It may look tranquil but there is a lot of tense talk for president obama and the leader of china. If that is not enough, sprinkle in changes who lately is his most enthusiastic antagonizer. And dozens of students went missing and some claiming now they were murdered. The very latest on acapulco and disappearance and dismay there. Just over an hour from now, the last known case of ebola in this country, dr. Craig spencer set to be released with a clean bill of health from the new york City Hospital and later we will hear from the president s point man on ebola, who has been relatively quiet to this point. It is tuesday november 11th, 2014, this is tthe daily rundown. We start with president obamas asia trip and what is the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the one between president obama and chinese president ping. The two leaders went for a private walk in the garden. They had dinner away from the cameras and at the headquarters of the communist chinese party. Th
President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he will nominate Julie Su to replace Marty Walsh as labor secretary, despite the fact that Su oversaw billions of dollars in fraudulent handouts when she held the same position in California.
welcome back to legal view. i m ashleigh banfield. the deeper investigators dig into neglect at the veterans hospital, the worse it becomes and outrage. the house lambasted senior v.a. officials over the waiting lists and cover-ups. the speaker of the house put the blame above veteran secretary er erik shinseki. the real issue is the president is the one who should be held accountable. as kevin pointed out we sent a letter going back to early 2013, talking about the gao report, asking for its recommendations to be implemented. and for the president to say he didn t know anything about it is rather shocking. so the president is going to have to step up here and show some real leadership. to be sure, more and more lawmakers in both parties are calling for shinseki s firing, especially in light of a preliminary report from the
v.a. s own inspector general. looking only at the phoenix v.a. hospital that s become the epicenter of the scandal, the i.g. found at least 1700 veterans that needed care, again, just at the phoenix hospital. those veterans actually thought they had appointments with v.a. doctors but they were never even on any kind of official list. the list, by the way, it appears, was for those veterans whose appointments were less than two weeks out so that the staff and officials could appear to be meeting their mandate for timely care and thus qualify for the bonuses and the raises that have also become pretty controversial. i am joined now by cnn s drew griffin, whose own investigation brought this to light. you started the ball rolling, and boy, is it rolling. just for a second, indulge me if you will. i want to read right now something secretary shinseki wrote today. i ll quote the findings on the inspector general on the phoenix
i wanted to ask him a very specific question about this secret list and quite defensively, he told me, even after all this, there wasn t a secret list. listen. reporter: how can you, the current administration, which got us into this mess, get us out of it. if you just said it s been going on for five or ten years, i have not been part of that current administration, drew. i have been here a year and half. i think i have been able to see what the way forward is. i think we have developed in the last year and a half, tools we can use. i ve acknowledged we need to ensure the integrity of 0 our system to use these tools accurately. we do have the tools and we do have the information we need to push forward and provide veterans with timely care. ashleigh, let s just take him at his word he s only been there a year and half and he personally doesn t know. certainly the secretary knew, everybody knew this was going on. but even a month monago, thomas lynch knew there were at least