Let's start with the burn pits.

This obviously has become a massive cultural touchstone.

I think it should.

John Stewart, single-handedly, is the person responsible for advancing this legislation.

Before that, there were thousands of people afflicted with all kinds of crazy neurological

conditions, health conditions, breathing conditions, having been exposed to these toxic burn pits.

And just, you know, again, if this is your intro to what exactly a burn pit is, in Iraq

and Afghanistan, throughout our 20 years of experience there, we would just simply put

stuff into these pits, everything from human excrement to weapons to all kinds of just leftover

stuff and then lighten on fire with jet fuel.

And then by the way, just post-US troops all around it, either guarding it or within the

immediate vicinity.

Nobody on Earth can tell you that that's going to be good for you.

And as we saw post 9-11, thousands of people years later are really suffering.

And from the beginning, the Veterans Affairs Department has been terrible in appropriating

funds to the toxic burn pick victims.

They haven't recognized it fully as a condition.

There's all they blame, you know, complex bureaucracy.

And so Congress did what they're supposed to do, which is they need to appropriate money,

and they need to make sure that these victims are recognized by U.S. law and are given

the care that they deserve the years after after we put them in harm's way.

Now we had thought that this is called the PACT Act was a done deal.

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