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Yesterday another inspector general report came out on the whole i.t. problem protecting veterans personal and private information to make sure identity theft doesnt sweep away what they have. there are systemic issues that exceed these health issues. when you have debts of our finest americans that answered the call, this is inexcusable and unacceptable and the american people i believe stand with us in saying it step one has to be the removal of this leadership and bring people in potentially ...

Was watch cnn. what other evidence does a president need or anyone involved to know that this is indeed a crisis and something needs to be done now and many, again, are calling for eric shinseki to lose his job? >> don, the answer is i dont know. if these guys are in charge of the va health system, why they werent reading the governments own investigative reports on the agency itself is beyond me. weve just learning about this morning in pittsburgh, at the pittsburgh va, theres a 700-veteran wai...

From secretary shinseki about how he would go about fixing this problem. as you know, don, this is systemic. theres a national audit thats on going, and theres been a drip, drip, drip of more problems being revealed at va facilities around the country. so thats the challenge the president is facing as he tries to make this decision that could come as soon as today, don. >> to be fair, athena, that interview on kelly and michael that was taped after shinsekis remarks, the president may have a cha...

The problem. thats why you saw him lay out a series of steps. i would expect that secretary shinseki is going to have a more whole some report to give to the president when he delivers -- supposed to deliver today preliminary results of an internal review into the va system. certainly president obama is going to get a lot more details than we got from secretary shinseki in that speech. well have to wait and see if thats enough for president obama. i can tell you that he has been inclined to give...

Moments ago. >> let me address the elephant in the room today. you all have been very generous and polite. after ands release of an interim inspector general report, we now know that va has a systemic, totally unacceptable lack of integrity within some of our veterans health facilities. that breach of trust involved the tracking of patient wait times for appointments. our initial findings of our on going internal review of other large va health care facilities also show that to be true. that bre...

Sensitivity when they had a guy who was on the house science committee, todd akin, saying what he said about legitimate rape. the problem is not the gender of their members so much, although that certainly is an image problem. it is a policy issue. in texas they came upon the problem of their gubernatorial candidate being on the wrong side of equal pay for women, so they thought, okay, weve got an idea. well put some women out there, spokespeople for us to defend him and make the case for his vi...

Krystal ball. thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks for having us, rev. >> dana, they talk about change and this is the lineup at a leadership summit? >> yeah, it sounds more like a lineup for a support group for people who have had a rather difficult time the last few years. youve got people with legal troubles, people with ethical troubles. you didnt even mention speaker david vitter who had that little problem with the d.c. madam prostitu prostitute. youve got people with all manner of con...

One playing politics. the rnc launched robo calls and a twitter campaign telling americans to ask for an independent investigation. and what do you know? theyre targeting ten democrats. karl roves group, crossroads gps is using the scandal to hammer alaskas mark begich. >> senator mark begich sits on the veterans affairs committee. his response, if theres a problem, they need to fix it. if theres a problem? tell senator begich, when veterans are dying, it is a problem. >> and its the same ugline...

Obamacare. saying more scandals involving health care and obamacare. i think thats the extent of the reasoning. >> you know, goldie, some on the right are actually trying to use the va problem to go after obamacare or the affordable care act. listen to some of this rhetoric. >> sarah palin and a couple other people on the right said there will be death panels. there will be people deciding who gets what treatment and when and thats going to put long waiting lines on certain types of treatment. t...

John mccain and others who voted for those cuts, who are now cat calling from the sidelines, calling odd iaudibles, wanting current secretary to resign and other heads to roll. if any heads ought to roll, it ought to be theirs. we ought to call them back home. their trust quotient with us has run out. they are no longer good stewards for our american tax dollars and certainly not for the health care for our veterans. it is hypocrisy, its rank hypocrisy but that alone wont stop them. what will st...