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About veteran patient waiting times. he says now those reports were misleading unfortunately. the va acknowledges that nationwide 23 former military members died while waiting for hospital care. the president has already installed a replacement for shinseki and he is sloan gibson. he was the deputy secretary at the va up until just about an hour and a half, 2 hours ago, and we expect the house speaker, john boehner, to make a statement about shinseki's resignation, any moment, maybe about 3 1/2, 4 minutes from now. our mics are live and the backdrop is being straight bed out. as soon as the sp...

I'm going to remain committed to see this through to the end. we have to stay together as democrats and republicans on this issue. >> you have an open invitation to reappear on this program often. we are going to be that state that continues to hold you and your colleagues, feet to the fire on this one. it takes a village. doesn't take a lot of e-mail blasts again, with the beautiful graphics, from the congress offices. thank you for your time today. >> absolutely, thank you very much. >> thank you for the service of your father, very well. congressman walorski joining us from capitol hill. we...

All along, myself and other colleagues from southwestern pennsylvania. we had to kind of guess what the exact right question was with the legionella outbreak. finally when an inspector general found out they were not quick in informing doctors and patients about the legionella in the water system, when they told us they were doing fests on the water system, we didn't ask the right question only to find out they were testing, but always the same pipes and faucets. they weren't testing in a systemic way. not too long ago, uncovered an e-mail in which a staff member of the v.a. specifically said ...

Temporarily assigned to work with the va presented me with an initial review of the va facilities nationwide. what they found is that the misconduct has not been limited to a few va facilities but many across the country. totally unacceptable. our veterans deserve the best. they earned it. last week i said that if we found misconduct it would be punished and i meant it. secretary shinseki has now begun the process of firing many of the people responsible including senior leaders at the phoenix va. he's canceled any possible performance bonuses this year for senior executive and he has ordered ...

The v.a. secretary claimed his own officials had been lying to him. >> i was too trusting of some, and i accepted as accurate reports that are now known to have been misleading with regard to patient wait times. >> reporter: the president said the white house was also in the dark that v.a. officials were concealing wait times. >> this issue of scheduling is one that the reporting systems inside of the vha did not surface to the level where rick was aware of it or we were able to see it. >> over at the capitol, house speaker john boehner had his own rapid response, that shinseki's departure is ...