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Soflt problem. >> and jehmu, last word, pointing fingers about who is to blame doesn't correct the problem right now. >> absolutely. you can't point fingers at anyone for a problem that's been in the making for the last 50 years. i think we have to take a real hard look at the work that has been done since secretary shinseki came in. he has actually reduced the backlog by 50%. perhaps he was too ambitious in trying to move from paper records to electronic records so quickly. perhaps we were too ambitious in really putting pressure on the administrators to get rid of the backlog. and so that's ...

A growing number of democrats ramping up their calls for v.a. secretary, eric shinseki, to step down. this as we learn the white house was aware of the problem that the agency, as early as 2008. molly henneberg is live in washington to pick up the rest of the story. hi, molly. >> reporter: julie, three new democrats have come forward in the past couple days to break with the president and urge him to oust v.a. secretary eric shinseki. they're also all three in tough election races this year, and likely are trying to put some distance between themselves and president obama. west virginia democr...

Prosecuted. this is a problem 50 years in the making and we have to address this not in the way that republicans have done so with benghazi and all of these fake scandals. we have to take this very seriously, very deliberatively and not make any quick decisions that are going to undermine a program that is overwhelmingly supported by our nation's veterans. >> some would argue with you about fake scandals, saying that benghazi really is a scandal and some other things. let's stick on the subject right now and that is the v.a. that is a known scandal. and we have seen it. we have seen the devast...

Problems that he is charged to oversee and to correct. let me say this. there's enough blame, jehmu, to go around. but the commander in chief is the one who let his troops down. because he was warned in the transition about the systemic failures within the v.a. the president talked about it most recently in his fifth state of the union. and the president was asleep at the switch and so was the person he put in charge. now having said that, it's not enough to cast a scapegoat out in the wilderness. we've got to make sure that the problem is fixed and fixed now. if we got rid of the v.a. secreta...