end of terror in nigeria. >> meanwhile officials confirm as many as 300 were killed as gunmen opened fire on a marketplace in northeastern nigeria monday night. boko haram claiming responsibility for that attack as well. it came in an area nigerian troops are using as a base in the search for the kidnapped girls. joining me now by phone from nigeria's capital, the u.s. ambassador for nigeria from 2007 to 2010 robin rene sanders. i know you are talking to people on the ground there. how real is the fear at this point that these girls have already been sold or shipped to other countries to be sold? >> i think there is a huge fear of that that they have either been dispersed through two smaller groups and taken across the border either into cameroon or chad, and i think that the effort to reach out to nigeria's

neighbors has to be stepped up and put as priority number one. >> again, you're at the world economic forum and we just heard from goodluck jonathan thanking the countries attending and saying if they hadn't come it would have been a victory them. what are they saying about the fight against boko haram? >> one of the things the summit has drawn attention to is the effort to really help nigeria, more effort needs to be made to help nigeria not only address this particular immediate issue of trying to find these young women and also the larger issue of helping them with their capability both human resources and the resources to address the larger threat that boko haram not only presents to nigeria, but i think that one of the things that's very important to take away from this, that this is becoming a regional problem

and the neighbors have to get involved and think about this as a regional problem and not just a nigeria problem and that is one of the main aspects that have come out of the discussions that i've heard since i've been here. >> as you know, the president there has been criticized not just by the parents of the kidnapped girl, but some world leaders, lots of folks in this country who accuse him of not doing enough to find them. i want to get your reaction to something secretary of state hillary clinton said while she was here in new york last night. take a listen. >> the seizure of these young women by this radical extremist group boko haram is abominable, it's criminal, it's an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of nigeria. the government of nigeria has been, in my view, somewhat d

derelict in the responsibility in protecting boys and girls, men and women in northern nigeria over the last years. >> derelict. do you agree with that assessment? >> i think that, you know, the secretary has really indicated a couple of very important things that i wanted to just elaborate on. i think the government has a tremendous challenge on its hands primarily because it doesn't have the capacity to deal with the threat that they're facing. >> when you say that, robin -- >> robin -- >> that might have been able to either rescue the girls or certainly prevent them from going across the border if that's what's happened. the use of the word derelict, i -- i would not go that far because i know having been here and being here now that there is a commitment with elements

within the government and i don't want to paint the entire government as not committed to trying to fight boko haram and also not committed to trying to find these young women, but certainly i will say and i do agree with the fact that enough wasn't done in the beginning. >> yeah. >> that they need more resource capability and i'm glad they have finally decided to accept the offer by the united states and others and many nations have come forth offering assistance to help them in terms of their capability and certainly providing more resources for them, more technologically based resources to have better intelligence and they can communicate with their neighbors so that this really is a regional issue that all of the neighbors have to take part in. >> ambassador robin, renee sanders. ambassador thank you for your time. >> among those joining the social media campaign on behalf

of the kidnapped girls first lady michelle obama who tweeted our prayers are with the missing nigerian girls and their families it's time to #bring back our girls. she held a leadership conference outside d.c. to call on the nigerian government to bring the leader of boko haram to justice. congresswoman, thanks for joining me. you met with officials there at the nigerian embassy. tell us about that meeting. what did they say? >> i thought it was extremely important for women of the united states congress, mothers, sisters, grandmothers and others to march up, walk up to the nigerian embassy and meet with government officials and by the way, we were called by the ambassador from nigeria who was in nigeria at that time so we had a direct connection to the president. president jonathan during our meeting through the ambassador

to really make the point that we were at a crisis and that nigeria is facing a killing machine. this horrible and heinous terrorist, this thug terrorist cannot be played with. we have dealt with and seen the responses or the actions of this thug for more than five years. the killing has gone on. now he's taken it to the next level of insanity which is to indicate that he will sell these girls that he took for $12. so we made the point that there had to be immediate action. the immediate action was that there had to be a boying nabt response to getting this thug out of the bush, off the streets and to be able to find him and to recover those girls. i made the suggestion that there need to be a special unit, sort of a special opes police unit that is devised out of the military that can utilize the resources that president obama has providid and want to thank

president obama for engaging and continuing to be engaged. we made it very clear that although we are allies with finaling are e nigeria they have to do more, but they have to save those girls and save them now. >> i want to follow up on something that ambassador sanders just said that the nigerian government is not equipped in any way, shape or form to handle the kind of threat that's posed by boko haram. what do you say to that? is that true? >> i think you can look at it in several ways and i think maybe the ambassador means as any nation on the continent they have certainly left resources in many countries around the world, but we have utilized the nigerian military in many of the conflicts that the united states has been engaged in and they have been used in the african union soldiers and i've met them on battlefields, if you will, and they were part of the african union. what i would argue is that they don't have the refined, detailed and special opes team and that's

what i'm asking to be formulated and either with police or with the military that is geared only toward -- >> do you want to send our special opes unit? >> no. i'm using that as an example. >> oh. a pointed military unit. >> i'm not calling for any boots on the ground that will be focused on recovering the girls and bringing this thug to justice. you know, let me tell you, the news is abounding with al qaeda person saying you mean to tell me he took these girls and he's going to auction them off? they are outraged that he's using islam to do this. the question is bring him to justice now. that has to be priority. take the measures to president jonathan that he must get on the world stage and tell the world what they are doing and their commitment. this morning at the world economic conference we heard the comments at least to acknowledge the support, but more importantly his commitment to

getting these girls. he's got to say it over and over again and the final result has to be to bring this thug to justice. >> congresswoman sheila jackson-lee. congresswoman, always good to see you. >> thank you. major developments in the crisis in ukraine with the pentagon and nato saying there's no evidence to back up russian president vladimir putin's claim that he has moved tens of thousands of his troops away from the border with ukraine. today, satellite images dispute that. meanwhile, pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine vow to hold a referendum sunday on whether to split from ukraine. that despite president putin's call to postpone that vote. time's new cover features president putin with the elevated title czar, as you can see there. the premiere and president scratched out. what putin wants is the cover story.

as he claims, it it could be a major step in diffusing this crisis, but the pentagon says there's no evidence of that. why would putin lie? what's he up to this time? >> why would putin lie? putin has very clearly used information as a weapon of -- of war, even before the incursion into crimea. the russian government generally has been bombarding not just the country of ukraine, but the world with stuff that independents have said is not true. if you watched russian television even as it is broadcast here in the u.s. you hear a very different version of reality. i think the russian regime clearly sees positioning themselves for the domestic audience and for their allies in the region as a -- as a real strategic goal. so that's why he would mislead. we don't know if he was misleading here. it is very clear that the insurgency that is happening in the ukraine is a complicated one, but the russian

government's involvement is a key ingredient both in terms of the information being broadcast in the country by the russian country and the appearance of what appear to be russian special forces among those rebels in the ukrainian regions. >> very quickly. there is this new poll out and i'm sure you saw it. it was released today and 23% of russians now have a positive view of the united states. that's down from 51% last year. to what can we attribute such a dramatic drop in popularity, so to speak. >> i think it's the other number in the poll that president putin has an enormous approval rating and if you remember just a few years ago putin's hold was rather shaky. you had protests in moscow. you had him imposing crackdowns and you had a number of dissidents in the country and dissenterses from his regime speaking out and all of that is gone now and whatever the outcome is in ukraine and it is very clear that what putin has

been doing with crimea and ukraine and it has helped him domestically at home and there is a desire among a huge percentage of the russian people to return to the sort of strength that putin envisions, and a pre-soviet era of russian dominance. >> michael, thank you. >> today, democrats and een a key republican are accusing the gop of trying to fund raise off the deadly attack in benghazi. we'll talk live with nbc senior political editor mark murray to say this plan is riskier than republicans realize. also right now officials are investigating who set a florida mansion on fire that left four people dead? we are live outside the home owned by a former tennis star. also, in just hours the first round of the nfl round of the nfl draft kicks off in new york city, but will the league's first openly gay player, michael sam, will he be drafted? i'll talk live with "sports

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>> one of the biggest nights in american sports finally here. the nfl draft and this year it is anyone's guess who will be among the first players chosen, the houston texans have the number one pick and there are reports they're actual willy looking to trade picks. one of the biggest questions for non-sports fans. one of the biggest questions of the night is whether former university michael sam will be draft drafted. if he is drafted he will be the first openly gay player wearing the nfl uniform and there are

questions over whether coming out hurt his draft prospects. "sports illustrated kwot "reporter, eight anonymous nfl analysts, project a significant drop in sam's draft stock. and nfl locker room culture not prepared to deal with an openly gay player. >> thanks for swinging by. >> you, too, craig. >> as it was announced late yesterday michael sam is going to be receiving this year's arthur ashe award. not a big surprise. it's starting to look to sports writers that his choice to come out may significantly hurt his draft stock. this is what what "the milwaukee journal sentinel" wrote yesterday, based on discussions over the last month as a player with two dozen nfl executives and personnel he's regarded almost as a non-entity. does he get drafted or does he

get picked up as a free agent? >> it's a tough call. most people are seeing him as a sixth rounder. there are people charted as sixth rounders than there are picks in the sixth round. it can go either way. he can go as high as the fourth round and seventh round. what's happened here, craig is there's the attention around him coming out. he didn't have a great combine. >> right. so that set him back a little further. he did do better and they had a pro day after that and it cut some time off his 40. so he -- you know, it's a question mark and if it was another player with similar skills we wouldn't be having it, but for obvious reasons we're having the discussions. joe gruden agreed with you essentially. take a listen. >> i think he'll go late. it has nothing to do with the storyline. i think it has to do with his performance at the combine. he didn't run real well. he plays the outside linebacker position and speed is the number one criteria people are looking

for. >> here's the thing, for non-sports fans. here's a guy, all-american, defensive player of the year for the sec. if he does not get drafted there are are going to be people who say, he didn't get drafted because he's gay. how does the nfl combat that or can they? >> they can't force the team to -- >> sure. >> if i'm in the commissioner's office i am leaning on people and owners that i trust and say, let's make sure these guys get drafted. >> do you think they should pick up the phone and say, fifth or sixth round, listen. >> someone in his group i think should. i really do. it's an important moment, right? and the nfl has this wonderful product and is doing so well and it has image issues with violence and things like that. it it doesn't meet even the feeling that hey, there's homophobia here. even if it's unwarranted, right? he's a guy and he has skills and he has talent and he's been between a couple of positions and it's not like you're taking

a guy that can't take football if you take him in the 67th round and it would be hard to put pressure him. >> and this isn't on espn, but at some point there should be an in-depth piece done on the relationship between a player's performance at combine and their actual performance in the nfl. there is not, as you know, a direct line between the two. >> there are a lot of factors that come in and that's just one of the elements. >> very quickly, i want to talk about this other big sports story and donald sterling and the news being made this morning that his estranged wife shelly sterling and the keep's co-owner telling "the l.a. times," quote, she believes she is legally entitled to maintain ownership of the nba team and will attempt to do so even as the pro basketball league pushes to remove her husband from the team he's owned for 33 years. how realistic are her chances? >> think they're going to have to sell the team. i'm not surprised that this is a move that's being made and we expected litigation out of

sterling. shelly sterling, the wife, she used the same accusation on v. stiviano on the community property argument. it's not such a shock. i'm sure the nba anticipated something and it will be a battle, but i think they'll have to sell the team. >> there are a lot of folks in los angeles that the best outcome for that city and that team if a guy like magic johns orr woman like oprah winfrey picked up the squad. >> magic was on that picture, the instagram picture so that complicates things a little bit. >> he has said i don't want the team, but who ever really says that. >> new ownership would be the best thing. >> thank you. >> up next, building homes and rebuilding lives. one, two, three! [ cheers and applause ] >> one group is making custom-built homes for injured

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may is national military appreciation month and there's one organization out there that's doing some really great things. it's helping severely wounded veterans adapt to life with their injuries. it's called home for our troops. they build specially modified houses for those who lost limbs. as for this month the organization has built 165 of these homes and they've done it at no cost to veterans. marine sergeant adam cashing uslevski has lived in one of those homes since 2011 and president and ceo of homes for our troops. thank you both so much for being with me on this thursday morning. first of all, when you returned from war, when you came back from iraq what were the biggest challenges that you faced and

how has life changed for you in your new home? >> so initially, obviously is just trying to stay alive. several months in the hospital in icu for several weeks and going through surgeries every other day and once i got back, transitioning back to civilian life from the military was a significant challenge in itself. >> and these specially modified homes. how are they specially modified and how are these different from the home you might have lived in when you returned? >> these are built on single floors with wheelchair access. my first home out of the military was built on three floors with narrow doorways and i wasn't able to get arne the house at all. i didn't even own a wheelchair for four years after our injury and they came through to allow me access to the entire house. >> joel, how real -- how real is the need? how urgent is the need for these homes? >> well, craig, there's an

incredible need for these homes. we know that over 1700 veterans have been severely injured in the iraq and afghanistan wars. that's where the v.a. is determined. they need a specially adapted housing and so those are the veterans that we're focusing on. their day to day activities, whether in normal houses, they're injuring themselves on a regular basis as they negotiate their daily life activities and there is an urgent need out there. we can believe there are over a thousand of these veterans that need this kind of help. >> how do they go about finding them or how do they find you? >> it's both. we get leads from all the hospitals. the veterans have a really good network of telling each other who builds homes. that's why we built 165 homes over this last ten years. right now we have 40 people in line to get homes over the next

couple of years and so we worked that through word of mouth and through shows like this, to inform people that we need to build more homes. >> sergeant, what does that home for you in maryland, what does that mean for you and your family long term? >> long term it's made so many differences in my quality of life. it allowed me to focus things that mattered in life to be able to help my wife take care of our son, to focus on an education and enhance my overall quality of life and my family's quality of life and ultimately it's promoted an ability to serve further which i wouldn't have been able to do without this home? >> he's four and a half. he's probably watching. you want to say hello? >> hi, evan. i miss you. >> thank you for your services. >> thank you. >> in this country, at least 31 wrongfully convicted people have been set free just this year alone and most are released without clothes and they're released without money or a place to go. up next, the reality for people

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fund-raising effort down right now and he should. >> i agree. >> we all agree. >> we shouldn't be raising money on this matter. >> nbc news senior political editor mark murray is here. >> trey gowdy was on "morning joe" and this is what he said about it it. >> i have never sought to raise a single penny on the backs of four murdered americans. there are two -- even in a cultural of hyperpartisanship and certain things that should be above politics. >> you make an interesting point in the first read, quote, it's been surprising how republicans haven't been on top of this given how much democrats are looking to make the it's all politics point. how big of a problem is this for republicans, mark murray? >> it's a misstep and it's a misstep not being on the same page and having one person go on tv and the person who will lead the committee and south carolina

congressman trey gowdy and the republican commission doing the exact opposite and sending out the solicitation in the form of a blog post and we saw the democrat from maryland to be able to say, this thing is all political. craig, as a political reporter i am one to be the least surprised when things turn to politics and most of what always goes on on capitol hill, and a lot of what goes on at the white house is all around politics, but if you are trying to say this is a completely legitimate substance-driven investigation, having an email solicitation even from one organization affiliated with the republican party isn't good news for them. >> there was also this video from the democratic congressional campaign committee highlighting the republican's fund-raising effort. check this out. ♪ ♪ >> there are certain things that ought to be above politics like the murder of our murder of our

four fellow americans. ♪ ♪ >> the the national republican congressional committee which fights for republicans to get elected to the house sent out this fund-raising email. you are now a benghazi watchdog, let's go after obama and hillary. >> they wasted no time getting that video up, mark murray. >> craig, again, politics. both sides do it and often do it really well, but democrats have their own question here and it is did they participate in this select committee on benghazi? the one argument there is like, no, we shouldn't participate. this is an illegitimate committee and on the other hand there are democrats who are arguing that we should at least counter the charges and the other counter charges that would end up occurring that it's better to be present than be absent and this is still going on in the democratic party and nancy pelosi put democrats in a tough position when she said we participate under this condition

and they're able to at least meet democrats half way in these conditions that they're forced to participate. >> our senior political editor. thank you. >> thanks, craig. people wrongly convicted, then freed. but you rarely hear about what happens next. you've seen the courtroom embraces when prisoners like jonathan fleming get in the news that they're free men. fleming spent 24 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, but as "usa today" just exposed he walked out a prison with a check for $93, no job and of course, no easy explanation on job interviews on where he has spent the last two decades. fleming is entitled to compensation and on average it takes between three and seven years for exonerated prisoners to get paid. "usa today" national reporter wrote that piece on fleming and others as well. it's always good to see. before we talk about the larger

problem, what can you tell us about jonathan fleming today and letting him out with a $93 check it seems like a crime in itself and i be know a payout is expected years from now. what is he facing today? >> today jonathan flemming is fending for himself and depending on the good will of others. he's taken out a loan like many exxonries have to on the compensation he's to receive and they've raised $48,000 so people can donate until about friday for that, but it's about him figuring out on his own. he got $93 so really, jonathan is sleeping on the couch of a cousin and hoping that he can can find work, and really, there's no compensation there and his lawyers hope that maybe within a couple of years or maybe a year he'll get some compensation and he's fending for himself and hoping that other people will just help him. >> i have a question here. how do you arrive at $93. where do you come up with that figure. why give someone money at all? >> i've talked to dozens of

exxonries and they get the money that was already in their inmate account and he got the $93 because it was in his inmate account. this guy in chicago got a check for $14. the prison actually charged him about $13 for the shoes that he wore when he walked out of prison because they were prison shoes. >> last year, record breaking and 87 wrongfully imprisoned people were let go and that includes derek deacon who spent 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. after his release he was amazed, cell phones everywhere, texting. there's linkedin and facebook. how do these ex-prisoners, how do they stand succeeding in a world that's nothing like the one they left? >> it's a critical question. it's a great question. really, it's about them finding people that will help them and a lot of cases it's their lawyers who i've heard in stories of california where men have had to sleep in their lawyer's apartments and they've had to allow these men -- or have their

lawyers help them with technology and how their families have had to encourage them to go to college and it's back to having a support system. the the innocence project and the social worker that helps people integrate into society. there's also exonores and creating their own safety nets. >> 29 states and the district of columbia, they have laws to compensate wrongly convicted prisoners. why does it take so long? why does it typically take up to seven years for the payout and what happens in the states where there are no laws to compensate the wrongly convicted? >> it comes down to people individually suing the different entities that they think owe them compensation. the reason why it takes so long could be many reasons. prosecutors will sometimes fight the cases after someone is exonerated and even though we can't prove in a court of law

beyond a reasonable doubt that you're guilty, we think that you're guilty of this crime and we don't want to pay you. it's negotiating and you'll have cities that will wait five years before they say okay, we'll give you this amount of money. some compensation boards will can an exonoree to do their case and even though you have had an exoneration and you'll have to present the evidence all over again and have a mini trial and that also takes time. >> always a pleasure. thank you. up next, we are hearing those calls from help from frightened neighbors as a star's mansion erupts into flames killing four people inside. >> oh, my god. i was walking my dog and the house just exploded! >> inside the home, what investigators found that makes them believe that the fire was intentionally set. we are live on the scene in florida. also, watch as a debate turns into a tug-of-war on live television. it's just one of the stories that we're following around the

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this morning investigators are trying to unravel the mystery behind four deaths at a star athlete's mansion in tampa. four bodies were found inside this home belonging to former tennis champ james blake. the house went up in flames early yesterday morning. police believe the bodies are that of a family of four, a mom, a dad and two teenagers. the star was not at home at the time. he says he was renting it out. neighbors made frantic 911 calls to report that fire. >> oh, my god! >> calm down and take a deep breath, okay. i know it's hard. >> it's just so horrible, i was walking by as it was exploding. oh, my god. i was walking by as it was exploding! >> okay. do you see flames or smoke? >> yes, the house is engulfed. the house is engulfed in flames, ma'am! >> nbc's mark potter joins me now from tampa.

we hear the fire was intentionally set. what more do we know at this point? >> craig, what we know now is that the investigators are indeed back on the fire scene and back at the mansion in the gated community there trying to piece together what happened. yesterday the fire broke very intensely and it was aided by a stiff wind and on top of that they then found as some sort of accel errant had been placed in part of the house and that's what led them to believe, of course, that the fire was intentionally set. they have not set what that accelerant is, but it's interesting to note if you look at an aerial picture of the house, the right half if you look in the aerial, the right half all burned up and the other half of the house, seemingly untouched. they also came up with an explanation for the explosions people were talking about yesterday in the 911 calls and they found firecrackers throughout the house and those apparently were going off at the same time that they were dealing with everything else, craig. >> mark, what do we know? how much do we know about the

family who lived there? >> we have to be very careful to note that the officials have not yet formally identified the victims. they've said that it's four people, two males and two female, but what we also know is that the house was being rented by a family of four, the campbell family, darren campbell is 49. his 51-year-old wife kimberly and their two teenaged children, a boy and a girl, colin and megan. darren had worked at -- the father had worked as an executive at several companies, a storage company, a glass company and an insurance business and a digital service firm and he also was on the board at the private school where his children attended the school and they did not show up yesterday and the family is unaccounted for and many people presume they're the ones involved and no official word yet from the authorities and especially since the authorities say that one of the things

they're looking at of this being a possibility of this being a murder/suicide. they're not saying that's what it was, but that's one of the theories they're looking at craig. mark potter in tampa for us. thank you. a company head detained after the deadly ferry accident off the coast of south korea. that tops the news today. authorities believe overloading and improper cargo storage may have caused the vessel to sink last month killing more than 300 people. today the president of the company that owned the ferry was detained and an arrest could tol low. already, the 15 surviving crew members onboard have been arrested for negligence. chaos at the scene of a murder investigation in houston when a silver sedan, check this out. when it goes plowing through the crowd of onlookers and investigators. police say it started with a dispute at an apartment complex and ended in a fatal shooting there. the suspect took off, but his neighbors, gathered the car, and it plowed through the crowd

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time for the "news nation" gut check, some are calling for eric sheck shinseki to resign. this morning hout veterans affairs committee took the rare step of subpoenaing for e-mails and correspondence and several top va officials and secretary shinseki sat down with our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: the latest scandal comes out of the va hospital in phoenix, as many as 40 veterans died while waiting for medical treatment. >> i am angry. >> reporter: eric shinseki, a veteran himself, told nbc news he was surprised by the allegations but promises a full investigation. >> are you willing as secretary of veterans affairs to accept full responsibility?

>> i am, i asked the inspector general to go to phoenix and conduct a detailed complete, thorough investigation. >> reporter: the american legion and some in congress demand shinseki resign. but shinseki brushed it off. >> will you resign? >> i would say i serve at the pleasure of the president. >> reporter: it's alleged in an effort to improve their performance hospital administrators buried the veterans medical appointments in a secret list and as investigators closed in ordered the files destroyed. paul rycroft claims the va today lacks leadership and accountability and courage. >> it cuts to the core of our country's confidence in the va. the entire public has lost confidence in the va. >> what does your gut tell you, should eric shinseki resign? take a look at what the news

nation is saying about yesterday's gut check, we asked if lawyers should be allowed to continue social media activity of potential jurors and 52% saidy and 48% said no. here are some of the things we thought you should know. it worked for disney. why not politicians? the song let it go from the movie "frozen" is being used in a political ad in texas. david is attacking how his opponent changed his name years ago. >> they know i had unpaid tax leans. a state-run credit union type of service for marijuana shops, pot companies deal mostly with cash because banks are not allowed to do business with them since it is illegal in the federal level but does that make it the easy targets for crime? however bankers say the plan is

likely to fail because there's a slim chance the federal reserve will give its approval and those are just a few of the things we thought you should know on a thursday morning. i'm craig melvin in for tamron hall. tomorrow tamron will talk to christy turlington burns about her mission to save women's lives. up next, "andrea mitchell reports." 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. whether it's building the world's most advanced satellite, the space station, or the next leap in unmanned systems. at boeing, one thing never changes. our passion to make it real. ♪

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joining us from nigeria's capital, amidding the rising calls from the first lady to malala to bring back our girls. >> people have to take a stand. they have to take a stand and hear the voices of these girls. fatal consequences. house veterans affairs committee voting unanimously today to subpoena general eric shinseki into the growing investigation into a shocking scandal whereas many as 40 veterans died waiting for medical care, sparking outrage. >> they want you to resign or be fired. will you resign? >> i will say i serve at the pleasure of the president. and she's the real mvp. >> we weren't supposed to be here. you made us believe, kept us off the straight. you