we are talking with michael mcauliffe with the new york daily news. how long after 9/11 was it established? what is the criteria to qualify? guest: there was a fund that started right after 9/11 and lasted for a couple of years. that lapsed. it did not take into account people getting sick after 9/11. , 2010, it wasars the last thing that passed congress. that renewed the victim compensation fund for a couple of billion dollars. that expired in 2015. they had to come back and do it all over again. a lot of folks saw jon stewart coming down then. it sort of made a popular impression on the country. they ultimately passed it near the end of the year. it seems to linger each time it happens. $7.4bumped it up to billion. the way the congressional budget office crunched the numbers, they assumed even though it was only a five year program, if it lasted until 2025, they would have enough money to there would be something like that money. ther -- enough money. there were be something like 10,000 people who got cancer. what happened is a lot more people got s

>> host: michael mcauliff. >> guest: well, i think that is where we are at. the senate is probably going to pass this but it's just a question of when and whether or not they w do it in the fashion that makes the 911 community feel whole. i'm pretty sure the country will indeed come up with the money for this program. >> host: when it comes to a set amount of money for this program some folks on twitter are asking why is there a limit to the fund? jody says the people who ran to the twin towers after the should have all their health needs given to them for free for the rest of the lies no if's, and or butts. heroes deserve it. why is this not happened in 18 years? >> guest: it goes back to that original gap i talked about. after that unity everyone saw and celebrates rate after 911 it faded and in some ways it's understandable because people don't want to keep something painful like that in the forefront. when the alleged nation started advancing especially the first time there was very regional and it was even a bit partisan where people were seen as a new y

we are talking with michael mcauliffe with the new york daily news.ow long after 9/11 was it established? what is the criteria to qualify? guest: there was a fund that started right after 9/11 and lasted for a couple of years. that lapsed. it did not take into account people getting sick after 9/11. , 2010, it wasars the last thing that passed congress. that renewed the victim compensation fund for a couple of billion dollars. that expired in 2015. they had to come back and do it all over again. a lot of folks saw jon stewart coming down then. it sort of made a popular impression on the country. they ultimately passed it near the end of the year. it seems to linger each time it happens. $7.4bumped it up to billion. the way the congressional budget office crunched the numbers, they assumed even though it was only a five year program, if it lasted until 2025, they would have enough money to there would be something like that money. ther -- enough money. there were be something like 10,000 people who got cancer. what happened is a lot more people got sic

journalist michael mcauliff has covered this for "the daily show" and other outlets since the day of september 11. he joins me now. i know you've been vering this, this week as well. we're going to come back to congress andhat's happening w. but i want to first ask you to explain what exactly are these ling with?onders dea >> well, you heard we mentioned in the report that it started off with respiratory illnesses, and it wasthe classic world trade center cough which was iconic at the time. that got much worse. they got horrible stomach problems, sign situ surgeries to repair their nasal passages so they could actually breathe, and then the cancers started and a lot of them were very aggressive, fast-moving cancerand people who wre young and lived healthy lives before that, so it really made a lot of peoe take notice. >> is this population growing? even the funds they have now, it ems they're running through it faster than they expected. >> oh, yeah, they're going through it much more quickly than they expected. much more people know about it and they're finding out they can apply, a

michael mcauliff. >> all right, thanks, lisa. >> woodruff: stay with peming up on the "newshour," the looming threat of ly-- and easily-- manipulated digital video. >> nathan englander shares his liinion on the power of ritual. with nearly 15 m members, the southern baptist convention is the largest protestant denomination in the united states. now its facing a reckof its own over sexual abuse. d "houston chronicle" investigation fondreds of clergy or staff allegedly committed abuse or misconduct over two decades. this week, delegates of southern baptist churches appro changes for the first time to make it easier to expel churches that cover up sexual abuse cases. rachael denhollander was the first woman to publicly accuse larry nassar, the former sports doctor who was convicted of assaulting multiple girls and women. she spoke at the convention yesterday on a panel with fellow sexual abuse survivo is on the denomination's sex abuse study group. she is also the author of "what is a girl worth? my stor breaking the silence and exposing the truth about larry nassar and usa gymnastics."

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