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It is very well known and veterans groups, are stepping up and, one, getting their voice heard, and, fireworks also stepping up to provide funding in direct assistance grants, the bill and beverly young financial grants that are going to be assisting individuals who are incapable of paying their own bills come 1 november. >> all right. even before november 1st we have the situation where since the 1st of october there have been people furloughed who process claims, right? >> yes, ma'am. >> and there's been a consequence there. >> on average since the furlough of all v.a. employees began about ...

Impressi implementation, to process claims and to implement, do benefits, it summer simply cann. it could be a major disaster for the administration. >> you served in the senate. let me ask a quick question. do you think mr. clapper is the best for the job? >> look, i think the president is putting people who are politically attuned to the president who -- and have been very good in apologizing for the president and are not the best people to do the job. no question in my mind about that. >> does that mean clapper should go? do you have any problem with his testimony -- if his testimony was fa...

Impressi implementation, to process claims and to implement, do benefits, it summer simply cann. it could be a major disaster for the administration. >> you served in the senate. let me ask a quick question. do you think mr. clapper is the best for the job? >> look, i think the president is putting people who are politically attuned to the president who -- and have been very good in apologizing for the president and are not the best people to do the job. no question in my mind about that. >> does that mean clapper should go? do you have any problem with his testimony -- if his testimony was fa...

>> shannon: is it about funding? last of percent nell? the system is getting some kind of overhaul because people the average claim waiting more than 125 days just for a response. >> it is about -- it is not necessarily about funding. the v.a. has been especially for the last four years record amounts of funding. they have been hiring a lot of people to help process claims. this is really about process. iraq and afghanistan veterans by and large are surviving combat injuries which is outstanding. there are complex injuries and more of them that they have to deal with the rest of their lives so...

Organizations would not have to take that on, a lot of people felt like this story was done, that that was going to work. >> well, absolutely not. in fact a lot of the large institutions that are religiously affiliated or faith-based are in fact self-insurers, in other words, they provide the insurance themselves, and they might use the insurance company to facilitate or process claims, but this was in no way an accommodation of peoples', individual faiths or their belief system. this is basically a mandate of them to endorse or provide services that they find unconscionable. martha: where doe...