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Light of benghazi, they out of an abundance of caution are taking these steps. it refers to routine things that happen at the embassy, giving passports, et cetera but say for americans, if there is an emergency, they can get in touch with the embassy. that is not a problem. but they are also, anderson, urging americans if they are traveling to that region to register if this program, step. you can find it on their website and you can get texts and e-mail messages realtime about the threat thats ...

Charge and in oversight capacity telling us that they will clean it up. i hope that is the case. i hope that is very much the case, mr. douglas. >> well, again, drew, we have taken -- as weve reported, 38 clinics have already been suspended in 108 different locations. were recertifying 1,000 providers. well continue at this and continue to root out the fraud in this program until it gets to the same integrity of the programs that we administer in the med-cale program. >> i appreciate you being o...

>> no -- >> right. >> these investigations -- >> continue. >> will continue on and well work with the department of justice until we take all these providers -- >> great. >> to the extent possible -- >> so why, why is it okay to talk now, even though the investigation is still going on, but over the last many weeks that drew has tried to get an interview, you couldnt talk because of on going investigation and now you can talk even though there is on going investigation. >> there is an on going i...

Found is appalling -- >> mr. douglas -- >> you didnt just get born last year. this thing for the last two years, according to our reporting you paid $94 million to clinics that showed signs of questionable billing or fraud. you say youve been investigating this for a long time. youve been throwing money away during this time, more than half a billion-dollar has been spent over the past six years. you cant talk about the past. can you not answer the question who was responsible for years of lack ...

What i think, anderson is asking and the whole state of california and the federal taxpayers want to know is there has been evidence of this fraud right under your nose for years and only now it seems, even if you say in the past year weve began investigating, only now is the state going to do something about it. the question is why and who is responsible for overlooking all this fraud? >> again, focus now is that now this program is completely under the control of the department of healthcare s...

Along but you cant name anybody whose actually been named by your investigation until just now. all of a sudden, youve been able to come up with all these names doesnt that at least -- you dont get that looks really shady? >> again, we have been doing, since weve taken this weve been assessing this program top to bottom and we will focus continuously working to root out fraud within this program. >> anderson, i just want to remind you what were hearing from this staff, this fraud has been report...

Helped us in the past. you cant not share this information. remember, weve also heard reports he in the last several weeks named as the new chief operations the ahead of the all eye da affiliate. what im told is take all this together, right, youve got the naming of the chief from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and the video and plus the intelligence, all of this comes together in the last couple of weeks that leads them to take this extraordinary step of closing 21 embassies. >> paul, what d...

>> drew joins me with toby douglas department of healthcare services. apriest, mr. douglas, you being with us. in an editorial today its not enough to stop payments to problem clinicclinics, who at c level was responsible for years of lack of oversight? can you answer that question? who was responsible for lack of oversight? >> anderson, thank you for having me on tonight. i cant talk about the past -- >> why not? >> what i want to tell you is that this past year the governor and legislature tra...