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Come up with a solution, not just use our political troops as a stunt. and focus on trying to help them out. >> i want to ask you about this story i asked senator gillibrand about, about this g.i. benefit screw up. ongoing issues at v.a., this is to be kind of a train wreck, that's what phil roe said, committee of veterans affairs, you have folks who cannot make their house payments or rental payments because of this. how is this -- how is this happening? >> look, as a recipient of the g.i. bill, this actually also happened to me as a younger man. and once in a while i just did not get my paym...

Yesterday and again today. we don't agree politically, but she is one of my favorite people. joey kennedy came and spoke to me last night. i have incredible respect for joey. there is not a hardworking person in congress. but look at what happened last week. here is a former prosecutor, hardworking, and the focus was on whether or not he had more chapstick than he should have had, and i just -- that is the environment that we are in now. i can change it. not going to do any good for me to sit around and criticize it. there are good people in public service, but too often -- i'll tell you what ...

Scene of the accident. i came upon it. and it looked like dr. dr. michael was with the first patient along with dr. brad win strum. dr. burgess had airway. was working on that. dr. wind strum was checking for other injuries. i went beside him and there was another victim laying there. and dr. phil roe, my mentor was there trying to get an airway on that person. so i went and helped dr. roe. we could not get a pulse on this person. could not get a good airway on him. looked pretty bad. we tried cpr. we tried shocking him and just never, never could get him back i'm afraid. >> harris: oh, congre...

Froze in place. nobody knew whether this was something that could be coordinated or just an accident that happened. we were all conscious, obviously, of safety matters. it does not appear that there is anything other than the talk. >> sandra: have medical professionals boarded the train to come check on injuries? >> yes, they have. yes, they have. and we have what i would call e.m.s., firefighter type personnel and we have house physicians. there are two or three of them on board. and we have physicians who are members of congress, dr. larry bushon as dr. paul would know is an outstanding phys...

Congressional institute offered some additional update on the medical condition of the folks on the train. she was told one member and one staffer are being examined on the train. one member was taken to the hospital. which member that was on minor aid offered to others. she did also confirm what we've been hearing from folks on the scene. this coming from the spokesperson, the organization that puts on this event. still scheduled to begin some time today we think, andrea. >> as bradley byrne was telling us there were a number of doctors on the train and others who are lawmakers and doctors as...