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Parts of the country as it is now. the reason for that these wait lists, theyre not wait lists, bill. theyre death list. if you got on the wait list you were getting on a list you were not going to be treated. put those military veterans immediately into private health care while you fix the veterans health care. bill: why not give the power to hire and fire? >> that is the biggest problem. this is dirty little secret about government. nobody ever gets fired. you get more people. so as a result ...

To remind our viewers about some of the key points about the wait for care. this is what the inspector general found. 1,700 veterans not even on a wait list. an average wait of 115 days for first appointment. hospital leadership, quote, significantly understated time veterans waited for first appointment. paul, your experience with veterans, is this a fair statement? theyre happy with the care once they get it. >> quality care is generally good but access to care has been horrible and continues ...

Er is. shinsekis resignation is not enough to fix the organization that is bloated. >> his resignation is not going to solve this problem. what will solve this problem is aggressive digging and figuring out what happened and what within wrong and how to unwind it and get out of this mess. thats what we have to be focused on. it is not going to make a material difference. >> one report from the office of the inspector general found systemic problems about the wait times. as many as 1700 veterans ...

Problem that developed at the v.a. hospital in pittsburgh. what are you learn something. >> this is a hospital thats been in trouble before. late last night we learned that 700 veterans are on a wait list there, wait foring for care, so since 2012. they are now being rushed to get appointments, but its part of this bigger widening scandal. i want to bring you up to date with what happened at this hospital. at 2011-2012, there was legionella bacteria running through the water system in this hospi...

Everything to have him step aside but it is the right thing to do. >> that may be the case. and i -- in some ways i personally reserve judgment because i feel like i dont know what the underlying problem is yet. lets say shinseki comes out tomorrow and resigns, 8:30 in the morning hes scheduled to give a talk. lets say he resigns. whats the day two plan of attack here? i mean, i still dont understand what the problem is that has led apparently to 42 different facilities cooking the books because...

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...

>> welcome back. a world war ii veteran on the ultimate wait list. after 68 years milton rack em finally gets the benefits he earned in battle. the 89-year-old was told by the veterans administration his records were lost in a fire. for decades he filed claims to get the benefits. in 2011 his writer friend submitted detailed stories to the va of the vets service. two months ago he started getting payment. 800 a month by the way plus $7,000 in back pay. good for him. he certainly deserves it. >> ...

And confidence in the people of power, he is part of the problem through the weekend, but it is important that he acted today. as i said before, better to have acted two days ago. >> and kcolonel jack jacobs, yor last thoughts on this, and what do you believe needs to be next? obviously, seeing the 1,700 men and women on the wait list, but what is the critical thing for our vets that needs to be done regarding the v.a. system now? >> well, it has to be fully computerized in talking to one anothe...

Explaining the deadly treatment delays at the va medical centers as first revealed by cnn. the secretary is expected to apologize today for a breach of trust when he speaks to a veterans group in just over two hours. and now we are learning the wait list scandal has gone even wider. gone nationwide. drew griffin of cnns special investigations unit has been out in front on this from the beginning. drew, hes joining me from washington. you have new information. a lot of the focus and the administr...

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...