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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 people at the va are all of a sudden out o...

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 people at the va are all of a sudden out o...

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...

Pod, and you having this 8:00 show, shows this. we approach how to do this work very differently. our shows will be very different. one of the reasons i like talking to you about big, difficult problems that dont have easy answers like this, i feel like you have a good multi-varied approach towards difficult things. you look at the va backlog, getting this renewed attention. you look at the fact theres no bipartisan disagreement on this whatsoever yet it is getting worse, what do you think is th...

>> in all the press, which has all been good press, i would say, knock on wood, about your launch, everybody says you and i are so much alike, peas in a pod, and you having this 8:00 show, shows this. we approach how to do this work very differently. our shows will be very different. one of the reasons i like talking to you about big, difficult problems that dont have easy answers like this, i feel like you have a good multi-varied approach towards difficult things. you look at the va backlog, g...

Pod, and you having this 8:00 show, shows this. we approach how to do this work very differently. our shows will be very different. one of the reasons i like talking to you about big difficult problems that dont have easy answers like this, i feel like you have a good mul - multi-approach towards difficult things. you look at the va backlog, getting this renewed attention. you look at the fact theres no bipartisan disagreement on this whatsoever yet it is getting worse, what do you think is the ...

Opinion, but working to form a response. fox news has been covering the story of the va backlog for months. speaking with countless, frustrated veterans like robert. >> you applied for benefits from the va two and a half years ago, but you got very little response? >> actually we got no response. its a very, very difficult, tiresome process. >> right now the department of veterans affairs, fights against veterans. its crazy, its insane. >> veterans advocates across the country are hopping the co...

Order that eviscerated the agency. david hoff is from the group at that brought the federal lawsuit that prompted the opinion. >> the judge came out and ruled in our favor, saying that va cannot proceed in this fashion, that they were circumventing the rights to veterans. >> in a statement the va did not go into details about the order, but says its working with the justice department to form a response. fox news has been covering the story of the va backlog for months speaking with veterans and...

Intervene, to personally take charge of this problem to appoint a presidential commission to figure out how this fix this thing. and the veterans spent the week this week in d.c. as part of the lobbying effort to storm the hill. there are efforts to ending the va backlog. a lot of americans have spent the week recognizing it has been ten years since the start of the war in rabiraq, the people who fought that name have been storming capitol hill, as they say, to try and get the things that we as ...

Paul, thank you in particular for pulling this together. i appreciate it. >> rachel, thank you for having our blah tune and thank you for the bus to get us here. >> i know you met with members of congress and the defense secretary hagel, and i have to ask if you have anything concrete and satisfying and what has the response been like so far? >> no, we have not gotten anything concrete. these veterans standing behind me, it cares deeply about the issue. they come from 22 states to be here. they ...