Biopsy done to determine whether or not he had cancer. He couldnt be seen for two months Reporter Office of special counsel sent a letter to president obama detailing a culture of nonresponsiveness at the v. A. , all kinds of problems. Maybe the most stunning was in a longterm Mental Health facility in brockton, massachusetts. One veteran had his first Mental Health evaluation eight years after he moved in. Another veteran, seven years. I have evidence. Reporter now a whistleblower in phoenix where the scandal broke and where 35 veterans died awaiting care said she was instructed to keep a secret waiting list while she made life or death decisions about whom to schedule and someone has now gone into the system and changed the status of several deceased veterans to still alive. To hide the fact that people died on that list . Thats my belief. Reporter what would be the any other purpose . There wouldnt be any other purpose. Reporter as this story broke while the hearing was going on, more disbelief. Still, while weve been doing this, these hearings for a couple of months, americans are literally wondering when is this going to stop. Reporter so the v. A. Last night said it felt confident it has the tools and data necessary to move forward. It just becomes clear that they are still in the triage stage dealing with the emergency at hand, and Congress Wants to know why it took this long for the problems to even become known. Just think that this all came to light because of those whistleblowers, many of whom faced retaliation. John . All right. Thanks, michelle. Wait, theres more. A Top White House lawyer will take the stand in day two of a House Oversight hearing on lost emails at the irs. Todays testimony follows a game of political cat and mouse surrounding claims that the irs targeted conservative groups. Cnns athena jones is in washington with this one. Good morning, athena. Reporter good morning, john. Were talking about high drama on capitol hill last night. This hearing lasted more than three and a half hours, and for much of that time it was republicans grilling the irs commissioner, accusing him of working to cover up the fact that all these emails had gone missing. They said the irs commissioner testified back in march that the irs would provide all of lois lerners emails and come to find out just earlier this month that owe mails over a twoyear period are missing because of this hard drive crash. I want to play for you a heated exchange, one of several, between the Committee Chairman darrell issa and the irs commissioner. Lets play that. All the emails we have will be provided. I did not say i would provide you emails that would be disappeared. If have you a magical way for me to do that, i would be happy to know about that. Were providing all the emails. The fact that three years ago, some of them, not all of them, were not available. I never said i would provide you emails we didnt, have and, in fact, we are going to provide you 24,000 emails from the time period. My time section period and ive lost my patience with you. So there you heard some strong words there, heated words, and we expect to see more of that today. John. Athena, i understand there is another investigation into this at this point. Thats right, yet another one. We heard from the irs commissioner last night that the treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has already opened an independent review, an investigation into these missing lerner emails, and so we expect to see that report at some point, but, of course, this hard drive crash happened three years ago, so unclear at this point how long it will take for that independent review to be completed. John . Athena jones in washington, thanks so much. Lets turn now to the crisis in iraq where the country over the countrys main oil refinery is intensifying. Theres conflicting reports over whether the military or isis militants have taken control of it this morning, and weve just learned that iraqi air strikes have killed 19 militants near that oil complex. This comes after secretary of state john kerry, he met with iraqi Prime MinisterNuri Al Maliki, who has agreed to begin the process to form a new government. Lets get to baghdad live for the very latest. What is the latest . Reporter well, i kate, as youve said weve spent the week seesawing between the conflicting ownership of the baiji refinery. Were hearing that the Iraqi Air Force has called in strikes which just gives you a sense of how much that battle has intensified. Were already seeing the impact of that here on the ground. Up in the north of iraq, eyewitnesses are reporting ques stretching for hours at gas stations. Interestingly, even the iraqi army admits that the militants are going very carefully in their attempt to take over the refinery, hoping that they will be able to use it for their own needs, fuel needs in the coming days and weeks, but its not just about controlling the oil supply to iraqs north. Its also about getting that crucial step closer to baghdad. Baiji is on the highway to the iraqi capital. Secretary of state kerry is up in the kurdish region. Hes just met with the president , and hes bringing the same message he brought down here to baghdad, have you to unite. Any military help that the u. S. Brings must go hand in hand with a political resolution here on the ground in iraq but these gains that were seeing the militants taking in day after day, that really gives you a sense of how quickly both of these proses isses need to move and they need to move in tandem. All of those were speaking to here on the ground are telling us, kate, that u. S. Military help cannot come soon enough. Kate . How they unite and how quickly they can pull it off. Thats where all the skepticism remains on the ground in baghdad and, of course, here still in the u. S. Thank you so much. Important to note, next hour chief national skurecurity headm sciutto will be sitting down for an exclusive interview. A parachute accident in Southern California last night resulting in the sailors death. We do know they were doing routine parachute training and the knave is investigating what exactly went wrong. A federal appeals report has issued a secret Justice Department memo on an ire strike that killed a u. S. Citizen. The memo authorized the use of Military Form against al alaqui. Officials in syria say the last of the dangerous chemical weapons have been handed over. They will transferred to American Ship and destroyed over the next couple of months while the remaining material will be disposed at a toxic waste side. The handover is part of a deal reached last fall under threat of u. S. Air strikes but theres still questions about whether or not syria is hiding undeclared poison gases that are not classified as chemical weapons. First Lady Michelle obama says she will not run for office after she leaves the white house. During a summit focused on Family Friendly work policy she made it clear that her future work will not involve politics. No, i will not be political. Yeah, no. It definitely will not be. It will be missionbased. It will be servicefocused. It will, you know she made it pretty clear. Mrs. Obama believes the United States is ready for a female president. And the ratings are in, at least 25 Million People watched sundays u. S. Portugal world cup match. More than 18 million of you saw it on espn and another 6. 5 million caught the Spanish Language broadcast on univision. The ratings were the highest ever for any soccer match televised in the United States. This could also mean another ratings bonanza when the team takes on germany this thursday, but today you have costa ricaengland and italy versus uruguay and ivory coast versus japan. The u. S. Germany game is at 12 00 so you may have to skip work. We dont condone that. Who cares. It comes right after here here on cnn. Well extensive pregame coverage of the u. S. Game and i know youll be watching. You can come on the pregame show. Pass it down. Big reach there. Lets move to weather right now. I know indra is keeping her eye on flooding going on in the midwest. What can you tell us about the situation there . Definitely not what you want to be seeing, michaela. All the rain that hit over the weekend in the upper midwest. This is cedar rapids in towards iowa. Several days later were talking about that water trickling down. So much rain there. Highways covered, and heres the concern. Lets talk about where we should be seeing those rivers and what the river gauges are showing. We should be seeing below 14 feet. Already were talking about 19 feet out there, and even if it doesnt rain any more, its still expect toddrickle down, continuing to heighten to 20 feet by thursday. Keep in mind this is the forecast without any rain, but, unfortunately, more rain is still in the forecast, and thats the concern as those rivers keep rising up, up and up. So a lot of showers are still going to be out there today. As far as the Severe Weather threat, its out there, very concentrated from denver, kind of down from the texas panhandle. 3 million of you do have that threat, even for tornadoes out there, but the bulk of you talking about those scattered showers, the hot, humid, summer factor that everyone is complaining about, but keep in mind there are a couple of cold fronts out there. What does that mean . A couple of chances for more showers into the northeast. You kind of want to see it day by day. Pittsburgh, cleveland, back into cincinnati, youll get the heavier rain showers and dry notes along the actual east coast. Once we go in through tomorrow the rain will shift farther east, new york city, d. C. , phil philly, up towards about, youll be talking about the rain as well. Temperaturewise, a mixed bag where its supposed to be but not necessarily comfortable. 88 degrees, humid, showers, thats what were looking at in d. C. , new york city 81, 90s down in the south. Behind the cold front more mild. Still scary when you talk about all the rain and the rivers are still cresting. A meteorologist used the term mixed bag. Im like wondering what word shes going to pick on because shes got a lot of words to puck on. Like reaching 90 in washington and that can feel a whole lot worse in washington with the humidity. Not a dry heat. So pleasant though. Always. A mixed bag. Steamy. Thanks, indra. Coming up next on new day, primary day in seven states. Could this be the end of the line for two longtime members of congress . Well talk about it. Plus, a kidnapped baby found alone near the side of the road. Look at that picture. Well the details of this dramatic image thats gone viral just ahead. Whats your favorite kind of cheerios . Honey nut. But. Chocolate is my other favorite. Oh yeah, and frosted whats your most favorite of all . Hmm. The kind i have with you. Me too. First day of my life by bright eyes youre not just looking for a house. Youre looking for a place for your life to happen. Welcome back. Startling new allegations against the Veterans Affairs department. A whistleblower tells cnn that veterans records were changed at the phoenix v. A. Hospital in order to hide how many of them died waiting for care. The allegations were made public just as lawmakers grilled v. A. Officials on capitol hill about the growing scandal last night. Lets discuss the political fallout with paul begala, cnn democratic commentator and strategic adviser a usa priorities action and ketch madden, republican strategist and cnn commentator. Good morning to both of you. This just keeps getting worse and worse. Whats unique about this, i think you can both agree, its not partisan. This problem, unfortunately, has spanned administrations, but it does make me wonder as this gets worse and worse, where does the buck stop . When does it begin hurting the president . Well, it may have already. As you recall, when he campaigned in 2008 he campaigned in part on trying to fix the v. A. Most people think general shinseki who just resigned, terrific man, army chief of staff but clearly the place is a mess. Republicans so far, youre right, republicans so far on this one have not seemed to partisan the way they have been on the irs and these other things, they have not. If i give them free advice, stay with the facts. The facts are outrangeous and indefensible. Everybody wants to get to the bottom of it. There ought to be investigations by the congress, and there ought to be prosecutions, if warranted but so far the republicans have played this politically very wisely by not being too partisan on it. Their inclination, they wont be able to contain themselves, they will go too far and politicize this. Real quick on this, paul, you say it may have hurt the president already. Yes, hes got theres a lot on his plate especially on the international front, but what more can the president do . Should the president be doing more . Hes put one of his senior guys down there to investigate, rob nabors, a guy a lot of people trust within the administration, but we dont hear kind of lighting his hair on fire about this. He has put a very top person there, removed the secretary to begin with. He sent his deputy chief of staff nabors down there to the v. A. To fix it. Thats about all you can do. What you have to do is turn up the heat on the investigators and the people being investigated. People are not cooperating. They need to know that thats unacceptable, but frankly this is not really the president s investigation to run because its going to have to be done i hope ultimately by prosecutors but also the congress has an oversight responsibility. I have to say the media here, your network and mine, cnn, has covered this really well and has done a terrific job trying to get to the bottom of it. Wait, theres more. There was an irs hearing on capitol hill last night. The second one weve seen over the last week that got very, very contentious. Republicans on the Committee Really going right after the irs commissioner. Do you think this level of confrontation plays well with the American People because these exchanges are downright hostile . It does because its its because its the irs, and i think right now people feel like the irs and the federal government is not giving them very simple answers to very simple questions about concerns that they have, and this is a legitimate area of congressional authority. They have oversight over the irs. And in many ways so many of these lawmakers are giving voice to so many of the frustrations that so Many Americans have about the irs, that its unresponsive, that its overbearing, so i think that this is actually this is actually one of those areas where the congress and so many of these lawmakers are really aligned with voter frustration out there. You heard paul say that the v. A. Scandal so far not partisan. Right. Do you think republicans will lay off the v. A. As we head into the midterm elections. Seems to me they will be talking about the v. A. And irs and say this is another example of how government is broken. I agree with paul that this is not something thats partisan, and i think that that many republicans arent going to lay off in the sense that they are they are not going to stop asking the hard questions. This is their job. They were elected to go and provide oversight to Administration Agencies like this when they screw up, so they want answers to basic questions that voters also want answers to. On the v. A. Front, to both of you, but for kevin, i mean, you say that they were elected for oversight, thats exactly right. Why did it take drew griffin of cnn to uncover all of the problems with the v. A. Before they all started getting oh, so outraged and holding all these hearings and Holding People accountable as they are watching it happen. This is their job to have oversight over this department. Why hasnt that happened. Should members of Congress Also be held accountable . They are elected by these districts. They are responsible to these voters. Youre absolutely right, kate, and i think many voters havent looked at this through a partisan lens. Some of polling weve seen, you might have thought president obama and the democrats, because they are seen as the party in control would have taken a bigger hit but they didnt. Collectively the institution of washington has taken a hit as it relates to this v. A. Scandal, so i think whats most important for a lot of these members up on capitol hill that are asking these tough questions is that they fix the problem now. Lets forget about who to blame and lets get the hard questions answered that we need to in order to fix it, and i think thats where a lot of energy is with the public at large as well. Hey, paul, i want to ask you quickly about the irs for a second because the commissioner has had two chances to testify up on capitol hill, and both times he has sent it right back at these members asking him the hard questions. Do you think thats a good strategy . He seems angry. Yeah, i think its a great strategy. I think its also the truth. Koskinan is a professional with the highest integrity, and i have to say some of these congressmen, the v. A. , not being too political on and on the irs they are being so nakedly political they are disgracing themselves. The irs the thing that came out originally, right, the first story of this is the irs is targeting conservative groups, if thats true, thats outrageous. Now that its been investigated, weve found they were targeting liberal groups as well and for these congressmen to stand there preening like that. It doesnt help the republicans, by the way, and i think that koskinan, testimony put out 20,000 pages already of documents but some of them have crashed heres ago before he was in charge of thei and i thought he was great saying what he did. What, i have a magic wand . I think thats grandstanding by the Congressional Elections at its worst. Its primary day, need your take on this. Kevin, two of the longest serving members of congress, legends in the halls of capitol hill, if youve covered capitol hill or even walked through those halls, what is going on with the