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we ve got to make sure there s a continuity of care from the time of diagnosis to time of treatment, and in between those times of treatment, as the person gets better and better, this continuing contact with the mental help therapist and doctors. reporter: according to va, average of 22 veterans commit suicide each day, more than 8,000 a year. as a member of the senate veteran s affairs committee, isaacson says it is not only important to follow up on improvements here, but look at what the nation as a whole is doing to provide quality mental health care to america s heroes. bret? jonathan, thank you. government run mortgage giant freddie mac earned $5 billion in the second quarter of the year, up from 3 billion a year ago. taxpayers you may remember bailed out freddie mac and fannie mae with $187 billion during the financial crisis. they paid back roughly 136 billion of that. the nation s largest bank
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martha: stuart, it is so shocking. if you look at formula for this, exactly just like you said. don t worry, banks, we ll back up your loans here at the federal government. we spent $187 billion bailing out fannie mae and freddie mac because people got in way over their heads. i mean is this really the road we want to go back down? well that s what got us into trouble in the first place. you will be hearing this all the time. you re right, martha, the banks are very worried about this. they will be pushed into making loans to risky borrowers who don t meet current very high and strict standards, the banks are very worried what happens if some of these loans go bust. well the taxpayer is on the hook if they go and default and the justice department is telling banks, don t worry, don t worry, we ll take care of this in the event of the default. banks don t like this. it got them a bad name all the years ago. martha: squeeze in one more question for you, there are a lot of people out th
mortgages with very low down payments, mainly for first time home buyers. annual audit released found the agency as you said, has a $16.3 billion capital reserve shortfall because of mortgages going bad. but the fha is down playing the possibility of a bailout. it says it expects to add $11 billion in capital from new business in the year ahead. it also announced a slight increase in fees today in some other new steps to improve its finances. it says it hopes all of this will put its capital position back in the black within the fiscal year. the agency says that should reduce the likelihood that it will need to tap its credit line with the treasury department. the other government housing insurers, fannie mae and freddie mac got $187 billion and repaid a quarter of it. harris: i have kind of a two-part thought on this. this sounds really familiar. that s the first part. how big could this bailout be?