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To us. but were trying to compare apples to apples with their own documents. average wait times for new patients average wait times for new veterans entering the system for the first time in los angeles, our insiders and our inside documents say its 44 days. that person representing the v.a. in congress said 4 days. >> and has congress said anything about this? because if thats true somebodys not telling the truth here. >> reporter: thats exactly right. i think trust and transparency has been a ...

Wait times and then in fact even mental health patients which is very troubling, are waiting months to get an appointment. thats according to multiple administrative and medical sources and the v.a.s own documentation from inside that hospital. >> do the administrators know about this or is this just at the hospital level? >> well it could be even worse. a high-ranking v.a. official testified specifically about wait times in los angeles. there she is there. our investigation shows what this woma...

Stated that i too had been in special forces. that was wrong. >> reporter: while some veterans groups accepted the apology, as did the white house, the national commander of the american legion said mcdonald will have a lot of work to do to rebuild trust in an already troubled department. >> hes going to have to come back one v.a. customer at a time. >> reporter: mcdonald has been called out for claiming hes fired 60 people in the wake of the scandal over veterans wait times. apparently only eig...

Undocumented californians will be eligible to apply for drivers licenses. wait times at the dmv are not expected to improve. heather: no definitely not. what about some other states? any other laws? >> reporter: a million of em. [laughter] probably, i dont know if that many but several thousand at least. the minimum age is increasing in 21 states and five cities washington state will now have the highest minimum wage of any state, increasing to $9.47. in oregon a new law requires home sellers to...

And multiple it times the size of the ceiling -- >> youre literally stuck. >> yes. right. it just releases that lift and then at that point the aircraft goes down. the objective then is to get enough air speed over the wing by putting the nose down getting the aircraft down. its counter intuitive to do that. last thing you think you should do is push down but you have to do that to get the air over the top of the wing again and re-establish the lighter weight on top. >> to get up to speed a litt...

Became public. it all came to light when the former hospital director sharon heldman tried to get her job back after being fired. doug? >> reporter: thats right, leland, it is coming to light as a formal appeal filed by shearon heldman to get her job back. an administrator law school upheld the firing but not because of the long wait times in phoenix. her higher ups probably anyhow of the falsified wait times. some senior agency leaders were aware of nationwide problems of getting veterans sched...

Months out or nine months out and a sizeable number, not surprisingly dont show up. i indicated to him that if we had more administrative judges, more administrative capacity, we can shrink those wait times. this administrative practice predates my administration and and in fact has been going on for quite some time and a lot of it has to do with the fact that there is not enough capacity both in terms of detention facilities but also in terms of judges, attorneys, space, in order to process the...

With a coordinate that might be six months out or nine months out and a sizeable number. thats why they dont show up. i indicated to him that if we had more administrative judges, more administrative capacity, we can shrink those wait times. this administrative practice predates my administration and in fact has been going on for quite sometime and a lot of it has to do with the fact that theres not enough capacity. boemg in terms of detention facilities with you also in terms of judges, attorne...

Speaking out about the hospital spending millions on obama ads. others covered up wait times and mistreatment of the veterans. >> the va has intimidated any employee that brings forth information that is against what the va wishes to project. i submitted a complaint about the va system and ten days after they received my report i was put on leave for a month. the deficiencies were obvious at the er and the actual mistakes and misses sky rocketed. strokes, heart attacks, blood infections and othe...

Started in phoenix. also pittsburgh. in phoenix, president obama spoke to veterans of foreign wars in phoenix promising to slash wait times. yet we have all the potential apparent cover-ups. what happened? >> really hard to tell. seems like there is corrosive culture of neglect going on in years. that is something the new secretary, robert macdonald will have a huge task to correct. there is such systemic corruption throughout the agency. eric: do you think that is possible? >> i hope so. there ...