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Disability benefits and you are a young vet coming back from iraq-afghanistan, the average wait time is six months. that's unacceptable. >> so get any kind of veterans services? >> to get disabilities payments. >> they are living on what? >> if you appeal it resets to two years. so the system is broken. the most important thing that we need to focus on is customer service and customers satisfaction of those veterans of all generations coming home and customers are saying this isn't working. so we need the president to be much more aggressive, we need congress to come together and solve this pr...

Congress to come together and solve this problem once and for all. every va secretary comes in and says i'm going to break the backlog. every va secretary leaves and says the next guy's got to break the backlog. it hasn't happened yet. >> i think people don't get it. it is the same story we heard 15 years ago and coming out of vietnam. general shinseki is i think we can all agree, an incredible guy, a soldier's soldier. and if he can't do it, isn't it time just to sort of light a fuse and say, start from scratch. >> you're dealing with some tremendous leaders. they have made it work and we sta...

Ratings of 80%, it was just extraordinary. and, this is after you know, winning a huge war. and an expensive war, but, you know, in two years, it was the economy, stupid, and, he couldn't get anything right, because bill clinton came in and made a masterful argument that george w. bush -- george h. w. bush was good on foreign policy but couldn't, you know, light a spark on the economy. and, this is -- the polling that we saw there is very much the way -- the direction, it looks like it could be going in. >> jamie: let me jump? and ask you, the president made several stops after bin laden was k...

Lexicon with denying that he's -- >> added an emergency exit to my office. >> reporter: when the magic wall is not working magically. >> having a problem. i'm going to pull a steven slate they are about three, two, one. >> reporter: jetblue is giving every passenger on steven slater's flight a $100 voucher. the company says that's what it often does when customers experience a disruption or abnormal circumstances. ♪ you later, steven slater ♪ didn't need no escalator ♪ just slid right down that airplane door and ran ♪ >> reporter: underneath this latest balad to steven his boyfriend po...

Back now with more of that breaking news we've been following involving a diverted delta flight to bangor, maine. nbc news's pete williams is live in our washington bureau with details. pete, we want to update our viewers here. flight 273 was heading from paris to atlanta. a disruptive passenger who made, quote, suspicious comments, according to some senior officials. what else do we know here? >> well, the plane that landed here is a delta air bus a-330/300. it's one of the workhorse of the delta fleet planes. what we're told is that after the plane took off from paris today on its way origin...