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Evening. if they have sessions playing both defense and offense and the president getting back to what he was elected to do, they may have a playbook. >> juan: get ready for sean spicer role model, dana perino. >> dana: i wanted to ask if you could talk about things that happened that the president didn't get a chance to talk about. one, the house passed the veterans affairs bill, which allows them to be able to fire people that are civil servants but we need to be fired so they can start those va reforms. in addition to that, the president met with g.o.p. senators, he talked the health care b...

Agent orange. the vietnam war era defoliant tied to a list of neurological disorders. they weren't matched by the va reforms needed to adequately address the new claims. agent orange alone took up 37% of the veterans benefits resources nationally from october 2010 to march of 2012. according to the gao. essentially, are what we're looking at is a bottleneck between a lot of vietnam veterans retiring and needing additional care because they're getting older, and veterans from the iraq and afghanistan war? >> it's both. soldiers have been griping since valley forge. this issue goes back quite a ...

But is that taking pressure off of the president. >> it takes it off regarding secretary shinseki but the va problems are still there. some members of the president's own party are pushing him to keep focused on va reforms. >> the president was losing his prestige and now he has a opportunity to release that because the buck stops with the president. >> reporter: some republicans want to hear from the president on what he will do to change the system. >> this is symbolance. and not substance. it was a walking of the mrafrng so that shinseki walks off. >> reporter: the president needs to put fo...