[Baldwin:] More fallout on this V.A. story here, this just into us at CNN. The Veteran Affairs secretary has now rescinded a bonus that one of his directors received just last month. The director, Sharon Helman, who led the Phoenix V.A. hospital, big time under fire now for CNN revealed the existence of doctored wait lists that showed vets getting treatment in a timely way when that was not happening. The real wait lists showed, according to sources that 1,400 to 1,600 sick vets waited as long as 21 month to be seen. So this woman, this Director Helman, received a bonus of nearly $8,500 last month, and now V.A. Secretary Eric Shinseki is taking it back. No word as far as what will happen to the bonus Helman received last year. She is on administrative leave. And now to the NBA, dropping bombshell charges against L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the "L.A. Times" reports that the league says Sterling asked companion V. Stiviano to lie about his racist comments that, as you well know, went public. The charges are compiled in a 30-page document summarizing why Sterling should be forced to sell his team. The "L.A. Times" says the document not only accuses the 80-year-old of asking Stiviano to lie, but also says team president Andy Roeser knew about the recording before it went public and that he offered a staffer not offered, I should say ordered a staffer to erase it. So here now with me, "L.A. Times' " Jim Rainey who helped to break the story wide open. And I read this first thing this morning and, Jim, let's first talk about what specifically what do you have on Sterling as far as what he told V. Stiviano?
[James Rainey, "l.a. Times" Columnist:] Well, what we have is this declaration that was made by the chief investigator, David Anders, for the NBA, and what he said was that he talked to Stiviano, and kind of amazingly, she's at this hotel, the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. Donald Sterling is there with her. And she and the two of them meet in this conference room, and he allegedly tells her, Hey, let's just tell everybody now that that is not my voice on the tape or that you doctored the tape and let's kind of smooth this whole thing over. In addition he tries to get her to settle the lawsuit which his wife Shelly has filed against her, and says, look, if you settle the suit, make a payment, I'll pay you kind of sub rosa and make you whole on that. So that was all stuff we hadn't heard before.
[Baldwin:] That was new, also the stuff about Clippers president Andy Roeser discussing this recording with Sterling what, was it two weeks before it came out?
[Rainey:] Yeah, it was actually on April 6th, so it was a little bit or April 9th, rather, so a little more than two weeks before this all broke on April 25th. And what happened is they got a text message with a part of the recording attached to it. An employee got it with the Clippers, handed it to Roeser. He listened to it. He in turn had Mr. Sterling listen to it. And then they decided, well, apparently Mr. Roeser ordered this employee to destroy the copy of the tape and or the recording and also destroy it on her main computer. She had it on her phone and they destroyed it there and then destroyed it on the main Clippers computer. So that was never known before, either.
[Baldwin:] And a quick reminder on Roeser, he is now where?
[Rainey:] He has been ordered suspended by the NBA, so he is on the sidelines right now and he has not said anything publicly about all this. Of course everybody would love to talk to him, because he'd been the Sterlings since he was in his early 20s, for about 30 years.
[Baldwin:] OK. All right, thank you so much, Jim. I appreciate it. Because I am being told in this final 60 seconds I have on this show, Chad, I see you putting on a suit.
[Chad Myers, Ams Meteorologist:] Yes.
[Baldwin:] Chad Myers, walk toward me my friend, because what are we hearing? Breaking news in the world of weather, a tornado warning
[Myers:] For Metro Denver.
[Baldwin:] Denver?
[Myers:] Really Commerce City, moving to the northeast, and this thing has had a history of very, very large hail, as well. There's rotation in the storm. It is moving to the northeast, away from the city of Denver, but it's moving right toward the airport. Now that is still Denver. The airport has been annexed by Denver, so if you're near the airport or anywhere in that northeast corridor of Denver, you need to take cover right now. This is a tornado warning with a rotation, very significant, like a tornado developing or already on the ground.
[Baldwin:] Chad Myers, thank you so much for that. And just a final, because we had to go so quickly, Jim Rainey and his colleague Nathan Fenno with "L.A. Times," read the article in the "Times." He said he's got more to come, as well. That's it for me. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank you so much for being with me. "THE LEAD" with Jake Tapper starts right now.