the majority of the va benefits. it is not the d.a.'s fault we have created a lot of homeless in vietnam war that we have homelessness. that comment without data is it is the department of defense. we have prepared these men and women for war, we don't prepare them to come home. i will stop there and hopefully we can have some questions and dialogue. >> thank you. ms. mcclinton? >> thank-you to the chairman and the commissioner. for allowing me the opportunity to street briefly to you today. in january 1994 i transition from the and it is states army as an active-duty soldier for an owner billy discharge homeless female veteran with three children under the age of five by a completed all the briefings facilitated by the assistance program but the future for me in my son's based on information little did i know that as soon as the mandela korea i would be homeless with no access to resources from rich children. walleye a weighted in homeless shelters and nicely dressed gentleman came through the emergency system unit handing out flowers

. >> for two or three i have been trying to get my claim through the oakland va regional office to get the benefits reevaluated. >> reporter: another disabled vet had his identity stolen which resulted in getting his benefits canceled. clearing it up has been a nightmare. >> it's a marathon to get it reinstated. >> reporter: so the state assembly figured out a way to ease some of the backlog in claims. assemblywoman nancy skinner says the new budget now on the governor's desk includes $6 million to send strike teams to va offices to help. >> here in oakland, the oakland veterans affairs office has the longest wait of any claims office not only in this state but acrosses country. so three million dollars which is state staffed that we would lend to that veterans affair office to provide relief in the backlog of claims. >> reporter: the other $3 million will be used for staff to help veterans get the correct forms and benefits. >> the compilation of veterans returning home and the vietnam war vets, the va system is overwhelmed. we need to try and support the va as much as possible. i thi

but within the va they have groups. the length of time in making the determination and the length of time of getting people treatment , can you give us an idea of how long that is and if any problems result from it? >> if i could just -- the young man. >> as soon as the newspaper article came out, within a week he was contacted that the va was setting up a meeting for him 2011, 2010 where he was captured as soon as he went to the media and it came out. the va says, that had nothing to do with it. but i understand anecdotal stories. i am actually trying to get a sense. i know it takes a long time. you all are in touch with these veterans every day. >> what we have done is until we can get who services we have partnered with other community-based organizations. that is why is so important that the va not amid community-based organizations. you have to take access, get them access to those programs. for example, in new york, veterans to social justice have partnered. they have the mental health program that deals with ptsd.

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i would trust that the va can take note of testimony here today and reopen the case to at least get to an accurate record and an accurate determination. we now go to a medical doctor from tennessee. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as a former va physician, thank you, mr. chairman. and as a former va physician and someone the privilege of treating of many our great veterans. i think one thing that is important is a good history. when did your injury occur? >> fall, the initial injury fall of 1984. and the second injury november 19th, 1984. >> okay. in 1984, how did the first injury occur? what were you doing? what was your title? >> i believe i was at et and enlisted soldier, sir. >> okay. in prep school? how did the injury happen? >> i believe the initial injury happened playing football. >> okay. you are playing football. you got an x-ray and they told you it was broken? >> no sir, the initial injury trainers. >> okay. what was the second injury? >> november 19, 1984. >> how many months apart was it? probably not a month. >> okay a month apart. you had a second injury and you were playing

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with more exclusive detail, liz macdonald's emac bottom line. >> basically workers employed by the vagifts, therapists and security gads to protect va hospitals. they're doing work full time. what the senators are upset about, rob portman and tom coburn. the workers are basically doing full-time union work. here is what they said in the letter a day after press secretary jay carney saved the president is deadly serious about claims backlog at the va. senators are blasting the va. this is troubling. compromising the well-being of our nation's veterans and undoubtedly will negatively impact veterans. issue, va is he will telling fox business it will prepare a response to the senators letter. they are saying that they are aggressive trying to cut back that claims backlog and they're saying though, that too many vets have to wait too long. this comes as, the unemployment rate among 18 to 24-year-old veterans is running higher than the national average. terrible homelessness among military veterans. what is going on too, what these union workers, essentially, va workers doing union duties,

from missouri, i left my home and my family and everybody that loves me to come out here to go to the va hospital because i have three terminal illnesses, and this proposal is hindering my treatment, i am a vet and i was spit on and slapped on when i came back and now you want to deny my right to get my healthcare. sell the hospital to the rich and famous and give us another one. i bought a motor home that is all that i got. i used to pay, and... afar as the homeless, i know where this is going, if you do that to a vietnam vet and go in and park and you george to drag them out by the hair of the head. you are going to run them out in the back packs and sleeping bags and all, and women women which children and the same thing that are build the bridge over here and don't work and the same thing here and running that muni it will not run. i got to show me something, if i am a problem i want to be part of the solution, i have a name and i have a phone number. i have been homeless since 1978 when i got out of the army, i just become able to live in a vehicle since i got all of these illnesses

the va is working to fix the backlog. our men and women coming home face very unique challenges.hey bring a lot of great advantages and benefits. joe's story, i'll plug his story as well, in talking about -- they come home with this sense of greater mission, greater good, wanting to zephyr next to their brothers and sisters and do something more. i was one of those soldiers in the hospital at walter reed. when you asked me what i wanted to do, i said i wanted to go back to my unit. i couldn't go back to my unit. finding a new mission for my life was critical for me, as it is for these other vets. the real hero of the day when i was shot down is chief officer dan millburg who landed the aircraft. i just bled a lot. he tells me, tammy, i'm handling post-traumatic stress and everything i went through because i know you're out there serving another mission and that you're doing what you're doing and i got to play a part in that. that's what we as service members who come home want to do. we're looking for another mission, not just for ourselves, for our buddies who didn't make it hom

nperkins is not alone receiving mood altering medication from the military and va. pent over $2 billion medicating the men and women with anti- zoi zie and anti- psyche cottic medication. it is a huge expenditure that they defend. >> we have made great strikes in care and decreasing stigma and getting that care. >> a stance psychiatrist said seems compassionate but is in reality irresponsible. >> you are producing so many chronic mental patients. >> most site medications alter brain chemistry and often create a lifelong dependence. >> it is horrific to come off of the drugs and many times patients simply can't get off of them. >> many doctors say once you start the medications, it is almost impossible to get off, what does that mean for you? >> if i stop taking the medication i will have nightmares and sleepless nights. >> he is then years old and knows he will be on drugs for the rest of his life and a consequence of trusting his va care givers. >> i am harris faulkner, this is the fox report. if you are just joining us this hour, fox news can confirm that united st

it all starts with going to the va. there's a whole community of veterans that just want to help you out. it's for the guys who couldn't come back, you owe it to them to live well. because they're not here with their families. matt shapiro, president of mws capital, joins us this morning for a look at the charts. good morning to you, and i have to start with the fed. a big meeting happening today. what do you think about the overall market action? what are you expecting? - i think the fed's kind of prepared investors a little bit over the last month. we've had, of course, all the turbulence in the credit markets that we've talked about on the show for a little bit. so i'm hoping they'll give some good signals that kind of calm investors a little bit and help them get to the point where they can accept the reality that qe-3 is going to be tapered off and eventually end. because, of course, the economy is doing much, much better. - and investors are watching netflix. this stock is on a roll, matt. now there's a big dreamwo

the va didn't have any programs available.services, you were not a soldier, you were treated basically as a baby's mama or a crack head. it wasn't until i relocated to d.c. that i started to hearing about homeless female veterans. that's when i decided to found an organization that would house them and their children. >> let us know what you need. i am like a procurement whisperer. we offer wrap around support, child care assistance, unemployment placement. we give you the tools that you need, but your success in this program is up to you. >> i have a job now. this is my space to prepare myself to be better. jas set me up for success. >> why do i do what i do? it is the right thing to do as an american and it is the right thing to do as a soldier. >> i am don lemon. see you back here one hour from now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> many americans want to know if the u.s. is spying on their e-mails and phones. >>> and a cnn exclusive, joint interview with mitt and ann romney on the heart breaking loss of the white h

and so in addition to organizes like swords, the va has come a very long way in updating its services and ensuring that they are the foreleader in addressing post-traumatic stress. so i couldn't give this presentation without that additional element and post-traumatic stress and how we finally try to break down some of the stigma and someone who is suffering from post-traumatic stress can lead a healthy and fulfilling life. someone who had conditions, can fulfill all of their employment obligations, take care of their families, because they are still spouses, wives, husbands and individuals of the community. so finding the way that our disability rules, regulations and ideas take that part and understand that the veteran experience is unique. and just identifying that it is unique, really can break down a whole lot of barriers. that is all. any questions? >> thank you. is there any questions from the council? any questions from staff? seeing there are no questions. thank you very much. >> thank you. you have a great day. >> thank you. next we have david elliot from the mental health b

and then for a short while when i was at the va hospital, i was rotating at tufts under dr. seymour likeland who is the president of the endocrine society at that time. and he was a neuroendologist. he was the president of the end written society of america. and he was just like sanjiv said, we had brilliant mentors. he was absolutely brilliant in those days, and he was identifying hormones that we didn't know too much about at that time. hormones in the hypothalamus like stimulating hormone like growth factors, etc. i had a colleague at that time, her name was candice byrd. she later went on to become the chief of brain chemistry at nih. she's now at georgetown university. she identified something called peptide -- [inaudible] if you know anything about it orbit. but her boss won the nobel prize for identifying neurochemicals. and one day candice said to me, you know, these things that we're looking at -- because there was a new technique. dr. yollow who was a va physician had actually won the nobel prize for discovering this technique. so all we did as fellows and residents

allows them to transfer the record with an optical code to computer.ians this is a key problem for the va. faxes are from the mode of communication. by offering this, this is an important way to affect quality of care and cost for the veterans administration. we are on the va website as a partner. veterans can go there and link to download an application. >> as industrial engineers, these are concepts very near and dear to us. what we set out to do was oflly to reduce the costs redundancy or a revert to care. we wanted to improve the quality perception and the understanding of what the care process is and not only what the steps are but why you should be doing them. do through the assessment portion of obama's understand not only only what the level of comprehension is the one or the other constraints that are in this individuals situation that could prevent them from enacting this level of care prescribed. if there are conditions where they are working adults, but there are clearly scheduling conflicts that need to be considered. if we can take us all into account in the beginning, we ca

we saw the dual use vehicle from the va that there was one in san francisco and there's one in palo alto and those can take litters of patients. we saw multiple helicopters and we saw the c130j all of those were introduced by very knowledgeable personnel that could take us through what the capabilities of each of them were. i also think that, you know, we saw that there were personnel that would come with those assets. so it wouldn't just be the assets for movement but also assets in terms of taking care of those patients: and that was really helpful in our planning because one of the things we worry about is how will we do handoffs, how will patients get taken care of if they are in critical states and how will they be main taepbed through deployments to other states. we also saw the mobile air medical facilities which was a big question in terms of if patients did have to get moved, where would they sit while we were trying to open up capacity in a hospital to take care of other type patients. it was the past planning for most 3 4 the hospitals has either been we will try to read it ou

one of the things not everybody knows is we only have one heilpad and that's in the va luckily our new mission bay hospital has another one. we have identified sites but it's something to think through. when we are going through our planning and evacuation planning, especially, thinking of all the different sites where patients can be evacuated will be an important planning consideration. but i would like to echo lan's thoughts that this was all exciting to think about and it was received very well. >> anything else, dan? >> as we did on the last panel, that elevator speech, what did you share, what was your big take away that you gave to your boss to say this was why this exercise was important and that take away. >> collaboration is key. jurisdictions need to work with one another, they need to understand who is in charge, what they've got, that goes from city to city, city to county, county to state, state to federal. everyone needs to be working together, understand who the partners are, what arrangement they are going to have for command and control, arrival of assets and things t

we're trying to build a bridge with the va medical center where washington high school students will have opportunities not only to volunteer, but also connect with career-type jobs in medical center. for us it's about lifelong family and community connections and we appreciate the support we get from the city and we hope that that support continues. (applause) >> so, the next speaker sarah yang from cai ming head start, you can either speak up here or from the podium, jerry. >> good morning, i'm jerry young from cai ming. we have six centers in the city. three are them are in richmond and sunset area and we serve in total close to 300 children [speaker not understood] in the city. in richmond and sunset we have close to 120 kids. so, we have been serving the community to serve these families. we have head start program, by the way. when we have nationwide connection they work the head start program. i want to share one thing. we feel very, very gratitude to be in san francisco. because every time when we connect with those people nationwide, statewide, we couldn't believe how much r

. >> the va has been going paperless and stripes to ensure all claims are processed within 100 days by 2015. are considering preserving their baby's cord blood. they can also take their stem cells after liposuction. fat cells contain larger quantities of more versatile stem cells. that could one day save your life. createcan in the future it from any tissue in the future. you should be able to grow any part of your body. >> the procedure act -- extracts stem cells and costs $2000 and $120 a year to store them. are putting motherhood on hold until after the age of 40. the number of women waiting doubled from 1997 through 2008. there are risks to having children later in life. baby news that took many of us by surprise. mother aty will be a age 46. it is not just hollywood actresses. birth fivend gave weeks ago. emphasis onlot of our careers in our 20s and 30s. it is a wonderful experience to have a baby now. >> there are women who are being successful in not only conceiving but having children after the age of 40. it is a wonderful event. >> dr. robert adler is the chair of obstetrics a

i have gret respect for secretary nicholson for the problem is that the va is terrible about going out and collecng on insurance at are be. or they have billions of daughter and $10that are out there. t i would like to see if maybe a partial payment, like you said, in advance of some type. i think that could be one of the only ways we could get over the hill. the problem with this is the focus that is eing given to the disability bklog right n. the overtime. if they don't fithe system that they've gt iton' matr how mh th haveut t go down. lo we left ot the man who is responsible. that is,fter allthe president of the united states. president obama. you are trying to manage around a man who is nottaken the ead on us. we areciate it, ngressman. so much. >> thank you very much. up next, the new book. the inside story of a shadowy international bank. the author is comin lou: this new book reveals hat clandestine activities of the bank of international settlements. the accounting of their lal immunity is and hothey operate. gray tabbywith us, am. >> and for having me on the show. lou: this i

veterans often gets care both at the va and in the private community. by giving the veteran the ability to download their record which is output from the stove when they see a physician in the community, they can now see the record that our app is delivering, either on the patient's own smartphone, or it allows them to transfer the record with an optical code to the physicians computer. this is a key problem for the va. faxes are from the mode of communication. by offering this, this is an important way to affect quality of care and cost for the veterans administration. we are on the va website as a partner. veterans can go there and link to download an application. >> as industrial engineers, these are concepts very near and dear to us. what we set out to do was really to reduce the costs of redundancy or a revert to care. we wanted to improve the quality perception and the understanding of what the care process is and not only what the steps are but why you should be doing them. what we hope to do through the assessment portion of obama's understand n

i have great respect for secretary nicholson for the problem is that the va is terrib aboutgoing outcting on insurance payments that are being made now. or they have billions of daught and $10 that are out there. but i would like to see if maybe a partial payment, like u said, in advan of some te. i think that could be one of the only ways we cld get over the hill. the problem with this is the focus that is being given to the disability backlog right now. the overtime. if they don't fix the system that they've got. it doesn't matter how much they have put to go down. lou: we left out the man who is responsie. that is, after all, the president of the united states. president obama. you are ting to manage around a man who is not taken the lead on us. we appreciate it, congressman. so much. >> thank you very much. up next, the new book. the inide story of a shadowy international bank. international bank. the author is coming at od, whatever business you're in, that's t business we're in with premium service like one of the best on-time livery records and a low claims ratio, we do whatev

i think that the va, they are %-this pont. well enough at somehow and someway, we cannot keep throwinmoney at the problem in thinking that's going to fix that. we cannot keepthinking that we are going to fix it inthis way. it has to be done in a continent away. especially in working with the veterans as well. >> we cannot fail people like you. we have to serve you because you served us. >> i appreciate that thought. i think that it is something that needs to be thought of through the veterans affairs and in congress and by the president as well. when the vetera ce homome from injured emotionally or otherwise to and we cannot leave them out there. we cannot let them said, like i did, for 33 months wondering what is going on this syste why won'they answer, wante toy what my benefits claim is. quite frankly, i just wanted them to a balance the fact that i had ptsd and waited months within to do that. gerri: a little. well, thank you for your serve. we appreciated. master sgt. k you for coming on the show. we appreciate it. thank y

. >> you might have heard last week of workers at the va getting tax payer dollars to do union work. e macedo has more. hi diane. >> hi patti ann. for the lobbying group says revealed 201 irs employees currently work full-time on union activities. according to the office of personnel management the practice is part of the federal government's carefully crafted collective system. they explain in the report official time spent by federal employees performing representationnal work for a bargaining unit in lieu of their regularly assigned work. this allows unions to satisfy their duty of fair representation to members and nonmembers alike. official time is only supposed to be used for business tied directly to the representation of bargaining unit employees in matters concerning federal employment commission. they cannot use the time for conventions for example but critics say they shouldn't be using time to pay for used by taxpayers to do any union business at all. alg says the irs gave the employees job titles that makes it appear they are focused on agency rather than union business l

. >> i love tammy duckworth about the contractor feeding off the va. good symbol of when you have too much government, people will cheat and increasingly people claim all kinds of back pain, stress disability, and this feeds into the i'm taking from the state attitude, and where better to work than as a contractor ripping off the irs. >> what about danny werfel going up with this report that at one point a lawmaker crumbled up saying this is junk. is there a sense you think that this is going to keep on rolling, that this investigation is going to be a big deal? >> hope so, but is the irs different from all other big government agencies? it encourages people to cover up problems and they have an impossible job, the tax code is so complex. >> today, kirsten, lois lerner decides she can't have fifth amendment rights, that's what the committee decided. listen to the exchange, what she said and trey gowdy. >> i have not done anything wrong. i have not broken any laws. i have not violated any irs rules or regulations and i have not provided false informatio

in fact, over the past ten years, the military and va spent over $2 billion medicating its men and womenntianxiety and anti-psychotic medication. it is a huge expenditure this spokesman defends. >> in the last decade, we made great strides increasing access to care and decreasing stigma in getting that care. >> reporter: a stance psychiatrist peter braggen says seems compassionate but is in reality irresponsible. >> you have so many soldiers on psychiatric drugs, you're producing chronic mental patients. >> reporter: he says most psych medications alter brain chemistry, which often creates a lifelong dependence. >> it can be horrific to try to come off many of these psychiatric drugs and many times patients simply can't get off them. >> reporter: many doctors say once you start these medications, it is almost impossible to get off. what does that mean for you? >> if i stop taking the medications, i start having nightmares, sleepless nights. >> reporter: he is only 37 years old, but he knows he will be on psych drugs for the rest of his life, a consequence, he says, of trusting his va car

people ask me why the va doesn't do this. i don't know, but i don't care. we will do it and get the chairs to the vets. as all patriotic americans understand, we are all in this together. those brave veterans deserve those track chairs. and we, the people, we're going to get it done. finally, congratulate the five presidents and i hope you help out the bravest among us. back to "tip of the day." please thek out the foxfactor website. different from billoreilly.com. and if you wish to opine. word of the day, do not be parsimonious in your thoughts when writing "the factor." i'm bill o'reily, >> good morning to you. i am ainsley air part. >> i am heather childers. thank you so much for joining us. it is tuesday june 18th. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". a fox news alert a bomb attack killed three people in afghanistan. the blast going off 90 minutes before the country took control of their own security from nato. the taliban has been pushing more violence leading up to the handover. u.s. and nato forces will play a supporting role. in the next fe