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Glance from the center for investigative reporting. good to see you, aaron, good morning. >> its good to be with you. >> so this latest report found that the average wait time for veterans has fallen by four months. whats behind the improvement? >> its kind of a good news/bad news situation. the good news is we have seen this tremendous improvement from 250,000 veterans waiting more than a year for their benefits just a few months ago to 34,000 now. the bad news is thats still three times more p...

And go against it. theyll have no choice, unless they dont mind losing an election, which can happen. >> one of the awful things thats happening right now are these con men and scam artists. i read a report in the "wall street journal" of the "washington post" today about how people are going up to doors, knocking on the doors of the elderly saying im from the government and im here to help, which is, of course, something famous that ronald reagan said once upon a time of the but these are scam ...

Cancel them? >> exactly. will it work? whether it was a plan or not, if the people werent going to health care.gov to sign up but now they basically have to is this regulation by kathleen sebelius going to save obama care at the egs pence of people in the individual market? >> no. the insurance companies already have these people. they were already part of the vinl health insurance pool, if you will. keeping them keeps you where you were. the question now is are we going to get enough healthy pe...

Cancel them? >> exactly. will it work? whether it was a plan or not, if the people werent going to health care.gov to sign up but now they basically have to is this regulation by kathleen sebelius going to save obama care at the egs pence of people in the individual market? >> no. the insurance companies already have these people. they were already part of the vinl health insurance pool, if you will. keeping them keeps you where you were. the question now is are we going to get enough healthy pe...

Before they were issued saying this was going to happen. >> when kathleen sebelius in the summer after obama care became law offered these regulations in the federal register which basically eliminated the grandfathering for all intents and purposes. they said your plan would be grandfathered in and it wasnt. the insurance companies wrote, spoke out publically and said, hold on, ms. sebelius, president obama. we want you to know what you are doing with this is basically eliminating the individua...

Use the same computer system. >> the point of the call-in centers was to reduce the frustration that individuals were having. thats what he said. thats what we were doing. thats what were doing. in the meantime, were, you know, busting rocks every day to fix the website. >> reporter: joe johns, cnn, washington. 35 minutes past the hour. a quick check of the morning forecast. karen is live in the cnn weather center. good morning to you. >> and good morning. we are looking at kind of a very vola...

When add the new tax credits, that many people are eligible for through the law. >> prescribely there is concern. internal war room notes, and obtained by cnn, detailed worries that when the web side is up and running, there might be stick are shock and anger. in some cases there would be fewer options. and ideal shopping experience. additional in some cases there will be relatively high-cost plans. request for consumer to call in wasnt a way of bypassing the glitchy healthcare.gov website, why?...

Anything to have the computer system be a big mess. i mean, even in the state you have washington where we had done our own exchange, we had computer problems because we had three times as many people show up on the first day as we expected. so i think we underestimated the pent up demand out there. i think it would have worked better if it worked smoothly at the beginning but were going to get through it. its not the end of the earth if one day is a bad day. >> i like your candor. it didnt help...

The court ruling mandating equal access to stuff like that happened in june 26. by september 3rd, the entire defense department was in compliance with that court ruling, and everybody was being treated equally. except, except for some states that had anti-gay marriage laws still on the books at the state level, who decided that they would not comply with this federal ruling and this federal direction from the defense department. governors and national guard generals in these states are refusing ...

As "the new york times" noted this week, the applications for i.d. cards are federal form processed by federal employees on a federal computer system. but in these nine states, theyre saying, states rights. theyre saying because they have anti-gay laws at the state levels, they will not process service members applications equally. they are defying federal law so they can keep discriminating against some members of the national guard, against the wishes of the u.s. military. tonight, secretary o...