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>> period. >> draper is the director for health care investigations for the gao which has labeled va health care high risk in terms of government management and has done so since 2015. draper says even today the va's wait time data is simply not to be believed. they're longer. >> oh, yes. in almost every case we find the actual wait times are longer than what the va is reporting. >> it has been nearly four years since cnn began exposing the secret wait lists and fabricated wait times and delays in care and the patients who died waiting for that care. it's been three years since congress approv...

Lead investigator, for the congressional committee that led a years-long investigation into veterans dying while waiting for care. yes, he says, then as now, the va is not telling the truth about wait times. >> none of it. the office of the inspector general says the same thing and it was that way in 2014 when he reported on the wait time scandal. it is that way in 2017. you still cannot trust va's information. >> in fact, just this march, a damning va inspector general on seven medical centers in the southeast found patients waited an average of 61 days for specialty care. two months and the ...

Scheduling system showed a zero-day wait time when the veteran actually waited 120 days. the va inspector general discontinued or canceled an estimated 4,600 appointments. what is it like to make a medical appointment at the va? >> hi, joe. i need to make appointments. >> tracy rodriguez invited us to find out. her husband served three tours in iraq and afghanistan. he relies on the va for health care. april 24th, she sat down at a kitchen table and let us listen while she tried to make three medical appointments. >> i think they have one person answering the phone over there or something. >> ...

Helped expose how veterans were being badly mistreated by the va medical system responsible for their care. president trump tried to address the problem, but many issues remain unsolved even today, and on friday, president trump signed a new law that should give the va more power to fire bad employees, veterans and advocates say it's past time the system gets fixed. cnn's drew griffin has more. >> first of all, the scandal erupted when whistle blowers bravely came forward and proved the va was lying about how long patients were waiting and in some cases dying while waiting for care. there were...

They need to get good paying, and demand jobs. wherever i go, and wisconsin last week, we had a real skill gap between the skills people need to get good jobs and the good jobs that are out there being offered. this is something that we really have to address and i'm very pleased that they're moving part of this legislation. later today, armed services committee chairman, matt thornberry will reveal the third installment in his effort to streamline the pentagon's bureaucracy and improve the way that we develop weapon systems. this is an essential part of our efforts to rebuild our military for...