associated press reporter darlene superville has been covering this story and joins me now from washington. this is kind of a rare glimmer of bipartisanship. >> it is a rare glimmer of bipartisanship. and bipartisanship is easy to achieve when you're talking about military veterans and the people in this country who voluntarily go into harm's way in defense of the united states. remember-- you may remember that the v.a. secretary, david shulkin, who is a holdover from the obama administration, when he went before the senate to be confirmed to become the veteran affairs secretary, the confirmation vote was 100-0, and that's something that donald trump talks about quite a bit when he's talking about veterans' issues. >> sreenivasan: i remember the scandal that started this. i mean, this was in phoex. this was a few years ago, it even caused secretary eric shinseki his job. refresh us a little bit on what caused this. >> well, it was uncovered that at the v.a. medical center in phoenix, staff there were keeping separate waiting lists of veterans that were waiting for appointments. they were t