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called the disabled veteran's national foundation, dvnf. they have raised nearly 66 mi$5 million in six years. not a -- >> you're the ones from cnn? >> reporter: meet priscilla, president of the disabled veterans national foundation. we found that a small vfw office in baton rouge, louisiana. >> this is the veterans of foreign wars and i really didn't think you would do something like that and we have agreed to talk to you. >> you've raised $5 million over the last three years and none of the money has gone to any veterans. >> c nrkcnn has been trying for years trying to -- promises ...

Republicans did agree to increase taxes and democrats said, no, not good enough? >> i don't think it was necessary. >> gregg: a little greedy on it? >> no i think in order to pay down the deficit, whether you want to raise taxes or not. i don't think people want to raise taxes. it's just a reality. there are so many cuts this that you can actually do. because of where we are, we need to raise taxes. i don't want my taxes to go up, but i want to be paying interested on our debt. >> gregg: if a deal is not reached automatic spending cuts will kick in. now it's looks inevitable and maybe failure ...

They used the exchange that they want other americans to get. >> that's right. we see that the most popular individual plan in the federal government plan is about 6450 and the other plan is $14580. it costs about $27 billion and they cover about eight million workers and family members compared to the insurance exchanges which, according to the c.b.o. estimates, they would average about $5800. again, taxpayers would subsidize the cost of those insurance plans. the family on the silver plan, now, this is the one that qualifies for taxpayer subsidies. this is why i included it here. would be $1...

To see both this white house and congress now do going forward. you're not going to see big comprehensive bills. i think all of this stuff gets broken up into pieces these days. >> and pat buchanan, after republicans got in congress in '94, that's how bill clinton killed this one nick at a time over the next five years. >> exactly. triangulation. chuck, the republicans it seems to me their imperative tomorrow is to not come off as the party of no. their visuals are most important for them right now. >> reporter: it is. and i think you've got already the white house setting a bar on health care...

Making drat tick cuts to -- drastic cuts to things like medicaid. medicaid covers more than 70 million low-income americans. of the 22 million the cbo estimates will lose coverage, 15 million of those are under medicaid. late last night, the white house issued a warning aimed at syria. in a statement the white house says there are potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the syrian regime. that would lead to the "mass murder of civilians." it warned bashar al assad that there will be a heavy price to pay if such an attack is carried out. what prompted this warning seemin...