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Defense bill. ma'am, when you were speaker of the house, you made historic investments with veterans affairs. almost doubling their budget over those years. and you continue to do. that we're here memorial day weekend. why was that so important to you? >> it was so important because when we -- even before we had the majority we plant aid flag for our -- planted a flag for our veterans. we all have veterans in our family. my brothers my uncle died at the battle of bulge. that was part of the pride of our family. we owe veterans so much. we listened to veterans and said tell us your priorities, ...

The private sector. and the v.a., i think the depth of this scandal, the lesson of this scandal is just that. if you want to know where we're headed as a country with health care, take a look at the v.a., because this is the course that has been charted if we don't change it. >> jennifer griffin was telling us yesterday, this was on the books. it could have been implemented any time. as officer luttrell said to us last week, if you just handed us a card when we got out and say this is what you use, you can go wherever you want to go especially if you're in a rural area, not near a v.a. facilit...

Offering, i'm literally shaking right now. >> who put the teleprompter in the house? >> those are elisabeth's kids. your husband was running the camera. >> you know what? he was acting really strange yesterday and a little stressed out. tim, i love you. thanks. good job being steve doocy and brian kilmeade. >> how about you in the wig? >> knock it out of the park, honey. >> you have a wig in your house? >> yes. doesn't everybody? >> go and host for another hour. >> the federal trade commission and the n.s.a. already knew that. thank you, guys. that was a surprise. i love you. >> that's why we'...

To go, well, the v.a. is listening to people. jeff miller himself is going to run the committee hearing tonight at 7:30. he has suggested unless you do something, i'm going to come up with a bill to do this. as it turns out, the v.a. has been able to do this since the clinton administration in 1999. then there was another bill in 2008. so they could have done this all along. but because there is going to be this big hearing on capitol hill, the v.a. had to do something, and so they did this, essentially put a band-aid on it by saying you have the private option. they had it all along. rush lim...

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