Denis McDonough: “We just need to get better at hiring than we are. Period.”

You and your fellow Senators have kept the heat on and the delegation have kept the heat on us.

We had a very good couple of years hiring. I just said that we hired, net, 14,000 nurses in the last two and a half years.

We want to make sure that we compete for the veterans' care, and we can compete on quality, and we want to make sure that veterans know that we're invested in their quality.

That's a major help to us.