Return times getting back to those who want to know if we did the same to you would you act the same way. The point is to say they are very good about telling us it is okay to wait and worth the wait but is it . They all have security clearance, they dont have to deal with this type of nonsense, they dont have to worry about the irs coming down hard on them. We do. They never seem to have to threat about much of anything. We wait, it is worth the wait. When it comes to healthcare it is worth trying a few hundred times before you can log onto a bureaucracys website. That is all part of the fun, part of the drama, part of what you have to do. Think about that. Think of the arrogance of that. Telling our vets that, you are waiting, enjoy the weight. There is a difference between a va secretary talking about waiting for care and you and me waiting on a ride, at disneyland or disney world. We are just there to help. Vets are there to survive. They are not having fun. The ones former army sniper, begin with you. I find the dismissiveness overthetop insulting. What about you . The fact that secretary mcdonald would compare american heroes waiting in line to receive healthcare that we owe them to that of a family waiting to get on a ride at walt disney is disgusting and shows the real disconnect that takes place not only between secretary mcdonald but Senior Executives at the va. Neil i was trying to understand there is always a method to someone, i have said stupid things that might shock you when i said them but to sort of say as has been common in this administration and bureaucracies in general that is just the way it is. Night and day. The va is the only customer facing federal agency so its problems are exposed to the public in a unique way but this wakes, fraud and abuse exists in every agency and the problem is there is no accountability for these unelected bureaucrats who are wasting taxpayer money and politics aside the fixes these bureaucrats have to know that if they waste taxpayer money and dont provide their promised services they will be out of a job and that is not happening. Take a look at the speaker of the house, the irs commissioner didnt show up for hearing, looking at whether he lied to congress under oath and probably not going to be any repercussions. Neil if we had done the same with the irs or skipped out, it would be a very different result. They are waiting for accountability and choice ever since the scandal broke in 2014 when 41 veterans died in line and everyone is waiting for the leadership secretary mcdonald has in the military and private sector to fix the va. His leadership is a wall and so hypocritical. Politicians in dc, republicans and democrats who instantly rush to twitter or facebook to blast secretary mcdonald for what he said when in fact they have the ability to pass legislation. Neil that is a brilliant point. What offends me most is the idea that it is just accepted but to say the weight is in the issue, the wait was the issue. When the secretary came on that was the whole issue to deal with the weight. The tsa problem now is what is going on with the weight . The issue with the healthcare situation, what is the issue to wait to log onto a system, and all of this matters, waiting matters, lying matters, sticking to your word matters, preaching to people that it doesnt matter in the scheme of things, that the end justifies the means is insulting. Right. One of the factors is bureaucracies under president obama have gotten too big, too many layers of bureaucracy for the organization to function efficiently and it is ironic that these institutions come back to Congress Time and again and say the problem is we dont have enough funding. If you give us more money and let us hire more people somehow the problem will resolve itself and it is the opposite. These bureaucracies need a trend that is probably not going to happen in this administration. Neil guys like you put it on the line for us and yet you being compared to a big guy waiting on the line at disney for pirates of the caribbean when it was your sacrifice that allowed me to wait in the line disney world it is night and day. You can have the best healthcare in the world but if you die in line trying to get it it doesnt matter. We have a va system that doesnt have to compete. They get the same amount of money whether they do one mri or thousand and if you make them compete with the private sector they start delivering a better product and delivering better care. Neil i want to thank you both. When someone tells you that the weight isnt a big deal, lines arent a big deal, republican or democrat, take my place in line here and see how that goes, see how it would change. They are trying to adjust things to address the long lines and security that has come up by ditching security chief, but is that going to change much or is it just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic . New york congressman with us now, transportation security subcommittee chair. What do you think . One small piece in a much larger puzzle that congress has to have an oversight role listening to the conversation. We have a role to oversee and check on these entities, agencies that are too bureaucratic. The tsa is an example what you were talking about and we have a major role to play. Neil they always say we need more money for more people. I remember years back under president bush when they were uncovering all these abuses on the part of agents who were more busy watching porn than they were going after malfeasance and brokerage and Investment Community and the argument was we need more people. I argued then and are you now we need better people. Is that the issue . We need better people, more efficiencies too. With respect to wait time at the airport, we have spoken to all the airports across this country last week, we spoke to a lot of the airlines, spoke to the tsa and come up with the package that is going to have an Immediate Impact so we have that going, hearings this week, legislation in the senate, we have a direct impact if we get those moving. Neil i want to pass along from a pilot friend of mine that we could eat those crowds if we just had highfrequency flying, you fly 50 times a day, you are prepared with more people, fewer people, and to account for different crowds at different hours to address the demand and supply of agents available to meet that demand and make it incumbent on the airlines to ease up on the travel so fewer people are bringing bags on the lines and making them longer. What do you make of either or both of those . Though the things we discussed but the bottom line is there efficiencies being brought under the Current System that could really have a profound difference and i will introduce it tomorrow and thursday. And the body detection officers, 3000 of them nationwide, get them to the front lines, that is an Immediate Impact, trying to make sure what is in the senate gets moving. When you have precheck it is twice as fast. That can have a dramatic affect. Neil these need to be brought to peoples attention. A lot of people discover there is Something Like that but if they did it is jumping. All good points. Thank you very much. All right. Can you see what is going on with the market . Session highs of 250 points. One of the biggest catalysts today was up a lot already with the latest home sales report that showed surging 60. 6 , that is the largest jump we have seen in 24 years. That is when i was two years old, maybe not. It is helping stocks a lot. Homebuilders are soaring. Maybe we got it wrong. With respect to the housing industry. Some people are going to say wait a minute, housing is doing well, people are more inclined to buy, Federal Reserve climbing and interest rates, wait a minute. Its more than a network and the cloud. Its reliable uptime. And multilayered security. Its how you stay connected to each other and to your customers. With centurylink you get advanced technology solutions, including an industry leading broadband network, and cloud and hosting services all with dedicated, responsive support. With centurylink as your trusted technology partner, youre free to focus on growing your business. Centurylink. Your link to whats next. Neil we are getting new data. Herbal life surging on reports in the New York Post the ftc settlement is imminent. It could involve a substantial penalty. We dont know what kind of penalty. They say will not change the business model, critics that it resembles a ponzi scheme. Stock is up on the notion they can get this entire matter behind it. We are waiting to get details. Of the settlement is imminent we will pass it along. No settlement in negotiated talks, there had been a back and forth about the price that has to go still higher as you notice in the case of bear being the acquirer and monsanto being the choir he. That stock is a long way from the 122 bucks bear is technically offering and in a long way from 140 a share that many say this deal could ultimately go. It is like i say not happening. Why is that . What is going on . Charles can i make one point out of herbal life . I spoke with someone close to the company, there is no preliminary deal in the offering. There is still an advanced stage of a potential deal, betting today this is happening, and charles the New York Post, our sister publication is completely wrong . Charles here is where it gets interesting. They may have the template of a deal on the table. Neil we just got a tweet from the New York Post, Charlie Gasparino charles no they dont. Neil you have your doubts. Charles they are a little ahead of themselves. Neil your column is one of the great ones. Charles people at the company tell me this. Neil you have been reduced to dora the explorer on nickelodeon. Update us on this. Charles a couple items i want to ring by you. There is still a negotiation between both sides. We should point out there were reports of monsanto rejecting the bid, the 122 share bid that bear put on the table for the company, 60 billion offer, allcash. This is more in the line of a soft rejection. Neil what does that mean . Charles looking for a sweetener saying we dont want that, we want more stuff and still behind closed doors. Later it might be a rejection and we will see what happens but right now apparently the doors are closed, they are still negotiating. During the scope of these negotiations which have gone on a couple weeks, baer has raised the specter of a potential hostile bid if there is a full on rejection. They raised it, they go there in the negotiating tactic, i cant tell you that notion of a hostile bid, this is not hostile, this is a constructive dialogue, it has been raised by bear. Neil you call it bear, charlie brady, our editorial genius says it is by her. I go with there is a mold. Charles i propped those children like there was no tomorrow. That is why he is the way he is. Neil have you heard Hillary Clinton going after donald trump, yesterday i believe. Trump economics is a recipe for lower wages, fewer jobs, more debt. He could bankrupt america like he has bankrupted his company. Ask yourself how can anybody lose money running a casino, really. Neil she went there. Charles i had dinner the other night with the democratic consultant and raised the specter how do you lose money with a casino so you can tell it will be a line of attack . It misrepresents donalds record as a businessman. He lost money, negotiated tough deals, came out okay, he built a fortune, whether you think he is worth 1 billion or 10 billion, people attacking his Business Record should read the art of the come back because he made a come back. There are a lot of things, the notion that he is a failure as a businessman is a dead end because he did not fail. He made a come back and did very well for himself and we are still talking about him for a reason. Neil you are right about that but it will be open season on this one. Charles this will be the dirtiest campaign. Polls show they are both very unfavorable ratings, people are disenchanted with both candidates. Neil the lesser of evils. Charles that is what polls are saying, not me. These emails on twitter neil even though you lost a fine column in the New York Post, highlights for children just called and said they would be happy to run your column. Neil what about the National Enquirer . Neil in a minute. In the meantime we have got Bernie Sanders all but guaranteeing this summers Democratic Convention could get messy. Just how messy . Neil i want to take you to los angeles, investigating what appears to be a bomb threat at the airport on the American Eagle plane from houston to lax. When it was first reported everyone is still on board the plane. We dont know whether it was first unwraps from houston to lax, we are watching it, they are watching it but everyone is still on board, we will keep you posted. Meanwhile keeping posted on what could be a convention to remember for democrats, what an odd juxtaposition for a party that was thought to have no such concerns looking increasingly likely that there will be some disruptions, Bernie Sanders has said as much. How to avoid a contested conventional resid too late . The National Reviews johnson on whether they can bury the hatchet and get something going . I dont think they will be able to avoid some sort of melee at the convention this summer. Bernie sanders continues to chin up his supporters and put them not only against Hillary Clinton but against the democratic establishment itself. Yesterday he endorsed Debbie Wasserman schultz the Democratic Committee chairwoman primary opponent and it is a sign he is not letting up even as Hillary Clinton is ignoring him and turning herself to the general election all of her messaging against donald trump acting like the primary doesnt exist. Bernie sanders still 100 in primary mode doing as much damage as he can to Hillary Clinton. Neil did she create this mess . As a challenger has gotten near Record Number of votes to the front runner and im beginning to wonder whether she or her people botched it when they could have cobbled together something . There is an argument that Hillary Clinton not only made them the same mistake that several of the republican candidates made with respect to donald trump but that she made last time which is not taking her opponent seriously. The republicans thought donald trump was a joke, Hillary Clinton felt that way about barack obama in 2008 and Bernie Sanders this time around so she didnt take him on ferociously and shut him down out of the gate. She thought doing so would raise his profile and give his candidacy a sense of seriousness and purpose that she didnt want it to have. Meanwhile the energy and momentum and excitement was on his side even if the inevitability was with her. Neil how does she win over those enthusiastic backers . You are right. If there is any enthusiasm or pickup in activity or just jazz going on with democrats it is supporters so how do you keep them happy . Some say you put him on the ticket. He is secured on a Platform Committee and she has to signal to sanders supporters that she has discarded the clinton of the 1990s and is a progressive. What she risks is losing some of these centrist voters that she could buy to pick up given the trump is the republican nominee so she is in a precarious position but she has to run to the left in order to pick up the sanders voters to the extent she can convince them that she is not an establishment sellout. Neil it is always possible cooler heads will prevail, Hillary Clinton was magnanimous late in the process, june 7th of the last go around eight years ago before she packed barack obama and pledged to all her delegates to him at the convention in denver. Do you envision anything like this on the part of Bernie Sanders or is the blood so bad that that is not going to happen . There is no indication of that happening on Bernie Sanderss part. As to his delegates that is an open question. Some of them have indicated to our reporters that they will back hillary in the end and it remains to be seen where they will fall. Ultimately a wont matter, Hillary Clinton will have the majority she needs to lock up the nomination but it will matter in terms of the spectacle of the convention and how much bad taste there will be and turmoil potentially over the summer and suffice it to say this will not be a celebration of her nomination. But really will be, she will have to do a lot of hard work to demonstrate that she actually can unite the party. Neil we shall watch closely, thank you very much. I want to take you back to los angeles, the bomb squad, on this flight coming from houston into lax after a bomb threat was apparently phoned in and singling out this plane on which this bomb was. Everyone is still on board that plane. Obviously they are taking this very carefully. It shut down that area of the airport. We will keep an eye out on it but i imagine it is a little tense. More after this. 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