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to answer our questions and you d think they would want to, wouldn t you? you d think they d want to show exactly where the money has gone but they have slammed doors in our reporters face and refused to answer questions. of that nearly $56 million, how much do you think has gone to directly help disabled veterans? 90%? 50%? we haven t found any of it that has gone to help disabled veterans directly. they do send stuff to some veterans groups, truckloads of stuff, stuff that they get for free. stuff that veterans groups we ve talked to say they didn t want, they didn t ask for and they don t even need. here s what one veterans center director told us. they sent us 2,600 bags of cough drops. and 2,200 little bottles of sanitizer. and the great thing they sent us was 11,520 bags of coconut m & ms. coconut m&ms, thousands of bags, more than 11,000 bags. we ve reported on this group a couple of times the last few weeks and our drew griffin wanted to ask the president o ....
trayvon martin was shot and killed, could be a key piece of evidence. he had a closed fracture of his nose, two black eyes, two cuts to the back of his head in a minor back injury. i want to go to martin savidge covering the story for us. with all these new details and developments does it help zimmerman s argument he was in fact standing his ground they killed trayvon martin in self-defense? reporter: it depends on who you talk to. here s the way it breaks down. this information coming from the prosecution, the special prosecutor angela corey, they had to provide the basics of their investigation over to the defense so that s why we re starting to see this information come out this week. two reports caught her eye, the autopsy report on trayvon martin and that s the one you re referring to that says bruising on the hands of trayvon martin that would seem to support the defense s claim that george zimmerman says that trayvon martin came up to him, punched him in the n ....
hour. is a stuck pedal to blame? the wife of former syracuse basketball coach accused of molesting ball boys goes public this morning addressing claims she knew what was going on with her husband. plus this i won t forget the men who died who gave that right to me lee greenwood making a plea for a better america. he s got a new book asking does god still bless the usa? we ll ask him when he stops by later this hour. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. your money front and center from capitol hill to the campaign trail. even a rare lunchtime meeting between president obama and congressional leaders from both parties. the rivals may break bread but don t expect them to make peace. john boehner is warning of another battle brewing over the debt ceiling. last year you remember that ugly standoff. the government flirted with shutdowns and the nation s bond rating was downgraded for the first time ever. now boehner says again th ....
about what was really in the budget. so they wasted time writing something and then voting on something that absolutely nobody ever wanted. so what are we, the people supposed to say? hey, at least they agree on something like not having a functioning government? no, no, this was a fail. it s fails like this that send the americans hurtling closer o instingz. we cling to hope about a very special lunch that happened today where something may have gotten done to help our country avoid it. the president bought hoagies for himself and the other men needed to get a deal done, house speaker john boehner. the president brought the hoagies home to the white house. i guess did they cut it in half? brought it back to the white house and the two met in private to talk debt. the debt crisis is worse every single day in this country, and the battle over raising the debt ceiling is in full swing. it s going to happen again this year. remember the last time, we lost our credit rati ....
the courts of corruption. her husband and four others could also be charged criminally this morning. we ll bring you the latest developments as soon as they become available. zoraida, it s not even 5:00 and you said perverting. france is ushering in a new era with the swearing in of the new president fran so i hollande. he s expecting to push new ways to deal with the new crisis. hollande has blasted the way people have dealt with the crisis. he s france s first socialist president since 1995. jpmorgan s c.e.o. stands before his shareholders in tampa, florida, to explain this $2 billion trading disaster. they ll be voting on dimon s $23 million pay package. we ve also learned that the senate banking committee will schedule hearings in the next few weeks. now president obama is weighing in. he spoke to abc s the view about the measures that are needed to end wall street s pension for risk once and for all. this is why we passed wall street reform. this is the bes ....