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Fired. get out, get out! >> harris: your reaction to that? >> we welcome the president to kansas city and we welcome the vfw members to kansas city. this is the first time they've been there in 11 years. and i was there yesterday visiting with those veterans. i will tell you that this administration has been working hard on behalf of veterans and part of that is the accountability that you just talked about. we have had experiences in which it is very difficult to get rid of bad employees within the department of veterans affairs and, the upper echelon of that va system. that's a good news. i ...

Soldier strong. he founded it and works on it every single day. and he is a hero to me and to many who are helped by his work. chris, great to see you this evening, thanks for being there. we were there to talk to the health science and technology committee about this cutting edge technology, and how it can be integrated into how we continue to serve our veterans. and you feel that the way that we work on technology for the battlefield has to be extended across that bridge until after they come home. >> absolutely. a lot of the devices that fund are originally funded through darpa, which is th...

More expensive than the meal in many ways. >> kimberly: no. >> greg: very hard to open. >> peter: los angeles, there is a big homeless that's a problem, in los angeles. the va and brentwood in l.a., providing ten parking spots overnight for homeless vets to park their car and have somewhere to sleep. there are 400 acres of property at the facility. it took ten years to get ten parking spots so homeless vets who have run into hard times have somewhere to sleep at night. it's an example of how the inhumane va system treats people, not like humans. in this case they finally got it right a little ...

There are over 1,000 facilities across this country. and yeah, it is a big job. there are a lot of mayors of mid-sized cities with fewer constituents than the va does employees and there is a lot going on and debate over privatization. and veterans, look, we are, you know, in chorus opposing those efforts to see our va health care system privatized. what we want to see, though, is a va system that's strong, fully funded, that's fully staffed and that is equipped through infrastructure investment to make sure that we all have access to the health care we earned. >> the republicans taken aback b...

Privatization, they were obviously in conflict. i think the president has a mandate, based on what you did during the election, to actually push for this. just asking to make sure that our veterans are taking care of, being able to get to a doctor that they need is one of those things because the current system is not working. >> sandra: want, he seemed to hint in that speech he gave in ohio as to why he decided to let shulkin go. he said "i wasn't happy with the speed with which our veterans were taken care of." >> i don't understand that statement. if you look veterans, they are generally pl...