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Resign. as of this evening according to the official nbc news count, more than 110 congressional lawmakers have called for shinseki to step down, including at least 34 democrats. shinseki called the findings in that report reprehensible in an op-ed today and vowed that "we are not waiting to set things straight." but an administration official told nbc news today that shinseki is "on thin ice" pending the outcome of internal investigations. >> the president wants to see the results of these reports. and he, as you know, made clear that he believes there ought to be accountability once we estab...

The problem. that's why you saw him lay out a series of steps. i would expect that secretary shinseki is going to have a more whole some report to give to the president when he delivers -- supposed to deliver today preliminary results of an internal review into the va system. certainly president obama is going to get a lot more details than we got from secretary shinseki in that speech. we'll have to wait and see if that's enough for president obama. i can tell you that he has been inclined to give general shinseki a lot of support. last weekend speaking to reporters, the president said no one...

Triaged for care. his words are doing nothing for some in congress increasingly calling for his ouster. an official saying shinseki is, quote, on thin ice. i'll bring in white house correspondent michelle kosinski. lawmakers from both parties roughed up va officials at a hearing on capitol hill last night, didn't they? >> reporter: absolutely. wow. this lasted four hours. these congressmen absolutely tearing into va representatives. they were asking these good solid questions that for some reason the va either could not or would not answer. some of it was concerning this new official report ab...

Cnn talks about white house shinseki won't go anywhere until all of the findings are in. >> the president wants to see the results of these reports and he, as you know, made clear that he believes there ought to be accountability once we establish all the facts. >> many of our lawmakers have already seen enough, more of them by the hour are demanding that shinseki go and go right now. >> extend our freedom. and then when you get asked the question you say you're just finding out about it. >> reporter: the growing evidence of misconduct within the department of veterans affairs has secretary sh...

They had -- it looked like over 100 players. so even the scout team guys got to go to this. guys that probably have never dressed for a game. after this, they hit a tour of the capitol and a tour of the pentagon. so it was a pretty impressive little tour of d.c. that they got yesterday. >> we're talking today about how the president is so great out on the campaign trail. he's also wonderful at these type of events. not just sporting events but other people in his presence. just a great, great ability to connect with people there. hey, chuck, we've been talking, obviously, having a lot of fun w...