families. when a veteran can t get his disability check, you re talking about an additional financial stress and the stress of waiting. part of my job is helping people wait. especially when you re talking about over 200 days having to wait for a check and someone to tell you what you already know, that you re disabled. that s a tough pill to swallow. especially having served your country. absolutely. either overseas or domestically. jason from iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, thank you for your time. and thank you to film director ellen kent. the documentary crisis hot line, veterans press one. herring on hbo tonight at 9:00 eastern. thank you to my folks in d.c., bill, kate, josh and arish. that is all for now. i ll see you back tomorrow noon eastern. andrea mitchell reports is coming up next.
the senior program manager of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, jasonhanman and filmmaker, director of hbo s crisis hot line, veterans press one. i d like to start with you. you ve made three documentaries on veterans in the past six years. how did you find out about this crisis call center and what drew you to it? you know, we had been talking to veterans for years. and we recognize there were sort of a story that underlied practically everything else we were hearing about. that was about how really difficult it is to transition to civilian life. nobody tells you it s dangerous and deadly to come home. you know it s dangerous to go to war. so we thought what can we do? this is a big, big system, the v.a. it s got a lot of problems. there certainly has to be a way we can get a message to veterans there is effective help for them. they don t have to go it alone.