Health care, where some vets died before they got treatment and hospital officials hid those long delays on secret wait lists. The Administration Says thousands of doctors and nurses have now been hired nationwide and those wait times are improving. But the president , who vowed nearly a year ago to fix the v. A. , acknowledged there is still a lot more to do. Heres Wyatt Andrews. Ar reporter brian gibbs, an iraq war veteran, said two ge months from now he will finallyph get to see a v. A. Surgeon in phoenix for a blood clot condition in his legs. You can get appointments now but it takes forever. It just never ends. Theres never ending the questions are never answered. Ost reporter almost a year aftercr the secret wait lists were revealed, the president came to phoenix, report card in hand. 4,000 veterans have been calledin for appointments, includingts everyone on those secret lists. Een 30,000 appointments have been arranged outside the v. A. Andof a 94 of all appointments are made
Each had in shaping the talking points that thenu. N. Ambassador susan rice used on the sunday talk shows. We all know at that time she blamed the attack on that video. Chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. First and foremost, why the selection of trey gowdy . Reporter well, gretchen, good afternoon. House Speaker John Boehner says the American People want answers, accountability and justice. Boehner says about congressman gowdy, republican of south carolina, that he is as dogged focused and serious minded as they come. The speaker says gowdys background as a federal prosecutor, doing that for six years and his zeal for the truth make him the ideal person to lead this panel. Another key House Republican says he hopes gowdy and the select committee can get to work investigating benghazi soon. I think it is important for the congress and also important politically for republicans not to be seen as if were making an issue out of this. I would say get
Judge to get this ben rhodes email . I dont know. I bet every person in that white house wished the email would have been released earlier. I do, too, it tells us what we said privately is what we said publicly because thats what we thought occurred. It references protests because they were countless across the world. Mark mad does eadows is on t committee. Im assuming you agree that this select committee should go forward . Certainly, at this point to have a real robust investigatioinvestigation that focuses just on benghazi is what we need to do. Im behind our leadership as theyve made the call to vote for this select committee. What did you make of that interview that we just heard a snippet of with bret baier, the former nsa communications spokesperson, being relatively smug, admitting that obama was not in the situation room when all this was going down in benghazi. You would say what to that . Well, thats very troubling, when we have american lives that have been lost and youre n
His seventh dui . Did the fact he did it in a ferrari and is wealthy have anything to do with him getting off easily. We begin with a story weve been covering for months when president obama finally addressed the issue directly pledging to fix the problems nationwide to hold the right people accountable and redeem this countrys promise, the men and women who give body and soul to defend it. We begin with very tough questions about why the problems have been so longstanding and solutions, Real Solutions affecting hundreds of thousands of veterans have seemed so late and so lacking. After meeting this morning with secretary eric shinseki, mr. Obama said if the allegations of long waits and phoney lists are true he would not tolerate it. All the same he never announced secretary shinsekis immeant departure or immediate action until he knows more. Here is what i discussed with secretary shinseki this morning. First, anybody found to have manipulated or falsified records at v. A. Facilities
The people who run the hospital there were trying to hide the fact up to 21 months for a wait to see the doctor. And even more concerning here is what the second doctor is now telling us. In just the last recent weeks, an attempt to hide that information from the office of the Inspector General which is investigating this. This is a second doctor from inside that the v. A. Hospital coming forward to cnn tonight. Her name is dr. Katherine mitchell, a physician who works right now inside the phoenix v. A. She is confirming what several sources, anderson, have already told us. That in fact, the v. A. Kept a secret list. The list was being used to hide the excessive wait from the public, and dr. Mitchell also tells us she complained about these excessive wait times as far back as two years ago when the current Management First came on board. Specifically, she said, she told the new director back then Sharon Helman that the emergency room at the hospital was overloaded and overloaded, ander