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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 ...

Why snowden, at least so far, has been unwilling to come home. >> ed o'keefe, thank you for filling in. appreciate it. >> take care. let's get more on the v.a. scandal. veterans administration secretary eric shinseki has stepped down but he publicly apologized to all vets for what happened at the phoenix facility. >> that breach of integrity is irresponsible. it is indefensible and unacceptable. but i can take responsibility, responsibility for it. and i do. >> he does not want to be a distraction because his priority is to fix the problem and make sure our vets are getting the care that any...

>> 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...

Me get the rest of the way in, he took off his belt and wrapped it around her to apply pressure. >> so glad you made it through and the young woman you helped save. others didn't. they're in our prayers. we appreciate your first-person condition of this. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> on this memorial day as we remember the men and women who died serving our nation, officials are doling with the growing investigation involving more than two dozen va fa sills and now the obama administration is reporting it will let more vets get private cared. the department of veterans affairs wro...

>> that is a say krid obligation and we're behind right now. the va is having problems and we got to get to the bottom of this. we got to the bottom of it. >> over the holiday weekend, the obama administration announced it would allow more veterans who can't be seen by the va to seek care in private hospitals. secretary shinseki issued the following statement, each of our fimts is either enhancing their clinic capacity to help veterans get care sooner or where we cannot increase capacity, increasing the care we acquire in the community through nonva care. but those involved in veterans affairs...