concealed carry license. heather: dire warning from a va whistle blower, hundreds of thousands of benefit applications are being tossed thanks to an error made by the obama administration. scott davis testified before congress about treatment of vets are accusing the agency in atlanta of blaming veterans for its own clerical errors. davis writing a letter directly to president trump pleading for help, no response from the white house but in an interview that you will only see at fox news. pete hegseth finds out directly from the new secretary of veterans affairs that things are already better under the trump administration. my focus is if you have an urgent problem, you can t wait at all. waiting three to five days isn t good. you can t wait, that day you need to be seen, so we have taken the number of veterans waiting for urgent consults from when i first came to the va at
pete: our nation s heroes suffer endless va wait times a new report reveals those va workers, some va workers were given $30 million in insenttives with no explanation. bonus money with no rationale. here to react phoenix va whistle-blower, branden coleman. you ve been at the front of this. office of inspector general of the va releasing a report, upwards $30 million were given without any justification or performance tied to it. how can that be? thanks for having me, pete. good to see sloan gibson, secretary mcdonald, rest of the leadership once again have the priorities in order defending bonuses in order to try to retain new talent.
in recent va employee 33% of employees felt senior leaders are ethical. less than 50% said they handle properly. i m sure president trump will put all-star team around him to get this fixed. pete: they want choice and accountability which is not happening right now. transparency. pete: transparency. president-elect trump pledged all three. he knows that a bonus is not a bonus if it is automatic. it has to be earned. that is how you create incentives and change culture. brandon, thank you as always for your courage as whistle-blower in phoenix. all right. huge show still ahead with some serious star power, not just steve and ainsley. we re talking about miss universe and miss usa. remember that little goof by steve harvey last year. we re going to ask them about it next hour. next live from the detroit auto show, revealing top cars
inspector fining to recruit relocate or retain employees was not fully justified. human resources says they re working on corrective measures. va whistle blower will join fox and friends later to discuss what this means to the struggling va. clayton: congress gears up for a battle over obamacare, he s confident that it will survive even if under new name. if in fact, republicans make modifications, some which i was seeking previously but they wouldn t cooperate because they didn t want to make the system work and relabel it as trump care, i m fine with that. clayton: he never liked the obamacare name anyway. cheaper system that ensures more people. lisa: one university is taking the high road when it comes to soon athletes smoking pot. punishment for marijuana use.
flood of patients hitting the er. that did make that woman unpopular with her superiors and now she is speaking out in an incredible way. catherine mitchell, the va whistle blower who worked at the phoenix va emergency department. what a story she has to tell us. israel launching its largest defensive in two years against targets inside the gaza strip. israel saying the strikes aimed to stop hamas once and for with a rocket fire into southern israel. hamas firing back. fighting going off during a