do it. they want to close the window on any factual discussion. eric boehlert for media matters, thank you. a week ago, the biggest scandal in america involved evidence of systemic book cooking and mismanagement at the department of veteran affairs, with many veterans facing excessive waits to see a doctor and the evidence being covered up. then eric shinseki, the head of the va, resigned, and suddenly the va story disappeared, just disappeared, fell off the map. at the time, we skasked, what happens the day after eric shinseki resigns? how does this get fixed? today ryan grim has an amazing piece in the huffington post explaining some of the roots of ongoing problems at the v.a. joining me now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the huffington post. ryan, this is a great piece of reporting. you talk about the veteran affairs committee in congress and why it has done a bad job of providing oversight to this very important part government. what s the main thesis here? it s
a week ago, the biggest scandal in america involved evidence of systemic book cooking and mismanagement at the department of veteran affairs, with many veterans facing excessive waits to see a doctor and the evidence being covered up. then eric shinseki, the head of the va, resigned, and suddenly the va story disappeared, just disappeared, fell off the map. at the time, we asked, what happens the day after eric shinseki resigns? how does this get fixed? today ryan grim has an amazing piece in the huffington post explaining some of the roots of ongoing problems at the v.a. joining me now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the huffington post. ryan, this is a great piece of reporting. you talk about the veteran affairs committee in congress and why it has done a bad job of providing oversight to this very important part of the government. what s the main thesis here? it s quite simple, if you re a member of congress, your number one priority is to raise money. in order to ra
person in five years. nobody knows what happened. and that s the way they want to do it. they want to close the window on any factual discussion. eric boehlert for media matters, thank you. a week ago, the biggest scandal in america involved evidence of systemic book cooking and mismanagement at the department of veteran affairs, with many veterans facing excessive waits to see a doctor and the evidence being covered up. then eric shinseki, the head of the va, resigned, and suddenly the va story disappeared, just disappeared, fell off the map. at the time, we asked, what happens the day after eric shinseki resigns? how does this get fixed? today ryan grim has an amazing piece in the huffington post explaining some of the roots of ongoing problems at the v.a. joining me now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the huffington post. ryan, this is a great piece of reporting. you talk about the veteran affairs committee in congress and why it has done a bad job of providing overs
where they kind of do or don t do something and, then kind of come up with a story afterwards of why they did or didn t do something. this is really mind-boggling that they feel that they can just do whatever, whatever they feel. doesn t matter what the law says. there is a purpose. bill: you re saying hearings will happen? they will. bill: okay. buck mckeon we will try to get to the bottom of this. bill: thank you for your time today out of washington. thank you, bill. martha: scary moments during what was supposed to be a fun day at the park. this car, watch this, out of control, right through a neighborhood where kids are playing. witness made a split decision putting his own life at risk to try to save people. bill: backlash from top republican over comments by hillary clinton on benghazi. it is pure political spin. she is more focused on blaming the so-called vast right-wing
i don t think any implications rescuing him had to do with getting into the taliban to begin with. he is an american in captivity and he is a pow and we would try to get him out of there. in terms of the va story, howard, is there any updates? it has been in the works for a time and forcing general shinseki out i can the white house got the bad press from the va medical problems. but i do wonder whether or not bowe bergdahl s health was a factor. i am glad he is home but i am troubled by the fact five bad guys were let loose and