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Schedules at four va medical centers hit actual wait times, fudged the numbers and backdated appointments to meet timeliness goals set by department headquarters. the goal is not to make the books look better, but the golfs to make the system look better. for months, the committee has been pressing the va for answers on this and then in april, news broke as many as 40 veterans may have died at one va facility alone in phoenix waiting for care that would never come. a story the president commented on just once before today when fox news pressed him on it. and when the commander in chief spoke t...

Witnesses and being told by va, you don't need that witness, here's the witness we want to send. and they have done that over and over and over. patti ann: doug mckelway is live at the white house with more on this story. hi, doug. >> reporter: hi, patti ann. three senior officials from the department of veterans affairs did not show up for today's business meeting of the house committee on veterans affairs, even as they were asked to comply with a subpoena that means bring with you under the penalty of punishment. the committee wants thomas lynch, joan moody and michael huff to answer questio...

>> we'd like some accountability and some transparency. we want to see a plan of action. what's going to happen? how will these wrongs going to be righted? and something that helps the veteran -- restore the faith in this system for veterans? veterans need to be able to walk into a va health care facility and know that they'll receive timely and quality health care. no veteran should die because they go to a va facility. >> of course, we're working and waiting on the inspector general report here, but there are some who believe this is a staffing issue. i believe the number was somewhere aroun...

Schedules at four va medical centers hit actual wait times, fudged the numbers and backdated appointments to meet timeliness goals set by department headquarters. the goal is not to make the books look better, but the golfs to make the system look better. for months, the committee has been pressing the va for answers on this and then in april, news broke as many as 40 veterans may have died at one va facility alone in phoenix waiting for care that would never come. a story the president commented on just once before today when fox news pressed him on it. and when the commander in chief spoke t...