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Three that you see that require urgent attention. >> i think its going to be things like mental health. its going to be, you know, making people feel like they have a purpose. you come back from basically being the most intense youve been in a conflict zone and coming back to a country and going to the walmart and shopping is a very different thing than being on a battle field and thats sometimes is hard to deal with. right now the va is dealing with a still a lot of vietnam and korean war veter...

>> i can only imagine. >> my dad was recruited as a soldier at 12. >> really? >> imagine his entire teenage years he was in the jungles. you know, my sisters can remember him jerking up awake in the middle of the night and falling out of bed. you know, thats ptsd. >> ptsd, post-traumatic stress disorder can affect people after they experience or witness any number of traumatic events. the symptoms can stick around for a few months or over the course of a lifetime. according to va, its estimated ...

The virginia governor who said that if a baby survives the gruesome procedure of a late-term abortion, the next step on what to do with a live infant should be up to the mother and the doctor. you know, abortion advocates used to say that this procedure was all about a clump of cells, but as science and comments like this i think show us, proabortion advocates are interested in making it legal to get rid of a life. paul: all right, dan? >> well, hold on to your hats. were giving a hit to the u.s...

Pelosi, steny hoyer it and these are the exact same people that america rejected and they never changed course. thats why i believe if you look at weve been able to achieve the economy the strongest in more than 50 years, rebuilding our military, reforming our va system stopping the opioid movement going through. we have an agenda to continue and make this country move in the right direction. maria: lets talk about the agenda in the next seven weeks while youre still in the majority. what can ge...

Lives. i have friends their husbands have lost their lives waiting for care. theres a problem with the va system. i think we need to definitely take care of our veterans. i wouldnt be surprised if this is part of president trumps negotiation tactics. weve all learned no matter what hes for the dems are against. theres nothing that hes stood for that they have said -- we could see military parades next year but -- >> theres been a lot of reporting on defense department not being for this, the ame...

Fired. get out, get out! >> harris: your reaction to that? >> we welcome the president to kansas city and we welcome the vfw members to kansas city. this is the first time theyve been there in 11 years. and i was there yesterday visiting with those veterans. i will tell you that this administration has been working hard on behalf of veterans and part of that is the accountability that you just talked about. we have had experiences in which it is very difficult to get rid of bad employees within ...

Soldier strong. he founded it and works on it every single day. and he is a hero to me and to many who are helped by his work. chris, great to see you this evening, thanks for being there. we were there to talk to the health science and technology committee about this cutting edge technology, and how it can be integrated into how we continue to serve our veterans. and you feel that the way that we work on technology for the battlefield has to be extended across that bridge until after they come ...

More expensive than the meal in many ways. >> kimberly: no. >> greg: very hard to open. >> peter: los angeles, there is a big homeless thats a problem, in los angeles. the va and brentwood in l.a., providing ten parking spots overnight for homeless vets to park their car and have somewhere to sleep. there are 400 acres of property at the facility. it took ten years to get ten parking spots so homeless vets who have run into hard times have somewhere to sleep at night. its an example of how the i...

There are over 1,000 facilities across this country. and yeah, it is a big job. there are a lot of mayors of mid-sized cities with fewer constituents than the va does employees and there is a lot going on and debate over privatization. and veterans, look, we are, you know, in chorus opposing those efforts to see our va health care system privatized. what we want to see, though, is a va system thats strong, fully funded, thats fully staffed and that is equipped through infrastructure investment t...

Privatization, they were obviously in conflict. i think the president has a mandate, based on what you did during the election, to actually push for this. just asking to make sure that our veterans are taking care of, being able to get to a doctor that they need is one of those things because the current system is not working. >> sandra: want, he seemed to hint in that speech he gave in ohio as to why he decided to let shulkin go. he said "i wasnt happy with the speed with which our veterans wer...