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John mccain was there, former speaker gingrich was there, the point of this summit by concerned veterans for america, was to celebrate the release of that group's big report on fixing the va and their big proposed fix for the va was to privatize it. concerned veterans for america, wants to privatize much of the va system for health care. i should tell you that concerned veterans for america, is not some scrappy grassroots group. it's reportedly funded just about entirely by the billionaire libertarian brothers charles and david coke. the koch donor network almost literally created that group, ...

In the va system that things are improving and they should get in and register with the va? >> i saw your segment with tammy. i'm glad the clay hunt act passed. but it really only addresses those veterans that are already in the va. as you said 22 veterans take their live every day, and 17 of them have never sought va care because they don't know about it. while i was at va we created an expensive, taxpayer-funded ad campaign with theed a ed aed a ed aed a ed aed a ed aed a -- the ad council that cost $4 million. it hasn't been run yet. it's time to run it and bring more veterans in. >> how ab...

To ground zero and the unit broke wide open last year and president obama is headlining and the president arrived just a short time ago for a meeting with the va secretary as well as the patients and staff there in arizona. the big question is obviously has patient care approved and weight time reduced? are veterans getting the help that they need and deserve? drew broke the story and he is joining me now. drew what do you anticipate -- you report and have the wrongs been righted? >> well they're trying brook. the va has distributed numbers saying that they have improved the wait time and staf...

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...

They expect our veterans to lead and defend this country 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. how about have congress do the same thing? how about have the president do the saming? whatever it takes in a timely mapper, to get the legislative fix, or the executive orders in place temporarily to do that, let get them together and make that happen for our veterans. we deserve better. >> yes, sir, but commander, is it a question of just money? here we have the government trying to provide massive number of people with health care, not doing a very good job. isn't that the nature of the problem? not mo...