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white house secretary, eric shinse shinseki, resigned under pressure friday morning. this va story has been building for months, so after the shinseki step aid side, i went down to the eighth floor of the cnn bureau in d.c. and found cnn correspondent, drew griffin. it was his reporting about va health care delays that forced this issue onto the national news agenda. i wanted to start by asking when you started looking into the va health care delays, cause this is not something that started a month or two ago. no, it was last fall, brian, early last fall, and we put our first story on the air in november when we were actually identifying and talking about patients who had died waiting for care. there were actual dead veterans because they got delays in care, basically colonoscopies down in south carolina and georgia. that was our first story. and that was our first attempt to reach general shinseki and ask him if he knew about this and what was being done about it. that was a long
we talked here on the program last week about dr. sam foote in phoenix, how he came through as an on-the-record source. the story seemed to grow even bigger once he came on camera. that s right. and he was the spark behind it because the secret list is what came out of phoenix and for whatever reason, who knows what, that s what the media really just took their sunk their teeth into. and i wonder what it feels like for you to have seen him resign on friday, what that s like? because for a reporter so many reporters maybe in journalism school think about having an impact on that scale. i feel sorry for him. it s bizarre. i don t want to gloat at all or think that s any kind of a trophy, i m glad that the veterans are now getting some attention to this problem that many people knew about or should have known about. drew, thanks for letting me talk to you in between live shots today, a very busy man. thank you. that s all for reliable sources this week, stay tuned a news u
va. an audit finds failures did not stop at that phoenix facility. more than 6 in 10 va centers were have found to have fudged wait time numbers. and a process of confirming the new head of the va, that process will start soon. secretary gibson has been named in the interim. tom tearantino joins us. let me get your reaction to the news of the day. the newsbergdahl. it s great news. it s great for him, great for his family. we want to make sure he has what he needs to recover and the only thing you can really say is welcome home, soldier. let s move over to the va story now. getting rid of and you know this. getting rid of one guy is not going to solve these problems. there s not going to be a honeymoon for the next secretary. what do you see the next month looking like at the va? it s going to be a tough
deep. not to begin with saying the appointment system has to be completely revamped. and then from the scheduling, it goes into the actual delivery of the care. it is somebody that has to have the understanding of the complete process and has dealt with these kinds of situations before. thank you for being here today. thank you very much. up next, a congresswoman with a very personal connection to the va story. not only is she now representing vets who are struggling, she was also a vr nurse for more than a decade. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me, and you re talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic. this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain. this is humira helping me lay the groundwork. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years.