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Responded with a rather bland and generic response. can you read it on screen basically saying that we all need to work together to end some of these systemic problems that are unacceptable, but they would not respond directly to this new allegation that there is a current cover-up at the phoenix v.a. >> that's clearly an up acceptable response to what we're hearing from pauline dewenter. when you see pauline there laying out what she was doing, what she was forced to do, what she had to live through really, not only seems distraught about that, but she also seems scared about her future, drew...

Appointments from veterans seeking care and hide them. what happened to those people? >> they went into a desk drawer. >> reporter: if you called for a new employment thinking you were being placed on the electronic wait list, you were actually being placed on a piece of paper in somebody's desk drawer? >> correct. >> reporter: is that -- the secret list? >> yes. that would be the secret list. >> reporter: there is no doubt in your mind that was a secret list? >> no doubt. >> reporter: the secret list began in early 2013, she says, because of a waiting list for treatment here, that was simply ...

Drew griffin tonight has the exclusive interview. >> pauline de winter, a scheduling clerk at the phoenix va, is coming forward because she believes she knows something that is frankly unthinkable. that is saying something considering the shameful facts of what we already know happened at this va. she says someone now is trying to hide is the number of u.s. veterans who died here waiting for care. in seven cases so far, where she has determined a veteran on a waiting list was in fact deceased, she says someone above her has changed the record back, the veteran suddenly by the listed as alive. ...

Reported, sharon helman got a bonus of $9300. sharon helman's secretary, the administrator there, her secretary got a bonus of $5500. >> the secretary got a bonus? >> the secretary got a bonus of $5,500. >> this was based on giving the appearance of cutting down the wait times. if you removed certain people from the list, you can influence the waiting times by doing that? >> that was based on some of it. everybody has different goals of what they have to meet in order to get a bonus. what we were seeing is that folks all the way down to house cleaners and dietitians were getting bonuses. now, ...

Committee, with all due diligence, i think the jurisdiction of the committee allows us to drill down and find the bad actors and make sure they go to prison. people died at their hands. billions of dollars of tax money absconded. we need to drill down and root these people out. and then set the reset button on the va and move forward. >> congresswoman, thank you very much. the va, more concerned with safety of our oceans than it is our veterans. the tweet that has got a lot of people wondering whether the va is a little out of twits. and what if i told you taxpayers like you paid public un...