iraq veterans, and part of it is the vietnam veterans sort of moving out of their careers and needing to rely on the suspect. you could see the democracy brafk graphics and you need to put your people on the problem to get our veterans into the system. spoker john boehner responding to the news earlier today said this. his resignation, though, does not absolve the president of his responsibility to step in and make things right for our veterans. business as usual cannot continue. we obviously all agree. business cannot continue. does president obama share some of the responsibility and some of the blame for this? i wouldn t really go that far. i think that what we need is a set of eyes now that can go in and fix the broken places to move the system forward, to lou the claims to go forward, to allow people access to v.a. medical care. it s pretty good care.
veterans. business as usual cannot continue. we are not even noon and it is a beg news day. ed henry joins us with more on the developing story, ed. it is not surprising that secretary shinseki would go. because of the growing calls among the democrats and not just republicans saying he is g. that should ramp up the pressure on him. with secretary sebelius, the president stuck with her and let her fix the website. this may be a much bigger problem to deal with because of the failure to deal with the health care to veterans. and he met with the president in the oval office and sounded like someone fighting for his job and said he had a plan to fix this
the v.a. secretary claimed his own officials had been lying to him. i was too trusting of some, and i accepted as accurate reports that are now known to have been misleading with regard to patient wait times. reporter: the president said the white house was also in the dark that v.a. officials were concealing wait times. this issue of scheduling is one that the reporting systems inside of the vha did not surface to the level where rick was aware of it or we were able to see it. over at the capitol, house speaker john boehner had his own rapid response, that shinseki s departure is not enough. his resignation, though, does not absolve the president of his responsibility to step in and make things right for our veterans. business as usual cannot continue. reporter: besides the internal probes, the scandal already under way, the chairman of the senate veterans affairs committee says the justice
facilities and apologized to his fellow veterans and to the american people. and a few minutes ago, secretary shinseki offered me his own resignation. with considerable regret, i ve accepted. general shinseki has dedicated his life to this country and we thank him for his service. this does not absolve the president to step in and make things right for our veterans. business as usual cannot continue. the president met with eric shinseki at the white house and soon after that meeting announced his resignation. accepting the resignation of shinseki. also talked a little at length about the v.a. scandal hitting 42 facilities right now. he says this was not something we were hearing when i was traveling around the country, the particular issue of scheduling. to that, senator john mccain, i
responsibility to step in and make things right for our veterans. business as usual cannot continue. reporter: besides the internal probes of the scandal already under way, the chairman of the senate veteran ace fairs committee said the justice department is also involved. criminal acts, they should be punished. no ifs, butts and maebs. white house aides say they expect others to go. we ll be holding accountable specific individuals. reporter: but the v.a. will be doing that with sloan gibson, who has only been on the job in his current capacity at the department of veterans affairs as a deputy secretary for three months. and even though the secretary just announced his resignation today, this is washington, erin. there is already speculating going on in this town about who the successor might be for eric shinseki. but at this point, a white house official says there is just no short list at this point. erin? all right. thank you very much to you, jim acosta, who has been cov