who says its t
Veterans panel investigates a type of home Loan Refinancing practice that targets for veterans and Service Members. The department of Veterans Affairs will propose a rule changes to the guarantee program to stop lenders from targeting and pressuring veterans to refinance their home loans. The Loan Guaranty Service and executive Vice President of the Government National mortgage association. [inaudible conversations] welcome to todays subcommittee on Economic Opportunity and the oversight hearing entitled home loan churning practices and how veteran homebuyers are being affected and how taxpayers can be affected. This is the second hearing was held in Congress Related to the Loan Guarantee program and the benefits provided to the american servicemembers and veterans on account of the program. As with the department of Veterans Affairs discusses in the testimony from the guarantee was over 23 million loans in excess of 2 trillion since the 1940s that represents millions of veterans come
[inaudible conversations] welcome to todays subcommittee on Economic Opportunity and the oversight hearing entitled home loan churning practices and how veteran homebuyers are being affected and how taxpayers can be affected. This is the second hearing was held in Congress Related to the Loan Guarantee program and the benefits provided to the american servicemembers and veterans on account of the program. As with the department of Veterans Affairs discusses in the testimony from the guarantee was over 23 million loans in excess of 2 trillion since the 1940s that represents millions of veterans come servicemembers and their families who have may not have otherwise been able to achieve the American Dream and while this program is one of the more wellrun programs at the va and i have some thoughts about why it is. The lenders are involved and there are more people involved in administering it in the private sector. Potentially unscrupulous lenders that have potential for the veteran homeb