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Things and chaos is in the air. joining us from washington fox news analyst charles krauthammer. up top of the program bob woodward said is he in a bubble that's why these mistakes are being made. i think there is more to it than that. do you? >> no. this is not a management problem. this is a problem that is i object -- intrinsic with hostage swaps. ronald reagan who ran a very good administration, very efficient administration, extremely successful administration slipped and fell and was humiliated over hostage swaps. come out on the wrong view. i the view i have of this is rather different ...

Them, bobby k send in the marine, former senator jim webb, he will kick some butt and take a few names and move it toward getting fixed. >> here's the thing. this problem is not just a management problem. it is a system problem, which is we're having more veterans come out of afghanistan and iraq, go into the v.a. system with less money to take care of them. >> and more serious problems. >> totally. the ptsd. it's brain injuries. the whole thing. so you could put vince lombardi in part of this place it cannot be made to run better many we need to change the system. private ties it like we talk...

I think somebody suggested it on twitter, i think it's a great idea. a guy like mitt romney. have romney go in for the fight of his life, save the v.a. get somebody like that outside that knows how to run things. i guarantee you get a guy like colin powell or romney in there or find a democratic business leader and about three or four days in they're going to go, you do what? wait. what do you do? they'll -- >> it's principally right now a management problem. it's the management of the v.a. the care once you get to a veterans hospital is remarkably good. many veterans will tell you that. but i...

Care, but some of the problems have existed for years. a v.a. report from 2005 found scheduling procedures were not followed. facilities understated reported waiting times and schedulers received incorrect guidance from supervisors. do you think republican colleagues were critical of president bush at that time? >> i don't believe so. there was also some kind of very discouraging reports that showed that even the equipment, the medical equipment that's used for procedures that can be reused wasn't properly sterilized. even when that was brought up, they found that 40% of the time, they had not...

A management problem. not shin seki's problem, shinseki needs to fire people. they don't give a -- it's been going on a long time. not democratic or republican problem. the republicans didn't do anything except try to cut the va when they were running the place. i have little patience for the politics. i do dare what happens few the veterans. >> congressman, weigh in. >> ari, the governor is right. you have senator pat toomey, co-sponsor of the veterans jobs bill. when it came up for the vote. voted against the same bill that he coal sponsored. because the it was politics. that's why the ameri...