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To come out today as white house officials would say to demonstrate his frustration as well. it didn't help when other people said he was madder than hell, he wanted to make it clear that he's as outraged as anybody else in this. he described general shinseki as someone who wants to correct the problem. the white house wants to have a better understanding of the breadth of this as the president said, that it's not just episodic, but systemic issues within the va. i think what really underlied the remarks made by the president today, ronan, is the fact that this is not a story that's exclusive ...

Story. we need to know how many veterans are going into the va facilities and more transparency and more communication needs to be brought forth by the va. so everyone involved knows what we're working with and the problem can be resolved only when we have a full accountability of what the problem is. >> but the problem we know has existed far longer than these six years that general shinseki has been the secretary of that department. are you at all concerned that this tragedy and it is, if one person has died waiting for care, that's one too many, but does this become, dare i say, a shiny obj...

Transmission, not just through the end of this year, but post 20423. we'll make the announcements fairly shortly. but i felt it was important that i check in face to face directly before those decisions were finally made. >> this is the president's fourth trip to afghanistan since taking office. the last one in 2012, came exactly a year after osama bin laden was killed. >> i want t go back now to the va scandal. what's the latest on the situation coming from the white house? >> the president's aids traveling with him on air force one say the scandal over veterans having to wait for medical car...

Famous anchors or commentators or loud mouths, but who's been on this va story for a long time but even then fox did jump on it the next day, it was on every primetime show, but weeks have gone by, david, and only this weekend did "the new york times" and "washington post" put this story on the front page. why? >> this is a scandal that's been hidden from sight by another scandal. the va story has been so disappointing for so long that there's this whole extra dimension that in fact it's not just a matter of bureaucratic bungling but actually conscious malfeasan malfeasance. that was a hard th...

Or loud mouths, but who's been on this va story for a long time but even then fox did jump on it the next day, it was on every primetime show, but weeks have gone by, david, and only this weekend did "the new york times" and "washington post" put this story on the front page. why? >> this is a scandal that's been hidden from sight by another scandal. the va story has been so disappointing for so long that there's this whole extra dimension that in fact it's not just a matter of bureaucratic bungling but actually conscious malfeasan malfeasance. that was a hard thing to penetrate. people are us...