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Its not going to solve 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 co...

Times at the phoenix v.a. were reported to the national v.a., including 1400 veterans there waiting and waiting and waiting for care. even worse, 1700 veterans requested but were never scheduled to see a doctor, not even a wait list. >> this is a centipede. a lot more shoes will fall. >> reporter: there are similar abuse allegations nationwide. in a usa today opinion piece, shinseki called the allegations reprehensible. we are not waiting to set things straight. but waiting is not an option anyw...

Assistance and i do believe from when this story broke to where we are even right now there are men and women on the wait list, and i feel like we hear a lot of talk and very few solutions. >> yeah. and i agree with you, tamron. his i.g. set recommendations and hes doing those things. >> the i.g. report said dont fire anyone else within the va and it will upset the investigation right now. i know politically, for people like me who are ticked off about this. the heads will continue to roll here ...

Me. the next hour of the "cnn newsroom" begins right now. good morning. im annika brera. thanks so much for joining me. that v.a. scandal is still growing. outrage is boiling over in washington and beyond. theres a new interim report straight from the v.a. inspector general that details even more shocking failures at the phoenix v.a. facility. 1,700 veterans waiting for doctors care. they were never scheduled for an appointment, so they werent even put on a wait list. the fear is they were sim...

Not on any wait list that would get them one. at its core is the explanation of just how veterans seeking care in this phoenix v.a. were hidden away, kept off the books in four separate schemes including tricking veterans into accepting appointments far into the future, deleting appointments more than 14 days old, actually manipulating data, simply changing dates to fit the v.a.s goals without having doctors see veterans. allegations we first reported more than a month ago when recently retired ...

When the plane was going up and down and could anticipate the moves. here they dont have that. the next phase will be concentrated on trying to get a good map of the surface. then they can do their job quite a bit better than they were able to with bluefin-21. >> do you guys ever get sleep? i see you on cnn all day long and all night long. see you soon. now to another story were watching this morning. the va scandal is widening as some 42 hospitals are under investigation. that action prompted...

And the findings so far from the ig do both confirm the initial allegations and shed light on the scope of the problem. the v.a. inspector general says that he found that there are 1,400 veterans on the wait list in phoenix, waiting to see a primary care doctor, but there are 1,700 veterans who would also like to see a primary care doctor, but who havent actually been put on the list. the inspector general found that the manipulation of wait lists and inappropriate scheduling practices is white ...

Health care system. because they perceive it to be a good system. and in my view, there are areas of the country, of the southwest, phoenix, the south, other areas that have experienced a huge increase of new veterans, of older veterans, of the vietnam war era, and the crises that the v.a. has not stood up and said, you know what, we need more resources to take care of veterans if were going to provide them with quality health care in a timely manner. something that every veteran in this country...

List. who are not on the wait list. and what the inspector generals interim report says that as a direct consequence of not appropriately putting veterans on the wait list, phoenix leadership significantly understated the time new patients waited for their primary care appointments. and they did in their performance appraisal accomplishments, which is one of the factors considered for awards and salary increases. so at their meetings where theyre negotiating essentially their own bonuses and the...

You have to change the system. >> you do. you have to change a culture. you have to get at accountability and there has to be transparency and you have to have choice. if a veteran is waiting 115 days to get a basic colonoscopy why cant they go next door where there is no wait list? choice so they have to complete. hustle for the veterans. >> andy harris a republican from maryland is strongly in favor of pushing that idea. listen the president said if it was systemic he will take action. what do...