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out and out stealing. for months we tried to get them 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. thousands of bags, more than 11,000 bags. we ve reported on this group a couple of times the last few weeks and our dr ....
they have raised $56 million in the past three years. you d think there are a lot of disaged veterans who they d help directly. that s not what we found. one accuses them of stealing. out and out stealing. for months we tried to get them 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 ....
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 extinction. 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 rating. frankly an obsession on this show ....
outfront tonight. give me a break. the senate today voted 99-0 to shut down a budget bill. it was not an honest effort. both sides pointing fingers 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. and it fails like this that sends the american lemmings hurtling closer to the cliff of fiscal fisc fiscal extinction. but at our core, we believe they can get it together and not die like the overfed lemmings. so we cling to hope about a special lunch that happened today. have something may have gotten done to avoid the lemming cliff, except, well, we ll see. the president bought hoagies for himself and the other man needed to get the deal done, speaker boehner. it was a takeout lunch. i guess they cut it in half. they went and brought it ....
of stealing. for months we tried to get them 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 2600 bags of cough drops. and 2200 little bottles of sanitizer. and the great thing they sent us was 11,520 bags of 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 ....