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Handed in my paperwork. that person was not there again. they told me they would call me. they never did. i called them. when i did, they said they had no record of my information there, personal information, social security number, military history, just gone. after than i walked away and sought other health care. >> wow, it doesn't encourage you to stay in the system. you're a u.s. marine veteran. you think this is criminal. >> i do. it goes beyond missing deadlines. it goes beyond fudging numbers. there are lives at stake and lives lost. one life is too many. and now that the va admitted to...

That person was not there again. they told me they would call me. they never did. i called them. when i did, they said they had no record of my information there, personal information, social security number, military history, just gone. after than i walked away and sought other health care. >> wow, it doesn't encourage you to stay in the system. you're a u.s. marine veteran. you think this is criminal. >> i do. it goes beyond missing deadlines. it goes beyond fudging numbers. there are lives at stake and lives lost. one life is too many. and now that the va admitted to the numbers in the 20s ...

Eric: how widespread to you think this is? >> anybody who follows the issue closely and doesn't think this is widespread and indem knick the va as their head in the sand. wait times, backlogs, preventive deaths, secret lists, fudging numbers. the department of veterans affairs needs to be fundamentally reformed because there is a calcified bureaucracy. it's more obsessed with the process than the outcome of veterans who deserve the best this nation can provide. the north has called for the director to resign. >> he ought to resign because his soldiers who served nobly and are in the care of th...

I was taken apart for this conspiracy theory. turns out we were right. they had been cooking the books. there's a leak that came out late last night, "the post" report it had. they didn't know what to do, so they started fudging numbers and cooking the books. the problem is they did it right in front of the election. this was the month of the election. >> by the way, potential example of similar experiences with benghazi and the irs where they hide stuff and the media happily hides it for them. >> i was just going to say, the intentional deceit they went to and the great lengths that they went...

john king, chief national correspondent and host of "jk usa" and sheila behr, former children of -- chairman of the fdic. before we talk about this i want to bring in christine romans to explain why this has been such an important deal in the united states. while i've been out here in cannes, the u.s. has been watching very closely what's going on here and what's been going on in athens, christine. >> there's a growing understanding that u.s. and europe are in it together. anything that is negative for greece and the eu, is not good for america. europe is america's number one trading...