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There are over 500,000 veterans waiting over four years to get their appeals. can you imagine serving this country in silence disability it you believe you are entitled to, being denied and having to wait that long? this appeals montizatio montizan serve that process. based on their needs if they have one issue or they believe they were -- it's just a difference of opinion go through one area of the v.a. or the appeals process to make sure that they take care of that appeal. if it's more egregious or if there are more issues, then there is another lane that they can go through. so this appeals...

And you don't you grew up here my friend. steve: i think brian is being funny. making a joke. which a great way to open an hour of news and information. hey, where am i? wait a minute. admiral stockdale did that. who am i? what am i doing here? who are we? what are we doing here? we're "fox & friends," the number one cable news show in the world thanks to you. we are here to give you the news. ainsley: it's thursday morning. down hill to the weekend. the president speaking, he has talked twice, the last three times this week. excellent speech talking to the american legion in reno, nevada. ver...

The v.a. is steadily delivering on the president's promise to fix the broken v.a. system. finally, before i open it up to take questions, as you're all very well aware, i love birthdays around here and oddly we have quite a few of them going on. major garrett, happy birthday. even more importantly, it's -- i'm pretty lucky. i have two of the best parents in the world so happy birthday, dad and my niece's birthday. i get to knock out a ton of stuff tough today. with that, i'll take your questions. steve? >> sarah, there seems to be acrimony between the president and the congressional leadership...

That shouldn't have happened. the president has been going back and forth with senator mcconnell. and the president tweeted to paul ryan, i requested that mitch m. and paul r. tie the debt ceiling legislation into a popular v.a. bill, which is passed for easy approval. they didn't do it. we have a big deal with dems holding them up on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy. now a mess. don't know if this could have been so easy. there is nothing so easy in washington today. chad pergram points out, it's a lack of republican votes that is holding up the debt ceilings. the democrats are ...

Protected. this is about safety and security for all at the border. and then yesterday, of course, the media don't want to cover what happened. the president besieged the nation to unify, to appeal to our better angels or higher purposes, the things that bind us together as americans. we are all on the same team. that got scant coverage. the other thing that got scant coverage is the law that he passed. we have 470,000 veterans waiting for disposition on their benefits claims. he and secretary shulkin at the v.a. have acted yet again on behalf of veterans in the first seven months on the job. ...