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New records show the va at the center of this growing scandal shelled out millions of dollars in bonuses over the past three years. investigative reporter robert o'dell and craig harris breaking that story as they have so many others. robert, you first, what was going on here and why were they getting the bonuses? >> they were getting the bonuses in part for meeting these wait time goals that they had. but part of the way they were meeting those goals was to put patience on wait lists and not give patients timely appointments. so one of the things we did was we asked -- started asking three mo...

Infuriating is how systemic and widespread this was. >> reporter: the v.a. said it already contacted 50,000 veterans to get them off wait lists and in to see the doctor. on a visit to the phoenix v.a. where the scandal began, the interim secretary promised a total reset. >> this is not what our veterans deserve. this will not stand. >> reporter: the white house promising everything from firing senior administrators at offending hospitals to hiring more doctors. jim avila, abc news, the white house. disgraced l.a. clippers owner donald sterling is making another about face. he decided to go a...

Everybody seen who wants to be seen. clearly they have probably moved on already to find health care somewhere else but anybody who wants to be seen, they are going to get seen by a doctor or clinic and if the v.a. can't handle them, they are in the works to farm them out into the private sector just to get the immediate wait lists taken care of and then it's trying to rework the entire system, scheduling practices, et cetera to make sure this never happens again. >> and drew, there's another congressional hearing this evening. what are we expecting? >> we're going to get a briefing from the i...

Acting secretary of the v.a. sloan gibson releasing an internal audit of scheduling practices at the hospitals. gibson has promised to reearn the country's trust one veteran at a time. this as the house committee is set to meet tonight to get updates from the inspector general's office, the government accountability office and the v.a. itself on those secret wait lists. this is not the kind of close-up that sandra bullock is usually ready for. the actress having to call 911 when a guy breaks into her house in los angeles while she was home. police arriving on the scene and arresting the guy ...

Walk us through how you managed to break this story, some of those activities. >> you know, it sounds exactly like it. when we started to look into this last year, we found six doctors who were so frightened to talk to us literally we had to meet them in alleys, seedy restaurants late at night. one doctor if we wanted to converse with him electronically made sure that by either text or by e-mail, that we would use a code word, tend eer vittles was the code word so he made sure it was us talk to him and not somebody in the government. this is because many, moo people in the veterans affairs dep...