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Reaction from the vavt and they have released a statement in response to your bill. it says we believe the specific whistleblower exposure and protection procedures provided by this bill would be unworkable. the decision also duplicate progras created to address claim also of improper retaliation in the workplace. what's your response to the va not supporting you on this. >> the va has fought us on every turn. if you go back to april when we exposed the wait time issue, it was whistleblowers who brought this forward. the undersecretary in a hearing on capitol hill said it was nothing more than...

It's our residencies that train doctors. >> did you realize that we have the largest nurse force in the nation? who's going to train the doctors and nurses if it's not the va? secondly research. we send $1.8 billion a year on research. we invented the nicotine patch, the first liver transplant. the first implantable pacemaker. it was a nurse that came up with the bar code to connect patients with charts and records. clinical work research teaching. and that makes a difference for our veterans. it also makes a difference for american medicine. >> there has been part of what's underlining the po...

Va, which means america needs the va. let me explain what i mean, did you realize that 70% of u.s. doctors are trained by the va? it's our residencies that train doctors. >> wow. >> did you realize that we have the largest nurse force in the nation? who's going to train the doctors and nurses if it's not the va? secondly, research. we send $1.8 billion a year on research. we invented the nicotine patch, the first liver transplant. the first implantable pacemaker. it was a va nurse that came up with the idea of using a bar code to connect patients with charts and records. the electronic medical...

Reprocessed properly and issues like this never happened between. >> we need to get jeff miller on the show. jeff from northwest florida who is the head of the veterans committee. if the va has cleaned it up that's fine but you got to make these people whole whose lives you destroyed. >> after an incident like this. some said initially they did the right thing by telling them about frontal boundary. but you can't turn them into legal adversaries. these men fought for their country and they said they feel abandoned. >> thank you so much. happy birthday, son. a special day for us and our family....

Congress today did a check-up of the troubled va system. you know, cnn first reported how veterans were waiting months and months and months to see a doctor. the new secretary of veterans affairs told us in a committee in the last two months that va has contacted 160,000 veterans to get them off those long waiting lists and conducted 543,000 referrals for vets to be seen by private doctors. and, he says, he is reforming the scheduling system. >> we're putting place a comprehensive external audit of scheduling practices across the entire vha system. we are building a more robust, continuing sys...