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Eight, ten years ago. >> let's talk about that. that story seems to be driven by the front pages, not her enemies but by reporters on a story that they're biting onto. they're not leaving go of. >> this is something to come back to the earlier point. she is -- hillary is operating on a very small staff right now. that's why you see headlines today about her staffing up further on the press operations. this is something that had she had that in place, there are a lot of democrats who feel like she could have handled this more quickly, more gracefully, and overall better. >> you think it's a sta...

Whether it's issues with police, whether it's immigration, whatever the issue is most of the work isn't going to be done by the president or even by the actual members of congress, and so one of the things that the administration has been doing lately is they've made a couple of moves in their personnel department basically to try to bring on an old legislative hand into the white house a guy named martin paoni to try to work on those relationships because i think that's maybe more important in the next two years than even the president himself. >> immediately after the midterm there was a hit...

Washington sitting this saying, we just want the v.a. to be what it is and if we just spend more and hire more doctors, that's what we've been saying for decades. it's not a funding problem or staffing problem. it's a culture problem. folks are not held accountable when they fail. there is no transparency. >> hegseth will testify tomorrow on that v.a. mess. and then john kerry caught napping. remarks by poland's president apparently putting the secretary of state to sleep. look at this. this is during a news conference yesterday with president obama. he caught flak for it and he later tweete...

Write filled out a form to reveal his top se secret clearance. what shocked him was the investigator spent the most basic questions. >> is your wife really julie? did you go to school at augustana college, did you live at this address? they read the form, i simply said it was true. >> reporter: he says with the personal information available online, a computer could do the same back ground check for $100. >> instead, we are spending $4,000 to have people conduct rather -- conduct investigations that aren't revealing anything. >> it's amazing when you hear that. like i said, in the category of ...

Standard government form to renew his top-secret clearance. what shocked him was the investigator spent hours asking the most basic questions. >> is your wife really julie? did you really go to school at august college? did you really live at this address? they simply read the form to me, and i simply said it was true. >> reporter: hamre says with the personal information available online a computer could do the same background check for $100. >> and, instead, we're spending $4,000 to have people conduct rather -- conduct investigations that aren't revealing anything. >> it's amazing when you ...