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Veterans place pressure on White House to end VA backlogs

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Some veterans and their families have demanded an immediate solution from President Barack Obama to fix the backlog of claims at the Veterans Administration. The length of wait for some of these claims has been anywhere from nine to nineteen months. Tommy Sowers, assistant secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the VA, joins the Rachel Maddow Show to explain how the administration plans to respond.