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Give us the answers, please. >> keep in mind earlier in the day the inspector general interim report found at least 1,700 veterans seeking care at phoenix were at risk of being forgotten or lost. more than 200 veterans waited on average 115 days for their first primary care appointment and about 84% of those waited more than 14 days. at the white house the press secretary said president obama was briefed on the findings of the report and found them to be, quote, extremely troubling. >> thank you elizabeth prann. thomas lynch, the doctor right there we saw who was taking some of the heat hast n...

Initiate right now. >> that was the president speaking a week ago today. and when he said that, that sounded like something that really wasn't about waiting. something that they were going to get right on. but no further details were released about that immediately. and we called and called, both the white house and the v.a. to get an answer about what the president might have meant when he made these comments, reaching out to veterans who are currently waiting for appointments to make sure they're getting better service. we couldn't get anyone to explain to us what the president meant at the ...

We need to get answers. >> it goes to the competence of the administration. >> the president is the one who should be held accountable. >> this could be the biggest issue of the election. >> it's not suggesting there's a political scandal to step in and say, i asked for a job to be done, job not done, we have to bring in somebody else. >> on thin ice, those are the words of an administration official to nbc news this afternoon describing the dicey situation for v.a. secretary eric shinseki. his job is now very much on the line after the release of a damning report which confirmed that 1,700 ve...

Lied to because he says he's asked about these accusations before and that's where the question of the documents being altered is coming from. >> and the idea of suggesting this is union workers is absolutely insane, ridiculous, and disgusting. >> something i brought up last week that 80% of the v.a. is unionized. >> that's disgusting. >> whether or not they were dying because of wait lists -- >> that's what jesse said. [ multiple speakers ] >> firing a union worker is substantially higher than a nonunion worker. >> next, the white house blew the cover of our top spy in afghanistan which could...

Friday, this friday, the day after tomorrow, to finish those initial assessments. once those initial assessments are completed, the v.a. says it is going to reach out to the individual veterans who are on these wait lists. they're going to reach out up to three times to try to find them all. they're going to try to get those veterans an appointment. if they can't get them into a v.a. facility, if they say there's no appointment available at a v.a. facility, they're planning to help arrange an appointment at private practice and they're doing this immediately. so those there are the specifics o...