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Here Comes Obama's Statement On The VA Scandal

Brett LoGiuratoMay 21, 2014, 19:23 IST

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President Barack Obama is delivering a statement at 10:45 a.m. ET, the White House said this morning.

Obama's statement will come after a hastily scheduled meeting with Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki.

The Obama administration is under fire for a burgeoning VA scandal, since reports surfaced nearly a month ago detailing patients dying while waiting for care at the Phoenix VA facility. Calls have mounted for Shinseki to resign or be fired.

Obama is meeting Wednesday morning with Shinseki and Rob Nabors, the White House deputy chief of staff who Obama dispatched to conduct an internal review of the agency's problems.

Since the reports about the Phoenix VA scandal, other reports from local VA facilities have detailed long wait times and delayed services. The Daily Beast last weekend shed light on the Albuquerque, N.M., VA facility that maintained a secret waiting list for veterans to hide delays piling up.

We'll have more on Obama's statement as it develops.