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Tweet, he said in a tweet that h.r. mcmaster would be through. >> thank you, kim dozier, who i should mention is executive editor of the cipher brief. and she alleged to stay quiet when she was holding her infant daughter. trump signals he's about to fire v. a. secretary dave shul kin. so who will take his place? we'll be back in a minute.
Out, so that doesn't mean much. >> every day, every week with this white house in terms of personal matters is like a game of russian roulette. you never know who is going to stay or who is going to go. the president is the man with the red pen and he can make all the decisions. he can change his mind. sometimes a firing will come out of the blue, like former fbi director james comey. you never know where the president will go. in the vase of the v.a., he's been upset with this situation for a while. he's wanted a replacement. this is not a glamorous job. this is a massive bureaucracy with abo...
Outside of the v.a. if you are 40 miles away from a v.a. facility, you can go to a private doctor. importantly, what we also did is put $500 million in to the hiring of new doctors and nurses and other personnel. at the end of the day, it's my view that in many parts of the country the v.a. hospitals and clinics are simply understaffed. they don't have the capability to provide care in a timely manner. we address that. we in this bill provide funding for 26 new major medical facilities around the country, which have been held on the shelf for a number of years. we are going to get out and buil...
Leadership with the veterans affairs committee. i respect the fact that bernie sanders is known as a fighter and it has been a pleasure to do combat with him. >> apparently the reason for the delay, we thought we were going to see senator sanders drop his big bill to fix the v.a. today, the reason for the delay was apparently good news. apparently behind the scenes senator sanders was working out some sort of compromised deal with republican senator john mccain and because they were with able to come to agreement it won't just bp senator sanders bringing up the bill and republicans going again...
A feather but tell me about how satisfied you are with the deal that you and senator mccain struck today both sub stantly and if you think this means you can move ahead. >> with senator mccain on board with a number of republicans on board, i think we stand chance of getting something significant passed. to be honest with you, this bill does not go anywhere near as far as i'd like to go in addressing the serious problems within the veterans community and within the v.a. but it does a lot of very good things. i think, as you know, rachel, the issue we are mostly concerned about now are the wait...