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Are you a veteran, own a home, and need cash? you need to know about the va cash out loan from newday usa. its called the newday 100 because it lets veterans borrow up to 100% of their homes value. not just 80% like some typical loans. that extra cash can make a huge difference in these times of skyrocketing prices. heres more good news: home values have skyrocketed too. that means even more cash! take out an average of $60,000 to pay down your high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second...

Each year. join me with your support. please call or go online now your gift of only $19 a month just sixty three cents a daye will help paralyzed veteransac receive specialized medicalsu care and support research and treatments and fight for the accessibility they deserve. with your monthly supportde, no your honoring the sacrifice of our wounded veterans havet made to defend our freedom and showth them their sacrifice has notou been in vain. i just dont think my family would be as happy as the...

Buttigiegs plan, along with senator warren released last week, they all strengthen the department of veterans affairs. when weve been in a time of privatization. and why thats so important is when veterans come back from war, there are certain challenges that they face we dont always know about. in this war, its been traumatic brain injury. in wars prior, its been agent orange exposure. so veterans go to the va for the same reason i did when i came home. it was the only place i knew to go. and s...

Both the professionalism and services of the va health care system. we have many outdated hospitals run by non-veteran medical and mental health providers. what are your solutions for modernizing the health care -- the va health care system and giving veterans the opportunity to receive advanced medical and mental healthcare in state of the art facilities that our veterans most desperately need and deserve? >> thank you, with great humility, thank you for all youve done for the country, for you ...

Is counted before we certify any elections. >> and the certifying process or the deadline for it is supposed to be tomorrow, tuesday. well see if that is the end of the line or whether this goes on any further. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. a glitch in the va has caused some veterans to be evicted. we have one more thing for you after the break. r the break. due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem.. so if theres a better treatment than warfarin... i want that too. e...

Robert wilke was sworn in in the past hour as the new head of the va, but hes expected to shake things up. "the washington post" reports that he plans to reassign several high-ranking political appointees. "the post" says wilke wants to form his own leadership team and address lawmakers concerns. the va has become highly politicized. this comes after a lengthy leadership shuffle, not scuffle, you could call it a scuffle but its really a shuffle on the va. now it will be on him to establish some ...

About how to run this kind of agency. will note, however, the bar may be pretty low for given all the problems that the va has, so that could provide some opportunity for him to get ahead. >> today, we could see the president of the united states and hear him speak words out loud in front of people. hes been in hiding, so forced seclusion since last friday. mostly around the stormy daniels situation right now. it gives a speech in ohio. do we anticipate him touching any issue surrounding stormy ...

Va. we heard the private sector isnt equipped to care for veterans the way the va has. but the argument youll hear on the other side from the president is, look, this system hasnt worked for veterans. there are still long wait times. although if you read the open ed piece in "the new york times," shulkin will argue theyve made vast improvements. there are significant problems in the va that need to be fixed. whats your position on that? >> we oppose privatization. they call it choice, we call it...

>> theres call for their big shake-up with the entire way the va is run doesnt work. its to a government run and needs to have some sort of private mix. the possibility that it exists, we might see some real actual reform there. >> i hope so. the va has had so many issues for so long, its somewhat irrelevant of who the current president happens to be and what party affiliation he is. its simply the fact the va has a lot of cleaning up to do, so i hope this guy can get in there and set things str...

Been too long. when dod went through its decision on electronic medical records, it took them approximately 26 months to do this. i will tell you in government terms, that is actually a pretty efficient process. i dont think we can wait that long when it comes to the health of our veterans. and so under my authority as the secretary va, i am acting to essentially direct acquisition of the hr currently being employed by the department of defense that will allow the seamless health care for vetera...