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“First of all, we haven’t picked a new VA head,” Williams said.

Montel emotional over VA scandal

A visibly emotional and heated Montel Williams slammed the Veterans Affairs health care system and the handling of the scandal surrounding the agency, saying it needs to be shut down.

“It’s too big and we’ve created a structure where again, if you can’t fire somebody we’ve got a problem and we’ve got a bigger problem, when a group of people can vote themselves a bonus just for keeping track of numbers that they lie about?” Williams said Monday on Fox News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto.”

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“We need to shut this organization down,” he added.

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Williams, a veteran of the Marines and Navy, has been critical of the scandal-plagued VA and called for a replacement to be named following the resignation of former VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.

“First of all, we haven’t picked a new VA head,” Williams said. “Ask them to just select Ken Fisher, head of the Fisher House Foundation. He’s built a building at every single VA hospital around the country.”

He added later, “The whole system’s got to change.”