Veterans Issues News Today

Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybod...

Grea fort bragg and oth installations and call North Carolina home, eve for a thanks to our colleague for joining us today. Madam president , thanksgiving dinner has become the single most sell grated celebrated meal of theay. With tens ofmericans gathering with family and friends to give thanks for their bleings and of course for one another. Folks, i know that this yr its a lot different. While we sti have so much to be thankful for, the covid1 paemic means folks will be traveling less and mig...

[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment...

Postelection standoff between the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign. Day and it 8 45, leo shane discusses the fallout from the defense secretarys firing. A week ago this morning, the results of the 2020 election were unknown. By saturday morning, joe biden had garnered enough electoral votes, and was declared the winner. President trump and his republican allies have been contesting that, but states are standing by the results, and legal efforts so far have yielded no change in votes. ...

Candidate has the opportunity to make a one minute Opening Statement from their each have 90 seconds to answer questions and if necessary i will allow for a 62nd rebuttal they drew starting order when they arrived congressman cunningham we start with you. Thank you for joining us here tonight and for congress because if l the one was willing to put the country over party or people politics. But the fact is the first day of my campaign that i was not support the speaker of the house and the very ...

Statement from their each have 90 seconds to answer questions and if necessary i will allow for a 62nd rebuttal they drew starting order when they arrived congressman cunningham we start with you. Thank you for joining us here tonight and for congress because if l the one was willing to put the country over party or people politics. But the fact is the first day of my campaign that i was not support the speaker of the house and the very first one was for pelosi for speaker just like i said i wou...

Of your words and you can pause when answering questions so that we capture your complete response. Thank you very much and ms. Barnes, youre now recognized for five minutes. Ms. Bans, yrnes, you may have t unmute. I think were having trouble hearing you. Proceed, ms. Barnes. I think you just unmuted. Okay. Chairman pappas, chairwoman brownley, Ranking Member bergman, chairman takano, members of the subcommittee and task force, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss gaos work for Sexual...

Judy woodruff on behalf of the commission on president ial debates, i am pleased to welcome you to this Vice President ial debate. Im Judy Woodruff of pbs macneillehrer news hour and frontline. My colleagues on the panel are John Margolis of the chicago tribune, tom brokaw of nbc news, and brit hume of abc news. The importance of tonights debate is underscored by two facts. Both george bush and Michael Dukakis said their selections of a running mate would reveal a lot about themselves. And based...

Joe biden has seized on the issue to slam his opponent. And we give you a taste of the man honey its made in turkey its going to have Healing Properties and it can have some utterly intoxicating side effects. Im married to evanston thanks for joining me we begin in belarus where thousands of women have marched through the capital minsk and yet another challenge to authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko popular pressure for his removal is growing despite a crackdown by Security Services the...

4000000 countries leading the world as new infections the government is sticking to plans to ease restrictions open up the economy. On nick spicer thanks for joining us the american president ial race has taken on a new turn following comments allegedly made by the commander in chief of the u. S. Armed forces President Donald Trump is reported to have disparaged americans killed in battle in europe the atlantic magazine broke the story said trump refused to visit an American Military cemetery in...