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President does photo ops, visits. but the idea that he has communicated very clearly that he cares about it, and even yesterday when people were complaining that they wanted, you know, they wanted some blood on the floor, they wanted veterans affairs secretary shinseki out, they wanted evidence of how he cares, i think the president was right to say let's find out what happened in phoenix, let's see if there was, in fact, corruption at a lower level or if it expands higher, comes to washington veterans affairs administration. but in terms of the show part, jon, i think that's part of the respo...

Bringing our country together. >> veterans' care should be one of those galvanizing political bipartisan issues and among those first to go after the president, a dwight rival, john mccain, who said the president's remarks are wholly deficient addressing these problems, this administration's ineffectual response has created a crisis of confidence in our veterans' community community. as of right now perhaps the most unifying force in the va's world is the broad sense of disbelief and anger, something jon stewart channelled this week. >> the depression and the impotent rage, our government lead...

System. they prolonged appointments. they have fake lists that demonstrated they only had veterans waiting 14 days for an appointment when in reality they were waiting over four, five, even six months, if not longer to be seen. >> what's the problem with the va? as long as i can remember, the president was saying this was a decades long problem and technically he's right and it's growing as more veterans retire. the fact of the matter is it is well known to be a poor responsive agency. do we just keep putting the same type of folks in there? is it civilians running this? what's going on? >> it...

Not really at the man in charge of the va. president obama vowing to get to the bottom of this mess but stopping short of ousting the guy many say is responsible for this mess. at least as the big cheese. secretary shinseki. retired sergeant says the president didn't go far enough. jesse, i see where you're coming from. he did put him on a very short leash if you think about it. report back to me in a week. i'm using these by white house standards. an investigation has to be done a week after that. and then the guy could be toast. what do you think of that? >> i don't think he's going to fire ...

People like me and others who are trying to sound the alarm that a top down government run healthcare system is not functioning and we're seeing it at the va right now. it's failing our vets miserably. >> doctor, thank you, as always. a lot of times with healthcare we can talk to politicians and we will. we do. we feel obligated to hear from left and right but more often than not we like to talk to folks on the front lines like that surgeon. we'll continue to do that. you know my solution to all of these out of sight baggage fees. i said it a thousand times. the government has another idea...