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For muslims. you have scholars who have said it clearly, whoever wants to leave islam has the right to leave it. but i go back to the same issue, its about education, and its about economic opportunities. the nigerian government needs to take responsibility for lack of action and for lack of development in their own country. >> im so glad you made that point because that is one of the points we do here a lot, first of all, there have been a lot of muslims who condemned this. youre making the poi...

Under investigation for wait times and other problems. the va secretary still has his job. as the president said hes been talking about this broad issue for a long time and even the specific issue about wait times. >> no veteran should have to fill out a 23-page claim to get care or wait months, even years, to get an appointment at the va. we need to be sure folks get the care they need without long waiting lists and long drives. cut those bag logs, slash those wait times and deliver your benefi...

The va. today the white house again asked about internal va memo first disclosed last week. the office of the inspector general is now investigating 26 facilities. do we know where they are? >> no. they wont tell us. what we do know is the allegations, 26 confirmed involved in wait times, possibly the hiding of how long those waits for veterans are. its certainly today does not seem isolated at all, anderson, as you said. >> drew, theres also evidence that the va knew that facilities were gaming...

Find out what exactly happened. we have to find out how can we realistically cut some of these wait times. there has been a large influx of new veterans coming in. we have a population of veterans that is also ageing as part of the baby boom population. and we have to make sure that the scheduling system, the access to the system, that all those things are in sync. there are parts of the va healthcare system that have performed well. and what weve seen is, for example, satisfaction rates in many...

The reasons why the list grew to a degree. walk us through these numbers. were hearing two conflicting things. >> okay. appreciate it. will do. first of all, if you think that the va is fudging the numbers, which weve seen on healthcare for veterans and wait times, which i consider friendly fire, why would you not think theyre not fudging the numbers on claims as to actual claims numbers. shinseki we established the benchmark in january of 2009 was 150,000 backlog. you can look it up. its online...

Were some widespread cover-up at some middle level of the wide bureaucracy that is the v.a. and really no one knew about them. but this becomes difficult to explain when over the course of many years these kinds of very specific problems were spilled out by the v.a. itself. i mean, you could explain, and the white house has tried to explain, by saying, look, we have tried to reduce wait times. theres been some discrepancy between which wait times were reduced. and the white house has relied on i...

First disclose ed last week. the office of the inspector general is now investigating 26 facilities. do we know where they are? >> no. they wont tell us. what we do know is the allegations, 26 confirmed involved in wait times, possibly the hiding of how long those waits for veterans are. its certainly today does not seem isolated at all, anderson, as you said. >> drew, theres also evidence that the va knew that facilities were gaming the system, manipulating wait times for years, right? >> yeah....

Money at this for decades. its not an issue of money. its accountability and its leadership. look, if you want to say sha shinseki didnt know about this and he shouldnt resign, thats fine. but we just saw on tape the president saying year after year it is a systemic problem. if it werent, you wouldnt have the president of the united states talking about it. if it was episodic or local, it would be a regional issue. when the president speaks about it its systemic. if its systemic, the president s...

Calm down. >> hell no. >> i think thats wrong. enough calm downing around the country on this. thats what has gotten us into this. >> yeah, definitely. i cant figure out what would motivate them to wait so long to talk about it especially if you consider the fact as the president said today that this has been sort of a signature issue for him and his wife, right? this has been something that they have talked about a lot and they have said is very important to them. why wouldnt you be out the nex...

Their own oversight responsibilities. and you also get to the point where someone has to be held accountable. and it ought to start at the top. the model you hold out is one i dont think is necessarily correct and its certainly not relevant now. people died as a result of this. >> that was the congressman talking about this as it relates to obamacare. now in a moment, well speak to former white house chief of staff for president george w. bush andy card, and obama insider bill burton. but first ...