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>> well, i was -- i stained some combat injuries over three years ago, and they began a board to medically retire me. normally supposed to be a one-year process, but with the va backlog, my active duty orders expired and it went on for another two years. during the interim, we were put off of the tri-care insurance and my children then went on social security. >> see if you can get her to take the pacifier. i know about that. basically you were supposed -- you were retired and an injured veteran...

They are due from the va. the va backlog got to where soldiers were dying before they got the benefits they were promised when they signed .uh. one refrain from a veteran was this bag backlog that built, built, built, delay, deny, wait till i die. at the beginning of 2012, the average wait for a veteran putting in a disability claim was 188 days. more than six months waiting just to get an answer from the v.a. a year after that, the wait was worse. it wasnt six months anymore. it was nine months...

Month in seven years that no americans were killed in combat in afghanistan. we have been at war for so long as a nation that it is hard to remember that war is not a permanent condition for us. and that u.s. troops not dying in combat should be the norm and not the aberration. but it is the aberration. but it is the operation. it has been more than a decade since thats been true. but it is true right now. its true as of the month that just ended and thats worth being thankful for. and i have an...

We have been at war for so long as a nation that it is hard to remember that war is not a permanent condition for us. and that u.s. troops not dying in combat should be the norm and not the operation. but it is the operation. it has been more than a decade since thats been true. but it is true right now. its true as of the month that just ended and thats worth being thankful for. and i have another one for you, which is always worthy of thanks. over this more than a decade at these two long wars...

Dont mean to have overly political here, but when you have a major political party rejecting what the overwhelming scientific evidence is, it is pretty scary. >> let me switch gears with you real quickly since it is veterans day and get your thoughts on a new report that came out just today and were going to do more on this later in the program, but it says that the va backlog for veterans benefits are getting better. are you convinced thats happening and is the improvement enough? >> well, chri...

Going to fund a bill to fund the national parks and put moneys towards the va backlog and give d.c. the ability to operate so trash collection, et cetera wouldnt be affected. thats what they are going to do today. they dont know what they are going to do tomorrow. negotiations are not ongoing between the house and john boehner. from where they are right now, the public fallout hasnt hit to the point where they can pass a clean cr. this theory that has been circulated by some of the left and circ...

Old problem and eliminating the backlog. >> in some cases there are good reasons for the backlog. for one when he took over he removed obstacles for veterans to receive disability benefits for post traumatic stress which caused a surge in claims. the total number of vets receiving va payments for ptsd soared from 27,000 to 196,000 from 2006 to 2012. >> you take care of your people its that simple. >> one misconception about the va backlog is severely wounded veterans from the current war make up...

Here is something to keep an eye on. something weird is going on in washington that i do not yet understand. here is the back story. on this show we have done a lot of reporting on the va and the immense backlog of disability claims. for iraq and afghan veterans and veterans of earlier wars. in response to the persistence of the backlog and it getting better and not worse in recent years, the group iraq and afghan veterans of america submitted tens of thousands of signatures to the white house a...

Commitment to helping all who served. we respectfully ask you to find a solution that ensures that no veterans are stuck in the va backlog. 67 senators. 67! everybody from dick durbin and tammy baldwin to john cornyn and orrin hatch. 67 senators asking for the president to wade into this problem at the va. this is one to watch in terms of the white house response to this especially, and it is especially one to watch because at the same time this is happening up on capitol hill, yet more top peop...