i question why he hasn't himself been able to find out those facts. let's put it at face value. if he's saying the core team surrounding him as lied to him and he's saying that we have a systemic scandal at all of the big major hospitals that the va runs throughout the country, then what kind of leadership role is that? he has no clue what's going on underneath him. he did go to the coalition for homeless veterans this morning. particularly because that is an issue that is near and dear to his heart and he's done a great job with homeless veterans. it's a bigger part to take one part of the va and doing well while the other part wallows in a terrible scandal. >> decades of service to this country in the military and last five years at the department of veterans affairs. within the next few minutes we'll learn whether he will stay as secretary of this department amid all of the scandals that cnn has been reporting on and