strategic sweep. many still doubt he fully appreciates the leverage the united states has even in a changing world. falling back on hackneyed phrases like america is the indispensable nation told us little. a harsh review from the man who oversaw the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the head of u.s. central command, retired general james mat igs saying, we want to crush the enemy s hope to win through violence, yet we have now given the enemy hope that if they hang on until our announced withdrawal date they can perhaps come back. john kerry says a deadline is the only way to get the afghans to step up. ed, thank you. the bandwagon of lawmakers and critics calling for the resignation of the v.a. chief is getting more and more crowded tonight and more of them are from the democratic side of the aisle. mike emanuel tonight with a tally that seemed to change by the minute late this afternoon. reporter: with a growing
preliminary report. thank you, ed. we got a report yesterday. the president found the report extremely troubling. reporter: jay carney repeatedly deflected by saying the president is waiting for a second report as early as friday from shinseki and a third report from the v.a. health care system weeks from now by rob neighbaib. republicans note the president has a tough time firing top officials. he s decisively indecisive. i think we re going to continue to see him indecisive on the v.a. as for how the white house leaked the identity of a cia official over the weekend, carney says the white house chief of staff has asked the council to review. has anyone been fired? as for wednesday s speech at west point, it got panned from the left with the new york times editorial page declaring, quote, the address did not match the hype. was largely uninspire, lacked
reporter: president obama finds his team scrambling to deal with the series of missteps on national security for blowing the cover of kabul to growing criticism at his attempt at a foreign policy reset at west point and mushrooming scandal at the v.a. as a white house aide refused to answer whether the president still has confidence in eric shinseki. the president wants to see the results of these reports and he, as you know, made clear there ought to be accountability once we establish all the facts. reporter: except last night a series of facts were established when one of three reports, this one from the v.a. inspector general, confirmed some veterans are waiting 115 days for care, one week after the president made this promise. once we know the facts, i assure you if it there is misconduct it wilin punished. we now know the facts from the i.d. report. who has been punished. we ve got a set of facts in a