VA facing massive backlog of pending claims

  Ret. U.S. Army Col. Jack Jacobs and New York State Senator Greg Ball join MSNBC’s Richard Lui to weigh in on the extreme backlog of pending claims the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Administration is facing.

The embarrassing V.A. backlogs scandal – and how to fix it

  Retired Col. Jack Jacobs,  MSNBC military analyst, and former Rep. Patrick Murphy, an Iraq War veteran, explain how the average American needs to take notice of the massive scandal of returning veterans coming back to year-long waits to receive V.A. benefits.

Can President Obama end perpetual war?

  Demos senior fellow Bob Herbert, The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel, Wired’s Spencer Ackerman, and Ret. Col. Jack Jacobs imagine what a more peaceful world would look like and discuss whether it’s possible to finally stop continuous threats against the United States.