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Public persona, the fact that i can reach people and let them know. before i left i wrote my name and e-mail down. im going to let you know, youre going to hear from this. ive heard from george representatives, multiple va administrators because ive put this out there on twitter. but that should bnt why they reach out to me or apologize or fix the problem. >> good on you, you have the platform to do that. but other guys you dont. they get stuck inside the system. we reached out to the va for com...

Garri garrick, they were investigating the va long before i got into the picture. and he has diligently worked against the va stonewalling him all the time and without his efforts, again, you wouldnt know my name. elizabeth: you know, you had brought up an interesting point, you said 15 years ago there were, what, 900 va administrators. today, how many are there, sir? >> close to 10,000 and very few of them contribute to actual clinical work. the overhead is just tremendous and i would not see t...

In that area. good as always have to you backs. >> thanks, jenna. jon: there could be a positive development in the region which word syria just handed over last of declared chemical weapons. this comes from the organization charged with overseeing the destruction of that arsenal. its director-general said the final 8% of the 1300-ton stockpile is loaded on ships. the syrian government agreed last fall to surrender those weapons when the u.s. threatened military strikes after a deadly attack, ch...

Similar construction where is there any hope among folks in washington and the intelligence community that somehow the coalition government in afghanistan can be made to hold together? there is a couple of bright spots but not much and we could certainly see this whole story replay out in the years to come. >> what a mess. thank you much. the u.s. special counsel looking into the veterans affairs scandal now, sending a letter to the president today detailing the violations that she found with ...

Say as the senior administrator, the secretary of the va that you were not aware of something that was going on? how can you say being in the white house as the president i just found out about it? i think its really calling into question what type of internal briefings, what type of update reports, what type of statuses are being received or asked for by the obama administration by the people in charge up in washington dc of these government agencies and burr rock -- bureaucraciebureaucraci. im...

Administration, how could you say as the senior administrator, the secretary of the va that you were not aware of something that was going on? how can you say being in the white house as the president i just found out about it? i think its really calling into question what type of internal briefings, what type of update reports, what type of statuses are being received or by the obama administration by the people in charge up in washington dc of these government agencies and burr rock -- bureauc...

To your base closest to you and go in and by next week, you will be treated. why? because this weekend were going to go to the local reserves and call up -- if its 50 or 60, we can put them on tem act orders. >> thats a proposal thats gaining mounting support but doesnt solve of the long-term problems. there are a lot of people chiming in on that. senator john mccain chimed in earlier, he was disturbed in his remarks president obama appeared to believe the only real problem is a scheduling issue...

Committee meeting subpoenaed or should say theyre threatening subpoena they want va administrators to come forward. they wont come to hill. they wont come. why not? what are they hiding? >> probably a lot. there is so much more going on that we realize. everybody that knows a vet is something you hear these stories. what is people going on at va. people with ptsd can not get in for a year. it is completely inhumane. >> fournier went on he believes this scandal marks the lowest point of president...