paul, it s nice to have you back on. can you just please did you watch that a moment ago. very raw or frustrated. the mother said that the fact that shinseke is gone is wasted time. your reaction? i know and we work closely with them. they are heroic leaders and they have been raising this issue for a long time now. what too many veterans have had to go through. we stand strongly with them and maybe that story will be a wake up call for america. this is about real people like daniel that are dieing in america. we have got to get ahead of this and get them the resources.
experience he wouldn t have traded for anything. former time magazine washington bureau chief. lots of news going on in the meantime. let s turn it over to brooke baldwin. brooke? i what a day. let s begin. embattled as a soldier. eric shinseke proved he was a it was announced that shinseke is stepping down. this comes after weeks of revelati revelations.
to be the most merciful thing ever. forgive me. this is tough. it took him three months to be seen but he was only seen within three months because we had a connection and because of that connection who had a connection at the facility they were able to get him in. i would have preferred that shinseke stay and maybe have a white house person alongside him to continue working on the problems. do you disagree? i don t i certainly do. i think, though, that problems start at the top but the major issue is this huge entrenched bureaucracy. why do we have so many levels that we have within this system.
the new person. when i hear learning curve i hear time wasted. i would have preferred that shinseke stay and maybe have a white house person alongside him to continue working on the problems since he we look at it from a veteran s standpoint.
joining me now, the man who broke this story a retired va doctor from that phoenix facility. did shinseke resign on his own or did the president ask him to? i don t know that it really matters. so many people on capitol hill were calling for him to resign. we have talked in the past