continue this travesty and darkness and i want sunlight. that s a nice way of saying it. isn t that pretty. i want sunlight. i want everything exposed to the public. and let s let the public decide because i want cameras at every inch of that courthouse. careful what you wish for? no, he doesn t. we got a lot to cover from that speech on saturday, including some frightening comments from the front-runner in the republican primary. meanwhile, donald trump s defense team will present its case in the civil fraud trial. we ll tell you who is taking the stand later today in new york. also ahead, it appears the new house speaker is not ready to move forward with the impeachment inquiry into president biden. we ll go through that new reporting. plus, we ll play for you the surprise announcement from republican senator tim scott, one of the five candidates who was just on the debate stage last week. we ll also bring to you the very latest out of israel and gaza. good mond
Instead of the PACT Act’s phased-in approach, millions of military members are eligible for health care without having first to apply for VA benefits.
assistance. i have ordered all available federal assets on the island, including the u.s. coast guard and navy 3rd fleet and u.s. army to assist response crews, along with the hawaiian national guard. we re working as quickly as possible to fight the fires and evacuate residents and tourists. in the meantime, our prayers are with the people of hawaii, but not just our prayers. every asset we have will be available to them, and they have seen their homes appeared businesses destroyed, and some have lost loved ones, and it s not over yet. i ve said it many times before, when i started saying it 30 years ago i got criticized for saying it. we have many obligations as a nation. we have only one there is president biden now as he is commemorating the one-year anniversary of the pact act, a bill that he signed into law one year ago today protecting veterans, providing
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
congresswoman ramirez of illinois who called the concessions cruel policies that will punish every day people. you just also described that we shouldn t have gotten to this position, which i think a lot of people can agree with, and republicans did hold us hostage. but if they hold us hostage to get the concessions, does that not mean that they won? not at all. at the end of the day, as president biden said, i never thought i would hear president biden will you get what you need. the bottom line is, we protected social security, we protect a democratic priorities including at the infrastructure and jobs act, the pact act, chips and signs act as well as the protection act. all of those things that we accomplished in the last congress that were historic pieces of legislation, we continue to move forward on every one of those. where i had agree with is that people are going to be hurt by some of the concessions that we made, and we have to go back and fight to make sure that we br