Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140522:08:17:00
Additional from congress, and that was weird, because there were starting to be local and then national news reports about v.a. facilities having to freeze hiring, having to delay purchases, because they were running out of money. but in washington, they insisted, the v.a. had everything they needed. they didn't need anything extra. right up until the moment that the congress actually had to appropriate $1.5 billion in emergency, supplemental funds to shore up a v.a. that actually really was falling apart and totally underfund, even though they were saying overtly that everything was fine. bef...