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about her radical past is invited to speak at a ucla graduation. appropriate? we will debate it caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ the president fires the v.a. chief. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. today president obama finally admitting that the department of veterans affairs is pretty much out of control so he fired general eric shinseki. >> this morning i think some of youlights heard rick take a truly remarkable action in public remarks he took responsibility for the conduct of those facilities, and a...

shinseki offered me his resignation. i accepted it. he has worked hard to identify the problems with access to care, but as he told me had morning, the v.a. needs new leadership to address them. he does not want to be a distraction because his priority is to fix the problem and make sure our vets are getting the care they need. >> speculation on thursday had been that his time was running short. at that day's briefing, jay carney deflected questions about whether he still had the president's support. one day earlier than that on wednesday, preliminary report from the v.a.'s watchdog ...

innocent. andrew shouldn't be here and he will get out of this mess he is in. probably a couple of weeks later. fox news correspondent william la jeunesse is outside the tijuana courthouse. he joins us live from the u.s./mexico border. william, what happened today? >> it was fascinating. something we definitely did not expect. but it definitely changing attorneys in midstream, greta is, probably going to prolong sergeant tahmooressi's stay inside a mexican prison. his mother jill told me a few hours ago that he needed an attorney he could trust, that was not the case here. he did, in...

significant admission by the state department. i'm kind of surprised they acknowledged it publicly. i think it now moves this case to an entirely different and much more appropriate level basic function of the state department is to protect americans overseas. forget international agreements that get you nobel peace prizes. a foreign ministry has to protect its citizens. and now, i think the state department has an obligation to say do they believe that tahmooressi is being held unjustly? illegally? unfairly? because, if so, then there is a special obligation on state to do something...

significant admission by the state department. i'm kind of surprised they acknowledged it publicly. i think it now moves this case to an entirely different and much more appropriate level basic function of the state department is to protect americans overseas. forget international agreements that get you nobel peace prizes. a foreign ministry has to protect its citizens. and now, i think the state department has an obligation to say do they believe that tahmooressi is being held unjustly? illegally? unfairly? because, if so, then there is a special obligation on state to do something...