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>> rocky show. talk being sylvester stallone coming up. thats why hes eating the raw egg. thats coming up. in the meantime, fox news alert. a rare and firey late night hearing on capitol hill about the v.a. scandal coming hours of a a scathing report shows just how screwed up the place is. >> elizabeth prann is live with the breaking details. whats new? >> reporter: good morning. it was a faceoff on capitol hill last night. lawmakers questioned three top v.a. administrators for hours addressin...

Are seeking care, were never put on any waiting lists and are at risk of being lost or forgotten in the system. top administrators received bonuses for getting care to them fast. but they said it was all a lie. the average wait time was 24 days in phoenix. while the va reported only 43% of vets waited more than two weeks, the real number was almost double that. shinseki calls the report reprehensible and is now waiting to set things straight. the va previously admitted 23 deaths nationwide were ...

>> related to baby cakes? >> been an interesting week. so lets talk about what happened late last night on capitol hill. its a fox news alert. a rare and firey late night hearing on capitol hill about the v.a. scandal after a scathing report shows just how disturbing and how widespread the problem is. elizabeth prann is in washington with the details and the latest from the white house as they react. >> reporter: yeah. good morning. tensions were high on the hill as lawmakers questioned three to...

Child, the supreme court said that the rule is too rigid. justice kennedy who wrote for the 5-4 majority said that the administrators who design and execute the i.q. test is a range, and a person who scores 71 as the defendant in this case could have an i.q. as high as 76 or minus 66, so in other words, plus/minus five points. so the supreme court said given that, the florida cutoff rule is too strict, and the florida courts must give the defendant in the case, freddie hall a chance to present a...

Soflt problem. >> and jehmu, last word, pointing fingers about who is to blame doesnt correct the problem right now. >> absolutely. you cant point fingers at anyone for a problem thats been in the making for the last 50 years. i think we have to take a real hard look at the work that has been done since secretary shinseki came in. he has actually reduced the backlog by 50%. perhaps he was too ambitious in trying to move from paper records to electronic records so quickly. perhaps we were too amb...

Administration. they believe they have tenure and theres nothing they can do to get fired. now, bob -- >> exactly right. >> your point. whoever pushed this idea of lists and making sure that you get bonuses for short waiting lists or no waiting lists, cbs has a -- an email from one of the administrators of the va hospital telling people, it may have been a different one of a high level administrator dont put anyones name on the list to make the list look shorter. >> that person should be fired. ...

They get paid no matter what they do. the doctors are generally going to be good, but a lot of the administrators are not good. im pleased the house of representatives is taking this seriously. frankly, i think general shinseki should go as well. >> shinseki is on the hook for that. we just had a guest on here who says theres drug dealings goin. theres theft of some of the prescription drugs going on. theres theft of property going on. does any of this surprise you? >> its not surprising at all....

They have to be responsive and the administrators should be meeting the guys in the lobby and getting a drift of why these guys are showing up. it has to come from top down. we know it aint going to happen. >> i hope you are wrong. thank you very much sergeant. it was great to talk to you. >> appreciate your service and his candor. >> mark cuban taking heat for comments me made about race and what he said that has people talking. >> and george clooney the victim of a bizarre break in at his home...

Shinse shinseki. if he was telling things were going on out of his control, you go to the next step up and did it get to the white house? im not sure. in the interim, fire him, put someone else in there. when you do that, you send a signal that works for the new administrators they wont play around anymore. they wont let you get away with hidden lists that frankly are killing veterans. >> if shinseki does go, though, the pressure seems to dissipate, right? so with him continuing to stay there, t...

Two, they will be the same. administrators are not good, staff isnt good. im pleased the house of representatives is taking this seriously and trying to make it easier to get rid of government civilians that arent doing their jobs and i think general shinseki should go, as well. >> so youre calling systemic, which means shinseki is on the hook for that. talk to us about we had a guest on here, detective thomas who says there is drug dealings going on at the va hospitals, theft of some of the dru...