. >> rachel fredericks, aviation operations, serving stateside. she lost two friends to suicide and you struggle yourself with ptsd, she's a republican, but leaning towards you. still undecided. you have a question for mr. trump. >> i do. mr. trump, i wanted to ask what your plan will be to stop 20 veterans a day from killing themselves. >> and actually, it's 22. it's almost impossible to conceive that this is happening in our country. 20 to 22 people a day are killing themselves. a lot of it is, they're killing themselves over the fact that they're in tremendous pain and they can't see a doctor. we're going to speed up the process. we're going to create a great mental health division. they need help. they need tremendous help, and we're doing nothing for them. the v.a. is really, almost, you. if you look at what's going on as an example in arizona, where they caught people stealing and they can't even fire the people. we are going to make it efficient and good. if it's not good, you're going to private hospitals, public hospitals and doctors. >>

. >> we're joined by rachel frederick.use there was a couple of interesting moments there. so we'll start with that particular one. you were an undecided voter. you are an undecided voter. what struck you about donald trump's answer to you? >> it seemed to me like he wants to blame it on access and mental health care and he kept saying they need help. they need help. i think everyone in america needs some type of help. but yet again, we're going to stigmatize the veterans who are suffering with mental health diseases or with ptsd, they need help? [ applause ] so i think that to blame it on an access issue or to blame it on the lack of mental health care and especially to blame it on living with chronic pain i don't think really answered the question at hand of what he will do to stop it. i know many veterans, especially in my organization, the disabled american veterans, who live with chronic pain every day. >> yep. that's right. >> so i don't think that's the cause of the veteran suicide. i don't know what we're going to

and after the forum, rachel fredericks who posed the question was asked what she thought of trump's answerss and mental health care and saying, they need help, they need help. i think everyone in america needs some type of help, but yet we are going to stigmatize those with ptsd, they need help? so i think to blame it on the access issue or to blame it on the lack of mental health care, and especially to blame it with living with chronic pain didn't answer the question at hand of what he'll do to stop it. i know many veterans, especially in my organization of disabled american veterans, who live with chronic pain every day. >> how great is she? joining us "the new york times" reporter and army veteran and founder of ceo in iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, paul ratcliffe. we know about the problems at the v.a. they addressed the statistics last night, but from where you sit, what do you veterans need from the next commander in chief they don't have right now? >> well, they need the continued focus we had last night. last night was historic. it wasn't perfect. frankly, i wish the ve