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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 time. but the day after the president made those comments, the v.a. said ...

Lawyering up. >> well, it is curious. they did in the i.g. report, find paper printouts of hundreds of records where people were asking for primary care appointments at the v.a. hospital. they were never entered into the official computer. they just had a paper of it. so yesterday that dr. thomas lynch there, he said there were no wait lists. however, his staff did tell him what they referred to as interim work products. so the paper wait lists were not wait list, they were interim work products. that's some beautiful bureaucratic legalese. >> yeah. sounds like a funny way to change the verbia...

That's something that we can 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 wha...

>> all right. here's an update on our breaking news. we are getting official reaction from the va secretary to this new information in addition to the myriad of other developments when it comes to this va scandal that cnn and all of our months of investigating burst wide open. the latest developments other than these alleged fake wait lists is the fact that now we're hearing that there were 1700 veterans who wanted to be put on this wait list. we know that they have been investigating some 26 or so va facilities across the country. that number is now up to at least 42 different facilities. and...

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 end this person's career and...