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Doug Collins: “I will not accept the premise when it was given that people…”

Featuring: Doug Collins, Republican | Secretary of Veterans Affairs | National

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Senate Hearing on VA Workforce and Veterans Crisis Line with Daniel S. Sullivan and Doug Collins

Published | Video Starts at 06:12

And I think we can actually find common ground agreement here that that was why they were brought back. But also I will not accept the premise when it was given that people were not being answered on the call line when they came in, which has been talked about many times in the press by others. That is not true. I'll acknowledge the fact that we brought back staff to help in those situations. That's why they're now exempted and we did do that. (06:12–06:25)

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Asserts that claims of unanswered calls on the Veterans Crisis Line are false.

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