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Issue a command or not? john mccain, whom obama beat back in 2008, has called for general shinseki's removal. late today, democratic senators began calling for shinseki's head, as well. tonight, the question hovers over the capital, will the president act on what everyone of both political parties believe is a genuine scandal? chuck todd, nbc news chief white house correspondent and david bennett. gentlemen, first with you, chuck, the politics of this thing, time is everything in politics, timing is. the president made clear a week ago when he set this mouse trap he'd wait until the i.g. repor...

I don't know whether it garners a majority and whether there's a huge focus on this by congress. this is something that they feel compelled to act on, how hard does the president push? in a way it's like any other legislation, how hard does he push and does he need to twist arms and do the party leaders get behind it or not? he just announced it so i'm not sure we're entirely sure how the math plays out. >> this is something he did deliberately on european soil to try to aswaj the european concerns, some of the leaders that the nsa had been eavesdropping on. >> huge criticism from angela merke...

Through and being approved? >> there is a burn of bills and boehner listed a bunch of them. the house passed them and now waiting for the senate. job training, who could be against that? it is a reform of all of our job programs. it should get a vote in the senate. it is ridiculous we have bills stacked up that the senate refused to act on. that one would be easiest for harry reid and the senate to move o. >> had it been a success we probably would not have talked about it today. from the washington post. nbill, where have the tax dollars gone in the past five years. jerry willis is on the fox...

Local campaigns and not nationalize it with this president. jon: i have 30 seconds left but ed, give me 15 seconds what you think he should say that would, you know, unite the country, get the congress on his side and move things forward. >> obviously that's a very difficult task. we're not even touching on the foreign policy disasters but i think the reality is he has to basically say, i'm going to do something bipartisan. whether it, i don't think he can do tax reform now but he could have a year ago if he would have given up some premiseses. bottom line, republicans democrats came together ...

Have to strike a deal as soon as mid-february to raise the debt ceiling. then there's the question of whether tax reform can go anywhere. the budget deal done, it's hard to imagine that it would but you never know. the senate puts its final stamp of approval on the budget, it means we are officially done with any real budget negotiations probably until the next president takes office. tax reform is the only budgetary item that even has a chance of being tackled by this president. it's unclear that there is any serious will to get it done. let's be realistic. though we may hear a lot about tax ...