relieved some senior officials in the california army national guard immediately upon finding out this happened. the soldiers reached out to a lot of legislators in the aftermath of this and really focused on the state legislators because this was a state issue at the time, and not a whole lot got done. and that s the frustrating part. if you want to blame somebody, you know, you could blame local legislators, or you can blame the cal guard officials. but at the end of the day the soldiers are still suffering. and p.j. reichoff over at the iava says this is something, it s not everything. don t let go of this story. we understand we hear it susan chris, you have your promise. this is news. it s relevant to the public interest. we will stay on it all the way through. thank you. because this is going to start really after election day and i hope both of you between now and then are okay. thank you. good thank you so much. alisyn? okay shifting gears, viola davis you know he
our veterans. everybody puts their ribbons on and says we support the troops, if you talk to the iava, any groups that represents veterans, they talk about stuff like this all the time. chris they don t care about us at home. this is an ugly example of that. chris, i completely agree. this our veterans should be right up there with emergency funding, such as zika or what s going on in flint. protecting our veterans from harm is certainly our top priority and they didn t get treated as our top priority. this is very regrettable, but i m telling you that we need to get over any kind of austerity philosophy which says we need to find an off set even for this kind of this kind of financial decision that we ve got to make in congress. we need to just settle this problem once and for all in the lame duck congress if, indeed, congress needs to act. but certainly at the department of defense has this completely within their authority, they need to stop the claw backs now
than 12 hours. another 22 were wounded including rodriguez himself. so in the wake of that he earned not only a purple heart but a bronze star. and that is just the start of his story. apparently he had other dreams as well, dreams of playing football at an elite level. and so he produced his own college recruitment video. and enough people saw it including the coach there at clemson university to have him walk-on. and he played in 37 consecutive games, but apparently he wasn t finished with that. he has played for the st. louis rams. and this sunday he ll be back as their honorary captain. so without further adieu, my goodness, daniel rodriguez sitting next to me all smiles here. ceo and founder of iava, i have paul rykauf, a friend. wonderful to see you, so awesome to meet you. congratulations and thank you, thank you, thank you both for everything you ve done. thank you. let me just begin with take me back to october 3rd, 2009,
presents itself i want to make the most of it and continue to do what i do. make the most of any. beyond these people who have these outstanding stories, 45 seconds, i mean, there are veterans among us. i have veterans in my family. we all know veterans, how can we be better humans and americans for our veterans? well, be a part of the veterans movement. go to iava.org and sign up. you can live stream the event that daniel s at tonight. you can share that with your friends from the comfort of your own home and see what the movement s all about. but the key is to make every day veterans day. we came together as a nation yesterday. iava led 144 vet get togethers across the nation. everybody watching can help us do that. i asked him where his orange bowl ring was, but he told me he has an orange bowl watch on. got some clemson socks on. he s got some swag. i ll see you tonight in tuxes little later. iava if you don t know it, get to know it. daniel and paul, thank you so,
minut minutes. remember how larry david said trump right. is he going to get the $5,000 or what? the group s been trying to reach him. the group that pulled off that stunt has been trying to reach larry david. they want to pay him the $5,000 but they can t get ahold of them. right now they re thinking about giving it to bernie sanders instead. something tells me larry david does not need it. he could donate it i suppose. brian, thank you so much. tonight is a big night here in new york city. a remarkable veteran will be honored here in new york. iava selects one outstanding vet each and every year. and this year it is daniel rodriguez. and what a story he has. his service in afghanistan is enough to earn praise and honor. he fought in one of the bloodiest clashes there. the year was 2009. eight americans lost their lives in a battle that lasted more