Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. Disturbing details coming to light today disturbing the scandal plagued v. A. Hospital in phoenix. Troops coming home were kept waiting for 10 months for followup at the facility. These were not run of the mill issues that could be delayed. Were talking about people that were injured by being blown up by ieds. Were talking about people who had a mental breakdown and have severe ptsd and having trouble functioning. Were talking about veterans that were severely injured by some means in the while in the military, even if it wasnt in actual combat. Cnn Senior Investigative correspondent drew griffin was the first to expose the extent of the problems inside the v. A. Facility in phoenix and elsewhere. Drew, white house chief of staff, rob nabors has now arrived in phoenix where you are and the president directed him to try to deal with this crisis. What does he hope to accomplish . Reporter we asked him that on his way in this morning. Rob nabors didnt have any comment as he arrived meeting steve young, the interim director. He is just about wrapping up an executive briefing in the next half hour and after which he will roam the hospital talking to the Health Care Providers and experts trying to assess what is going on the ground there. I hope he will meet doctors like dr. Kathryn mitchell who will tell him exactly what their concerns are and later sit down with veteran Service Organizations and hear those complaints. At the end of the day, he will go back presumably to report to the president. It is a very quick trip for rob nabors but will plan to spend the whole day there at the hospital. As you know better than any, dr. Mitchells allegations strike at the heart of what the v. A. Is supposed to be about caring for wounded veterans. Has the v. A. Responded to her charges . Reporter we asked specific questions related to the allegations shes brought up. The v. A. Has told us they have been advised not to respond to any of those allegations while this current Inspector General investigation is going on. So i guess the comment is no comment right now while they still try to sort out this mess. Wol wolf. Excellent reporting by drew. Thanks very much. Republican congressman, jeff miller, chairman of the Veterans Affairs committee in the house told cnn the v. A. Scandal over wait lists is quote the tip of the iceberg. There are some 1700 v. A. Facilities all over the country. 26 of them are now under investigation because of cnns reporting. Three senior v. A. Officials were invited to appear this morning before congressman Millers Committee but last night they informed him they couldnt make it. Millers annoyance was obvious. I will ask one thing real quick because i dont see any faces, familiar faces from v. A. And the central office. Is anybody here from v. A. . No one there from v. A. While some in congress are demanding that v. A. Secretary Erik Shinseki step down, heres what the House Speaker john boehner said about that when asked by our own chief Congressional Correspondent, dana bash. Ive not called for general shinseki to resign although i have to admit im getting a little closer. Heres the point. This isnt about one person. This isnt about the secretary. Its about the entire system underneath him. The general can leave and we can wait around for months to go through a nomination process and we get a new person, but the disaster continues. Our chief political analyst, Gloria Borger is here with me. The president was very specific yesterday. He wants to see the investigations go forward, wants to get a report from rob nabors, his deputy chief of staff and only then will he decide if heads will roll. Not at all. This is a president who doesnt believe in immediate sacrificial lambs and no drama obama. Remember during the bp oil spill, people were saying, wheres the outrage . Wheres the outrage . Thats not who he is. We saw it with the rollout of the Affordable Care act. That was complete disaster. Did he fire Kathleen Sebelius right away. Is she leaving now . Yes. At irs, did he fire people right away . Did people leave eventually . Yes. Did he leave the door open yesterday for shinseki to be fired or allowed to be resign. The answer is yes. Dont forget, Erik Shinseki is a war hero. He has two purple hearts, four star general. I think this is a president who kind of wants to wait, take the lay of the land. He did publicly say, i told erik directly, as he told us yesterday, i have to see whats going on here. When nabors reports back to him, if the president is upset, shinseki could go. Left the door open but decided not to do it immediately. Thats very much in keeping with president obama weve seen throughout his term and certainly left the door open for shinseki himself to say, im resigning because theres too much commotion now for the good of the country, let someone else take charge with a little nudge maybe. The president demands accountability there are even more democrats not just republicans but democrats putting pressure on the president to fire him. Look, there are. Its not what i would call a ground swell. There are some democrats saying, we ought to get rid of him. I think theres a larger issue at stake for the president , wolf. That is, hes under pressure because this goes to the core of his presidency. This is a president who promoted Big Government solutions to problems. And every time Big Government seems not to work, as in the rollout of the health care plan. It hurts what hes about. When he ran for election the first time around and when he was a senator, he put streamlining the v. A. , making it work better as a top priority, making government work. Now, hes having to defend a v. A. That obviously doesnt work. It goes to the question of competency in the administration and a lot of republicans will be using this to say, we told you, this was an inexperienced manager, inexperienced first term senator should never have been president of the United States. I think he has a lot on the line here, in terms of his managerial skills and also in terms of the core of his presidency, about Government Solutions to problems. When he took office he knew there were problems and had been on the Veterans Committee when he was a United States senator and they told him about these problems and im sure hes looking back and saying what could we have done different. And republicans are saying, the Bush Administration told you this was getting out of control. Thank you. Sure. And in thailand, the military is announcing its now in charge. Whats going on, on the streets of bangkok. And the political battle over benghazi. Democrats have joined in the investigation. I will talk to adadam, named to the panel yesterday and standing by live. B were investing big to keep our country in the lead. Load we keep moving to deliver what you need. And that means growth, lots of cargo going all around the globe. Cars and parts, fuel and steel, peas and rice, hey thats nice Norfolk Southern whats your function . Helping this big country move ahead as one Norfolk Southern hows that function . And i felt this horrible pain on one side of my back. I saw this red, blistery, rash i had 16 magic shows to do. I didnt know how i was going to be able to do these shows with this kind of pain that i was in. I told my wife what i had. She went on the internet and said i think you have shingles. I could feel the shock in my back and it was like wow its got to get better than this or im in big trouble. Some International Headlines right now beginning in thailand where the army chief says he is in charge. The military there has officially take over after two days declaring martial law. Paula hancocks is in bangkok. The military has officially taken over in thailand. The army chief has been on National Television a couple minutes ago and confirms they have taken control of the country. We know he has created a Development Agency called the National Peace and order. Just about half an hour ago we saw some of the leaders and some protest leaders that were meeting inside to try and hammer out a deal with the army chief being escorted from the place itself. We know all the participants have been detained. This is information just now coming to me on cnn. Those participants we know they were members of the caretaker government and the antigovernment protest leader, the pro government protest leader and certainly at this point we understand from officials that all of those participants have been detained. So confirmation on cnn there has been yet another military coup here in thailand. Disturbing information there. Meanwhile, north korea fired two shells at a passing south korean patrol boat in the yellow sea earlier today. They missed the south koreaion ship by 600 feet. South korea then returned fire. North korea promised retribution after south korea fired warning shots at three north korea patrol boats earlier this week. It took a decade to finalize but russias natural gas deal with china takes on more significance because of the crisis in ukraine. Under the deal, russias state owned gas company will supply china with gas for 30 years equal to about 10 of gazproms annual sales and will be shipped through 4,000 miles of pipelines. It comes as europe tries to reduce its dependence on russian gas because of russias takeover of crimea. First, violent protests, now a crippling bus strike of brazil raising questions whether the country will be able to host the world cup in three weeks. Take a look at this. Worse than rush hour. A twoday strike by bus drivers paralyzed brazils biggest city, san paulo. The strike is over but just the latest problem affecting brazil ahead of the world cup. We hope they get their act together by then. Political flash point, reluctant Democrats Join the committee to investigate the compound in benghazi. We will hear from one of those democrats live when we come back. A public utility in the United States compromised by hackers. Well tell you what happened and find out how vulnerable the grid is to a potential attack. If i told you that a free tensecond test could mean less waiting for things like security backups and file downloads youd take that test, right . Well, what are you waiting for . You could literally be done with the test by now. Now you could have done it twice. This is awkward. Check your speed. See how fast your internet can be. Switch now and add voice and tv for 34. 90. Comcast business built for business. House republicans are meeting today to discuss how a new select committee on the attacks in benghazi will operate. Democrats will take part despite objections. Yesterday, the House Minority leader appointed five democrats to the panel. Elijah cummings, adam sheriff, adam smith and Linda Sanchez and tammy duckworth. I assume you were totally on board with Nancy Pelosis decision, right . I am on board. We were thinking the select committee was unnecessarily that the questions on benghazi has been asked many many times and were divided once the speecher changed course and decided to establish this committee. Were united again. This was an approach were going to take. It was felt by the leadership we should have people in the room to make sure the subpoena process isnt abused and witnesses not abused and hopefully try to do something more productive like looks at the security of our embassies now and how were implementing the recommendations of that accountability review board. I dont know if thats where the republicans want to go. It doesnt appear that way. We will certainly try to steer this in a direction that may be productive. The initial reluctance to join this committee is it would give legitimacy to the select committee. The other reasons you just explain explained clearly overruled that kern. Republicans say their biggest question they want answered is the president of the United States. What was he doing during those critical hours . Was he directly involved . Was he not directly involved . Do you have answers to those questions . Is that legitimate query material subject they should get answers to . I think the accountability review board really went over who had responsibility for the security, what lapses led to the death of four americans and made a series of recommendations on the basis of that. They looked at how high the responsibility went and made a nonpartisan determination about that. I think we have had a pretty extensive look at that. Wolf, what youre suggesting i think is exactly what the republicans want to do and that is not get to the basis of any new facts which have already been plumbed time and time again but see if they can embarrass the administration and see if they can score political points against the president and see if they can raise money off benghazi, a blight nonetheless something theyre doing. All about motivating their base, wolf, a lot less about any of the actual events in benghazi. Congressman, to be fair, there are legitimate questions that need to be answered to make sure everyone learns from the mistakes that occurred so this kind of tragedy doesnt happen again, right . Absolutely. Wolf, that presupposes we havent had eight investigations already and we have. Precisely those questions were raised. Where we are lacking is we got good recommendations about what needs to be done. But theres nobody on that new select committee that can tell us where we are implementing those recommendations. The state department say theyre making progress. Unfortunately progress isnt often good fodder for a select committee. I havent seen much interest away mong the select Committee Members to focus how we can improve security and even more astonishing, very little interest expressed on where we are in the hunt for the people who killed these americans. That has to be a top priority. It is. So far as i know no one has been called to justice for the killing of ambassador Chris S Stevens and three other americans. Do you know why ambassador Chris Stevens was even in benghazi in those days after there had been other terrorist attacks against the british facility and International Red cross and so many other International Organizations that abandoned benghazi. Why was he there to begin with . That issue has been explored, wolf. I think ambassador stevens was someone who loved the libyan people and wanted to be close to the libyan people and understood the risks and understood diplomats cant live in bunkers and wanted better security but at the same time wanted to do his job, he couldnt completely live in that bunker. We might question that call right now but frankly, this is a dedicated Public Servant that gave his life ultimately for his country. I have to respect the fact he wanted to be where he was, he felt it was important to the execution of his mission and his responsibili responsibility, and regrettably we lost a great american. That was his decision to go to benghazi. No one in washington ordered him to go there . No, i havent seen any evidence he was ordered to go there. Well be watching the hearings together with you, congressman. Do you think Hillary Clinton will be called to testify . I dont know. I think if she is, its a pretty telling indication what the committee is really about. Shes already testified, shes already answered the questions they had for her. If they want to drag her back with a subpoena, i think its more about the elections in the future than conduct in the past. Congressman adam schiff, thank you for joining us. You, too, wolf. A public utility compromised by hackers. You will hear how they did it and what the attack says about the vulnerability of the entire electrical grid. Plus outrage over two palestinian teens in the west bank and a surveillance camera captures the shootings and the response to this escalating controversy. And a choice. Take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve. For all day relief. Start your engines oh the name your price tool you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. I told you to wear something comfortable this is a polyester blend whoa uh. Little help . I got you unh its so beautiful man should we Call Security . No, this is just getting good. The name your price tool, still only from progressive. Welcome back, im wolf blitzer in washington. The fbi director says a Training Camp in syria poses a direct threat to the United States and telling lawmakers of the judiciary committee. There are complexes in syria where militants are learning new tactics and returning home to plot new attacks. Comey says they have a place to counter that threat and didnt release new details and that information for now is classified. No secret a u. S. Power grid is a potential target for terrorists. The department of Homeland Security says hackers have already staged an attack on the network of public utility in the United States. Brian todd is following this story for us. What have you learned. Wolf, weve been speaking all day with officials of department of Homeland Security. They wont name the Company Involved or what department. It could have been a power station or Water Purification