secretary of veterans affairs, eric shinseki. that meeting just wound up just a little over 15 minutes ago. a short meeting about a half hour as we understand it at the white house with the president. he had henry is live at the white house in the briefing room. ed, if you could at the end of this very busy week set the table for us with the president coming out soon. reporter: sure of the stated purpose of that meeting with secretary shinseki for him to deliver this report, audit, if you will what has gone wrong at the va the posture from secretary shinseki this morning we should note is as we try to read the tea leaves he spoke to a homeless veterans group here in washington and seems somewhat defiant to say he wants to stick it out, taking responsibility we should note and saying this was much more systemic than he first thought. so that sounds like someone who did not want to resign. someone who laid out a battle plan to fix this he said he would be pushing out officials in phoen
the deeper problems here. leadership of both republicans and democrats agree these are massive problems. you have veterans waiting months to receive basic services. you had a facility essentially masking these long wait types. i think everyone agrees this needs to be solved. there is a question if it becomes this kind of witch-hunt, if people begin to believe getting shinseki to resign solves the problem which i believe the leadership knows it is not the case. there is much deeper problem than that. jenna: the question comes next, how do you solve the deeper problem if everyone can recognize it. i m getting news. the president will speak 10 minutes from now. he will presumably speak about the meeting he had with secretary shinseki. our viewers should stay tuned for that. what do you think transpired in this meeting, wes? we haven t heard a ton from the white house this week on this issue. what would you anticipate? one of two things of the main, the lingering question as you said ear
of course not. if anyone etched racist on his tombstone, it was donald sterling. we re at the point of getting a deal done. all parties come together. what donald sterling wants is he wants the nba to let him come back and watch basketball and he wants that ban removed. i guarantee you. interesting. we ll find out what happens here in the next few days. it s a $2 billion deal and not to mention the questions about would the new owner move the team to seattle? talk about that with other deals he s tried to make. we ll talk to you more on another day about where this deal is going next. thank you so much for joining me. thank you. all right. we re watching the white house as we continue to monitor the president s meeting with veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki. we ll head back there when we come back.
he would be right in the thick of it? indeeds. jay carney, press secretary stepping down. that actually was a surprise. i don t think general shinseki was a surprise. but i think that was today. the timing was a surprise. because two resignations, big resignation was in one day like this rarely happened in an administration. so it was a surprise in that sense. but most of us were expecting jay carney to leave relatively soon. the word on the hill and on in the white house was that he was wanting to leave by summertime and had been talking about it but the time something a little strange. i think some people suggested this was sort to distract everyone from shinseki, i don t know who is distracting who here. it looks like a lot of calamity in the white house. especially, you can t deny, this is extremely stressful job, when you look at the list of press secretaries, no one really lasts more than four years. they are in and out fairly quickly. who could blame them? the othe
bring in congressman jeff miller, the house veteran affairs. mr. chairman, let me start with you. after the inspector general s preliminary report revealing disturbingly the practices at the v.a. how will that solve the problem at the v.a.? it will not solve the problem. i have said for a long time this is larger than one man. secretary shinseki has obviously lost the ability to lead his agency. nothing is going to change with the secretary being gone but that is still no reason to leave him in place. and in terms of who would replace the general at this point does it have to be somebody outside the v.a.? well, that is the president s decision. this is the choice the president is going to make. where you bring somebody that is going to shake up the system from bottom to top. and unfortunately, you have a bureaucracy out there today that