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Tonight? >> reporter: the big number is one you reported. that this continues to grow in size. 69 different va facilities are now being investigated by the inspector general. and tonight, he, the acting inspector general's name richard griffin said, listen, we're uncovering evidence that supervisors were directing the manipulation of this wait-time data. it's happened at many, many different facilities. so it seems like i would say this cover-up is growing within the va and the numbers are completely unreliable as to how long veterans have been waiting, how many have been waiting on secret lis...

The s.w.a.t. team arresting a 44-year-old man who's now in custody. uma: nearly two dozen senators are calling for a criminal investigation as new evidence mounts of a coughup and waiting lists at va facilities. a report shows 57,000 veterans have been waiting three months for an appoint. and have never seen a doctor. >> it's systemic. the people that perpetrated the fraud on the taxpayers and the veterans of this country are still working today. they should be suspend. what kind of accountability is this department going to put on top of its people? uma: peter doocy is joining us

V.a. be taking care from the moment a veteran leaves the service, of every veteran for life or should there be more targeting? if it is a service-related problem or a veteran is connection duty, that, yes, the system will take care of them but if it is an age or health issue unrelated to service that the v.a. should not be responsible? >> the v.a. is here to take care of those who have borne the battle and was set up to take care for people with service connected conditions and in the early 1990's it involved into a safety net and now it is trying to promise under the affordable care act that ...

System not just in phoenix but across the country at the v.a. facilities and the lack of knowledge among top officials in washington? >> not getting the accurate public suited the upper v.a. washington folks from the v.a. and that is the root of it. the memo from 2010 showed they knew strategies of how to avoid this and whether that is a don't do this or how to do this is open for debate. >> you talked dr. foote about the mismatch of demands and resources inside the v.a. and i want to talk about this and as we discussed possible fixed because the number of primary care visits to the v.a. have ...

Made the right decision. >> what do you make of the audits come in all over the country, true? you know a lot about what's going on. veterans out there who want good, solid health care. how worried should they be? >> the families should be very worried especially the real tragedy is the people who go to the va, the veterans who go to the va. i think you'll attest this, they have nowhere to go because a lot of the veterans who have other kind of health care know to go there instead of the va. that's just the plain truth. so you have a lot of these patients who can't be advocates for themselves....