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Units, and they will manage them. what is to say that in 50 years you guys dont just then turn this into luxury apartments? >> its 100% deed restricted. that requires these housing units be kept affordable in perpetuity. >> reporter: 180 units scheduled to open by years end. >> we should be up with the 1,200 within the next eight years. >> reporter: should be. 14 years after that master plan pledge. >> ive dealt with quite a few veterans dying right outside the gates of the va. if you had the ri...

Suit. >> when rob reynolds was in iraq, three come madison square garden were found dead. >> i had the opportunity to not leave someone behind, do what i can to help these guys. thats what i want to do. the land was donated for a specific reason, it was to remain that way forever and thats the way it needs to remain. >> the secretary of veterans affairs expected to sign a new master plan for the site soon, and the va appointed a new executive to oversee the process going forward. theres cautious...

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City of houston, would have been 31 years. the city of houston lost the very best. todd: joining me now houston police officer union president douglas griffith. our condolences to you and your team for what youre going through. the killers rap sheet, we will go through it, criminal record dating back to 2008, felony drug charges, burglary, evading arrest, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. what possible reason could the judge in this case have for letting him out on reduced bail? >> that i...

We have another court just recently, a five times convicted felon who bail jumped twice and they let him out and he murdered a new orleans officer who was here on vacation just visiting. todd: what can we do to stop a pattern from repeating so we dont have to keep burying victims of these repeat offenders? >> we have to hold judges accountable for not doing their job. if you didnt do your job as a reporter you would be fired. if i didnt do my job as police officer identified. they had one job to...

Acosta, trumps labor secretary. he was investigated for serious misconduct in office. the -- third, was trump va secretary, robert wilkie, the vas inspector general referred him for potential prosecution to the u.s. justice department. the trump justice department also declined to prosecute mr. wilkie. then it was only earlier this year, it was a lane chao trumps transportation secretary, investigated by the inspector general at her own department on corruption charges, the results of the invest...

Some are concerned the va mission act will be the end of the va. consider all the scandals that have happened and the long wait times and facilities being dirty, think about how people that deserve that the least, our nations veterans, would it be a bad thing if the va disappears? >> i would say at the end of the day what matters is veterans get the care they need and they are whether it is at a great va facility or private-sector facility. in 2014-15 it was fair to call the va a disaster. you h...

Healthcare and that is where concern veterans from america want to go and where donald trump wants to go. >> these individuals who basically are the reason we have what we have, shouldnt they get decent healthcare? that is the main take away, isnt it? >> absolutely. too often in washington dc the discussion is what is going to happen with the va urography, they might not use that term but you hear terms like the health of the va. it should be the health of the veteran weather through the va with...

So interesting, talking about the va and the care these brave men and women get, theres a new act called the va mission act changing the ways that we treat our veterans who give so much. give us some background and what you hope to accomplish through the va mission act. >> today the big day for the department of veterans affairs. this is the launch of the veterans community care program which will give more choice and more ability to access on the community if that is what they want. this is the...

Priority, a good team in place. we hope they work with congress on issues that come up. the key thing will be dont try to cover them up and just fix them as they emerge. carley: you mentioned the dirty be word, bureaucracy. part of a larger discussion we are having in our country about socialized medicine, socialism in general. what lessons and especially those democrats are espousing medicare for all and socialism, what lessons can they take from the vas experience? >> the va is at its worst wh...