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Be is the focus will shift to congress in a sense and question get an idea of whether or not the house and the senate can work out some agreement on several different legislative proposals make it easy for the v.a. secretary whoever that person becomes, to get rid of people who are found to be involved in these accusations of mismanagement of poor care and delayed care. there's an understanding in the senate they will try to move very quickly on at least one bill that would make it easier for the secretary to get rid of senior officials who are found to be involved in these cases. beyond that ...

Information to federal prosecutors when the folks at the v.a. think they may have something that could involve criminal conduct. the justice department is gathering this information and if the federal prosecutors decide there is evidence of potential criminal violations, then the justice department will launch a criminal investigation but senior officials tell us it hasn't happened yet. it's certainly gathering information but merely because things were screwed up at the v.a. medical centers if things were mishandled it's not necessarily a crime and could be bad management or stupidity or it c...

White house with us. we had eric shinseki giving the audit to the president before submitting his resignation yesterday. what more does this audit reveal and what happens next? >> good question, alex. >> reporter: one of the other troubling findings of that audit is that 78% of scheduling staffers used alternative methods than the electronic scheduling system and that occurred in about 64% of v.a. facilities nationwide so that just gives you a snapshot of how widespread this misconduct was. now you'll recall that president obama continued to express confidence in secretary shinseki really up u...

>> those bases are overwhelmed very often and not bases have a surge of doctors. >> easy. guess what? we do a search. he can call upon right now veterans who just came up active duty who are still in the reserves, he can bring them back on active duty in something called tem act. the budget is there for tem act. >> do you think that could work? tyreak, you first. >> it's thinking outside the box and these are the things that we actually, you know, need and we need, you know, new people to come in and show some bold leadership here on making those necessary changes. i don't know this is a situa...

Problem and it is part political and part managerial. one of the political steps was to deal with the secretary at the v.a. i was with eric shinseki in the morning when he was addressing homeless veterans. he had two standing ovations because on that particular issue, dealing with homeless veterans, he had a lot of support. on the bigger issue of what has been uncovered at the v.a., obviously, became political untenable. so we saw the resignation. that is one step. but so many lawmakers and veterans we have talked to are asking the question about what comes next? how can they root out miscondu...