Citation From the September 19 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Bernie Sanders sent out a tweet that said, "If you can't afford to care of your veterans, then don't go to war." You had a response to that. You said, "Watching Bernie pander to different groups to get their vote has always disgusted me, but now it's personal. I didn't go to war so that you would take care of me, Bernie. I went because I wanted to serve and our country needed it." Why did you feel the need to respond?

REP. DAN CRENSHAW (R-TX): On a deeper level, I have always disliked it when politicians start pandering to veterans and telling us how bad we have it, and that if we just vote for them that they'll fix all of our problems. That's just not true. It also gets to a really false choice, which is, why we went to war in the first place. I went there because our country needed it. We went there because it was in the best interest of our country. I wasn't thinking down the road about being taken care of. Now, of course, that doesn't mean we shouldn't take care of our veterans. But this is also another, I think, falsehood that Bernie is spreading. All right, this is a bipartisan issue, taking care of our veterans and improving the VA We spend far more on the VA than we have in the past. Every single year, we as a delegation, as a Congress, we look for ways to improve veteran care. And he knows that. But what he's doing is is he's trying to rile people up. He's trying to make people angry. He's trying to tell victims that -- or trying to tell veterans that they are victims, and that only he can take care of them. I just think that's such a dishonest way to do politics, and I think he should be called out for it.

BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Yeah, and let's just add, too, he was chairman of a committee that was overseeing the VA when it was at its worst and everything was exposed. So he had a chance to run things, and he made it worse. Dan Crenshaw, thanks so much.

CRENSHAW: That's a great point. Thank you.