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Doug Collins: “No VCL who answers the phone, who talked to our veterans was…”

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 05:34

And I think there's something though that we need to also clarify here. And this was clarified not by our senior level, it was clarified by career employees that No VCL who answers the phone, who talked to our veterans was let go. Right, but, but it's. The VCL can't operate without the other people as well, like the supervisors on shift or the people who train the vco. You are parsing your words. (05:34–05:39)

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Asserts that no Veterans Crisis Line employees who directly answered calls were terminated.

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