general for ten years and has not listened to the government accountability office for ten years because if you did, you would have known about these scheduling problems, wait times and inability drew, let me say that i have knowledge during the course of this hearing that i think v.a. made assumptions that our data were accurate. i think that we assume that the oig and gao information, patient concerns were exceptions rather than rules. i think knowledge that we have perhaps elevated performance majors to goals, that we need to improve that system. wolf, dr. lynch went on to say that he, the current administration and general shinseki can lead the v.a. out of this mess and give him a chance. drew, stand by for a moment. i want to bring in representative jeff miller. he s the chairman of the house committee on veterans affairs. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. let me get right to a potential criminal issue.
problem. not until the last few days has the media s coverage reached white hot intensity with some pundits and politicians calling for veterans secretary eric shinseki to resign. the white house knew. now, the washington times is reporting that the obama administration was notified about scheduling problems and delayed care at multiple veterans affairs hospitals more than five years ago. if these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and i will not tolerate it, period. but some are still saying the va mess is kind of an old story. it feels to me like it s the media coming upon a problem in progress and calling it a scandal rather than something brand new being uncovered. joining us now on this memorial day weekend, lauren ashburn, fox news contributor who hosts social buzz on the fox website. david frum, senior editor at the atlantic and former speechwriter for president bush. and craig crawford, publisher of the trail mix blog and a former
problem. not until the last few days has the media s coverage reached white hot intensity with some pundits and politicians calling for veterans secretary eric shinseki to resign. the white house knew. now, the washington times is reporting that the obama administration was notified about scheduling problems and delayed care at multiple veterans affairs hospitals more than five years ago. if these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and i will not tolerate it, period. but some are still saying the va mess is kind of an old story. it feels to me like it s the media coming upon a problem in progress and calling it a scandal rather than something brand new being uncovered. joining us now on this memorial day weekend, lauren ashburn, fox news contributor who hosts social buzz on the fox website. david frum, senior editor at the atlantic and former speechwriter for president bush. and craig crawford, publisher of the trail mix blog and a former
without the words under god was provided for president obama and only president obama to read to highlight the fact that there are different versions and there are different versions, five of them, in fact. two of them do not include those words, three of the other versions that lincoln wrote up later after the address do include the words. you read one of those versions and i think also worth noting, when you look at the dozens of people who participated in this project, you re in pretty good company. not just the president but you had usher and taylor swift doing this as well. they are saying the president didn t directly participate in gettysburg because of scheduling problems, is that right? reporter: they re saying, we have heard that it has to do with scheduling. we also had heard from ken burns on this project that one of the reasons that he didn t do this, that president obama told him he was working so much on being involved in the commemoration of the march in washingto
difficult for some whites to understand, particularly rachel jeantel, who i had the pleasure of meeting a short time ago. we were set to interview her. through scheduling problems, we weren t able to. here s what the juror had to say about her. let s play it. i didn t think it was very credible, but i felt very sorry for her. she didn t ask to be in this place. she wanted to go. she wanted to leave. she was embarrassed by being there because of her education and her communication skills that she just wasn t a good witness. is this a white/black thing? definitely. i remember having a conversation with you close in time to when rachel jeantel was testifying, and i said, tamron, i just discussed this on radio and my callers broke completely along racial lines. the people who were calling and