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Any of us can imagine, the most undemocratic and unpatriotic and sadly not unprecedented time and again we witness threats to the right to vote and free and fair elections come to fruition. each time we fought back. we've got to continue to fight back today. i want to thank martin luther king iii, for leading marches on votes rights during the anniversary of the march on washington on august 28th. the vice president and i and our colleagues here spent our careers doing this work. it's central to our administration on the i was in of bloody sunday, i directed each and every federal agency to pr...

All right. thank you. >> the president leaving the white house briefing room after announcing he accepted the resignation of eric shinseki as secretary of veteran affairs. president saying it's a painful decision for him but shinseki told him he didn't want to be a distraction and the department of veterans affairs need to move an and get to the task at hand. drew griffin is joining us together with analysts and reporters. without your excellent reporting over the past several months, the country would not have known about what's really going on at some of these va facilities across the united...

Drew griffin who broke this scandal on cnn. jim, this sounds like an unprecedented situation to me. secretary shinseki says i'm not going to resign. he's saying i'm not going to resign. you have to fire me. the white house seems to be saying we're not going to fire you. you need to quit. so how does this issue get resolved here, jim? >> well, i think that's definitely one scenario that we could see right now. there are a lot of different moving parts. one of them is eric shinseki. you heard that speech earlier this morning before that group for homeless vets. i was struck by a couple things. y...

Temporarily assigned to work with the va presented me with an initial review of the va facilities nationwide. what they found is that the misconduct has not been limited to a few va facilities but many across the country. totally unacceptable. our veterans deserve the best. they earned it. last week i said that if we found misconduct it would be punished and i meant it. secretary shinseki has now begun the process of firing many of the people responsible including senior leaders at the phoenix va. he's canceled any possible performance bonuses this year for senior executive and he has ordered ...

He acknowledges what's going on more than 40 other va facilities across the united states, unacceptable to me is what shinseki said. i'm sure if the president does announce that shinseki has resigned and accepted his resignation. he'll go out of his way to praise eric shinseki on the good things he's done. going back to combat service during the vietnam war. i'm sure the president will praise secretary shinseki even as he announces that he's going to bepresumably. if he announces that shinseki is leaving. the deputy secretary will become the interim secretary. >> here comes the president, wolf...