VA Secretary Collins Decimates Reporter for Spreading Rumors and Unconfirmed Reports About the VA

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COLLINS: “Are you committing not to do rumors? Because you're scaring my VA employees about this.”
KIME: “That's fair.”
COLLINS: “And you're scaring my veterans.”
KIME: “I won't do that. I won't do that.”
COLLINS: “That's not -- that's not a -- that's not something that I take lightly.”
KIME: “But if -- a rumor is different than if I have a source.”
COLLINS: “Then you source it to our PR people and let them know. Because you know something? I've got people who are reporting stuff right now who aren't even calling us. They don't even get -- they don't even get something from us -- they don't even call us to check it.”
KIME: “Well, that's not right.”
COLLINS: “Well, this isn't right either. “
KIME: “OK. Well, that's fair. But I did call about that.”
COLLINS: “Good.”
KIME: “I did call about that.”
COLLINS: “And you got the answer, but yet you still reported it as a rumor.”
KIME: “Well, I didn't --”
COLLINS: “OK. Which is it? Which is it? Is it a rumor or is it you get confirmed?”