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Be relevant at moving something that is after all headquartered in washington this. >> it's helpful that he comes from the outside, he's got fresh eyes. it's going to feel like driving a ferrari compared to the va. the va is a very difficult bureaucracy, it's very difficult to fire people, there are questions about transparency. now an ongoing fbi investigation so people will likely go to jail. understand congress has got to help, the president has got to help, the department of defense is involved here too. if they don't get those changes through, superman can't run the va effectively. this i...

Me a willing partner. i've been consistent in saying that i am prepared to work with them even on a bill that i don't consider perfect. and the senate bill was a good example of the capacity to compromise and get this done. the only thing i can't do is stand by and do nothing while waiting for them to get their act together. >> in terms of the specifics president obama today said that attorney general eric holder and homeland security secretary jeh johnson will be tasked with giving the president a list of things that he can legally do, himself, to try to fix the immigration system. again, act...

Chooses to do nothing. and in this situation, the failure of house republicans to pass a darn bill is bad for our security, it's bad for our economy, and it's bad for our future. so, while i will continue to push house republicans to drop the excuses and act, and i hope their constituents will, too, america cannot wait forever for them to act. and that's why today i'm beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as i can on my own without congress. >> the president making a surprise announcement. this is a speech they did not announce in advance before today, a speech in whi...

Stunt, if that was intended to scare the president or intimidate the white house into them not doing much anymore, to doing less with the executive branch, the president's response to that little shove from house republicans last week was to shove back and shove back harder. >> i've told speaker boehner that even as i take those steps that i can, within my existing legal authorities, to make the immigration system work better, i'm going to continue to reach out to house republicans in the hope that they deliver a more permanent solution with a comprehensive bill. maybe it will be after the mid...

Right now nobody has that ability including anybody in congress. >> the va bill is stalled too. we've got to get that through and keep everybody's eye on the ball as we now send more people into iraq. we've got to take care of the folks we sent over there the first time. >> that's right. they went into that conference committee on the va the bill, then poof. >> absolutely. >> founder and executive director of iava, thanks. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> we'll be right back. nineteen years ago, we thought, "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of...