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Of the members was on our show yesterday, or two days ago, general casey, who also supports eric shinseki and says he's -- if there is one person that can lead us out of this mess, it is him, he's a decorated war hero. however, if he's been there through all of this, we saw that report back in december. we knew some of these problems existed for many, many years, and seems like nothing had been done. up until this weekend, privatizing, taking some of those people who are on the roll, turning them over to private health care and private hospitals, that was a move we saw this weekend finally fro...

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The president awaiting a report from v.a. secretary eric shinseki this week on how widespread the problem is. he's trying to keep shinseki on the job though a number of republicans and even some democrats are demanding the secretary step down. the administration says it will allow some vets to get care at private hospitals in an effort to ease the pressure on the v.a.'s system which added 2 million vets over the past decade. derek bennett says that's a no-brainer. >> i think it's going to be extremely helpful, but it's also a step that could have been put in place years ago. the idea of a publ...

the troops and express his gratitude. this is his fourth visit here since taking office. folks have gotten pretty good at sneaking him out of the white house, something they did shortly before midnight last night with something they say didn't really look like a presidential motorcade. mr. obama will not meet with outgoing afghan president hamid karzai who has backed out of an agreement to keep a limited number of u.s. servicemen and women in afghanistan after the end of the year as trainers and for counterterrorism missions. the folks here say that's important to keep the taliban fr...

Than policy. >> also late on a friday afternoon and ahead of a long ahead weekend, day that washington likes to make surprise announcemented that won't draw interest. >> i don't think there's a chance in the world. the president is on the record assaying he wantses to see these reports. one could argue why does he need to see the reports because there have been seven from the inspector general and gao, showing problems with long wait times and cooked books, deception, in what was being presented as far as wait times. the president says he wants to see the new studies. i don't think you'll see ...