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Omnibus. everybody was going for their pork. the last big deal before the midterms. we get it. you guys had a deal they were banging out about really needing reforms for the v.a. it didn't make the cut in the omnibus bill. maybe if you have someone who thinks is his guy, maybe you don't get cut out. >> that shouldn't be a driver. that is a problem for the president, not the secretary. the president watches cnn. he has to get on cnn and appeal to the president, that's what they should do here. this is not easy. this will be a very complicated thing. can't wave a magic wand and fix v.a. they say...

Critically important. >> this is going to be a very complicated thing. can't just wave a magic wand and fix va. it's where politician's big ideas generally go to die. >> a major backdrop to all of this is a bitter battle over privatization. the idea that our nation's veterans would be better served by the private sector. trump himself has pushed for more choice and suggested privatizing at least some aspects of va care. but a lot of veterans groups fear it would be ineffective and expensive and for months shulkin fought against it. in a "new york times" op-ed released after he was fired, shulk...

Kill it. and now there's renewed talk on capitol hill of a deal to resale and replace obamacare. how do you make sense of all of this? if you're a trump republican this stuff might look pretty darn good. i think we miss that sometimes. it might look even better if you were starting to worry that president trump was shape shifting into a mental of the washington establishment. remember we were talking about flip-flo flip-flops, his promotion of steve bannon and jared kushner? but promotion isn't necessariory movement. that order he is signing at the v.a.? he isn't the first to try to fix v.a. a...

That happened in april of 2014, the wait time crisis. congress stepped up with a plan called the choice program. they designed it very well intentioned plan saying you either need to live 40 miles away from a v.a. or have a wait time of 30 days. and what i have been said to congress and i have been very clear if i were designing a system it wouldn't be based on 340 miles, 30 days. we need to design a system in a better way. that's what we're committed to doing. changing the system more supportive to veterans. abby: a lot of family members. not just our military but people who love them so much...

Totally out of control. chicago needs help. abby: just two weeks on the job new v.a. secretary dr. david shulkin is tasked with cleaning up one of the country's biggest bureaucracies. steve: hundreds of you emailed us with your questions for pete to ask the secretary and you asked a bunch of them. pete: hundreds of questions is an understatement. this is a small fraction of what we got just asking one time a vast military families of veterans what are your questions to ask him. abby: shows they care. >> pete: we took a good number of them and gave them to the v.a. secretary and here it is. the...