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Determine the troop level after 2014. this will be a central part of that conversation. once the briefing finishes, we got a bit of video, president will head to that concert which you just had a little bit of video of brad paisley performing for 32,000 american troop who is are serving in afghanistan. president obama will join that in progress and i m told he will make remarks. i don t anticipate those remarks will be heavily weighted in the policy arena. i think president obama will focus on thanking the troops for their service as we approach this memorial day. that s the tenure we re expecting, the tone of the president s remarks. then he will head to a hospital where he will visit with wounded and hand out medals of honor there. that s part of the tick tock of the president s day. he ll leave before the end of ....
To decide what the troop levels will be in afghanistan after 2014. it also comes as this administration is dealing with the mounting va scandal, which of course, the reports as many as 40 veterans may have died in phoenix while waiting for care and there may have been other types of similar instances of mistreating veterans across the country. that s what the obama administration is dealing with as president obama makes this surprise visit to afghanistan. i m told that rob nabors just got back. he s launching his own review into what went wrong with the va facilities across the country and the president is expecting that report by the end of the month. president obama thanking the troops in afghanistan on this memorial day. are there any plans to visit ....
Protecting the president s safety. the center peace of this visit is going to be rally with 32,000 americans who are currently serving in afghanistan and country music singer brad paisley who traveled on air force one with president obama will perform at that event. this comes with mounting scandal of the va here at home. he dispatched one of his to be advisors to the va hospital in arizona where it s reported as many as 40 veterans may have died while waiting for care there. rob spent the day there talking to facilities trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong and how it can be prevented moving forward. that s the backdrop as president obama marks this memorial day. one more point is that he is ....
Joining me now is shawn barney, retired marine who was injured eight years ago. the president came to a surprise visit to afghanistan. what do you think that means to the troops over there? it s very important thing he s doing and the right thing. you want to know the people at home are thinking about you. they know what you re doing. they know what you re going through and they haven t forgotten about you. that s exactly what he s doing. you didn t follow the path to military. you went to yale, harvard. what inspired you to join the military? when 9/11 occurred i was 26 years old. i was an advisor to one of our senators in delaware. i loved my job and felt like i was the luckiest guy in the world to have that job. when you see a turtle sitting on a fence post, you know it didn t ....
The american public and during the second world war we had more than 20 million veterans. the whole system of taking care of veterans resonated before every household had participated. it s a very small number of american who is are serving and at the time we re drawing down. kid sometimes may feel they are being forgotten. eventually almost nobody there in afghanistan but the whole idea about keeping faith with our soldiers, they re not going to forget them once they will have left the service of this country and require assistance. that s got to be taken seriously and we have to do a much better job of taking care of our people ....