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Republicans it two months ago. congress cant figure out what the veterans administration needs and a lot of that has to do with the fact that funding is ze discretionary. i think the administration can hope to stem this crisis, lower the wait times, and hopefully, you know, this thing will take years for other administrations and other congresses to fully support. >> yeah, and, norm, you follow washington a lot. youve written a lot about the dysfunction and systemic level and surely in the legis...

Resign under these circumstances. >> reporter: shinsekis departure came as the v.a. released an audit of its health system that found facilities around the country were flagged for further review because of concerns about questionable scheduling practices. the v.a. secretary claiming his own officials have been lying to him. >> i was too trusting of some, and i accepted as accurate reports that i now know to have been misleading with regard to wait times. >> reporter: the president said the whit...

>> rocky show. talk being sylvester stallone coming up. thats why hes eating the raw egg. thats coming up. in the meantime, fox news alert. a rare and firey late night hearing on capitol hill about the v.a. scandal coming hours of a a scathing report shows just how screwed up the place is. >> elizabeth prann is live with the breaking details. whats new? >> reporter: good morning. it was a faceoff on capitol hill last night. lawmakers questioned three top v.a. administrators for hours addressin...

Just cant get over it. >> good morning, everyone. a lot going on this morning. welcome to "early start." im john berman. >> im christine romans. its may 29th, 5:00 a.m. on the nose. the white house says veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki is on "thin ice," and many more lawmakers, including democrats, are calling for his resignation after the vas own inquiry substantiated what we first discovered in a cnn investigation, that waiting lists were manipulated at va facilities in phoenix, dela...

Obama care tells him hes a veteran has to go with the va but the va is so disorganized he has a one year waiting list. thats classic. right? here you have this amazing young man in limbo. >> one thing we have heard from veterans that weve talked to in are the reporting this story. the quality of health care that this ultimately do get is good, if they can get through wait times. >> they are so frustrated by the time they get there. i also should say and some same guy pointed out, its the guys wi...

Seemingly all in an attempt to make that medical centers wait times look better. at a late-night hearing, members of congress from both parties went after top va officials who insisted, if they knew the extent of the problem, they would have acted sooner. >> knew that the scheduling system was challenged, but we discounted the oig reports and patient concerns as exceptions, not the rule. we could and should have challenged those assumptions. this was an insidious process. it was not obviously ap...

>> related to baby cakes? >> been an interesting week. so lets talk about what happened late last night on capitol hill. its a fox news alert. a rare and firey late night hearing on capitol hill about the v.a. scandal after a scathing report shows just how disturbing and how widespread the problem is. elizabeth prann is in washington with the details and the latest from the white house as they react. >> reporter: yeah. good morning. tensions were high on the hill as lawmakers questioned three to...

Dont keep teasing the victims when youre going to execute somebody -- >> do it by any means necessary. >> if not, get it off the books. >> mayor wharton, thanks for your work on this rape kit issue. thats the subject of this weeks call to action, add your signature to the chairs of house and senate appropriation committees urging them to assure the ip inclusion of $36 million in funding in the fiscal year to help clear that backlog of rape kits across the united states. you can find the letter o...

Followed the rules but it was the people who were getting the bonuses and the promotions to keep the wait times low that cannot be allowed to skate on this issue. >> congressman, youve been chairman of the house veterans affairs committee since 2011, a veteran, former army specialist, alex horton of texas covers a lot of stories in various media, he wanted to me ask you, why hasnt your committee, the house veterans affairs committee, been effective at curbing these problems? >> well, first of al...

Waiting. >> a second ago when i was asking about criminal charges, you referenced lying to congress. who specifically do you think lied to congress? >> well, tonight were going to have a hearing at 7:30, going to talk to three of the people that have been subpoenaed and were going to ask them why are we waiting so long to get the information from the department? i have over 110 requests for information, some go back over two years, trying to find out answers to questions like, why are there wait...