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Today law enforcement officers from around the country will honor a police detective killed in the line of duty. jorge del rio was shot during a federal drug raid in dayton, ohio last week. he died from his injuries days later. a public memorial will be held at the university of dayton arena today. ahead of a funeral service tomorrow. detective del rio leaves behind a wife, five daughters, and several grand children. 2020 hopeful bernie sanders and pete buttigieg releasing their veterans' plans overnight. the vermont senator's proposal includes hiring nearly 50,000 doctors and nurses along wit...

Speaking with nbc. he came out and talked to our producer. because he says he was disturbed about the treatment of ronny jackson, right in the president's doctor, the white house physician formerly who was picked to be the va head. way going to ask you about jackson and where that stands in this new investigation the pentagon is opening. but there's some breaking news i understand coming from you guys in our unit related to the next step forward in the search to lead the va, to replace jackson. fill me in. >> reporter: it was supposed to be dr. ronny jackson. the president wanted his personal ...

He's thinking about a tv presence for the va head, there's going to be probably televised confirmation hearings on the hill and there's going to be a lot of people, i imagine some republicans, too, who are going to want to nail him. he's going to have to be, you know, on a game he may or may not be capable of playing. those could be quite ugly. and i assume will be pretty closely watched. >> all right. rick, you're leechlg us. thank you for starting us off. are you staying or going? no one tells me anything around here. when we come back, even the lawyers have lawyers and tv s i surrogates t...

It has been a system that has decades of really dis repair, and we have a lot of work to do. of course, as you know, the president feels very strongly that we have to get this right for veterans, and so we're acting in a way that really makes sure that we're doing things as quickly as we can. >> neil: it is different, i know, prior to becoming the va head, you were the undersecretary of health there appointed by barack obama. there was only so much you could do. you credited your predecessor for doing as much as he could, but you've uprooted the system, things like protecting whistleblowers to...

Was bemoaning the fact they spent $8 million on care outside of their facility. they should have said we provided $8 million of care to veterans it wasn't a hit to their budget. >> congressman, i'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but here's frontal boundary. the inability of leaders there to fire people. and i'm not up for firing people, firing incompetent people or people who make our veterans wait. if a new va head comes in and a lot of people are not signing up for this job because they won't have the power to do anything, why is it we can't enact now to expedite this or something that wo...