as many of today's hitters, eric, refused to yield to it as well. >> eric: you'll get very few that the defense will overshift and they will play what they call the triangle over on the right side of the field with second baseman playing almost like a recovery like in right field. i did watch anthony rizzo the solid first baseman for the cubs drop down a bunt. he beat the shift. again, if you don't want teams playing a shift against you that is what you're going to eventually have to do. >> matt: a big swingirÍ miss by pedro ciriaco to fall behind 1-2. wrapped out to the shortstop.fl aybar is busy. very athletic play. bang, bang style. gets ciriaco at the bag. even the best hitter in baseball history for most of us wasn't against trying to bunt to beat the shift. still a 4-4 ball game in anaheim. summer is loaded with little adventures. so make the most of every sun-filled summer day with a refreshing leinenkugel's summer shandy. it's crisp beer with the natural flavor of lemonade that says come on by without having to say a single word. our family has been brewing beers in chippewa f

eric cantor is too soft on immigration. eric cantor supports amnesty. we have to get rid of him. >> who pays the unanticipated cost that will come with amnesty? who is going to pay medicare, food stamps, big business going to pay those bills? you're going to pay the tab. amnesty and people in the seventh district, i've been out to nine counties and the city, there is 95% -- i haven't met anyone that stands up and says i'm in favor of this. why our majority leader in u.s. congress is in favor, i don't get it. >> that's eric cantor's tea party opponent this year. eric cantor did start out this year saying under his leadership republicans in the house would do at least something. some legislation on immigration reform. he said that at the start of this year. he does not say that anymore. for all of the booing and heckling and people standing up and screaming at him and giving him the double thumbs down when he was at his hometown home district republican party meeting last week, one of the times that eric cantor did get a cheer from the crowd is when he sa

eric. quoas he says president obama finally acted not with deeds but with words ... >> i was shocked last week about his address. it was covering up the scandal going on trying to paint himself as someone who has done great things for the va, which is beside the point. i like the idea of trying to get veterans, bayne consulting, major consulting firms, veterans to take a leave of absence to try to solve the immediate urgent problem going on in the va. >> we are out of time. thank you so much for this memorial day weekend and monday. america wants action. thank you. >> reporter: in the meantime the rising price tag of obamacare for a lot of company. we will tell you why the irs' new ruling could hit many companies with serious fines. eric: the benches clear and the fists go flying. baseball is not suppose to be like that. what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. [ male announcer

eric: keep that coffee coming. martha: yep. eric: heard about this? online gun stores say they have been targeted by the obama administration after federal regulators classified them along with porn stores and head shops, slapping them with a high-risk label. that means banks will not necessarily work with them to get loans. of course that makes it a lot harder for those online stores to buy and sell their products. critics are charging the move is unfair way they think to put gun dealers out of business. is it? katie pavlich, news editor townhall.com joins us. they say the government is trying to stop fraud and protect the american public. do you buy that? >> i don't bly buy it at all. since 2011 the justice department in partnership with the fdic and federal trade commission put pressure on certain groups of industries to, you know, kind of regulate what gangs do business with them. one of those industries they put on that list is the gun industry. they classified firearms and ammunition as high-risk sales. the problem here is that the second amendm

eric: thank you. >> a pleasure, eric. martha: critics slamming president obama's lack of reaction so far to the va scandal. addressing into how he addressed other issues, so is there a pattern to this? we will debate that coming up. eric: if you could ask anybody to the prom, who would it be? george clooney, david beckham? this girl wants the vice president. >> she started saying things like only if joe biden would take me. so she wrote him a b at okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. nutrition inharge™. captain: and here's a tip. bellman: thanks, captain obvious. [ bottle ] ensure®. when you save money on hotel rooms, it's just like saving money on anything else that costs money. like shoes, textiles, foreign investments, spatulas, bounty hunters, javelins... ♪ eric: for four decades you could have it your w

we'll begin with the breaking news now, eric shinseki. we just learned that next hour, the veterans affairs secretary will meet behind closed doors with the president of the united states. few expect him to emerge with his job still intact. we don't know, we'll have to see what happens after that meeting. just minutes ago -- moments ago right here on cnn, you saw the embattled chief. he appeared before homeless vets coalition, a group most powerful to the delays that have disgraced this agency and cost lives. he said moments ago he was going to remove the senior leaders of the phoenix va medical center. again, you're looking at live pictures. you're looking at pictures from that event as he spoke moments ago. cnn's erin mcpike is at the conference of homeless vets and has been listening to those comments. athena jones in washington and our own drew griffin whose reporting broke this story and ignited this national firestorm. i want to get to all these guys, first to erin mcpike. erin, shinseki said what he was going to do, how he planned

and then, not long after, in june of 2003, eric shinseki was gone, retired. basically run out of washington on a rail, neither donald rumsfeld or paul wolfowitz went to his retirement ceremony. this four-star general who was the army chief of staff, they didn't go to his retirement ceremony? no, the message was clear, he was just out and he ought to be seen as a disgrace for that tremendous thing that he estimated that was obviously so -- yeah, and then we invaded iraq and it was a disaster and it went much the way that eric shinseki said it was going to go. and in 2007, four years down the road in this war that was supposedly going to be a cakewalk, the bush administration finally proposed, dramatically increasing the number of u.s. troops in iraq, and people remembered who had been right about those requirements. this was "the new york times" then. new strategy vindicates ex-army chief shinseki. with a picture of him from that day, back in 2003, showing him about to give that testimony that got him thrown out of washington, with the bush administration tryi

and she was under a deputy under eric shinseki. she had been defeated in wong, and she called for shinseki to go. so the fire storm had been mounting, culminating this morning in the speech that eric shinseki himself gave on the issue of veteran's homelessness, one that he has been lauded for tackling head on, and he received a standing ovation today. but he said there were people that he gave his trust? in va facilities around the country that were not giving information, and deceiving va headquarters, and he told that story, when he was in combat of a young corporal needing an airstrike, and he said that trust was not reciprocated. hearing about this, a lot of people are going to dispute that. all you have to do is go to the american legion website, here in washington, just across the street on k street. and see the litany of reports over the course of the last five years, outlining problems just like this one. the american legion, so put it all together on friday, when you have this bad news, it comes under consideration as well

it has been a long road for eric. the rutgers star defensive tackle had nfl hopes until october 16, 2010, when he became paralyzed from the neck down after a tackle during a kick return, but if you ask eric and his mother they tell you that they always believed graduation day would come. >> no matter how much pain and suffering you're going through at the time, if you really focus on one thing and you put your mind to it, anything is truly possible, no matter all the other stuff that comes along with it that you have to go through. finally you get over the bumps. >> three months after the accident, eric a junior at rutgers, began his intense therapy sessions while still taking classes. >> it wasn't easy. i was taking skype classes, you know. i was trying to make it to a lot of my evening classes. i was meeting and making sure i was having my assignments in on time, so many different things went into this. like i said, my mom driving me, stopping to get dinner real fast and then going to an evening class and not gettin

i think eric shinseki is going to survive today. there was a man outside the west wing and that is the chief of staff, took a phone call, walked by where i am, i shouted to him is he going to stay and he smiled and walked off. this president doesn't like to fire people and i think the kathleen sebelius comment from chris is right. they allowed her to come up with a plan with outside help. a top white house aid is working with secretary eric shinseki try to fix it. they may let him take responsible and fire people in phoenix and try to gut it out. there is a question why because the allegations have been out there for weeks about 40 people allegedly dying why it took this long to fire anybody is a question of accountability. but the president's pattern is to let the people gut it out. >> what you see when trying to get a yes or no answer on jay carney he hedged on everything. is that a case where carney doesn't know? or is he trying to deflect and defer? >> there was a lot of deflection. and for jay, he doesn't comknoww it is going t

most importantly to me and eric, are we doing a good thing? here's how it breaks down. the raw cacao costs one chunk. labor, the inner sleeve, this much. design, box, packaging, this much. various sundry equipment and miscellaneous, another small chunk. chris, me and eric get a slice out of every bar. that leaves this much, which the retailer takes. chef bleeding heart hippie here has already convinced me to give whatever meager profits we make off our first bar to a local charity. >> what's unusual about these pods? these beans? >> extremely high quality flavor. >> thought not around for a while? >> this is what almost all chocolate was made of over 120 years ago. and making a guy and comeback. for a choclatier, this is a once in a lifetime find. >> about 40% of the beans from these trees have white cacao beans mixed in. the rest are purplish in color. but we've heard of an ultra rare group of trees elsewhere further up the mountains that produce pods of all 100% pure white beans and that's something that me and eric are very interested in down the road. but for now, d

if you look at fast and furious, who was responsible for investigating eric holder? eric holder. they made eric holder responsible for investigating himself. what kind of investigations are these? they're bogus. >> go ahead, juan. >> yeah, yeah. i think you guys need some tinfoil hats. you guys are into some deep. >> oh my gosh. you're not even responding. you're attacking instead of responding. >> into irs. >> juan. >> now say let's have an investigation. >> your arguments have no substance. you're just attack us. >> guys, one at a tiechlt jonathan, let me ask you something. any of these investigations, do we know anyone who has actually been held accountable? they let kathleen sebelius walk on her own. lois lerner gets to take the fifth time and time again. where's the accountability? >> there's a difference in saying you have an investigation and being held accountable. in the case of the irs, one or maybe two people were fired and nothing actually changed and juan you keep saying we had all of these investigations in benghazi, who has been held responsible? what islamist has

one of them is eric shinseki. you heard that speech earlier this morning before that group for homeless vets. i was struck by a couple things. you laid out a few of them. the secretary of veterans affairs saying to that crowd that he's been lied to by top officials inside the va. he's not seen the kind of coverups that have been going on at va facilities in his entire 38-year military career. those are extraordinary things to hear from a secretary of foreign affairs. keep in mind he's saying these things even though there have been and drew griffin can back this up, ig reports, inspector general reports going back some ten years saying wait times have been an issue and that whether or not the coverup of wait times has been going on for all of these years and that wait times may not be reliable data for officials at veterans affairs. there's a question as to whether or not shinseki has been in touch with what's going on inside his own department. i assume that's a topic of conversation he's having with the presiden

eric. >> interesting to get his take what the president will say six minutes from now. meanwhile hillary clinton out with a brand new book and addressing one of those explosive issues, that is benghazi ahead of a presidential run. mrs. clinton sounding a defiant tone surrounding a controversial aspect of her time as secretary of state. chief political correspondent carl cameron with details. carl, what does she say? >> reporter: excerpts are automatically being released to hype it. this morning it happened as top members hillary clinton's 2016 sort of presidential campaign in waiting were gathering at a think tank here in boss ton, in d.c., founded by former staffers of president clinton called the third way. the topic was defending the former secretary of state's handling of the benghazi attacks. a variety of other national security matters. so the excerpts leaked with remarkable convene timing for clinton who remains defiant about it. about benghazi she wrote, quote, those who exploit thi

eric, i owe my career to eric. eric was the first person who hired me in silicon valley, and -- >> it's worked out well for you. [laughter] you've done so much better since you left google. >> well -- [laughter] well, i, i feel lucky because we talk about this a lot. everyone needs to mentor and sponsors in your life, and eric has been that and continues to be that for me, and i'm so grateful. and i first met jared when i first came to facebook, and he is friends with our head of product, chris cox. and chris said there's this one guy in the department, and he totally gets it. and he runs around the world trying to get other people to get it. so he has been a voice that has been super important to our industry and technology, and i think to peace all over. so excited to be here with both of you. so let's start at the beginning. you're both fairly busy dudes, right? i mean, job, job, and it's not even that obvious that you'd even know each other that well. how did you meet, and what would possess you to sit down and

secretary eric shinseki. the lawmakers i talked to last week seem to have feelings toward shinseki that is stopping them short of calling for his resignation. they think he's a dedicated war veteran, an injured war veteran, so he's one of the very people's trying to help as secretary of the v.a. and they think he deserves more time to fix the situation. he's been there five years. he inherited a big problems but not much has been done to turn things around. in fact things have gotten a lot worse. secret waiting lists, people not getting care and dying while waiting. and i think you you can measure how bad is situation is by looking at who upset over it. this is a bipartisan pan being we're seeing. democrats and republicans are worried about nothing being done about this.seeing. democrats and republicans are worried about nothing being done about this. >> it's happened under his watch. he may beed, but what will he do to try to clean it up and why did it happen in the first place? >> that's right. it's a huge

keep it clean. >> i said my colleague eric bolling loves to be in television. just today alone. >> look who is with us today. >> good to be here. i'm having fun so far. >> hour three starts right now. >> ladies and gentlemen, eric bolling in for. >> one lucky guy, eric bolling. >> i'm one lucky guy in outnumbered. >> it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." >> honestly. you are hosting -- >> was i luckiest guy in the world? >> he will be performing later. >> funny, jesse. this is my last time here? >> it might be. >> there you go. >> a lot of commencement controversies going on these days. we have peyton manning though delivering a nice one at the university of virginia. check it out. >> one regret that i've always had here is i never got to throw any football passes here on this lawn, so if you will indulge me, i'm going to fulfill that dream right now. seriously, there is no pressure here at all. if you drop it, it will not be on youtube. i promise you. >> he was a member of the red skins, they might have run him out of ks you hitting the market. yo

keep it clean. >> i said my colleague eric bolling loves to be in television. just today alone. >> look who is with us today. >> good to be here. i'm having fun so far. >> hour three starts right now. >> ladies and gentlemen, eric bolling in for. >> one lucky guy, eric bolling. >> i'm one lucky guy in outnumbered. >> it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." >> honestly. you are hosting -- >> was i luckiest guy in the world? >> he will be performing later. >> funny, jesse. this is my last time here? >> it might be. >> there you go. >> a lot of commencement controversies going on these days. we have peyton manning though delivering a nice one at the university of virginia. check it out. >> one regret that i've always had here is i never got to throw any football passes here on this lawn, so if you will indulge me, i'm going to fulfill that dream right now. seriously, there is no pressure here at all. if you drop it, it will not be on youtube. i promise you. >> he was a member of the red skins, they might have run him out of town. >> too bad eric bol's b

eric shinseki agreed that they don't have time for distractions. they need to quick the problems and the president called eric shinseki a good man. >> commitment to our veterans is unquestioned. his service to our country is exemplary. i am grateful for his service. >> reporter: president obama's announcement came after eric shinseki spoke at a national conference on homeless vets. eric shinseki said he realized the problem was not isolated. it is systemic. a report found workers at the phoenix va manipulated the wait times for 1700. does dens died while waiting waiting for care and it happened at other sleigh and clinics and helmets. >> i apologize to the veterans of this great country and loved ones. >> reporter: eric shinseki said the va will release its audit in the coming days and president obama said sloan gipson will fill the -- gibson will fill the role. >>> new at noon free marijuana is being offered on election day in the south bay. the weed for votes campaign is an attempt to get medical marijuana supporters to polling places. theyriment

eric got a new life. to tell us about the adventure of getting him a home we have rahat "right this minute." >> thank you for having me. >> the first thing i have to ask is, what is it about eric that made you not only give him the fake lottery ticket but start a friendly campaign for him? >> i knew from the moment i met eric this guy is trustworthy. he was a genuine guy. i had the idea of helping people but with eric, i think he would really benefit from it. i feel like he deserved it. >> when you started this project did you realize it was going to go this far? >> absolely not. be it. >> can you give us an update on eric now? he mentioned he has a job? >> he is working at a 7-eleven, working to getting another job at olive garden. >> do you plan to see eric again in the future? >> yes. we're working on a third video. i'm not going to give too much away. >> do you know how long eric has been homeless on the streets? >> he has been homeless since 2006. >> we should say was homeless. is not anymore. >> yea

eric holder has proven to be the most divisive racial demagogue in the administration. he's used phrases like "my people." which again if he was white and said "my people", he would have been gone within 24 hours. he has refused to prosecute the black pan panther case. there's a laundry list of incidents when the racial divide and the racial discrimination is going the other way, against whites. he is completely mia. >> bob, about andrea's moint that if you did this in reverse and it was about blacks, the argument would be that would matter because the power structure is catered to whites, so you can't compare the two. >> i have a problem with this simply because like often you are guilty of, to say that all people -- the yt that all white people are stupid who you work for is pretty blanket ziemt. i mean, i think you have to be very careful when you say things like that. >> depends where you work, bob. >> here, for example, our executive producer is down on me, but he's a right winger. that's all right. he'll be mad now. but i think the idea of doing something like thi

that's right, eric. they are spreading out all over the counsel row and some tell the local affiliate they are going to texas and maryland. and this week federal authorities detained the illegal immigrants in south texas. border officials say that can't handle the surge. and so ice flew them to el paso and tusson and that is simply dropped off with the bus station. >> it is going to another country. it is it another country, not arizona. and they picked the wrong country. if they are here illegally why are they coming to arizona? >> federal authorities said they are not putting them in detension center. they are not criminals. and so mexico will not take them and that takes the deportation process lengthy and eric, they are supposed to report to local ice offices and where ever they end up. and how many will do that is anybody's guess? sounds astounding. thank you so much. >> a new arrest in the boston marathon bombing probe. and your mother told you to wash your hands with soap to stay healthy. we have

eric is next. >> they went to war for us. now our government is waging war on our veterans as the va scandal explodes. president obama says he found out about it by watching the news. well, we've got some more breaking news for you mr. president. we dug up some dirt on the va. it's a cashin in expose you won't want to miss. plus global warmers warning national monuments could be washed away because of climate change. how these ridiculous scare tactics could wash our tax dollars down the river. and then. from the picket line to a jail cell. fast food protestors arrested for wreaking havoc while asking for higher wages. how they're crushing the people say they they're trying to help. cashin in firing up your memorial day weekend starts right now. >> hi, everyone, i'm eric bolling. welcome to cashing in. wayne rogers, jonathan, michelle fields and juan williams. welcome in everybody. as we celebrate memorial day the obama administration is under fire for treating our heros like zeros. our veterans are suffering and dying because

. >> excuse me for not feeling sorry for eric shinseki. the debate starts right now. >> tonight on "crossfire," scandalous mistreatment of america's veterans. >> makes me mad as hell. >> waiting lists. patient deaths. manipulation and cover-ups. >> could you explain to me after knowing all this information why you should not resign? >> on the left, van jones. on the right, s.e. cupp. in the "crossfire" lawrence, a former assistant secretary of defense, and jesse dane duff of concerned veterans for america. how to we take better care of our veterans? does it start by firing the man at the top? tonight on "crossfire." >>> welcome to "crossfire." i'm s. e. cupp on the right. >> i'm van jones on the left. tonight we have two advocates for america's veterans. veterans affair secretary eric shinseki was on capitol hill today fighting to keep his job. cnn senior investigative correspondent drew griffin actually broke the story in the first place. his reporting is the reason the senate had the hearing today. he's here to give us a closer look of h

is got a football and they got to see the 409 and eric got to bring his students down. so, please help me in congratulating eric (clapping) (yelling) >> give it up for your principles of the year (clapping) okay. so the superintendant wants to know what prize you got in the mystery envelope. it's a bummer i got two tickets plus a sunday brunch at the star light room and one night in the hotel (inaudible) and breakfast (clapping) i got breakfast as well as breakfast for two not with the mayor but it comes with the cove have a hotel as well. thanks (clapping) >> i got the 2014 and 2015 office arrangement. >> congratulations point for the tattoo we didn't go that far i'm sorry so you have mission high school tattooed on your arms is that dedication or what? (laughter) . so you all can go back to your seats now. commissioner has joined us this is our 2014 line up for teachers of the year principles of the year and the mayor continues to do this wonderful support for outlining all our teachers and principle we want to encourage you to nominate so we can honor more and more o

>> reporter: hi, eric. even on the first day here in jordan, the pontiff keeping a very busy schedule, bringing that message of peace here to a region that really has anything but right now going on. the pontiff arrived at the international airport in amman, greeted to a rock star welcome, crowds lined as he made his way to the king's palace, where he had a private meeting with the king there. and then held a large, open-air mass not only for jordanian christians, but also iraqi refugees, syrian refugees, palestinians were there, and that's where he made those remarks about the need to end the syrian civil war and also thanked the jordanians for bringing in so many syrian refugees. it had been a real strain on the government here. the other message that the pope is bringing is one of religious freedom. remember here in jordan, at least, 90-plus percent of the population is muslim. there is a christian minority here, and he talked a lot about the need for everyone to be able to practice their religion in fre

eric will fill us in, next. >>> welcome back, everybody. hillary clinton sounded pretty tough yesterday, specifically tough on the muslim extremist group boko haram. listen. >> the seizure of these young women by this radical extremist group boko haram is abominable, criminal, it's an act of terrorist and it really merits the fullest response possible first and foremost from the government of nigeria. >> but this should cause you to pause. turns out when she was secretary of state, the state department refused to classify boko haram a foreign terrorist organization. had they done so, we would have a two-year jump going after these terrorists as assets would be available that were not available because the clinton state department refused the fto distinction, bob. i noticed that she used the word "terrorist" yesterday. >> yes. and you may or may not recall, but when this happened before i said that i thought it was crazy not to declare them a terrorist organization, as with all of these people. you know, the united states, what is it that we

hello, everyone, i'm eric shawn. right now, hearing reports of ukrainian national guardsmen opening fire on a crowd outside a town hall where they are voting in eastern ukraine. this news comes as pro-russian separatists hold referendums on the secession of two regions in the eastern ukraine, vowing to create their own country. ukrainian government, though, and the west, rejecting the vote as illegitimate, saying they will not recognize the results. greg is streaming live from la shootings and the renewed violence. greg. >> eric, and it's important, the polls have just closed in this controversial unless referendum balloting. it's been a hectic and as you know a dangerous day. we'll have more details on the violence in a moment, but let's take a look at the voting that happened today. here's a bit of what we saw. the ballots for this referendum vote on self-rule in the region are marked in private over there and then brought over to these transparent ballot boxes where we can get an early unofficial exit poll. the do

it is an incredibly complex system, and eric shinseki frankly just want up against the realities of 24/7 modern-day american politics, and now he is out of a job. >> does hitting would've eric shinseki solve the problem? >> absolutely not. every lawmaker who responded today said, "this is a great first step, but now, does the department need more money? do we have to explore whether or not to privatize some of this health care that is offered to american veterans?" it is a complex debate that will be held in the months leading up to a very intense election season, and i do not think it will end anytime soon. >> is this a question of money, or is that too simple? >> it's too simple. it's a question of money, but it's also a large bureaucracy that has really just ballooned for the years and only gotten worse because of the wars in recent years. there is a true sense that there is a culture of people who work in these facilities all across the country who have no real connection or fear of what is coming out of the head office just down the street in washington. i think there is an attemp

eric jackson from ironfire. lay out the numbers we understand the scale. >> $5.5 billion in revenues last year. billion -- 5.6 billion dollars in revenue. a lot of profit out of that. i'm looking at the income statement. $1.4 billion. very profitable penny here. >> 20%? basically taking home 20% of sales and sticking it in the piggy bank. >> i will look to see how they categorize sales. it is an ebay like business. they don't take ownership of the things that they are selling. what they count of revenue is already the prophet there. a big business and the business that is growing. compared to the previous year, it looks like sales were up 70% year-over-year. growing, has is been profitable for a while. profits nearly doubled year-over-year for this company. a very positive leverage story there in terms of generating more profit and revenues. the operating profit margin's getting better even as the revenues are growing fast. you don't see that often at this scale. >> eric jackson, ironfire capital. what is your r

please welcome eric stonestreet and jesse tyler ferguson! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: good to see you. thank you for the bow tie. >> very well. you look very handsome. >> jimmy: have you gotten good at tying the bow tie? >> i have gotten pretty good at it. i had to actually watch a youtube video when i did -- because i didn't know how to do them. but yeah. >> jimmy: how did they do that in the old days when there weren't youtube videos to figure everything out for you. >> encyclopedias. >> jesse and i haven't seen each other since we finished shooting. >> yeah, we haven't. >> jimmy: this is the first time. >> how is it going? >> it is good. >> everything is going -- >> i did go a few places. but i have some questions. is everything going on with -- >> it's still happening. >> it's still happening? and the rash is? >> better. >> the rash is better. >> jimmy: guys, guys, we're on television. >> back to the interview. >> jimmy: when i see you together, individually i don't have this with you. but when you're together you're mitchell a

eric? >> wendell, thank you. we all owe a debt of gratitude on this memorial day weekend to each and every one of the service members we see behind brad. we thank them as a nation. wendell, of course, thank you. >>> meanwhile, the doctors are still in. we've all been there, feeling nervous and somewhat inkurtable in a patient waiting room, but what can make that experience much worse is a doctor with really bad bedside manners. now, these guys don't have that. i've seen them both, but dr. samadi, i do want to talk about this because, you know, if you're already afraid you as a doctor could possibly misdiagnose because the patient is afraid to tell you really what's going on and perhaps a bad doctor is not really listening. >> you're absolutely right, and the art of medicine, which is a bedside man earning the relationship that you have as a doctor with your patient, and that trust comes with time. you have to earn the patient's trust, and that takes some time. that means that you have to listen to them. that mean

president obama was very supportive of eric shinseki. he did not necessarily want to remove him from his post. he thought secretary shinseki could deal with these issues but then it just builds and builds over the past couple of weeks. we heard from veterans groups. the inspector general report came out on thursday. we had jeff miller of the v.a. committee as well as john mccain on the senate side and buck mckeon of the armed services. very tellingy -- a sign. i think that was the belt whether of this. veterans callse that hurt him more? inst: i think that set it motion. the american legion said he had to go and that is huge. nothing has happen like that in decades. and the final straw was the lawmakers who had been supporting him, people like john mccain saying he is a distraction. host: we continue discussion on eric shinseki's resignation. our phone lines are open. we are taking your comments and questions as we go about this. a special line continuing for veterans. with to be calling on that line for veterans from albany georgia. cal

he announced that eric shinseki has resigned at the meeting. the resignation is just the beginning of eric shinseki. >> things need to move in a direction that veterans will expected to move and that's to serve them. >> nancy pelosi calls eric shinseki a hero and a leader. his resignation will not solve the va's problems and house speaker boehner is calling the president to take further action. in washington, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> more details on eric shinseki, the 71-year-old is a vietnam veteran who lost part of his right foot in a mine. two mines rather. he's a retired four star general and served his staff starting 1999. he has strong support from veterans group when he was nominated back in 2009. >> we spoke with some veterans outside the va medical center in san francisco. one man expressed relief saying he had to wait for months to be seen for his injury. >> the last 90 days, if something comes up, i have to go to the er. i really have faith in president obama to put the qualified person in that position and absolutely it was not who

eric? >> from our reaction to sergeant bergdahl's release, let's bring in retired navy captain chuck nash, joins us on the telephone. captain, as wonderful and inspiring news as this is, jennifer griffin just pointed out that bergdahl was swapped for five gitmo detainees, one accused of war crimes. is that troubling, or is that just the way these things are done? >> well, i think that's the way these things are done. if you look at countries that value the lives of their service people, probably you'll see that the israelis rank up there very high, as well. and they're willing to trade prisoners just to get the body back of someone. so it is done, and this is, i think, all part and parcel of the process of kind of wrapping things up in afghanistan. and the administration has finally decided to make the trade, clear those guys out of those -- those five out of gitmo and get bergdahl back, because, as the only prisoner, the only detainee over there in enemy hands to really wrap this up and ge

eric jackson from ironfire. lay out the numbers we understand the scale. >> $5.5 billion in revenues last year. 5.6 billion dollars in revenue. a lot of profit out of that. i'm looking at the income statement. $1.4 billion. very profitable penny here. >> 20%? basically taking home 20% of sales and sticking it in the piggy bank. >> i will look to see how they categorize sales. it is an ebay like business. they don't take ownership of the things that they are selling. what they count of revenue is already the prophet there. a big business and the business that is growing. compared to the previous year, it looks like sales were up 70% year-over-year. business that is growing, has been profitable for a while. profits nearly doubled year-over-year for this company. a very positive leverage story there in terms of generating more profit and revenues. the operating profit margin's getting better even as the revenues are growing fast. you don't see that often at this scale. >> eric jackson, ironfire capital. what is you

not the problem with eric shinseki. the veterans health administration and phoenix va and its leadership. martha: mr. shinseki a retired general should be held accountable to the same standards of conduct the armed forces are. bill: my va is the greatest. butler va in pennsylvania. shoutout. martha: give all the vets the same health plan as congress. shut down the va and savings pays for vets health care. a lot of interesting ideas out there. we'll see what the president has in mind. we'll get some indication at the briefing we hope coming up soon. bill: good to have you with us today. see you tomorrow. martha: "happening now" starts right about now jon: good morning to you,. an angry showdown on capitol hill as lawmakers demand action on the scandal rocking the veterans affairs department. good morning i'm jon scott. >> hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. great to see you today. there are growing calls for eric shinseki to resign after an inspector general report confirmed there were secret waiting lists for veterans trying

eric? >> arthel, back here in our country, president obama declaring a major disaster area in alabama. after some severe storms and tornadoes hit that state. the white house says federal funding will now be available to the affected people in four counties in alabama. assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, and low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses. senator mark pryor says the president plans to visit arc ack on wednesday to survey the damage from a tornado that hit that state. 15 people were killed. it will be the president's first trip to arkansas recently in terms of this disaster. >> horrible pictures to watch. >>> meanwhile, condoleezza rice decides not to deliver the commence the address at rutgers university in new jersey. this is coming after some students and faculty held protests over a rule in the iraq war. the school originally planned to pay the former secretary $35,000 for her commencement speech. in a statement, rice says her involvem

congress placed a subpoena on eric shinseki. this same day eric shinseki ordered record audits of all v.a. health care facilities across the united states. now there are calls for eric shinseki to resign. president obama defended him and eric shinseki says he has no plans to step down. yesterday the department of veterans' affairs said it will allow veterans to receive health care at private facilities, it is enhancing clinic capacity to help vets get hep. richard allan smith is a veteran serving five years in the afghanistan war. thank you for being with us. as a vet yourself, how do you feel about the scandal unfolding at the v.a. offices where some veterans died whilst waiting for treatment? >> i served five years on active duty in the army. i spent 14 years in general. >> got it. >> i'm glad eric shinseki is staying on board. i worked for the department of veterans' affairs for less than a year ago. there's a culture clash creating problems, between folks who are used to doing business the old way, when v.a. was mismanaged a

here, i'm doing everything i can to keep myself from falling. >> eric has to undo the knots. fortunately, he's able to find a tiny ledge to brace himself. >> nice. >> he was able to kind of maneuver his way over to it, then totally adjust the rope. >> i thought that with only 100 feet left, i could basically force my hand to, you know, control my descent. >> but at this point, everything goes from bad to horrifying. >> now everything's out of control and i slam from one side of the canyon to the next. >> as eric falls, his life really does flash before his eyes. >> my thoughts go to my life, what i had accomplished, what i had done, my thoughts go to my family, you know, thinking i shouldn't see them again. >> hey, you okay? >> and he's feeling a searing pain. >> what caught my attention was the sound of the rope. >> at this point, i can feel the burns on my hands as i'm trying to stop. i hit the side of the wall with the back of my head right here, and i believe that that knocked me out. >> you hear one hit, you hear the second hit and then you hear the final thump. in my mi