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Ranks with isis in syria has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. michael todd wolf now faces up to 15 years in prison. police nabbed him earlier this month. in a separate incident, also in texas, a second 23-year-old man is facing terror charges. he s accused of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and trying to recruit others to commit violence jihad. rahatto khan also faces 15 years in prison. a scathing new report shedding light on the growing v.a. scandal now. 77 facilities are under investigation this morning for delayed care. now, the report prepared by an obama administration aide, cites, quote, significant and chronic systemic failures at v.a. hospitals nationwide. and it goes on to say that a corrosive culture and weak leadership is what crippled the agency. also around fire, the 14-day scheduling standard for appointments, which the report ....
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Get these people the needs for them. and what we need is 150,000 physician physicians to address the needs of the american people, and including the v.a. and we will work on legislation to address a that as well. he called out the bill specifically, and support for it in the statement this morning before the homeless veterans group, but obviously, he is going into the president s office, and we have heard from the president sort of getting us an idea that he wants to know from shinseki, can you fix it? what do you think that conversation is going to be like ten minutes from now between president obama and eric shinse shinseki. well, chris, i don t want to speculate, but this is what i want to say, and make two points here. you may remember back in the year 2003 when the bush administration was rush iing th country to war and when don rumsfeld and the secretary of ....
Obama do now? well, president obama wants to be reassured that general shinseki can can fix this problem and he has laid out some of the first concrete steps that we have heard about how to fix it. no performance bonuses for the le leadership of the v.a., and he is going to stop giving performance bonuses based on how long the wait times are so that there is not an incentive to fudge the numbers and make it look like the wait times are shorter than they r and he wants to make it easier that he can fire the subordinates who are not doing their job, and congress needs to the pass that legislation. so the question is getting rid of him make it easier to get rid of the problems or if they do get rid of him, congress has to approve somebody new, and that is a tough battle. and the president is scheduled for the g-6 and then program for the 70th anniversary of d-day next week, and obviously, this is a president who has liked to take his time, and liked to be thoughtful, and has not moved ....
Interview, president obama said that it is going to be a difficult discussion about secretary shinseki s capacity to fix the problems at the veteran affairs, and one person tells me that he is on thin ice today and that is backdrop as the meeting is under way, chris. of course, we heard from secretary shinseki earlier today when he addressed a a group of veterans about veterans homelessness and a previously scheduled event we should point o out, and secretary the shinseki apologized for the widespread con duck at the v.a. and announced the changes including the fact that he has removed top staff at the phoenix v.a. where so much of the misconduct occurred and the fact that he is not going to be granting bonuses to the senior level staff members at the v.a., and now a couple of key points that he made earlier today, chris. one is that he was misled about exactly how widespread and systemic this misconduct is. he said that he, himself, wasn t ....