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Start over. and now the president-elect is also talking about why a private option is appealing to him. >> i don't want to see veterans waiting in lines for weeks. and you know in many cases they have a minor illness and it takes so long to see a doctor it turns out to be a major illness and i don't want to see that. >>. >> reporter: we don't have many details yet and it is a shift that some major veteran groups signaled they will not like. but it fits with the final promise of a 10-point plan laying out the president-elect's position. number ten, quote, ensure every veteran has the choice to ...

Is bipartisan support for that. that may be somewhere -- it is pretty undecided what that would look like. they may be able to go back on that. in terms of big picture items for -- big picture for paul ryan, his confident america speech is where his -- where he wants the republican party to go. i think hopefully that hands off to a presidential nominee that can carry it forward. it is big, bold change. it is big ideas again. we have to get back to big ideas. if that means some legislation has to sit for a while, so be it. he's trying to set out an agenda that the american people can actually -...

>> the vets have the longest wait in the history of the veterans administration. you go in and see a doctor, you wait for days. it's not going to happen. >> we need to care for our veterans. bill: just two of the comments from the trail. truck and carly fiorina vowing to reform the va. you heard the claim, 307,000 vets, is that true? >> that's not true. yesterday "the washington post" did a truth test on that claim and found that the claim was erroneous and gave the claim 2 to 3 pinocchios, meaning it

You have been on the job a little more than a year. john boehner sent this out yesterday. with the va it's always worse than we expect. another tweet, the va's long wait lines are taking too long to fix. a lot of this is based on the internal inspector general's report from within the veterans administration. wait times in some places are not better. why not? >> some wait times have expand because more veterans are coming into care. as we expanded the hours, the number of providers, the facility, we have more veterans deciding to come to the va for care. i think that's good news. we have to wo...

Veto it. >> but the va's not doing that. secretly, the va's trying to defeat this stuff. that is where the bureaucracy is so powerful and tries to squelch reforms. the va, the unions, the white house, it's put up or shutup time over this recess, we're going to fight and get a vote in september. >> with 16 democrats in the house, they have to speak up, too. so we have to stand up and have illustrations. pete hegseth thanks so much. ten minutes before the bottom of the hour. got a routine test drive turning into a terrifying ride of his life. a car salesman was kidnapped by a customer who actu...