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Outraged and insisting whatever's going on at the va needs to be remedied. >> we are going to fix whatever is wrong. and so long as i have the privilege as serving as commander in chief, i'm going to keep on fighting to deliver the care and the benefits and the opportunities that your families deserve, now and for decades to come. that is a commitment to which i feel the sacred duty to maintain. >> the president also said someone will be held accountable, but he's standing behind secretary shinseki for now. the former general today is on capitol hill holding closed-door meetings. this mornin...

Is wrong, and so long as i have the privilege of serving as commander in chief, i am going to keep on fighting to deliver the care and the benefits and the opportunities that your families deserve now and for decades to come. that is a commitment to which i feel the sacred duty to maintain. >> the president says someone will be held accountable, but for now he's standing behind veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki. shinseki today is on capitol hill holding closed-door meetings about the va scandal, as the president's point man on the crisis, rob nabors, visits that phoenix va to see for hi...

Aircraft, basically, which is what a drone is could sort of fly over these spaces and capture images from them. were you surprised at how accessible everything was basically? >> it takes about the amount of time that it would take to learn to ride a bicycle. to learn to fly a drone, and then it was very simple to do. so it was not that difficult. what i was specifically looking for was to call attention to first of all, foreign drone use, which you have talked about. but how the military technology has transferred to the united states. you know in your previous segment you talked about u.s. bo...

The u.s. drone program if all troops pull out of afghanistan for the year. >> this is one that gets overlooked in all the talk whether the president will authorize and whether afghanistans will agree to troops staying. how the u.s. drone program used by cia used to link al qaeda figures in pakistan would have to essentially be shut down or moved to a neighboring country, central asia or perhaps india. without u.s. troops to guard bases in afghanistan that these predator drones fly out of, the program would have to be curtailed or run by someone else. here is white house secretary jay carney. >...

They have a position on this. that it will not be labeled as the party of no. listen to what john boehner said. >> that's why doing immigration reform in a common-sense, step by step manner helps or members understand the bite-sized pieces, that helps our constituents build more confidence that what we are doing makes sense. >> reporter: what we do know is what they won't accept, alex. that's the senate bill. they won't accept anything to do with amnesty. and they want the border to be secure. at this point it's still until clear what constitutes border security for house republicans. the joke...