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I think that it is their obligation and the people who died ambassador stevens and others deserve to get, you know, their families deserve it, the country deserves it to find the truth. >> senator, let's turn our attention to another white house scandal, the scandal going on at the va. first of all, can we ask you, is it president obama's fault? >> well absolutely the buck stops with him and i think he's admitting as much. the only problem is it's one thing to say you're responsible, another to actually do something about it. there is now evidence this has been going on for a year after year a...

Friends on the community. whether or not she influenced the picks, i don't know. i think it is their obligation, the families deserves it, the country deserves to find the truth. >> first of all, can we ask you is it president obama's fault, the scandal at the va? >> absolutely the buck stops with him. he's admitting as much. the only problem is it's one thing to say you're responsible. it's another to actually do something about it. there's evidence this has been going on for year after year after year. another thing the administration needs to explain is thi kind of system the democrats want...

He didn't do that. >> how would that, for someone who doesn't understand the va, the massive va system, how would that change the problem immediately? >> well, the va already has the opportunity to send veterans out on fee basis or into the private market but they have to go through several steps in order to do that. number one the va has to not be able to handle it, den a dod facility close by must not have the ability to handle it, and also if they have contracts with a teaching hospital or something like that, if they can't handle the veteran, then they can send them out into the private se...

Patients to all health care patients and and found that the va gave more treatment for chronic care patients, more treatment for preventive care, and overall, better screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. why would they want to attack the entire va system? >> well, that's exactly right. i mean, they're just using this to try to fit into their ideology. and it's important to distinguish access to care versus the quality of the care once you're in the system. so the backlog is a problem with actually getting into the system, having access to care. once veterans are within the va system,...

Who knows the va well, has confidence in the hill, and he's a good interim selection, because the brand of the va's been damaged and it didn't start in arizona. remember in washington, d.c., patients were being discharged -- >> your paper was breaking the story. >> the problem hasn't been fixed. the president campaigned against that. he campaigned against that. >> what is the problem of getting enough doctors to serve the needs of the va veterans? why is it so hard to deal with a case load, why is that so hard? are we putting the money into doctors? >> well, that's a very good question. first ...