now for a long time. you may what happened when drew tried to talk to the president, precilla wilkewitz. meet precilla wilkewitz, president of the disabled veterans national foundation. who we found at a small vfw office in baton rouge, louisiana. well, this is the veterans of foreign wars. i didn t think you d do something like this. we ve agreed to talk to you. answer your questions. nobody agreed. here is the question. none of the money has gone to any veterans, ma am? okay so the bottom line is you re not going to give me an interview? cnn has been trying to get an interview for two years with the disabled veterans national foundation, since we began tracking its fund-raising. we ve gotten angry phone calls, angry e-mails, promises of written responses and now a slammed door, but no answers. and just think about this. if you would raise $56 million over three years and had something to show for it and given that money to veterans you would think you would want t
how about we make him pay 9%? warren wouldn t be hit by the vat tax. a lot of working class people would. let s talk about afghanistan. we have news on afghanistan as well, mika. this is something surprisingly enough that i think republicans should seize on. there s a report out, of course, that in afghanistan we have been exaggerating our gains against the taliban. the fact of the matter is it s a much bigger mess than we expected. that s part of it. there s also news on the surge drawdown. nbc news has learned that defense secretary leon panetta and joint chiefs chairman marty dempsy presented president obama with the first round of the afghanistan surge drawdown. the plan which the military is calling a surge recovery includes how the u.s. will bring home 10,000 american forces by the end of this year. this first round will be a combination of troops that are finishing their tour, not being replaced, troops not deploying