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>> patrick, can doctors handle the special care so many vets need? >> for the routine stuff, absolutely, alex. right now, 10% of the v.a. care is through private doctors and nonv.a. care. right now, 10%. there is this new initiative 26 billion dollar initiative just launched by the v.a. a few months ago to allow veterans to use what is called patient center community care. montell was right. we need a surge of doctors. there is a national shortage in doctors and mental health care professionals specifically and the v.a. is bearing a brunt of that national shortage but we need folks to go and b...

The reason she said is because he has become too much of a distraction. that department, what he does is supposed to be all about the veterans and not about whether or not he gets to keep his job. >> which is why he said he wanted to resign in part as well. he didn't want to be a part of the distraction there. can i ask you about the new report in the "the washington post"? how the v.a. developed its culture of cover-ups. how did it get to this point, ed? >> it's been this way really since the start. it began as a sort of scandal-plagued agency back many years ago and it's just ballooned into ...

His real name is david, but moose got a contact from our local va, his local va rep, and suddenly his claim that was ten days before that when he contact yelled them, four to six months off was in process. it's being taken care of. then tuesday morning the phone rings again. it's not only the month, it turned into a day, the claim has been processed, and now the check is in the system to be cut. it was actually on his mol which is a military on line thing. you know, as great as that is, governor, it shows the pa theticness of how the system is run. >> i know you're grateful that moose will get...

Moose got a contact from our local va, his local va rep, and suddenly his claim that was ten days before that when he contact yelled them, four to six months off was in process. it's being taken care of. then tuesday morning the phone rings again. it's not only the month, it turned into a day, the claim has been processed, and now the check is in the system to be cut. it was actually on his mol which is a military on line thing. you know, as great as that is, governor, it shows the pa theticness of how the system is run. >> i know you're grateful that moose will get his benefits. that's wonder...

Four-star general's last public act was to express his regret over the v.a.'s systemic failures that left veterans waiting for care. >> i extended an apology to the people whom i care most deeply about and that is the veterans of this great country. >> reporter: veterans in phoenix were the scandal first broke say this change is a good first step. >> if we get some changes at the very top of the system, it's going to filter all the way down. >> they have to fix it from the inside. just getting in the hospital isn't the problem. >> reporter: investigators found that v.a. staffers falsified the ...