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Involved, one of the great men of business, and we are going to straighten out the va for our veterans, i have been promising that for a long time, and something i feel very, very strongly about. so you will get the information on david, and i think youll be very impressive with the job he does. we looked long and hard, we interviewed at least 100 people, some good, some not so good, but we had a lot of talent, and we think this selection will be something that will, with time, with time, straig...

Involved. one of the great men of business. and were going to straighten out the va for our veterans. ive been promising that for a long time. and something i feel very, very strongly. so youll get the information on david and i think youll be very impressed with the job he does. we looked long and hard. we interviewed at least 100 people. some good, some not so good. but we had a lot of talent. we think this selection will be something that will, with time, with time, straighten it out and stra...

I taught him in high school and thats new out there. everybody that knows me remembers that i worked with him. thats just the way he was. he never grew up. he was still just defiant. he had nothing wrong in the mind except for the drug use. >> thats jerry richardson littlefields brother. so they clearly -- i mean, understandably, they dont buy the insanity defense and neither did the jury. >> yeah and listen, there was a lot of factors andrea. eddie routh, the fact he stole the car and was drivi...

Rob neighbors conducted of the vha found, and im quoting, significant and chronic systemic failures, including too little responsiveness, transparency and accountability, and that is totally unacceptable. it recommends the vha be restructured and reformed with stronger management, leadership, and oversight, as well as more doctors and staff. and i totally agree, and were going to make that happen. ive asked rob to remain at the va for now to help move these reforms forward. hiring of new vwa lea...

Technology. more broadly, the review that rob neighbors conducted of the va found and im quoting systemic and chronic failures including too little responsiveness, transparency and accountability. and that is totally unacceptable. it recommends that the vha be restructured and reformed with stronger management, leadership and oversight as well as more doctors and staff. and i totally agree. were going to make that happen. ive asked for rob to remain at the va for now to help move these reforms f...

Technolo technology. more broadly, the review that rob nabors conducted found and im quoting, significant and chronic systemic failures, including too little responsiveness and transparency and accountability. that is totally unacceptable. it recommends that the vha be restructured and reformed with stronger management and leadership and oversight as well as more doctors and staff. and i totally agree and were going to make that happen. ive asked rob to remain at the va for now to help move thes...

You really have to dig down on this report. it comes from the office of special counsel. these are the government prosecutors who protect government inside whistleblowers and investigate whistleblowers complaints. they have sent a letter to the president this morning, basically saying, hey, weve investigated a lot of these va problems, a lot of these health problems, and weve brought these to the attention of the va. they dont agree with us. we, the special prosecutors here, believe the va is re...

Phony or the long waiting lists. in pittsburgh they discovered a near list, the people who had called the va for an appointment and just never got one and its up to 2 years old for those and those numbers may be well over 80,000 nationwide of people waiting. so it is shinseki stepped down because it did need to have that change, and others may be put in charge but it is a pervasive problem of a culture that said the appearance of doing something is more important than actually doing something. t...

And how much did secretary shinseki know, and when did he know it. i think those are some of the questions that the white house is going to answer. having said that, these problems have existed within the va for a number of years. thats the other thing that you will hear. this white house talk about. and other lawmakers on capitol hill. so that is certainly something that is under consideration. but joy, what youre seeing, a really mounting call for secretary shinseki to resign. democrats, a lot...

>> nothing has changed. everything he says is not true. we had more deaths, more people that are waiting for care. weve had just more of everything. i mean, nothing has changed. the numbers are increasing. nothing has decreased. my husband just a couple months ago went to the va for -- to get some cancer removed from his arm, the surgery because he had skin cancer. his blood pressure was high. he went to the tampa bay hospital, we were in there for six and a half hours. the doctor came in and sa...