homelessness with these veterans. also some of the strides they made in health care in reducing those costs. that was the bulk of the speech and he ended by saying if we could fix those things, we can fix this. he talked about the challenges over the last few weeks as the elephant in the room, he talked about a systemic problem which i would point out is the point that house speaker john boehner has been making and simply removing shinseki might not fix the problem. john boehner said he's getting closer to this idea that shinseki should step down, but he's not there yet. that's the point i would make, that of course we expect eric shinseki when he meets with the president in the next hour is going to make these very same points, that they have tried to address certain problems and they can move forward by addressing this one. >> erin, athena, drew, stand by. here is eric shinseki just