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Members of congress get their healthcare as well as for families from the va system until they clean it up, you know, it's not that all of america is hearing that because they're hearing what donald trump said. >> you know that fox news has spent a lot of time criticizing donald trump's comments and when we do so, we hear it from his followers no doubt. does his popularity have anything to do with just the generaliz generalized culture. >> people are so mad. i can understand a lot of it. they feel like this government is completely oblivious to protecting them. they go through metal detectors ...

Sick, most of them having recently ate at chipotle. officials expect the number of people affected to rise in the coming days as the outbreak may spread. with veterans day approaching, a startling and scary statistics for the veterans. new figures indicate tens of thousands of critical medical jobs in the va system sit vacant. those include doctors, nurses and therapists. according to a recent "usa today" analysis 1 in 6 critical jobs in the va system nationwide vacant as of midsummer and as tom costello reports, patients at some facilities have to wait a month over two just to be seen. >> r...

Inspector general issued a troubling finding about its medical center in phoenix where allegations about patient appointment delays first came to light last year. extreme staffing shortages starting in 2013 in the urology department had potentially impacted thousands of patients and had contributed to clinically significant delays in urology care and unnecessary risk for some patients. one phoenix va patient whose prostate cancer spread undetected while he waited for care died. the va staff says it's improved waiting times since then. this vet just got word the va will pay for his cancer care ...

And now an nbc news investigation about care for our veterans and how shortages of primary care doctors and special it specialists at va hospitals can delay their access to health care sometimes for up to two months. according to "usa today," 1 in 6 jobs within the va system were vacant as of this past summer. nbc's tom costello has more. >> reporter: fayetteville, north carolina. home to the 82nd airborne. it can take weeks or months for vets to get seen at the local va hospital here, and fayetteville has had the longest wait times in the country. >> aggressive cancer. >> reporter: two years ...

The big things, like fight for broad-based prosperity, fight for women's rights and gay rights and inclusive society, but you're also fighting for somebody to figure out how the health care reform can include mental health. how the people that are left out and left behind, including people who are caught up in this unbelievable prescription drug and heroin craze that is sweeping across small towns and rural americans, not just in big cities. to deal with the challenges that parents with children with autism face. and to fix things that we as an honorable nation must fix, like the va system. th...