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I credit him with being very clear in the press conference yesterday saying he's going to hold people accountable. i think he recognized -- >> a lot of people are saying, about time. for 26 days he was silent on the whole thing. optics, p.r. today, tony, good or bad? >> leadership failure, bad optics, fine. but the leadership failure is the problem. and the fact that we are here at groundhog day again, another scandal or a controversy within this administration, the president comes out and promises to get to the bottom of it and goes about his merry way. the one thing he did wrong with shinsek...

So now these veterans will not be able to stay at these centers. where are they going to go? >> you know, what's oxymoronic about this situation is nursing homes that sign v.a. contracts have to increase mair minimthei wage if they want to continue to have that contract. we have nursing homes and they're not required to meet this new federal minimum wage. certainly if there are openings in those v.a. facilities, we'd be happy to transfer them there. if they want to receive home health care and are capable of getting that care through the contract -- >> but people at home are saying, are you ki...

The white house has obstructed this investigation whether or not we've had one or four, the entire time. they've withheld documents and sent documents that have been heavily redacted. in one document, every other word was redacted. it wasn't until the rhodes e-mail came out in the foia did we recognize the severity to the west wing. and boehner properly played it -- >> he wanted to see hard evidence and that's when this all happened. we'll have to see how fast it moves now. in the meantime, does the president have a p.r. problem, bernard? yesterday he came out and addressed the v.a. scandal. t...

Pen -- he's done all kinds of things by executive order. he could by executive order tomorrow make it necessary that the v.a. hire only veterans to work in the veterans administration. people don't realize it but less than a third of the people working in the v.a. are actually veterans. >> why do you recommend that? >> well, because we care for each other. we look after each other. we have a lifetime of experience doing it for each other. we did it on the battlefields and we'll do it for each other in the veterans administration. and every veteran could be given a card that says, you go to any...

>> wendell goler live at the white house, thank you. is anybody talking about solutions? can the system be fixed or is it inherently broken? joining me now, retired lieutenant colonel oliver north, fox news military analyst. great to see you, colonel north. here's the big question today. would you feel comfortable in trusting your own personal health to the v.a.? >> well, i did. in fact, had it not been for the fox medical plan, i might be dead right now. when i was diagnosed with cancer caused by agent orange and the v.a. recognizes that, the v.a. told me to come back in about six months. my ...