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Treatment and im hoping that will be in their final report. >> but doctor, when you were actually repry imagineded and put on administrative leave, i mean, what did you think? >> i assumed my v.a. career was over. it is not unusual for the v.a. to make up things and sabotage a physicians contrary for bringing things forward. it is not just at phoenix v.a. it is across the country. >> excuse me. was this common knowledge that this is what was happening? did the i.g. speak to you about this? >> th...

Treatment and im hoping that will be in their final report. >> but doctor, when you were actually repry imagineded and put on administrative leave, i mean, what did you think? >> i assumed my v.a. career was over. it is not unusual for the v.a. to make up things and sabotage a physicians contrary for bringing things forward. it is not just at phoenix v.a. it is across the country. >> excuse me. was this common knowledge that this is what was happening? did the i.g. speak to you about this? >> th...

Shinseki didnt know? thats hog wash and you know it. the law required shinseki to receive those i.g. reports. 51 of them. the government accountability office, the i.g., the american legion, the press, and veterans themselves for years raised the issue of long wait time. what the hell was shinseki doing? playing golf with you? now in 2007, even you before you became president, knew of these problems. >> no veteran should have to fill out a 23-page claim to get care or wait months, even years to ...

Shinseki didnt know? thats hog wash and you know it. the law required shinseki to receive those i.g. reports. 51 of them. the government accountability office, the i.g., the american legion, the press, and veterans themselves for years raised the issue of long wait time. what the hell was shinseki doing? playing golf with you? now in 2007, even you before you became president, knew of these problems. >> no veteran should have to fill out a 23-page claim to get care or wait months, even years to ...

Shinseki didnt know? thats hog wash and you know it. the law required shinseki to receive those i.g. reports. 51 of them. the government accountability office, the i.g., the american legion, the press, and veterans themselves for years raised the issue of long wait time. what the hell was shinseki doing? playing golf with you? now in 2007, even you before you became president, knew of these problems. >> no veteran should have to fill out a 23-page claim to get care or wait months, even years to ...

More outsxrag disbelief in the v.a. scandal. sadly, no hearing will change the state of the vets who have died waiting for care. with me now, good evening, congressman. you are not only a congressman, you are a physician, a veteran, you questioned the v.a. officials in the phoenix scandal. i dont know if you heard this, congressman, but dr. mitchell just told us, and i dont think youve even heard this. that the i.g. was intentionally slanlting reports to favor the veterans administration. what d...

You say you have direct knowledge of evidence being destroyed. talk to us about that. >> what happened was an employee called to ask my help. the new employee appointment request, or near list is something every time a veteran requires a new appointment it generates a computer fingerprint. this list pulls all the finger prints together and you can tell the exact date when a patient requests an appointment. and then how long it has been since they actually had their first appointment. the near li...

More outsxrag disbelief in the v.a. scandal. sadly, no hearing will change the state of the vets who have died waiting for care. with me now, good evening, congressman. you are not only a congressman, you are a physician, a veteran, you questioned the v.a. officials in the phoenix scandal. i dont know if you heard this, congressman, but dr. mitchell just told us, and i dont think youve even heard this. that the i.g. was intentionally slanlting reports to favor the veterans administration. what d...

Substantively wrong. >> and the white house says it, too. >> i do think that there is agreement that there was some wrongdoing, that there were things that happened that the president didnt think that were right. people were removed. there are half a dozen investigations going on right now. theres one at the i.r.s. the i.g. is doing one. the justice department is doing one. congress is doing one. there are plenty of investigations and were going to get plenty of facts so i think that ultimately ...

Trouble. and i dont doubt at that north koreans will try to use him as a bargaining chip as they have with so many others. but the cost this time is going to be very high. >> greta: let me turn to the investigation of benghazi. the state department, the ig, inspector general, is apparently reviewing the accountability review board that investigated the events of 9/11 in benghazi. one of the allegations is that the review board failed to interview key witnesses who had asked to provide their acco...