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Technolo technology. more broadly, the review that rob nabors conducted found and i'm quoting, significant and chronic systemic failures, including too little responsiveness and transparency and accountability. that is totally unacceptable. it recommends that the vha be restructured and reformed with stronger management and leadership and oversight as well as more doctors and staff. and i totally agree and we're going to make that happen. i've asked rob to remain at the va for now to help move these reforms forward. hiring of new vwa leaders has been frozen, vha leaders has been frozen to make...

You really have to dig down on this report. it comes from the office of special counsel. these are the government prosecutors who protect government inside whistleblowers and investigate whistleblowers complaints. they have sent a letter to the president this morning, basically saying, hey, we've investigated a lot of these va problems, a lot of these health problems, and we've brought these to the attention of the va. they don't agree with us. we, the special prosecutors here, believe the va is really not capable of investigating itself. they cite ten different cases of what appear to us to b...

Phony or the long waiting lists. in pittsburgh they discovered a near list, the people who had called the va for an appointment and just never got one and it's up to 2 years old for those and those numbers may be well over 80,000 nationwide of people waiting. so it is shinseki stepped down because it did need to have that change, and others may be put in charge but it is a pervasive problem of a culture that said the appearance of doing something is more important than actually doing something. that's very, very troubling, and i think there's going to be a lot of heads that are going to have t...

And how much did secretary shinseki know, and when did he know it. i think those are some of the questions that the white house is going to answer. having said that, these problems have existed within the va for a number of years. that's the other thing that you will hear. this white house talk about. and other lawmakers on capitol hill. so that is certainly something that is under consideration. but joy, what you're seeing, a really mounting call for secretary shinseki to resign. democrats, a lot of them facing tough reelection fights, of course, in this midterm election year, and then you ha...

>> nothing has changed. everything he says is not true. we had more deaths, more people that are waiting for care. we've had just more of everything. i mean, nothing has changed. the numbers are increasing. nothing has decreased. my husband just a couple months ago went to the va for -- to get some cancer removed from his arm, the surgery because he had skin cancer. his blood pressure was high. he went to the tampa bay hospital, we were in there for six and a half hours. the doctor came in and said are you feeling better now? didn't check his blood pressure or nothing. gave him medication and ...