TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. In national news, Monday, the White House claims that it had not learned about the situation at the Phoenix veterans affair hospital in which as many as 40 veterans died while waiting for delayed appointments until CNN first reported it. But what about that recently disclosed internal memo from the V.A. which warned of, quote, "inappropriate scheduling practices" way back in 2010? Who in the White House bothered to read that? Let's bring in senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta at the White House. Jim, the White House press secretary was asked about this memo today, from 2010. How did he respond?</s>JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, it was very interesting, Jake, because yesterday, you know, we asked Jay Carney when the first president first heard about these allegations of concealing wait times at the V.A., at V.A. facilities, and referred us to the CNN report from three weeks ago. So, I wanted to go back to Jay Carney and I ask him about that because of this memo and we should point out that this was given to us by the American Legion. It was written back on April 26th of 2010 by a deputy undersecretary. And it says right there in the very first page, "It has come to my attention that in order to improve scores on assorted access measures, certain facilities have adopted use of inappropriate scheduling practices, sometimes referred to as gaming strategies." And it goes on in the memo, to avoid or to advise many of these facilities to avoid these types of scheduling practices.
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