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Light of benghazi, they out of an abundance of caution are taking these steps. it refers to routine things that happen at the embassy, giving passports, et cetera but say for americans, if there is an emergency, they can get in touch with the embassy. that is not a problem. but they are also, anderson, urging americans if they are traveling to that region to register if this program, step. you can find it on their website and you can get texts and e-mail messages realtime about the threat that's out there and anything happening, country specific. >> jill, britain is closing the embassy in yeme...

Charge and in oversight capacity telling us that they will clean it up. i hope that is the case. i hope that is very much the case, mr. douglas. >> well, again, drew, we have taken -- as we've reported, 38 clinics have already been suspended in 108 different locations. we're recertifying 1,000 providers. we'll continue at this and continue to root out the fraud in this program until it gets to the same integrity of the programs that we administer in the med-cale program. >> i appreciate you being on tonight and i know your boss didn't want to talk and i appreciate you. you have one talking poi...

>> no -- >> right. >> these investigations -- >> continue. >> will continue on and we'll work with the department of justice until we take all these providers -- >> great. >> to the extent possible -- >> so why, why is it okay to talk now, even though the investigation is still going on, but over the last many weeks that drew has tried to get an interview, you couldn't talk because of on going investigation and now you can talk even though there is on going investigation. >> there is an on going investigation and i want to make sure, anderson, i'm here and accountable and i am going to fix thi...

Found is appalling -- >> mr. douglas -- >> you didn't just get born last year. this thing for the last two years, according to our reporting you paid $94 million to clinics that showed signs of questionable billing or fraud. you say you've been investigating this for a long time. you've been throwing money away during this time, more than half a billion-dollar has been spent over the past six years. you can't talk about the past. can you not answer the question who was responsible for years of lack of oversight? you must have studied this. >> again, anderson, the sleg slay tour and governor br...

What i think, anderson is asking and the whole state of california and the federal taxpayers want to know is there has been evidence of this fraud right under your nose for years and only now it seems, even if you say in the past year we've began investigating, only now is the state going to do something about it. the question is why and who is responsible for overlooking all this fraud? >> again, focus now is that now this program is completely under the control of the department of healthcare services. i'm accountable for rooting out this fraud and that's what i'm focused on is putting inves...