and casey kasem news. let my dad see his family. what s up with the famous dj? it s a jam-packed on the record tonight. this is a fox news alert. v.a. secretary eric shinseki is out. his resignation coming amid exploding outrage over the v.a. scandal and that is not the only big announcement from the white house today. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry joins us live. ed? good to see you, greta. what an intense day as you mentioned. jay carney has been at that white house podium for weeks now having to defend eric shinseki and the unfolding scandal at the v.a. suddenly both of them are gone. let s start with the less surprising one eric shinseki, the president came out and made rare appearance in the white house briefing room this morning after meeting in the oval office with shinseki and said, look, rereluctantly accepted his resignation that he had not fired him that shinseki wanted to go.
our veterans. time to start bob tweeted while shinseki is a good first step it will not solve problems that clearly permeate the department of veteran s affair. senator jeff lake has tweeted shin seq.y s. good move. now let s fix the problem. #v.a. and congressman hills camp obama still defending the man who overall the department of veterans affair and his shenanigans. what s the best selfie we saw on social media today? well, it s this one dubbed an elfie. reverse this is what happens when a zoo elephant found a visitor s home. a 22-year-old elephant. a visitor dropped this cell phone inside the elephant s enclosure and the rest is history. the elephant apparently snapping his own photo before the cell phone was retrieved. and there you have it the world s first elfy. now it s your turn to hash
disappointed that bad news did not filter its way up to the secretary. had you republicans, rudy giuliani saying immediately. wait a second, bad news didn t filter up to the president either not just on v.a., h.h.s., irs, the botched healthcare rollout. all of these things you have seen the president either learning about some the details in the media or learning later from cabinet secretary after the fact. remember on the health carrollout days before the botched rollout the president was out there saying the web site is going to be so good as easy as buying something on amazon.com. the staff failed him there. not just fixing the v.a. what s going on at the white house where the president not just the cabinet secretary keeps getting blind sided on these things, greta? thank you. outrage after serving their country, some veterans are being mistreated right here at home. some even dying while waiting for medical treatment. i m upset. i m mad at the people that s not doing what the
exmilitary? is that what we are looking for? ed mentioned what a great great leader and a guy since is he retired has been working on traumatic brain injury ever since. i think he would be a terrific candidate. he didn t ask me to say that here is what worries me. once rick is gone and once we take the head, we move the heads of the phoenix v.a. i m afraid we are out of afghanistan less than 1% of the american people served in the military. the media will turn this into a one day story i m afraid. you and i talked about this tonight. we did. and remember, last september, jennifer griffin came on your show and talked about these same problems on the v.a. that was nine months ago. it turned out to be a one day story. not any of the major networks picked it up. those veterans are still sick and not being treated. let s take care of the veterans first. keep them on the front burner. pass legislation that allows a new v.a. chief to fire those bureaucrats clean
the president is heading to europe monday night for a big trip dealing with ukraine and other matters. and the bottom line is he wanted to get both of these moves, i m told, out of the way before that trip. especially since shinseki, part of the president s trip will be to normandy for the 70 oth anniversary of d-day. such a solemn ceremony. a lot of veterans going to be there he wanted to rip this band-aid off before going there. any names at all to replace general shinseki at the v.a. there is a lot of former military leaders, retired military officials who have been ban teed around whether it s peter, the former vice chief of staff at the army. a lot of well-qualified people. i think what the president made clear today is that he wants to give the acting secretary a chance to right the ship and the biggest reason to get shinseki out basically this has become a huge distraction. some of the presidents, fellow democrats on capitol