still with us from salt lake city brad wilcox director of the university of virginia national marriage project. he's a visiting scholar. wendy wang, senior researcher at pew research center, and in seattle, stephanie coontz, professor of family studies, director of research for the council of contemporary families. wendy, your life does not end when your marriage ends, but do people who have been married and aren't look at marriage differently from people who have never been married. >> yes, interestingly people who have been married before but currently unmarried are less unlikely to say they want to get married again, then there is a gender difference. women are much less likely than men to say they want to be married again. >> to say that, but do we know whether they do? are women more likely to seek to remarry? >> well, it's hard to say because we need to see the overall rates of the remarriage, but this is currentl among currently divorce people. we don't know how many times they've been married before. maybe they've been married three or four times and they're tired of it. >> as

. >> thank you for joining us from salt lake city today. >> and the republicans are to keep the house about right now trying to get some answers. >> we are going to turn to ainsley now who has some headlines. a lot going on this morning. >> thank you. brand-new developments in the v.a. scandal. we just learned about kevin trainer. he served as a combat rescue swimmer in the navy for 13 years. now the injured hero is being forced to wait months just to get an appointment for an mri at the v.a. >> six months and waiting for shoulder repair. that's ridiculous. >> here is the worst part. trainer says he's also supposed to receive counseling for ptsd every other week. the v.a. hospital in north carolina is only offering a it to him every four months. >>> did the government learn its lesson from the lois lerner scandal? claiming the agency deleted thousands of text messages and they can not be recovered from the epa. this news in response to a request for those messages by a conservative think tank. it claims that they're using text messaging instead of e-mails to have off the record conver

also with us from salt lake city, former health and human services secretary mike leavitt.deputy whip dennis roz who's set to introduce legislation to restrict flights from west africa. so why don't i start with you, secretary leavitt. are we doing enough. do we need to restrict flights? >> we're following a well-established game plan that's been refined over many years to first try to smother it, and that hasn't succeeded. the second is, try to contain it. and that's the phase we're in right now. and we need to do everything we can both internationally and domestically to contain this disease. that's much more efficient than having to fight it on a broad basis. >> you think that our -- you think we've been prepared and the events of the past ten days have reflected a country that was ready? >> the trouble with a pandemic influenza or disease like we're dealing with, ebola, is anything you say in advance seems a bit alarmist. anything you have done in advance after it occurs seems inadequate. that's where we are. this country is not without preparation. we've been working h

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