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Don't mean to have overly political here, but when you have a major political party rejecting what the overwhelming scientific evidence is, it is pretty scary. >> let me switch gears with you real quickly since it is veterans day and get your thoughts on a new report that came out just today and we're going to do more on this later in the program, but it says that the va backlog for veterans' benefits are getting better. are you convinced that's happening and is the improvement enough? >> well, chris, the improvement is not enough but i think what is happening is we are making some significant...

Going to fund a bill to fund the national parks and put moneys towards the va backlog and give d.c. the ability to operate so trash collection, et cetera wouldn't be affected. that's what they are going to do today. they don't know what they are going to do tomorrow. negotiations are not ongoing between the house and john boehner. from where they are right now, the public fallout hasn't hit to the point where they can pass a clean cr. this theory that has been circulated by some of the left and circulated by someone in the leadership, the longer this goes on, it's certainly bad and looks bad a...

Old problem and eliminating the backlog. >> in some cases there are good reasons for the backlog. for one when he took over he removed obstacles for veterans to receive disability benefits for post traumatic stress which caused a surge in claims. the total number of vets receiving va payments for ptsd soared from 27,000 to 196,000 from 2006 to 2012. >> you take care of your people it's that simple. >> one misconception about the va backlog is severely wounded veterans from the current war make up the bulk of the claims waiting action. 37 prers were filed vietnam era veterans 27 percent by post...

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 asking for president obama to get directly involved personally to fix the problem. now as of today a ...

Commitment to helping all who served. 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 of a job. the chief technology officer left last month, then ch...