Unprecedented step further in what critics call an effort to is distract the white house now threatening to revoke security clearance from six former Top National Security officials, all of whom are fierce critics of trumps actions or inactions. These officials have served both democrats and republicans and have decades of experience in intelligence, law or diplomacy. For context, the heads of the Intelligence Agencies usually keep the Security Clearances unless theres reason to revoke them. It allows them mpay attentio to this it allows them to speak openly about matter the. They keep the clearance so if the Current Administration needs some advice or help, they can talk to them. I want to point out something. Sarah sanders was very proud to get up and change the topic because she didnt want to talk about the president s walkback, disaster in helsinki, all the
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pits and other sources. cbs s ed o keefe reports the deadline to qualify for retroactive benefits has been extended, but time is running out. in april of this year. reporter: marking the anniversary of a landmark law, today in utah, president biden recalled his son, beau, one of the veterans exposed to toxic fumes from burn pits at bases in iraq and afghanistan. and later died of brain cancer. it s personal for my family, but it s also personal for so many of you. reporter: army reservist le roy torres also served in iraq. ten years later, he was diagnosed with constrictive bronchitis. i was more concerned with either, you know, indirect fire or being shot, but never did i know that, you know, this invisible enemy was going to follow us home. reporter: the pact act is designed to assist up to 4.5 million veterans exposed to burn pits or to agent orange in vietnam. so far, there have been about 800,000 sign-ups. veterans like us are now eligible for a new va care and benefit
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extraordinary legislation,ed pact act. john harwood is there. in the last hour we spoke with ro rosie torres who pushed for this legislation. she s at the white house. what more are we expecting to see? as you said, alex, this is a very important piece of legislation that expands access to va care for large numbers of veterans who were exposed to toxins that are admitted by those burn pits. it changes the presumption for certain medical ailments nah establishes the presumption that it is service-connected if they were exposed to burn pits and it expands research. this ended up having large bipartisan support. of course, veterans are a very celebrated constituency of the united states, but it was a long slog to get the legislation through and the effort to push it over the finish line was not just led by celebrities like jon stewart. it was also led by people who
agent orange of the 9/11 generation, the burn pit that everyone lived near a combat zone. and all of our veterans that served in places like afghanistan, iraq, somalia, syria, they lived near the burn pits. surprise, surprise. our veterans are showing up with weird cancers that is unusual. and they say if you served near a burn pit, we have an assumption that you were exposed to carcinogens. you should not have to fight for that when you walked into a va. we think 3.5 million veterans will qualify for va care now.