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Celebrate our women veterans. that was first lady michelle obama this morning honoring 14 women vets as champions of change in their communities and giving an update on her push to get the country's biggest corporations to hire more veterans on this tenth anniversary of the iraq war. let's remember that the unemployment rate for iraq and afghanistan veterans stands at 9.4%. well above the national average. and for women, it is actually even worse with an 11.6% unemployment rate. our next grefts two women on a mission to change that by giving our veterans the tools they need to go from battlefi...

Be heroes for a reason. but that hasn't necessarily been followed through with policy. it's more of an emotional thing than making sure that we are doing right by them. that backlog at the v.a. is getting worse, not better. and for that to be happening while we all feel great about veterans and want them to be treated well -- for me is a real moral hazard, for us as a country. you can't have the emotional pay-off without the responsibility. it becomes sort of emotionally pornographic to feel good about it without making sure it's right. that's what's happening right now with the v.a. being stu...

Slaw essentially unnecessary. a news and observer editorial pointed out that the north carolina state board of elections referred about 310 cases for voter fraud prosecution out of about 4.3 million votes that were cast in the 2008 election. joining me now, north carolina speaker of the house, tom tillis. he supports the measure. it's good see you, mr. tillis. >> greetings from the carolinas, craig. >> unemployment in the tar hill state you 9.4%, it's above the national average, voter fraud there, not rampant. why is this a legislative priority? >> well, we call this restoring confidence in el...

Away. i don't think anybody looked at the long-term effect. if you look at the bureau of labor and statistics, it shows that veterans from this gulf war is approximately 9.4%. you also can look at that same bureau of labor statistics and show that the lower the educational level, the higher the rate of unemployment. so what we're doing is prolonging a wave of unemployment for our veterans. i don't think anybody wants to do that. >>brian: which is incredible when you think of your priorities and your hit list. why are you hitting veterans and their aid and their medical benefits, and in this ca...

Might change some of the balance on this, and that is as the cuts start to hit real people in their real lives, and they start to respond. i mean, we are seeing both very, very painful kinds of hits with this sequester. those are the ones that the governor and others talk about, but i'm concerned about the invest. to future, so it is not just about what we don't have tomorrow, but it is about the nation and the families and the children will not have in the next two the three years. >> and those effects are cumulative and the dramatic impact at the moment, and it is cumulative and so let's loo...