who were traded for him will not rejoin the fight? i have no idea. i do know our troops are continuing to fight terrorism every single day. we have tens of thousands in afghanistan. maybe that s a silver lining here, what it appreciates to get somebody here. it seems like ancient history, but a cabinet secretary resigned at the v.a. over a controversy that ungulfs the entire medical community. no, i want to talk fwou that. there s a lot of ideas floating around about how to fix the v.a., washington, d.c. talking about that issue. it s an extremely important issue that will go on long after this interview occurs. what are the best steps forward? it s been awful. it s late, it s not clear. it s clear when shinseki
va secretary eric shinseki is out. many democrats called for shinseki to be shown the dor. on friday president obama accepted the resignation and named deputy secretary sloan gibson as the replacement and house speaker boehner said it is not enough. general shinseki dedicated his life to our country and we thank him for our service. his resignation does not absolve the president of his responsibility to step in and make things right for our veterans. business as usual cannot continue. joining me on as chairman of the house committee is full disclosure is the congressman.
va secretary eric shinseki is out. many democrats called for shinseki to be shown the dor. on friday president obama accepted the resignation and named deputy secretary sloan gibson as the replacement and house speaker boehner said it is not enough. general shinseki dedicated his life to our country and we thank him for our service. his resignation does not absolve the president of his responsibility to step in and make things right for our veterans. business as usual cannot continue. joining me on as chairman of the house committee is full disclosure is the congressman.
foreign service, americans who might be traveling to dangerous parts of the world so i think we need to re-establish this principle and do it quickly. we need to be clear about what s going on. i listened to susan rice on another network, not yours, but another one and when pressed by someone, a reporter about why they released these individuals, she kind of said we want to shut down guantanamo anyway, and if this is how think going to shut down guantanamo, to release folks without going through the proper notice and making sure they don t go back in the battlefield against americans, we need to have a serious conversation. this concerns me a lot. senator, i don t mean to interrupt you, 30 seconds left. you said shinseki s resignation won t get rite of the rot. that s pretty strong. we need a fresh set of eyes and just removing him from the top won t change the season. the gao and the inspector generals made it clear this is a much deeper problem. our veterans need to be first in l
er is. shinseki s resignation is not enough to fix the organization that is bloated. his resignation is not going to solve this problem. what will solve this problem is aggressive digging and figuring out what happened and what within wrong and how to unwind it and get out of this mess. that s what we have to be focused on. it is not going to make a material difference. one report from the office of the inspector general found systemic problems about the wait times. as many as 1700 veterans were off of the wait list for appointments. officials in the va are reaching out to the men and women individually. molly is live in washington tonight. secretary shinseki is out.