i should have worn green. happyurt day earth day heather. hope you re off to a good day. this coming out of washington, d.c. the head of the va has a new idea to fix a billion dollars construction problem. he says pay for it by raiding veteran treatment funds. a va hospital construction project in colorado, is more than a billion dollars overbudget. now the va secretary wants to pay for it with a fund designed to help veterans pay for outside doctors while the va deals with that huge delay in treatment. republican lawmakers slammed this idea. suggesting instead mass firings of those responsible, or ending bonuses for va workers instead. what do you think of that story? i bet we get a lot of mail on that one. two of our nation s leaders are under fire this morning for holding this firearm. the d.c. attorney general and d.c. police are now
feds, why should they get off for free. if they re too block head today run their own exchange, we should charge them the fee and that s something that will be passed along. i think in net-net though, i think you ll discover that this is a fee you won t notice. brenda: gary b, you agree with na? i do not, brenda. i have one overriding principle. when the government is involved, and invariably costs go up. look at any, for example, any construction problem in the federal government domain over the past, what, 200 years, that s come in on budget or on time. the government gets involved, things get mucked up. and they don t know how to run health care exchanges. they don t know how to build bridges and stuff like that, or one other thing, if the price is kept down, as a couple of my panels have said, then, supply is limited. so you can have low cost for health care and wait nine months to see a gynecologist
in this fiery crash. witnesses said it took off east, from south, heading north when people on the ground heard it sputter p, the engine. the plane crashed into a wall and hit this building at an trill complex near the airport. breaking news right now about a major construction problem inside afghanistan, hamid karzai s government in particular. it s causing real concern back home. michael isikoff is breaking these details. what do you have, michael? reporter: well, there s a new crisis in u.s.-afghan relations over a trail of corruption that reaches directly into karzai s presidential palace. a special afghan corruption unit has developed what u.s. considers rock solid evidence that a top aide in karzai s national security council had accepted a bribe in exchange for helping to squash a major money laundering investigation. in recent weeks, top u.s.