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Issue. weve come together on the committee to work together to do whats right for the sake of right and its not that were talking about little minor things here. when this inspector general report came out, this is systemic. when you find out you asked for information for 18 months and not on individual cases here but trends that were developing, this report says this is a nationwide problem and there were people that sat around a table and figured out how to manipulate with these numbers and co...

Athena jones is at the white house following this story for us. athena, the big question, what will happen at the white house, what will their talk be about? did eric shinseki say enough at this homeless veterans coalition to save his job? eric shinseki is not the only one speaking out this morning. the president was on michael and kelly this morning -- "kelly and michael" and spoke about how big and serious this problem is. lets take a listen. >> ill have a serious conversation with him about w...

Accepting a resignation or allowing him to continue the problem even though theres only a few years left in this administration. >> reporter: i think if you look at what happened with hhs secretary kathleen sebelius, that could be illustrated, could give us a hint as to how the administration could handle this. they left secretary sebelius in place even as that disaster rouse rollout of healthcare.gov was on going. there were many, many problems with that. they kept her in place so she could be ...

Veterans, he outlined the steps they made to bring that down to 24% over the past three years. that gives indication of some problem that he was able to help fix. certainly secretary shinseki has a plan that hes begun to lay out for trying to turn this around. the question is going to be whether the president wants to stick with him during this time and replace it later or replace him right now. >> we may find out soon. theyre meeting at 10:15 eastern time, just under an hour from now. i want to...

2013 that people were dieing on wait lists. wait list data numbers were being fudged, that the governments own reports showed for years that the vas reporting data was flawed. so while i feel sorry in a way for this general than for the first time in 38 years, he is being lied to by his underlings, i think the information was there, ready available in the public for him to have seen this crisis coming and done something much more proactively than waiting till this crisis developed in phoenix whi...

He said he initiated removal of the senior leaders at the phoenix facility. no performance bonuses this year for senior va executives and he says patient times will no longer factor into employee evaluations. whats your take? >> my take is good steps that should have been taken a long time ago. i just listened to that one more time. im struck that hes apologizing to members in congress who have supported him. if he listened to members in congress who had pointed this out to him for the last year...

Homelessness with these veterans. also some of the strides they made in health care in reducing those costs. that was the bulk of the speech and he ended by saying if we could fix those things, we can fix this. he talked about the challenges over the last few weeks as the elephant in the room, he talked about a systemic problem which i would point out is the point that house speaker john boehner has been making and simply removing shinseki might not fix the problem. john boehner said hes getting...

Where his father was a manager at ford motor company. he went to harvard and briefly attended stanford school of business and no stranger to the business of sports. his name has been tied to a possible deal for the sacramento kings but that fell through. now hes poised to make the biggest nba deal ever going from high tech billionaire to courtside baller. christine romans, cnn, new york. >> make sure you stay tuned to that. big developments on that and big developments in the white house as pres...

Ive heard enough. ive seen enough. we researched and learned enough aside from the fact that the inspector general report that came out to know that theres valid reasons to call to his resignation. i heard what he to say this morning as well. >> what he had to say this morning, he talked about what he wants to do to fix this va problem talking about, asking congress, to give him more power to fire people. no bonus for va phoenix staff. he wants to accelerate care for veterans who have been waiti...

Scandal as a real authentic problem that has to be addressed and they put it in as this one official described it as a separate bucket from some of the other scandals that weve seen here in washington. some of the other controversies that weve seen here in washington. they dont see this as a similar situation to say the controversy swirling around benghazi. they feel like that was overpoliticized by republicans on capitol hill but they see whats happening on capitol hill, democrats and republica...