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California because we wanted to leave you with some sad news, gregs mom passed away on saturday in california. she was 89. if you watched this show, you may have heard greg talk about his mom jackie. he writes she saw i had an active imagination and a keen desire to express it and gently and enthusiastically encourage me to skip count that path, a cheerleader and friend who took great satisfaction in watching me create things that made me and her lawf, none of my work would have been possible wi...

Low wait list, if you have low wait time statistics in your records, that means more salary increases, more bonuses, more awards. did people know that this was going on. they cannot make the link yet between the death of veterans and this failure in care. they need to find out if veterans indeed died. >> on top of the fake lists it was something like 26 facilities under investigation. that number is up to 42,

As we said, you can always try and outbid the other side and ask for a little bit more money. but theres been no allegation that the lack of funding is the problem here. weve boosted the health service. the pension payments and the disability payments continue. those are mandatory payments. we cover everything we need to cover there. the question is, are you spending the money correctly? and the former director, i agree with that quote completely. thats absolutely the question. >> the president ...

They ration care, they say you need to wait months, in some cases years. >> well give you the free care but youre going to have to wait to get it. and when the veterans, the recipients understand that theyre having to wait a long time the incentive for the bureaucracy is cover it up, dont report it. >> this is inherent to government controlled health care. this is the future of obama care policy. you want to see where our naturalized health care system is headed, look at the va system, where we ...

Me and everyone watching right now. no one is talking about the union angle to this va scandal. is this a big reason why our vets are being mistreated? >> absolutely. unions are standing in the way of real reform happening at the va. they keep saying well its because we need more money. well, we need more staff. thats not the case at all. its them. they are the problem. they are the one who is are standing in the way of real reform and they are the ones who are not allowing things to happen. tha...

Outrage is getting more intense but, yet, the response is a wait and see. how long will that hold? >> hard to say. there is mounting criticism on capitol hill and on the campaign trail. including by several senate democratic candidates. including the challenger who mitch mcconnell, allison lund green grimes said eric shinseki should resign. this is more pressure on the white house. we have heard president obama say repeatedly that things are happening. they are going to wait until the investigat...

In fact sounds very much like a very specific recommendation directly from the president for something to do right away, doesnt it? >> lets not wait for the report retrospectively to reach out immediately to veterans who are currently waiting for appointments. >> is that happening? what does that mean the president said that? weve not been able to get any details from the white house or from veterans affairs since the president read those remarks as to whether or not those remarks mean there is ...

Going on there? >> we used it every day. it wasnt a secret to any of us. we would pull up patients demographic information, print off the list, and we would write on the back of it, patient needs new patient appointment and we would write the date that we wrote that on there. that would then go into a folder behind the primary care clinics desks and at the end of every day, that folder was collected and turns into this mass pile of paperwork, which is what everybody is calling the secret wait li...

House overwhelmingly approved the va accountability act, 390 to 33. it will give shinseki more power to discipline or remove 450 career employees across the va. at the heart of the scandal is the hospital in phoenix, with hidden wait list and data tampering. thats where nabors is today. its one of the 26 va facilities being investigated. a lot of anger and a lot of political machinations can it actually secure better treatment standards for our vets. luke, give us a quick overview of what we can...

It wasnt a secret to any of us. i mean, we would pull up patients demographic information, print off the list, flip the page over and write on the back of it, patient needs new patient appointment and we would write the date we wrote that on there. that would go into a folder behind the primary care clinics desks and at the end of every day, that folder was collected and turned into this mass pile of paperwork, which is what everybody is calling the secret wait list. >> so there was a secret wai...