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They knew about it in 2012. >> even before that. weve broken it down. its really quite incredible when you go year by year. you look at 2011. the va leaders nationwide were told to stop gaming the system. then in 2012, there was an audit in the southwest va. they found arizona, texas, and new mexico had violated policies and that it was common place across the united states. then in 2013 e-mails revealed that the southwest va leaders were aware of scheduling problems and fraud. >> but we wouldnt...

Currently the number three house republican. tight battle among several others to take his position. anger this morning about thousands of missing irs e-mails. the agency has thrown away the crashed hard drive, thrown it away of former top official lois lerner. they stand accused of targeting groups through scrutiny. most of her e-mails from 2009 to 2011 were lost in the hard drive crash. some republicans were pushing to turn it over to i.t. experts to recover the e-mails. >> they have recover...

Begin scheduling appointments for veterans did gives and says has now contacted nearly all of the 1700 arizona veterans who say they were deliberately left off the patient care waiting list. this follows the release of the shocking report confirming systematic scheduling problems at facilities across the country. as he may know, families at least 40 veterans claim they died because of the collected care being forced to wait for appointment that never came. jenna: three police officers shot dead,...

>> we will pick up on that mismatch in a minute but, first, chairman miller, the v.a. inspector had issued 18 reports since 2005 about scheduling problems leading to long waits in time for veterans to get care yet both the president and eric shinseki said they didnt know about the problem. watch what the president had to say. >> this issue of scheduling is one that the reporting systems inside of the v.a. did not surface to the level where rick was aware of him or we were able to see it. this is...

>> we will pick up on that mismatch in a minute but, first, chairman miller, the v.a. inspector had issued 18 reports since 2005 about scheduling problems leading to long waits in time for veterans to get care yet both the president and eric shinseki said they didnt know about the problem. watch what the president had to say. >> this issue of scheduling is one that the reporting systems inside of the v.a. did not surface to the level where rick was aware of him or we were able to see it. this is...

Martha: i think whisper having a great ol time, whether he likes it or not. have a great weekend, everybody. "happening now" starts right now. jenna: well take up right where they left off with a fox news alert. embattled va secretary eric shinseki just met with president obama at the white house after addressing the scandal head-on in a speech to a service organization for homeless veterans just a few hours ago. it has been a fast-moving story this morning, really all week long. great to see yo...

We need to get answers. >> it goes to the competence of the administration. >> the president is the one who should be held accountable. >> this could be the biggest issue of the election. >> its not suggesting theres a political scandal to step in and say, i asked for a job to be done, job not done, we have to bring in somebody else. >> on thin ice, those are the words of an administration official to nbc news this afternoon describing the dicey situation for v.a. secretary eric shinseki. his jo...

General for ten years and has not listened to the government accountability office for ten years because if you did, you would have known about these scheduling problems, wait times and inability -- >> drew, let me say that i have knowledge during the course of this hearing that i think v.a. made assumptions that our data were accurate. i think that we assume that the oig and gao information, patient concerns were exceptions rather than rules. i think knowledge that we have perhaps elevated perf...

Problem. >> not until the last few days has the medias coverage reached white hot intensity with some pundits and politicians calling for veterans secretary eric shinseki to resign. >> the white house knew. now, the "washington times" is reporting that the obama administration was notified about scheduling problems and delayed care at multiple veterans affairs hospitals more than five years ago. >> if these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and i will not toler...

Without the words "under god" was provided for president obama and only president obama to read to highlight the fact that there are different versions and there are different versions, five of them, in fact. two of them do not include those words, three of the other versions that lincoln wrote up later after the address do include the words. you read one of those versions and i think also worth noting, when you look at the dozens of people who participated in this project, youre in pretty good ...