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politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us today an abortion case with implications everywhere. a texas trump-appointed judge will determine if pregnancy pills should be pull ed off the shelf from coast to coast. plus more economic turbulence as american markets tumble on fears a global bank mugt go over the edge. and wrong, disturbed, the chamberlain approach. washington say the florida governor is way off target to suggest the united states should...

Less and less so. the clinic director told us, if all clinic has to switch to doing procedures only, we simply will not be able to meet the demand we could pivot and stretch ourself, but you cant make up 300 patients over the same amount of time. making the point if you take away the abortion by medication option, even more stress on the system. >> you have to remember that the effort by antiabortion activists for a long time in this country was restricting abortions in states by making it more ...

Lets go to josh lederman at the white house. what is the president saying about whether he can accomplish the risky mission over the next ten days and get to that deadline successfully and get americans out? >> reporter: the president says he can and he has been defensive of his administrations handling of this air lift so far and confident that they are going to be able to get everyone out. the president noting, as he spoke at the white house yesterday, that its the largest historically large a...

V.a. and why? >> basically what happened is we have the veterans affair department, they were trying to address what you discussed, the backlog problem but the problem is in their attempt to fix that they created a system that actually encouraging employees to only add more to the backlog issue we have right now. >> in terms of why, the more they processed the more likely they get bonuses so process the simple ones and not the complex ones with probably the more catastrophic injuries. >> exactly...

>> dana: we could take the memorial day to thank the moms and dads that raised these young people that are willing to serve our country. they are so amazing. they are great for the fact that we stay on top of these things. on this one on the backlog issue remember cbs apologized, you could start a new thing. >> bob: this is one thing we could get on. i would hash tag the veterans administration and get them to say it is time to get this done. these people deserve it. they have worked for us. the...

>> dana: we could take the memorial day to thank the moms and dads that raised these young people that are willing to serve our country. they are so amazing. they are great for the fact that we stay on top of these things. on this one on the backlog issue remember cbs apologized, bob. you could start a new thing. >> bob: this is one thing we could get on. i would hash tag the veterans administration and get them to say it is time to get this done. these people deserve it. they have worked for us...

nomination. lets look at this poll everybody is buzzing about. nbc/wall street journal. it came out last night. on the top, herman cain former godfather pizza ceo. mitt romney the former massachusetts governor at 23% and rick perry you can see dropping down to 16% in this poll. now, kyra, one thing about this poll that was done before the presidential debate the other night and cains advantage there, that four-point advantage that is within the sampling era. another poll came out last ...

Thats not what the american people want, and of course our veterans deserve better. how do you sort of reconcile some of the, i think, positive breakthroughs that you report and that general shinseki has instituted with these complaints from people who clearly have our veterans in mind, and say that at least on the backlog issue, its not up to snuff? >> its, you know, its absolutely a valid criticism. and i think everybody at the va would agree. and look, im not an apologist for the va. i think ...