president advice or the president s agreement. [ cheers and applause ] reporter: ricardo martinelli, whom a u.s. diplomat described in a leaked cable having a limited attention span and making strong impulsive decisions had much in common with the future president of the united states. like trump, martinelli also built himself a lucrative real estate empire. owned panama s largest chain of supermarkets, but money wasn t enough. martinelli wanted power, too, why he decided to run for president. and this man is head of the panamanian branch of transparency international. finding many similarities with candidate trump. lack of experience in government management, campaigning on the ticket of the outsider. reporter: in 2009, martinelli ran a colorful campaign. [ applause ] his antics earned him the
government management. campaigning on the ticket of the outsie outsid outsider. reporter: martinelli ran a colorful campaign. his antics earned him the nickname the crazy one. a name he happily embraced. he created a slogan that he used during the campaign. we the crazy people are the majority. reporter: and they were. martinelli won by a landslide on the promise of a better future for panama. for a while it seemed he kept his word. the economy boomed, unemployment dropped, he oversaw an expansion of the panama canal and opened a subway system. soon allegations of corruption started to surface. martinelli was more than a president. he was a monarch.
government management, campaigning on the ticket of the outsider. in 2009, martinelli ran a colorful campaign. the crazy one. a name he happily embraced. he even created a slogan that he used during the campaign c l called, we the crazy people are the majority. and they were. he won by a landslide on the promise of a better future for panama. for a while, it seemed he d kept his word, the economy boomed, unemployment dropped, he oversaw an expansion of the panama canal and opens a subway system, but soon, allegations of corruption started to surface. martinelli was more than a president.
period. draper is the director for health care investigations for the gao which has labeled va health care high risk in terms of government management and has done so since 2015. draper says even today the va s wait time data is simply not to be believed. they re longer. oh, yes. in almost every case we find the actual wait times are longer than what the va is reporting. it has been nearly four years since cnn began exposing the secret wait lists and fabricated wait times and delays in care and the patients who died waiting for that care. it s been three years since congress approved $16 billion in additional funding so the va could fix those problems. in fact, since 2009, the va s budget has nearly doubled, and yet, the problems and some would say the lies at the va persist. still not resolved and still happening. eric handle is the former
drew griffin. reporter: first of all, the scandal erupted when the scandal erupted while veterans were dying while waiting some cases dying while waiting for care. there are makeups. billions spent. and now much-improved wait time reported by the va. that sounds good. but deborah draper with the u.s. government s own accountability office has heard it all before. numbers that they re reporting based on their work, they re not reliable numbers. period? period. reporter: draper is director of gao which has labeled va s health care high risk in terms of government management. it s done so since 2015. draper says even today, the va s wait time lat da is simply not to be believed. they re longer? oh, yes, in almost every case we find that the actual wait times are actually longer than what the va is reporting.