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Veteran will, obviously, ptsd. those things there they just hurt so much because you know, some people have issues before they come n im no doctor but you know, i dealt with pts. i know other brothers who have done that. and its not about wanting to hurt other people. its a guilt feeling of what happened of missing your brothers and trying to make sense of what actions are that youre saying. you stick your hand in the fire and you get burnt. you go, you watch people die. youre under stress of kn...

Veteran will, obviously, ptsd. those things there they just hurt so much because you know, some people have issues before they come n im no doctor but you know, i dealt with pts. i know other brother whos have done that. and its not about wanting to hurt other people. its a guilt feeling of what happened of missing your brothers and trying to make sense of what actions are that youre saying. you go, you watch people die. youre under stress of knowing you can lose your life in a mement. its a nat...

Its a great story. it is. go ahead. >> they said that you know the president was tied up. busy. and i said, i understand im busy, too. ive got to. >> one of the things youve been focused on is helping people transition back into civilian life. you know? i quit using the term ptsd. the d stands for disorder people think if a person had trauma from combat theyre forever unable to function. that is not true. people in a car wreck had trauma. they get over it. why is it that people think that the ve...

Its a great story. it is. go ahead. >> they said that you know the president was tied up. busy. and i said, i understand im busy, too. ive got to. >> one of the things youve been focused on is helping people transition back into civilian life. you know? i quit using the term ptsd. the d stands for disorder people think if a person had trauma from combat theyre forever unable to function. that is not true. people in a car wreck had trauma. they get over it. why is it that people think that the ve...

Veteran will, obviously, ptsd. those things there they just hurt so much because you know, some people have issues before they come n im no doctor but you know, i dealt with pts. i know other brother whos have done that. and its not about wanting to hurt other people. its a guilt feeling of what happened of missing your brothers and trying to make sense of what actions are that youre saying. you go, you watch people die. youre under stress of knowing you can lose your life in a mement. its a nat...

Veteran will, obviously, ptsd. those things there they just hurt so much because you know, some people have issues before they come n im no doctor but you know, i dealt with pts. i know other brother whos have done that. and its not about wanting to hurt other people. its a guilt feeling of what happened of missing your brothers and trying to make sense of what actions are that youre saying. you go, you watch people die. youre under stress of knowing you can lose your life in a mement. its a nat...

Its a great story. it is. go ahead. >> they said that you know the president was tied up. busy. and i said, i understand im busy, too. ive got to. >> one of the things youve been focused on is helping people transition back into civilian life. you know? i quit using the term ptsd. the d stands for disorder people think if a person had trauma from combat theyre forever unable to function. that is not true. people in a car wreck had trauma. they get over it. why is it that people think that the ve...

Care. colonel jacobs, did the president go far enough? >> i think it went far enough. hes a little late. he needs to get out ahead of the story. >> this was several weeks where all we heard from was aides and spokes people. >> thats correct. it goes back further than that. months and months ago, indeed years ago we had this problem. and when shinseki first took office, those people with pts, agent orange exposure, opened the doors to them and said, that they could sign up and come in for va bene...

Do we eliminate the waste, fraud and abuse that contributes to so much of these funds being wasted. >> congressman murphy, we should say from the outset that we dont know what triggered this. the base seems to think it was an argument. there is, as yet, no evidence. we know that he had been seen by a psychiatrist -- or someone on the base, a therapist of some sort on the base. but we dont know if he had pts. having said that, my question to you is, there with, by many accounts, thousands and tho...

Joining me are congresswoman and iraq war veteran and congress manage tim murphy, a clinical psychologist in the navy reserve who treats soldiers with pts. thank you both so much for joining us this morning. im sorry it is on this subject because it seems like we do it pretty regularly here. i want to first start out with a statement that came from the father of the shooter, now deceased. he had this to say friday. "this situation is very painful. i seek prayers for all the families affected. mo...