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Pod, and you having this 8:00 show, shows this. we approach how to do this work very differently. our shows will be very different. one of the reasons i like talking to you about big difficult problems that don't have easy answers like this, i feel like you have a good mul - multi-approach towards difficult things. you look at the va backlog, getting this renewed attention. you look at the fact there's no bipartisan disagreement on this whatsoever yet it is getting worse, what do you think is the way out of it? >> i think there's a few fascinating things. one is it makes us think what is the a...

Opinion, but working to form a response. fox news has been covering the story of the va backlog for months. speaking with countless, frustrated veterans like robert. >> you applied for benefits from the va two and a half years ago, but you got very little response? >> actually we got no response. it's a very, very difficult, tiresome process. >> right now the department of veterans affairs, fights against veterans. it's crazy, it's insane. >> veterans advocates across the country are hopping the court order will spur the va to help vets, rather than fight them. in new york, douglas kennedy, fo...

Order that eviscerated the agency. david hoff is from the group at that brought the federal lawsuit that prompted the opinion. >> the judge came out and ruled in our favor, saying that va cannot proceed in this fashion, that they were circumventing the rights to veterans. >> in a statement the va did not go into details about the order, but says it's working with the justice department to form a response. fox news has been covering the story of the va backlog for months speaking with veterans and advocates all calling the benefits backlog a disgrace. >> we see claims sent in by veterans every ...

Intervene, to personally take charge of this problem to appoint a presidential commission to figure out how this fix this thing. and the veterans spent the week this week in d.c. as part of the lobbying effort to storm the hill. there are efforts to ending the va backlog. a lot of americans have spent the week recognizing it has been ten years since the start of the war in rabiraq, the people who fought that name have been storming capitol hill, as they say, to try and get the things that we as a country already promised them. things that we are failing miserably to deliver. joins us now, alon...

Paul, thank you in particular for pulling this together. i appreciate it. >> rachel, thank you for having our blah tune and thank you for the bus to get us here. >> i know you met with members of congress and the defense secretary hagel, and i have to ask if you have anything concrete and satisfying and what has the response been like so far? >> no, we have not gotten anything concrete. these veterans standing behind me, it cares deeply about the issue. they come from 22 states to be here. they left families and jobs and school to spend the week volunteering on capitol hill, and the va backlog...