our veterans get the care they deserve. and as commander and chief i believe that taking care of our veteran families is a sacred operation. reporter: still three members of the president s party are breaking ranks with him and urging shinseki to ten down. nick rahall up for re-election and alice grimes and michelle nun trying to win an open senate seat in georgia came out in the past couple of days and said shinseki should go. grimes said i don t understand how that trust with our veterans can be repaired if the current leadership stays in place. john fleming doesn t mince any word. he is the latest from the gop to call for shinseki s ouster. he said eric shinseki should be fired from his post as v.a. secretary. but shinseki has his defenders,
a jewish museum in brussels, the site of a deadly shooting today, at least three people confirmed dead, and one seriously injured. details are scarce, but it s being reported a person wearing a backpack opened fire at the museum before leaving the scene. investigators adding that it s too soon to say whether the atta attack was anti semetic. president obama and congressional democrats standing by secretary eric shinseki amid calls from some for him to resign because of the v.a. scandal. this comes as claims are mounting that veterans were kept in those secret fake waiting lists so long, some ended up dying before they could even be seen and treated, though officials deny that. meanwhile, president obama used his weekly address today on this meaningful memorial day weekend to promise that our veterans, he said, will get the necessary
museum earlier today and opened fire on the people inside, killing two men and one woman. a fourth person was seriously injured. now police haven t released a motive as of yet but the mayor of brussels is describing it as a, quote, terror attack. police have cordoned off several streets in t they try to track down the person responsible. and new fallout over the growing v.a. scandal. now more lawmakers, including a growing number of democrats, ramping up their calls for v.a. secretary eric shinseki to step down. molly henneberg live in washington with more. reporter: hi, arthel. president obama has been standing by his v.a. secretary shinseki and today during the radio address, this focused on the memorial day, the president referenced the v.a. scandal. in recent weeks we ve seen again how much more our nation needs to do to make sure all of
include one fox analyst saying this is a lynch mob mentality and are charged up because this is an election year. i believe general shinseki is the right man for this job at this time. give him some more time. if you want to blame someone. blame the members of congress who provide the funding and oversight for v.a. where have they been? and oh, by the way, i hate when people politicize veteran issues. shinseki said he is staying on the job and will act if any v.a. allegations around the country are substantiated. thank you very much, molly. before tomorrow s much-anticipated presidential election in ukraine, there are reports of problems at the polling stations that could affect the fairness of the vote. that nation choosing the first elected official since the
congress. we have a democratically led senate and we have a democrat in the white house where you might have difficulty seeing them even approve of such an idea and then you have to find a way to shift all of the funding around so that this could be put in place. i suspect something like this would take years to do. and what does that do with the backlog right now? not a lot. so it is not great news for our veterans because you need people to approve it first. however there are a lot of ideas out there right now. there is an idea by jeff miller who heads the v.a. committee in the house to give privatized care within 30 days and over in the senator john mccain has a bill in the works that would provide a government i.d. card where people could get private care if they are unable to get it through the v.a. a flexible system, you could get one or the other depending on which was available first. but it is under discussion now which is more than in the past