white house with us. we had eric shinseki giving the audit to the president before submitting his resignation yesterday. what more does this audit reveal and what happens next? good question, alex. reporter: one of the other troubling findings of that audit is that 78% of scheduling staffers used alternative methods than the electronic scheduling system and that occurred in about 64% of v.a. facilities nationwide so that just gives you a snapshot of how widespread this misconduct was. now you ll recall that president obama continued to express confidence in secretary shinseki really up until this week when, on wednesday, we got that preliminary ig report which also showed that there had been widespread misconduct and my sources here tell me that was really the key question for president obama. he wanted to know whether what we were seeing in the phoenix, the misconduct there, whether that was isolated or indicative
and counting. sudden and remarkable fund-raising effort to bring back reading rainbow. what is the number at this hour? it is eye pop. wo we re going to show you the figure. good morning, everyone. welcome to weekend with alex witt. troubling details from a null released veteran affairs audit. the audit says problems went far beyond complaints from the phoenix facility with v.a. schedulers being pressured to use bad practices to make waiting times for appointments look more favorable. that audit found appointments at more than 60% of the divisions had been changed at least once. and 13% of the scheduling staffers indicate they got directs and instructions to enter a different date from the one requested by the patient. nbc kristen welker is at the
knew what and when and who, if anybody, did anything about it. we appreciate you filling in the blanks. thanks so much, cnbc s scott wapner. troubling details today from a newly released audit. the audit says problems went far beyond complaints with va schedulers being pressured to make bad practices look more favorable. the audit found appointments had been changed at least once and 13% of the scheduling staffers indicated they got instructions to enter a date different from the one requested by the patient. we re also getting some new reaction from veterans families to the resignation, as well as the political firestorm surrounding the widespread delays in veteran s care. joining me now, sally. sally lost her father-in-law, a 71-year-old navy veteran, to cancer last november, and blames his death on the va hospital in