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Young age to get out of going, but he didn't. he deployed to korea with the 45th infantry division in 1951. despite his age, bill was made a squad leader and promoted to staff sergeant. he served nine months in combat before returning home and going back to high school for his senior year and then he used the g.i. bill to go to college and he's had a very good life ever since. he's been a patient at va facilities in two states. he's bought two houses using va home loans, and he lives in one of them now with linda, his wife of 52 years. congratulations to both of you. [applaus [applause] >> fin...

And ports and airports and va facilities. there should be no question about it. we know we need to lift the debt ceiling, the full faith and credit of the united states is at stake. we know we need a budget without holding it hostage. >> do you need the president for all those things? can't congress do those and box him in in the way you did with russian sanctions? >> i think we can create a compelling narrative and momentum that really enables the president to do the right thing and maybe even take some credit for it. >> interesting diabolical plan, senator. thank you for sharing it with us a...

Perfect. thank you very much, great technology, great to meet you. thank you. [applause] we're going to west virginia tonight, we're going to have a great big announcement which will be very exciting. we have a very big announcement tonight. i believe i'll make it an west virginia outcome is that would be an exciting. thank you very much. >> molly: we're just losing to the president of the united states, donald trump as well as va secretary dave mitchell can they say anywhere to anywhere va health care, this is about telehealth and the big effort reaching out to rural veterans who may not find...

This will expand access to care for our veterans, especially for those who need help in the area of mental health, which is a bigger and bigger request. and also in suicide prevention. it will make a tremendous difference for the veterans and rural locations in particular. we are launching the mobile app that will allow va patients to schedule and change their appointments at va facilities using their smartphones, this is something they were never able to do, technology has given us this advantage, but unfortunately we have not taken advantage of that until now. we are working tirelessly to ke...

Improve the veterans choice program, we are starting to really get that to a point where choices just becoming something that they are extremely happy about and they wanted it for many, many years. we are working to enable seamless care between the departments of defense and veteran affairs. we have launched a groundbreaking new website that allows veterans to compare wait times and quality of care at va facilities and other hospitals, so we are actually able to compete our facilities with other hospitals and other va facilities, so it will strike a little competitive advantage and get people ...