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Still problems persist. in indiana a manager teva hospital was placed on paid leave after sending an e-mail seemingly mocking mental illness. she later apologized. in wisconsin another va hospital dubbed candyland for a search and prescription pain killers under investigation after a veteran marine died of an overdose. indicative say veteran advocates of a culture in need of change. to that end the president announced today his va advisory committee, my va. they will meet several times a year beginning next month in hopes of improving veteran service. also today the president meeting with a fa...

Thunder weekend. this particular past weekend memorial day, all you saw was that sea of chrome in the pentagon and he really did want to take a lap around that, and we did that. >> anyone ask to fly? >> no. >> the book is great "inside marine one: for u.s. presidents, one proud marine and the world's most amazing helicopter." colonel ray l' heureux, thank you. >> straight ahead, read your way out -- >> incredible video of a baby being rescued after being kidnapped from a hospital. how amazing is this? the baby's family tracks down the kidnapper right to her front door. >> president obama set t...

Years, the v.a. supplied him massive amounts of drugs. he became a danger to himself, yet they refused to listen. they just added more meds. they're basically dealers and make vets into addicts because they give them more drugs than they could ever get on their own. my brother's medical records can prove that he's gone and we can't get him back. so today i'm going to do right after this, we're going to get on the train with the producer and going down to the house of representatives. we're meeting with the democratic and the republican ranking members of the veterans affairs committee and we'r...

>> b for birthday. >> way to go, elisabeth. you're the birthday girl and you got it correct. go with birthday when in doubt, or brian. >> by the way, the moon actually spin on its orbit at the same rate, 27 days. so that's really why all we -- always see the same size of the moon. you don't see the other half. >> there you go. now you know. >> wow. i would love to say i knew all that ahead of time. >> i'm going to go right from here to the hayden planetarium. i'm going to get an update. >> thanks for that birthday trivia, maria molina. we'll see you soon. coming up, problems at the v.a. hosp...

This announcement the day before this big panel, this house panel is going to be meeting and asking the v.a. uncomfortable questions. they announced, okay, we're listening. you have the private option. you know what? people have had the private option since 1999, if you were able to qualify for it. also in 2008 with george bush, they had a similar program as well. so this is nothing new. this is simply a band-aid to try to gloss over the fact that they're doing something. nothing has changed. is it too little too late? is it an admission that the government can't handle health care on a broad ...