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sterling. hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. the secretary of veterans affairs resigns over the scandal at va hospitals across the country. secretary shinseki met with president at the white house earlier this morning. the president later explained shinseki's decision to step down, praised him for the work he has done. >> i am grateful for his service, as are many veterans across the country. he has worked hard to investigate and identify the problems with access to care, but as he told me, the va needs new leadership to address it. he does not want to be a distraction because his priority is to fix the problem and make sure our vets are getting the care that they need. that was rick's judgment on behalf of his fellow veterans. and i agree. we don't have time for

distractions. we need to fix the problem. >> in a speech before his meeting with the president, shinseki apologized for the problems at the va and he took responsibility. >> i was too trusting of some and i accepted as accurate reports that i now know to have been misleading with regard to patient wait times. i can't explain the lack of integrity amongst some of the leaders of our health care facilities. this is something i rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. and so i will not defend it bauz it is indefensible. but i can take responsibility for it. and i do. >> our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin is ginning inning joining us now. drew helped break this story wide open. today, we see result, at least as far as this part of the story

is concerned. when he says he was too trusting, what does he mean by that? >> he means he was believing what his own staff and these va administrators at various hospitals were telling him in regards to making these appointment wait lists. even though myself, the house veterans affairs committee, the oig, and the government accountability office, were telling a completely different story. >> he said in a speech this morning before the formal resignation was announced, he promised several steps. he promised to remove senior leaders from the phoenix hospital, the va hospital there, eliminate wait times for employee preference review so no one benefits financially by manipulating the system. he also promised to accelerate veterans access to care both inside and outside the va. here's the question, does this begin to get at the problem? >> this begins to get at the crisis over with. the veterans waiting for care, we just learned another 700, overnight, in pittsburgh va, they are racing to get these

people in to see doctors. but the bigger problem is who manipulated the data? who reported that? and who lied to secretary shinseki about it? those people in my mind need to be fired, removed and have more honest people put in place who can give honest assessments of not only what the wait times are but how to fix them by actually seeing the veterans. >> what do we know about the new acting secretary, sloan gibson? >> we know he's a career banker. he has a long history with the military. both himself, his father and grandfather. he has a very strong love of the military. west point grad. ran the uso. well respected. he's only been at the va since february. >> the president said he has to get up to speed. would indicate he would not become the candidate to be the secretary, he was looking for someone else. at least the impression i got from the president's remarks. let's get some more perspective

on shinseki's resignation from the lawmaker who's very much involved in veterans issues, senator bernie sanders is the chairman of the veteran affairs committee in the senate, joining us from burlingtoburlington, ve. you were reluctant to call on shinseki to resign. what's your reaction to what happened today? >> i'm saddened. in eric shinseki, you have a true american hero. that's not just the purple hearts that he won in battle or his role as army chief of staff. this is a guy back in 2003 that did something unprecedented in modern history. he told don rumsfeld, secretary of defense at that time, in his rush to war, that occupying iraq was not be all that easy, you would need more troops. an enormous amounts of guts. he's a well-respected military leader. i am saddened by his loss. i think he also does not give the credit he deserves. wolf, when he came into office

in 2009, do you know how the va was processing claims? they were processing them by paper. if you can believe it. he transforred that whole system into an electronic one. right now, they've cut waiting lists in half and they're on their way to almost end waiting lists in the next year. that is no insignificant accomplishment. nor is dealing with the horrendous nightmare of veterans homelessness which has been reduced by 24% since he's been in office. so he's done some good things. i think in many ways, he was e betrayed by people who were not honest with him. short term, we've got to make sure every veteran on a waiting list gets health care as quickly as possible. we've got legislation coming up this week that i think can facilitate that, getting people into private care, into community health centers, into d dod facilities. longer term, not only do we have

to bring accountability into the v.a. and end this reprehensible behavior, we've got to make sure in every part of this country, we have the doctors and the nurses that we, in fact, need. so that you don't need long waiting periods for our veterans. >> did the president do the right thing in accepting his resignation? >> i would have preferred otherwise, to be honest with you. i think this guy is a very gutsy guy. who i think wanted the opportunity to clean house and make the changes that he now understood was necessary. but i can understand, you know, one of the things that was going on, and i hope we can end this, there's a lot of politization going on right now. running ads all over this country on this issue. i think that's unfortunate. i hope everybody can focus on how do we make sure every veteran in this country gets the quality health care he or she

needs and does it in a timely manner. the other point i make, this doesn't come out enough, if you talk to veterans in vermont and around the country what most of them will tell you is that once they are in the system, wolf, the quality of health care is good. the problem is accessing the system in a timely manner. >> you know, it wasn't just the koch brothers, republican, at least your democratic colleagues in the past 24 hours said it's time for him to go. >> yes, i'm more than aware of that. i disagree but, you know, some of them are responding to ads that are on television. i understand that. i just don't agree. be that as it may, my job now as chairman of the committee is to work with the commaty and the senate to make sure we introduce legislation and work to provide the best quality health care to all our veterans in a timely manner. >> i know the department of veterans affairs does wonderful things out there the. you have really studied this.

you have been the chairman of the committee. how shocking, how surprising has it been to you, senator, to see these inspector general reports, these internal audits, suggesting there is really some bad things going on, and maybe, maybe even criminal activity? here's the question, should the justice department, the fbi, launch a formal criminal investigation? >> the answer, absolutely. i believe, if i'm not mistaken, and i don't think i am, the justice department is already involved in this. if people have committed criminal acts, they should be punished. no ifs, buts and makes. i want to reiterate one thing. at the end of the day, we are serving in the va 6.5 million veterans. this is a life and death issue. our moral obligation is to make sure we have the staffing and accountability all over this country. because after the media walks

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i extend apology to the people i care most deeply about, that's the veterans of this great country, to their families and loved ones who i have been honored to serve for over five years now. it's the calling of a lifetime. >> eric shinseki apologizing for the scandal involving long wait timings at va hospitals and efforts to cover them up. shinseki met with the president at the white house, submitted his resignation andbeing accept. joining us, gloria borger and our chief commentator alex castellanos. the handwriting was clearly on the wall. with all these, more than 100 members of the house and senate, republicans and democrats, plenty of democrats, saying he must go. the president really had no choice. >> no, he had no choice. and he all but said that today. it's clear that he has a great deal of respect for shinseki. who is, after all, a war hero. the president went out of his

way to say he's a really good man. but the president's point was clear. that is that shinseki himself had become a distraction. you can't have that when somebody has to go to congress and ask for money, as the va will have to do to solve some of these problems, that he had to sort of get out of the way so they could get on with the business of making the va start to work in certain ways. >> you have a good column on cnn.com. the president is living his own version of alice through the looking glass. staring down a rabbit hole of government bureaucracy and inefficiency, the government he has studiously tried to grow, manage and change has become his own personal nemesis. so how does he turn that around, 5 1/2 years, nearly 6 years into his presidency? >> it's difficult because this is a president who came into office saying trust government to do the right thing. he understood that government was broken but he said, you know, i can fix it, i can make it work for you. the problem this president has

not only with the va but also with the rollout of the affordable care act, with the problems at the irs, even with questions of na overreach, is, is government actually working for you, and my question is, does this president even trust government anymore, or does he need to start managing it more effectively, if anybody can actually do that? >> you have a column on cnn.com, alex, as well. you say the president is responsible for this va mess, although some parts of it may not necessarily be his complete fault. you write this, for decades, democrats, republicans, even veterans, including shinseki, a man of unquestionable commitment, proven leadership ki skills, have tried to reform the endless bureaucracy. at best some have transformed the terrible to the merely awful. at worst, they have all failed. is this too big of a problem? >> it's just a limit on what government can do. government can do big simple things. our health care's very complex. here's what's happened. imagine that there's a big ship

and we've overloaded it. washington has overloaded it with bureaucracy and rules and rell lations. the ship is sinking. washington is shocked to find out the overloaded ship is sinking. so what do they do, they fire the captain. washington has created this overburdened regulatory nightmare. you know what their answer is now, more regulations. more bureaucracy, more programs. now, the va is an old closed washington knows best system. that's one answer. open it up. give veterans the choice and access. equal opportunity to access the same health care other people do. they can stay in the va and do that. but that will lighten the load, allow us to cut the bureaucracy and give veterans the help they need immediately. the old factory health care system doesn't work at the va and i think, as you noted, and i think it's a great column, it doesn't work on a lot of our complex problems today. >> it doesn't mean you need to throw away government.

what you need to do is make it smarter and more efficient, which, by the way, reinventing government goes all the way back to bill clinton days. >> by the way, it does mean that government can't do some things. the more complex the problem is, the more personal it is, the more intimate the job is, the less washington can do it. you and i are not going to enforce justice alone. we're not going to fight wars alone by ourselves. some things washington has to do. got it. but look what it's done. republicans, democrats, even veterans themselves. we're not going to get somebody better than shinseki. everybody in this town knows that. they know he's a good guy and a great leader. but they're pointing the finger at him when they're the ones who overloaded the ship and sank it. >> we elect presidents to be ceos. i think you can manage the inefficiency and you can prosecute the corruption, but

you have to have an early warning system in place that doesn't blind side you so you're surprised -- >> the old way doesn't work anymore. >> the president was blindsided on this. blindsided on the health care.dov website. >> he has ignored it for five, six years now. he said this will be a priority. he didn't reinvent the va. he didn't streamline the bureaucracy. that's the guy we thought he elected. it's not the president he's turned out to be. >> all right, guys, thank you. coming up, reaction to the house cleaning over the va in the wake of the scandal from one of the democratic senators who sits on the veterans affairs committee. also, hillary clinton's new book hasn't hit book stores yet but in it she does address directly the attacks in benghazi. what she is saying. the reaction. stand by. [ man ] look how beautiful it is. ♪ honey, we need to talk. we do? i took the trash out. i know. and thank you so much for that.

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comcast business built for business. hillary clinton's new memoir "hard choices" won't be on the book shelves for another couple of weeks but a newly released excerpts, she addresses the attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. while she was secretary of state. that's an issue that could prove to be a significant vulnerability if potentially at least she runs for president. our senior political correspondent brianna keilar is here. she's the congressional correspondent, white house correspondent, now our political correspondent. she's taking responsibility. how far is she going in this new chapter? >> she says ultimately the buck does stop with her. that's to paraphrase. also, she really is hitting republicans here when it comes to benghazi, which is what this

chapter is all about, obtained by politico, excerpts put out by politico. what she does say is she stands by the intelligence at the time she said indicated people there on the ground attacking the consulate in benghazi were motivated by an anti-islamic video that had created a lot of uproar that had seen protests at the embassy in cairo it and then she was also responding, wolf, to this allegation that the state department didn't provide support as the consulate was under attack. what she said was yes, there were cables, her name was on them, but they didn't end up on her desk. she said that shouldn't have happened, bub thatt that's how happen. look at how she hit on republicans, kind of putting them on nervous that she really sees this as a political game and will call it as such. she said those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country.

she also said i will not be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead americans. it's just plain wrong and it's unworthy of our great country. those who insist on politicizing the tragedy will have to do so without me. >> it's amazing how he publishers, she, they're rolling out various aspects of this book, i assume, to jen realgene lot of sales. >> i think that's part of it. we've seen some of it before, as there was a release around mother's day, talking about her mom, her daughter, on "vogue." there was also the author's note on explaining why she was writing the book. we don't know definitively this came from her camp. also, this is really the political part of it. i actually see this as sort of blunting the effect of the benghazi chapter, completely carrying away the book tour. we saw in 2003 with the release of "living history," that book was very much defined by one part, hillary clinton's first time talking about the monica

lewinsky scandal and how she handled that. this is obviously not quite apples to apples but certainly the most -- the part of the book that will generate the most intrigue is this part. she wants to talk about it. but i don't think it's the only thing she wants to talk about, especially as she's considering a run in 2016. so having this out there early allows it, in a way, to kind of be old news by the time the book releases on june 10th. >> i think they've already sold like 1 million hard copy books. >> another 1 million on order. >> you do the math, she's going to make a lot of money on this one. brilliant marketing strategy by her publishers at simon and schuster? >> that's right. >> brilliant marketing strategy by her and her team. yesterday, she had lunch at the white house with the president. what do we know about that? >> we've been told it was a private lunch. i think it sort of speaks to some of the coordination we're seeing between the white house and her camp, and it is quite a lot. it almost looks a little bit like a campaign.

we've learned that hillary clinton's team has brought on kiki mcclane, who is a longtime aide to both the clintons, to do a surrogate operation. so democrats who were talking about the book to make sure they were all on the same page. also, this is intriguing, a spokesman for the security counsel, who was at the white house during the time when beb gaez happened. he's obviously very well versed in that. he'll be doing a lot of the messaging around the book rollout. there's also a war room. there are former diplomat, we've learned from a source who will be ready and able to respond to criticisms of hillary clinton's state department tenure. this is really significant. polls show that voters really think this is a plus for her, her time at the state department. it's one of the reasons why republicans are trying to tarnish that. >> a lot of us remember the war room in 1992 in the bill clinton campaign for president in little rock, arkansas, when james carville, paul begala, george

stephanopoulos and others were in that war room. it worked well for them then. maybe it will work for them now. thanks very much. just ahead, do the sweeping changes at the va go far enough? a senior democratic senator will weigh in. and the price for the l.a. clippers is an nba record, but is it a done deal? is it really a done deal? we're just getting in a new statement from the nba.

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welcome back. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. more than 100 lawmakers, republicans and democrats called for his resignation. today, they got it. after a speech to a homeless veterans group, the va secretary eric shinseki met with president obama and formally tendered his resignation. the president praised shin shse for taking action. >> this morning, some of you heard rick take this reaction. he took responsibility and apologized to his fellow veterans and the american people. a few minutes ago, shinseki offered me his own resignation. with considerable regret, i accepted. >> democratic senator blumenthal chairs on the armed services

committee. he's a veteran himself. he's joining us from hartford, connecticut. are you happy the president accept his his resignation? >> i think the president did the right thing. as regretful as he may have been about it. i regret as well that a man of eric shinseki's immense contributions to our nation as a combat veteran, as a wounded warrior and a leader of supreme excellence had to tender his resignation. but it became a distraction. i agree with the president and with secretary shinseki that all of the second guessing was about what happened in the past. and that's the key point here. the challenge to the va health system. it is about fixing what's wrong. and there is a need for top to bottom fundamental reform in the way health care is delivered. to eliminate the delays, the

calcified bureaucracy, rigid rules and lack of information. essentially, the employees of the va lied to shinseki and the american people. they ought to be held responsible and shown the door. >> we know more than we did months ago, years ago. here's the question, did the senate veterans affairs committee and the house veterans affairs committee, for that matter, do enough oversight to try to determine the extent of these problems? because as you know, they're pretty -- they're not just in phoenix, they're emerging, similar problems, all over the place. >> there are more than 40 facilities now involved in the ig, inspector general, investigation, by the veterans administration. and my feeling is that whatever was done before there needs to be much more searching and

penetrating oversight going forward by both committees of the united states congress. and i think for our part chairman sanders is dedicated to improving health care provided by the vavt, and that's the reason i have urged so strongly, in fact, wrote the attorney general of the united states on wednesday of this week, that there be a department of justice investigation, only the department of justice can convene a grand jury. only the fbi has the resources, expertise and authority to reach those 40 senators. and now there will be more, i'm sure. and impose the kind of investigative resources that are necessary and appropriate. we need a prompt and effective investigation by the department of justice, now more than ever, but also let's keep our eye on the ball. this resignation is only a beginning. our priority has to be improving health care offered to veterans. in the short term, that means

giving them access to private facilities. clinics, doctors, hospitals. and then having the va provide vouchers and reimbursement. and in the long term, hiring more doctors. making sure that we have providers and new structures. investment in the hospitals. which are aging. one in west haven, connecticut, dates from the 1950s. and so the nation really has its work cut out for it. because there will be more and more veterans with post traumatic stress challenging our mental health care facilities. there has to be an investment. the nation owes it to these veterans because they put their lives on the line. we should not be putting them at risk for anything but the best this nation has to offer. >> the work is only just beginning on this day. senator bloomingle that, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. death by hanging. that's what one woman who just gave birth is facing in a prison

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of deal done before that tuesday deadline when the nba board of governors meets and votes as to whether to throw the sterlings out or not. this is a wait and see. sterling's not signed off on it. his lawyer's indicating he's not going to. unless and until the nba does something about those charges. we may have a standoff here as we approach tuesday. >> because his lawyer, maxwell bleacher, told me yesterday donald sterling wants, quote, vindication from the nba, but he wouldn't tell us what that means. >> well, that's what's going to have to be negotiated here. the nba, i mean, you saw the document, the charging document, and you saw sterling's response to it. both lengthy documents, point by point refusals. it is a very combative set of documents that really just completely contradict each other. how this is going to be negotiated before tuesday, i'm not sure. but it's going to have to take some intense negotiations. >> i've been told the nba will go ahead with that meeting tuesday. all 29 other members of the board of governors, the other

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her husband spoke to cnn. >> five years ago, daniel thought he had it all. a beautiful wife. a new future. this is his new reality. the first glimpse of his baby girl inside a jail cell. his wife's shackled just out of view. daniel told us his wife was accused last september of apostasy. abandoning her muslim faith. it's a crime punishable by death under sudan's harish interpretation of islamic law. >> when you first met her, she told you she was a christian? and she was a practicing christian? >> courts here in sudan's capital have ruled on may 15th that she was guilty and sentenced her to death. the ruling has sent shockwaves

both in sudan and around the world. daniel now faces losing not just his wife but life as he knows it. how did it feel for you to hear they said your marriage wasn't valid? [ speaking foreign language ]

your children were baptized? and your new daughter? daniel's case is being closely watched. the christian community says they are praying for him. praying that he will be able to keep his family. >> an interview with the justice ministry. we're told that the justice minister will not count it because a final judgment has not been reached in this case. he was told it's standard procedure to be shackled. >> around the world, women and girls face horrible discrimination.

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he came to me and said he was thinking about moving on and i was not thrilled to say the least. but jay has had to wrestle with this decision for some time. he has been on my team since day one for two years. and it has obviously placed a strain on claire, his wife, and his two wonderful kids. della's little league team, by the way, i had a chance to see the other day and she's a fine pitcher but he was not seeing as much of the games. jay was a reporter for 21 years before coming to the white house including a stint as bureau chief for time magazine during the collapse of the soviet empire. so he comes to this place with a

reporter's perspective. he will miss hanging out with you including the guys on the front row. but, jay has become one of my closest frents and is a great press secretary. and a great advisor. he's got good nudgement, good temperment and he's got a good heart. eeem going to miss him a lot. i'm going to continue to rely on him as a friend and an advisor. i know he's going to be outstanding at whatever he does next. that meant i had to make a decision which is who succeeds jay. i've decided to put in this slot

somebody who is also a friend and advisor. so today, the flag jacket is officially passed to a new generation, mr. josh earnest. [ applause ] >> josh is the coach's son from kansas city. he still routes for the royals, i guess. as you know, his name describes his demeanor. josh is an earnest guy and you can't find just a nicer individual. even outside of washington. josh and i have an incredible

history all the way up to iowa caucuses. josh was my communications director in iowa. at the white house he has been a mentor to many of the people here. he is honest and full of integrity. but it's going to be hard. he is a straight shooter.

it would be nice during his initiation which i am sure will last two days or perhaps two questions. so, we're going to let him hang around a little bit to miltk it for all its worth. any questions. >> we have not gotten a set, part of his men nants will go europe in my stead. . allow me a little time here when the boss is gone.