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Discontent, the given reasons for the war. is there a sense that those problems are being addressed? >> janah: the war was very brutal, and people, after 30 years, everybody is tired of war. we have a very affected population; there are about 30,000 war widows, close to 25,000 orphan children, about 15,000 people who were land mine victims. from the government side, they are still a bit scared, that there may be war popping up again, but slowly now they are addressing issues, like employment-wise, opportunity-wise, and there are a lot of occupied lands, now they are slowly giving it back. >> a...

Sacrifices of war widows and war widowers. we'll introduce you to two gold star wives that say talk is cheap. he need help. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. president trump has made it clear he wants to be president of america and not of the world. he stated this again just this week. now the world is trying to figure out what exactly does that mean? north korea piled on the pressure with a missile launch last night right before president trump is set to host china's president in what mr. trump calls a very difficult meeting with some focus on north korea but...

Give benefits to military families. someone, probably on the political side who hasn't serve ed thought that would turn it up more. >> we confirmed today the department of defense went to the department of justice last week and said we don't think we can provide the defendants. the doj said no. so why didn't somebody go to barack obama, to congress and say, we need this fixed and now. tuesday this hit the press big time and people started to talk. here we are a week later and we have an order. >> somebody's heart was in the wrong place. if we are putting military families, war widows in the cr...

Reduction, these are important issues. leave vets, war widows and military families out of it? that's an important statement to make. >> you guys go out on the battlefield to protect us, our freedoms and values. who has your back? >> that's right. this is not equal opportunity outrage. that is commander in chief, a leader looking for our backs at every moment and didn't here and needs to be called to the carpet. >> thanks, pete. coming up, we have big twomts in this case that i was on the o'reilly factor discussing half an hour ago. i don't know if you watched. but it's about whether christm...

Got your back, i've got your six. but the real thought yesterday to contrast it with governor romney's, proud of america speech today, was when obama made that claim that we've never, for the first time ever our veterans are our priority. megyn, for a century 1/2, this country, under republicans and democrats has made our veterans a priority. we have pioneered the world in caring for veterans. not always perfectly but, look, the bush ad administration, however imperfect it may have been, revolutionized military medical care, expanded the va, put general shinseki in charge. obama has never foun...