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Veterans who are are paying the price for it are in hospitals or cant even get seen in hospitals. >> its gotten all of a sudden so much worse. its gone so far below the baseline that it it is outraging people. if you know a veteran, you go help him because that person who is going into a v.a. hospital may not come out alive. >> big development in benghazi. today speaker of the house john boehner announcing the house will form a select committee to investigate the benghazi attack. >> not only are...

Corruption. >> you say that lois lerner is at least -- involved in a criminal conspiracy. so, now what? where does that leave you? >> well, it leaves us at odds with the president who initially said this was awful. he was going to get to the bowl of it. and then turned it into yet another one of those its not scandal and its just republicans. well, its not just republicans. >> there is no question this is a scandal. its a scandal of epic proportions. big enough that it could bring down a preside...

Veterans who are are paying the price for it are in hospitals or cant even get seen in hospitals. >> its gotten all of a sudden so much worse. its gone so far below the baseline that it it is outraging people. if you know a veteran, you go help him because that person who is going into a v.a. hospital may not come out alive. >> big development in benghazi. today speaker of the house john boehner announcing the house will form a select committee to investigate the benghazi attack. >> not only are...

>> you say that lois lerner is at least -- involved in a criminal conspiracy. so, now what? where does that leave you? >> well, it leaves us at odds with the president who initially said this was awful. he was going to get to the bowl of it. and then turned it into yet another one of those its not scandal and its just republicans. well, its not just republicans. >> there is no question this is a scandal. its a scandal of epic proportions. big enough that it could bring down a presidency. >> the ...

We find out in the end theyve done nothing but lied to us time and time zbeg again. >> ive got to reat this one. sloan gibson told the senate today the v.a. needs $17.6 billion from now until the end of 2017. thats a fair amount of money. you say either its not enough or you want it now. which is it? >> well, the fact of the matter is the cbo has predicted what the senate bill is going to cost. $50 billion a year. so i think what sloans estimating is very low. unfortunate lay its not been about ...

Colleagues have had difficulties getting into those facilities. they have been somewhat successful, but theyve had the difficulties. it seems to me like they dont want the public knowing what is really going on and what the health consequences are of this humanitarian crisis. >> i cant imagine any opposition to this in congress. is there any? >> well, there will be. in fact, the only co-sponsors we have of this legislation are republicans. no democrat will get on this bill. it seems common sense...

At universal studios hollywood. a dozen v.a. hearings since the scandal broke, and you can tack on another one today. but still no deal for our vets. retired gunnery sergeant says shes running out of patience. tell us more about running out of patience. >> well, its not just a budget issue. theyre doing nothing to resolve the systemic problems that have shown the mismanagement. theyve done nothing to fire these executives although they both agree we should fire the executives. i mean it is not...

We are providing all the e-mails. the fact that three years ago some of them, not all of them, but some of them were not available, i never said i would provide you e-mails we didnt have. and in fact, we are going to provide you 24,000 e-mails from the -- >> my time has expired and ive lost my patience with you. >> meanwhile, the white house now says it will comply with a subpoena to have one of its lawyers testify at a hearing today. jennifer oconnor was a lawyer for the irs last year. there ...

Worse than we thought. >> reporter: a rare evening hearing on capitol hill reveals the magnitude of the v.a. scandal has a new watchdog report shows new calls for v.a. secretary eric shinseki to go. >> its time for secretary shinseki to step down and if secretary shinseki does not step down voluntarily, then i call on the president of the united states to relieve him of his duties. >> mccain and others are the latest to call for the secretary to go with miller saying attorney general eric hold s...

Rare, unanimity from both sides on an issue, veterans affairs needs to be fixed. many on the left are blaming funding, including washington senator patty murry. in an environment where everybody is told keep the cost down, dont tell me anything that costs more. it creates a cultural there for people to cook the books. >> it may be true. the dollars have also shot up. the v.a.s budget for 2014 is more than $150 billion more than double it was in 2006. offer the last five years, the