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
get these people the needs for them. and what we need is 150,000 physician physicians to address the needs of the american people, and including the v.a. and we will work on legislation to address a that as well. he called out the bill specifically, and support for it in the statement this morning before the homeless veterans group, but obviously, he is going into the president s office, and we have heard from the president sort of getting us an idea that he wants to know from shinseki, can you fix it? what do you think that conversation is going to be like ten minutes from now between president obama and eric shinse shinseki. well, chris, i don t want to speculate, but this is what i want to say, and make two points here. you may remember back in the year 2003 when the bush administration was rush iing th country to war and when don rumsfeld and the secretary of
and so far, we ve heard nothing to indicate that will occur. feisty position from donald sterling and his attorney. now, if the reported $2 billion deal goes through, it would be the most ever paid for an nba franchise. sterling bought this team in 1981 for just about $12.5 million. imagine the tax bill to the state of california, the real winner if there s a sale here. the sterlings is going to do okay, too, at $2 billion. they will. yes, they will have to pay capital gains taxes, but that s a hefty profit. shed no tears for them, christine romans. every nba owner is looking at that going, new peaks reached in the nba. new developments in the scandal at the va as more lawmakers call for va secretary eric shinseki to resign. he speaks today before a homeless veterans group, a day after going to capitol hill and speaking privately to lawmakers. this as he seems to be losing the support, perhaps, of his boss, the president, all after the va s own probe found a cnn
and more lawmakers are calling for the va secretary, eric shinseki to resign. he speaks today before a homeless veterans group, a day after going to capitol hill and speaking privately with lawmakers. this as he seems to be losing the support of his boss, the president, all after the va s own probe found a cnn investigation was true. hundreds of vets in phoenix were kept off the official books and not given appointments, possibly with deadly results. now, many are asking, how long can shinseki keep his job? our jim acosta has more this morning for us from the white house. reporter: john and christine, the writing may be on the wall for va secretary eric shinseki for the first time since the va scandal broke, the white house is declining to say whether shinseki has the confidence of the president. white house press secretary jay carney refused to answer that question of whether shinseki has the president s full backing. instead, carney said the president wants to see the findings of a
welcome back. i m wolf blitzer reporting from washington. more than 100 lawmakers, republicans and democrats called for his resignation. today, they got it. after a speech to a homeless veterans group, the va secretary eric shinseki met with president obama and formally tendered his resignation. the president praised shin shse for taking action. this morning, some of you heard rick take this reaction. he took responsibility and apologized to his fellow veterans and the american people. a few minutes ago, shinseki offered me his own resignation. with considerable regret, i accepted. democratic senator blumenthal chairs on the armed services