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I credit him with being very clear in the press conference yesterday saying hes going to hold people accountable. i think he recognized -- >> a lot of people are saying, about time. for 26 days he was silent on the whole thing. optics, p.r. today, tony, good or bad? >> leadership failure, bad optics, fine. but the leadership failure is the problem. and the fact that we are here at groundhog day again, another scandal or a controversy within this administration, the president comes out and promis...

So now these veterans will not be able to stay at these centers. where are they going to go? >> you know, whats oxymoronic about this situation is nursing homes that sign v.a. contracts have to increase mair minimthei wage if they want to continue to have that contract. we have nursing homes and theyre not required to meet this new federal minimum wage. certainly if there are openings in those v.a. facilities, wed be happy to transfer them there. if they want to receive home health care and are ...

The white house has obstructed this investigation whether or not weve had one or four, the entire time. theyve withheld documents and sent documents that have been heavily redacted. in one document, every other word was redacted. it wasnt until the rhodes e-mail came out in the foia did we recognize the severity to the west wing. and boehner properly played it -- >> he wanted to see hard evidence and thats when this all happened. well have to see how fast it moves now. in the meantime, does the ...

Pen -- hes done all kinds of things by executive order. he could by executive order tomorrow make it necessary that the v.a. hire only veterans to work in the veterans administration. people dont realize it but less than a third of the people working in the v.a. are actually veterans. >> why do you recommend that? >> well, because we care for each other. we look after each other. we have a lifetime of experience doing it for each other. we did it on the battlefields and well do it for each other...

>> wendell goler live at the white house, thank you. is anybody talking about solutions? can the system be fixed or is it inherently broken? joining me now, retired lieutenant colonel oliver north, fox news military analyst. great to see you, colonel north. heres the big question today. would you feel comfortable in trusting your own personal health to the v.a.? >> well, i did. in fact, had it not been for the fox medical plan, i might be dead right now. when i was diagnosed with cancer caused b...

People, and so if you have a scheduler and a guy who says, i want to see a doc, and he says, well, he is scheduled up for the next three months and so i will put him on the waiting list over here, and when we get into the 14-day window that is a v.a. requirement, i will put him on the official list, but the problem is that the scheduler cant say, sir, you know what, general shinseki, we cant do this, because we dont have enough docs or people, because the culture of the fear inside of the v.a. i...

Speaker john boehner shrugged that off and said the presidents outrage is no substituted for real accountability. as you say the president declined to fire v.a. secretary shinseki or ask for his resignation. instead he told him he wants a report from him next week about whether this problem is system wide or isolated to a few or a few dozen v.a. facilities. he sent his chief of staff, rob neighbors to phoenix. thats watt first of what are now 26 v.a. facilities, which are alleged to have involve...

Speaker boehner much, but this is one i do, because i think that they are hoping to get the good health care people at the v.a. i was talking to a v.a. psychiatric nurse last night and she is saying that her father who served in world war ii korea veteran tried to get in and experienced the same problems and gave up and said, i am going to go off on my own private insurance in the 1970s, and so 245 the problems are not new, and they are going to take a long time to fix. >> and the florida republ...

The obama administration. georgia congressman david scott is one who doesnt think the president is treating this urgently enough. >> i was very disappointed with president obama today. there was no urgency. mr. president, we need urgency. we need you to roll up ore sleeves and get into these hospitals. >> still a number of republicans, including house speaker, john boehner, are not calling for shinsekis head. they said that wont necessarily fix the problem. >> ive not called for general shinseki...

Cozy with this administration has to acknowledge the problem is much bigger than simply the phoenix v.a. since we first raised this about a month ago on fox news, i have received thousands of e-mails, some of them from doctors and nurses and medical technicians in the v.a., from patient veteran victims of the v.a. theres not a veteran i know who wants to be treated as a victim. theyre being made into victims, not by serving our country, but by the service theyre not getting from the v.a. and it ...