Differently. Senator john mccain of arizona and i have tried our best to come forward with an agreement. He is not what hundred percent happy about it and i can fully assure you i am not 100 happy about it. Veryld have written a different bill. What i want to say now in thinking senator harry reid for his strong support for this , i hope that we will be back on the floor to continue the effort to deal with the many unknown met needs unmet needs of the veterans. To my mind the absence of the learneds that we have ,n many parts of this country veterans cannot get the time that a need. They can get the treatment that they need. In a significant way, begins to address that important issue. Sanders senator bernie on the floor of the senate. Here to break down the bill for , aon the washington journal politico defense reporter, good morning to you. Componentse key that were brokered between mccain and sanders . Guest this came from 30 separate sent bills. From three separate senate bills. It authorizes 500 million for the hiring of new v. A. Doctors and nurses. Those are the parts that came from sanders bill. It ought arises the new v. A. Secretary to have an easier time being able to fire Senior Executives for mismanagement and getlso allows veterans to private care if they live more than 40 miles from a v. A. Facility or experience long wait times. They are hoping that will get something to stick and passed the senate. That statement about it being a compromise bill, not a bill that he would come to the floor with, what was left out of these negotiations . Guest the senators bill did come to the floor earlier in the year, i believe it was in february. That was a bill that was over 20 billion of new initiatives. Fromew objections republicans who ended up filibustering the bill because he thought it was too big of a pill and they did not have a chance to offer amendments. Did notbill and they have a chance to offer amendments. This includes the provision. An employee feels if they were accused wrongly, they can appeal and get that overturned. Host what is the latest on when this bill might get a flu get this was the last thing that happened before they left town. They wanted to have it in a legislative language by monday and they were hoping to get it on the floor as soon as this week. Senator harry reid did not make any promises that would happen. I think they want to move as quickly as they cant move this forward. This is still in the public eye and theyre waiting to see. I think we could see it this week. Theyre going to have to start figuring out the amendment process. Think wean do that i can see action very quickly. If itp if it is host is passed in the senate, what are the prospects in the house in the house . Have some house will concerns over the cost. A little over 200 million to pay for emergencies and appropriations. If you do get an overwhelming vote in the senate you are going to see action in the house. Because the house already passed its accountability bill for firing executives, they may take this to a formal conference committee. Host one hot topic of debate that has come up in recent months. Of Sexual Assault in the military in general. It how does the Sanders Mccain legislation deal with some of those issues . Guest the bill makes it easier for veterans to get care for Sexual Assault. Originals part of the this was part of the original Bernie Sanders bill. As you heardo there are a lot of things in his bill he would still like to see the v. A. Address at some point. In addition to the Sexual Assault language there are also expanded benefits for the veterans and surviving spouse of the veterans that are killed. Herb hummel we appreciate you jeremy herb, we appreciate you joining us. Took to the sunday address or weakened address, the republicans weekly address, and talked about the steps he wanted to see changed at the Veterans Affairs department. Here is what he had to say. [video clip] gratefulans are a people. We reject the idea of letting our own people down. To see all this deception and, and incompetence at the v. A. With no accountability and no action, it is more than just a shame, it is a national disgrace. We asked the president to take three immediate steps. We asked the president to support a bill that the house has already passed, that makes it easier to fire senior v. A. Executives who refuse to do their jobs. No more slaps on the wrist. The only right those contributed to this scandal should have is the right to be shown the door. The president to order the v. A. To fully cooperate with the committees that are investigating this matter. V. A. Is currently sitting on 111 requests alone. It has become a case study. The president to back reforms that would require the department to offer private care to any veteran faced with the prospect of unacceptable waits for treatment. Host House Republican jeff miller in the Weekly Republican address. We are asking our viewers if you have lost trust in the v. A. System. You can participate on the conversation on twitter, on our facebook page. Several comments this morning. Anthony writes you can participate on the conversation. On twitter our phone lines are open this morning as we talk about this. Have you lost trust in the v. A. . If so, what does the v. A. Need to do to earn back that trust . We have that special line for veterans. We will go to our independent line first. And he is waiting in flint, michigan. I have offered an idea to my representatives in washington dc. We have high schools sitting all over the country. Everything in the high schools are ready made for our veteran. We just need to put some beds in there, do some rewiring for them to accept hospital equipment. We have great hospitals locally. The veterans could be triaged at a major va hospital and sent to their hometown or as close as possible if these high schools were refund rushed and made into smaller local va hospitals. The buildings are sitting there. They have exercise in the auditorium. You see this as a shortterm immediate fix until more facilities, more permanent ilities are built he echo are built he echo are built . Them home where they can be close to their families, their friends, and has people take care of them that they know. Be housed in their own high school building. Cafeteria,y have the the bathrooms, the elevators, the swimming pool, the gymnasium, the showers. Everything is there. That is annie in flint, michigan. Michael is in florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. This is a disgrace. This is not how you treat veterans that laid their lives on the line for our country. Inant even imagine whats store for us once obamacare kicks in. What can the v. A. Do to regain your trust c echo it seems like you have lost trust. Caller it is not so much the v. A. But the government. Turn it over to the private sector. Host that special line for veterans, henry is waiting in calling in from california. Caller there is nothing anyone can do to correct anything that is going on in the v. A. The v. A. Is corrupt at every level, just as every government job is. The they are all gaming the system from the lowest level to the highest level. In order to correct anything at all would be to simply turn it over. But that will not eliminate corruption because that is what the government is. Host can i ask you for a couple of examples of that . Where the ucd corruption . Where do you see corruption . Their the veteran is in to get the rehabilitation, the gs, and also the freebies i am a little bit stuck here. The next one is at the professional level, the volunteers are all gaming the system. For example, the volunteer is there to receive freeman receive free care. The next one is the professional. Assistance, they are gaining no variety. They volunteer gaining notoriety. Host you are a veteran. How much do you use the v. A. System . 465 years i was a 46 foreteran i was a disabled veteran. When i went to volunteer for the v. A. I discovered the system from the bottom to the top. If the entire system is corrupt you cant condemn it because that is the natural thing about g jobs. I am now 90 disabled. 90 after 65 the years of waiting. Talking about his experiences. Michael writes wrightson on our twitter page writes in on our twitter page stay on this topic for the next half hour or so. We also want to show you some headlines from other papers around the country today. Here is the lead story in the New York Times talking about sergeant bo bergdahl and his treatment while he was a prisoner of the taliban. Bowe bergdahls release is sure to be a topic of the sunday shows. With a deeper look on what is going on later this morning is cspan radio. On todays sunday tv talk shows, some of the topics include the release of Sergeant Bergdahl from the taliban. Also the president posture to europe and the 70th anniversary of dday and the v. A. Health system. You can hear rebroadcasts of the program on cspan radio beginning at 1 p. M. With nbcs meet the press, preempted by the french open. Hillary clinton will be a guest, author of the book hard choices. Also mike rogers, chairperson of the house intelligence committee. It is fox news sunday. Guest includes retired general jack keane, it at military thatst, and mother of first class matthew martine it. At 3 p. M. , john kerry and john mccain. At 4 p. M. It is face the nation from cbs. On the program is the chairman and vicechairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, senator Dianne Feinstein from california and saxby chalice of georgia. The sunday talk shows are brought to you as a Public Service by cspan. They begin at 1 p. M. With abcs this week, at 3 p. M. It is state of the union, and at 4 p. M. It is face the nation. Crossan listen to them a the country on xm satellite radio. You can download our free app for your smart phone or go online to www. Cspan. Org. Host we are asking our viewers if you lost trust in the v. A. System. If the answer is yes, how can the v. A. Go about restoring that trust . Another story in the Washington Post in the search of new of thehip in the wake resignation of eric shinseki. This potential v. A. Nominee withdraws his name, is the headline. We have our phone lines open. Our special line for veterans in we will start in maryland on our line for democrats. George, good morning. I have a reverse of what everyone has been saying. My father served in world war ii. He had a stroke later in his life. He was 87 when he had a stroke. We put him in manor care in Richmond Virginia where he developed stage for bedsores. We had to have a doctor force to force a we had to doctor to take him by ambulance to the hospital. Of my father would have died in the private my father would have died in the socalled glorified private medical system, but the v. A. Nursed my father back to health to live another year and a half. He had a private room at the v. A. And aroundtheclock care. He would not have survived if he did not leave the medical care. Leave the manor care. Host what has been your reaction to the secret wait list . People you have so many coming back, a flood of people coming back from iraq and iran. The main concern was take care of posttraumatic stress syndrome. I know you have a flood of people that are coming into the v. A. System here. I also know the v. A. Through the secret waiting list there is a number of challenges of people going to the v. A. Prior to both prior to obama. It is a bipartisan situation. It has escalated because you have more peoplereturning. You have a flood. You have to get doctors hired and make sure you can pay them. A competitive system. Host we appreciate your thoughts on the topic. George was talking about understanding the veterans population and the different issues, different veterans the different issues different veterans from different generations are facing. He was a bit of what he has to say. [video clip] we have an aging veteran population from world war ii. God bless them them, they are still with us. That is an aging veteran population and requires a thanrent kind of care those of iraq and afghanistan. Frank, a lot of that is geriatric care created to be frank geriatric care is expensive. Geriatric care. Geriatric care is expensive. We have to understand iraq and Afghanistan War veterans and what their needs are. Our planning has not been very impressive to me. Host we are getting thoughts and comments as we ask if you have lost trust in the v. A. System. On our twitter page we will go to coleman waiting in tulsa, oklahoma. Good morning. The solution is competition and the democrats and the unions have joined together, and that is well known, to eliminate any competition. They have done it in the schools, it is in the v. A. Once you have the unions in control and the democrats support you have a combination there that people do not have choice. Competition are the solution and the vouchers is one way. We see it in the public schools, we see it in the v. A. Obamacare will not allow competition or choice. This is the basic problem. People do not have the freedom to make choices, so they are forced into a corrupt system. Once government unions the can i ask you about v. A. Deal that was struck between sanders and mccain is there anything about that deal that you like . More money to address immediate needs, plus a veterans who live 40 miles away from v. A. Care can seek treatment at other facilities as well. Is there anything about that you like . Commonsense solutions are out there. That very thing allows more choice. If you prevent people from having an alternative you are put on a corrupt wait list you die. Politicians are coming forward with the choice. The corruption between the democrats and the union and not allowing People Freedom of choice. Lets stay in tulsa oklahoma on our line for veterans. Caller i have been in the v. A. I have seen them improve a lot. The problem starts from the very beginning. It is the timing. This new bill. It is not even the even enough. Facilities are a lot more advanced and expensive than they think. A matter of more funding or better leadership or both . Caller both. Host is there any thoughts of who you would like to see as the next head of the department . Veteran,t has to be a somebody who is experienced three somebody who has experienced the system, going through the system. Host Dennis Michael in tulsa, oklahoma. On our twitter page some of those same sentiments expressed by the founder of the National Veterans foundation in his piece for the huffington post. He writes lets go to rhonda waiting in wichita, kansas on our line for independents. Caller thank you for taking my call. I would like to see the vad centralized. V. A. Ld like to see the decentralized. I think there are too many wayle managers who are paid too much and who appeared to be accountable to no one. The they certainly dont seem to come forward to speak to the media, at least at the local level. Of i have seen excellent work in some v. A. Facilities, horrific outcomes and others. I think decentralization and rather thanormance rising up through the ranks of government bureaucracy might solve part of our problem. To kathleen in saint augustine, florida on our line for republicans. Caller good morning. Veterannd was a korean and was cared for in the v. A. System. I think the biggest flaw they have is the unions. I think Civil Service gives enough people gives people enough protection. Of the only thing i saw there were a lot of people doing a lot of nothing, a lot of wasted time and wasted facilities. I think the intent of the v. A. Is good. I think every hospital if the director finds faulty work they need to get rid of it. This idea that the union steps in with another layer of protection on top of Civil Service, i dont think that is good. Host what would be the role of the v. A. , the head of the v. A. Under the scenario that you laid out . I think the way it would be most effective would be to maybe have boards that are like stained cabinets where the oversight would be a lot more localized than it is right now. That is the biggest problem we saw. At one point my husbands records had gotten lost. It had taken years and years to find them and get them back and to be able to be served in the system. I think things like that need to be done away with. Host on twitter we want to hear your thoughts. Have you lost trust in the v. A. System . If so, how does the government go out go about gaining that trust back . Onwant to keep you updated other headlines going on around the country. In virginia yesterday, ed easily won his partys nomination to take on senator mark warner this story according to the Richmond Times dispatch. Formerespie is a chairman of the Republican National committee. Democrats right now hold 55 of the 100 seats, including two independent seats. The Richmond Times dispatch defending republicans 21 of the 36 seats on the ballot on november 4, we will talk in thehe senate field next segment. Several stories in todays papers about Hillary Clintons upcoming book, being released on tuesday. The review in the New York Times we will talk more about that book with Jonathan Allen, a a coauthort of a book about larry clinton. About Hillary Clinton. A new poll from the washington about Hillary Clintons job approval. 59 approving as of june this year. The Washington Post poll also if youre caucus was being held, who would you vote . Hillary clinton gets 69 of that vote. On newsmakers this week cspan hosted John Barrasso, republican from wyoming. He is a Republican Policy Committee chair. How republicans can beat Hillary Clinton if she is the candidates in the 2016 election. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] i think there are about a dozen of them and whoever we nominate, we have a number of governors looking at it. We have a number of activists and former officeholders. I think we will have a lot of opportunity between now and 2016. Foreign poli