the v.a. says it s simply trying to modernize and catch up with its 400,000 backlogged claims. this proposed rule would require the use of standardized forms to help streamline the claims process and modernize the v.a. system to insure veterans and their families receive the benefits they deserve more quickly. defense secretary chuck hagel supports the change, arguing that younger vets want to be able to file their claims on their cell phones. but veterans groups say those with traumatic brain injury will find the new online forms difficult to complete and could lose benefits in the process. a final decision is expected in 30 days. bret. jennifer, thank you. the senate intelligence committee s report on benghazi. we ll discuss it with the fox all-stars in a minute. in the meantime, logon to our sr bing pulse and reserve your virtual seat on the panel. the truck is everything. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeable truck,
senator kay hagan will not be attending, obviously her home state. is the president worried that he is a drag on some vulnerable democrats in key election year. i think senator hagan s office addressed that she is working on important business. some take that as i can t go i m washing my hair. this isn t a campaign event. i understand having been there the urgent desire to turn every story 10 months out into an election story. i promise you this is not. all i can tell you is that the president is traveling to north carolina tomorrow. and he, in fact, traveled to north carolina today. senator hagan did not. she was here in washington saying that there were some big votes and there were big votes in the senate. but what about this? we re back with the panel. jonah hagin trails five potential g.o.p. rivals by a point or two in the latest ppp poll democratic leaning poll. what about the president on the road for somebody like kay hagan. the fact that she is
going to be a year of action like it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. nobody thinks it s going to be because it s not, because it s not. i was going to say that s a good point, brit. bret. i thought you would be objecting to it, steve, he is going to do things on his open and he is going to make more speeches. more words and guess what, i think he has gotten more people in position at the cabinet level because of the nuclear option exercised by democrats in the senate that allows some of these nominations to go through both judicial post and for the agencies. but a lot of things that he wants to do unilaterally are things like do the global warming, climate change anti-coal stuff will hurt democrats terribly in a lot of the unilateral stuff he wants to do on obamacare including something people don t talk about enough the millions of letters going out to small insurance plans that will hit people in october which is deadly. there will be a lot to talk about. that s it for th
zuwuhery who was number two under osama bin laden. what about all this and this report? let s bring in our panel, steve hay hayes. huan williams, and jonah goldberg this is what i call the go-to panel. and the go-to panel, but steve. well, i think the first thing that has to be said is, i have to spraz the senate democrats who issued this report. it s a tough report. it s very, very tough on the state department. obviously, as we just heard the report concludes without qualifiers that al qaeda elem t elements were involved. it names the four specific al qaeda groups who played a role or who contributed participant in the attack. both of which undermine the administration s narrative, certainly the narrative the new york times tried to sell a couple weeks ago, but it s a tough report. having said all that, it doesn t answer all the questions. there are many questions that still remain to be answered.