American advisers, few shaky al lays and one secretary of state to take on rampaging extremists. New idea tonight. Hillary clinton says that voters dont see her and her husband as part of the wealth problem. Because theyre not like the really well off. Critics say theyre rich. And the clintons are rich. Who is right, wrong and really out of touch . We begin with new trouble for the nations Biggest Health care system, the va. Beyond a new, deeply critical report out today. Reporting you will only see here. Goes beyond what whistle blowers have told a Congressional Committee which is hearing testimony again this evening. A product the surge of Wounded Warriors gave so much in iraq, afghanistan and before that in vietnam. More on that shortly and whether anything can be accomplished by sending advisers into iraq. First human consequences back home of the flood of combat veterans. People asking for nothing more than timely access to the medical care their country all of us promised them. A
and doesn t appear to have any employees. officials with clinton s campaign and bill clinton s office say the company was set up to funnel payments apparently he had a lot of money in there. who were the players here? various companies he was a consultant for, including steve bing s company. is this on top of all the money we knew they made? we knew he had other business interests. it s been reported in the past. he was a consultant. i think there were investments involved. this was steve bing. was ron burkel involved? no one is alleging anything illegal. it raises the question why was this set up? i have been asking her campaign since it broke yesterday. they never offered an explanation. it does offer a window into the other business dealings he had besides the speaking fees which have gotten the bulk of the attention so far. it was a typical way to set
year period on speeches alone. he shows no signs of slowing down. 2013, was his most lucrative year yet. please join me and give a big nada welcome to our keynote speaker hillary clinton. hillary clinton for her part hasn t wasted time capitalizing on her stature since leaving public office. charging on average $200,000 per speech, reportedly take in more than $5 million in less than two years. best selling memoirs have also contributed. combined book advances reaching into the tens of millions of dollars. milia hillary clinton s books brought in reportedly $20 million, while the president s generated upwards of $30 million. in business ventures and investments added to wealth. advising long time friend and don t ore, ron burkel and consulting for info usa. they have multiple homes. a primary residence in new york bought for $1.7 million, and a washington, d.c. home as well,
accused of taking money from team revenues and spending it on themselves. first big bidders that you ll hear a lot about are ron burkel and steve garvey. we ll see if others jump in there like mr. cuban or maybe even mr. o malley. time to check in with the nbc embeds, fanned out all over the place. today we re going to the early states. new hampshire, secretary of state will announce the date of the granite state primary this morning. south carolina continues to sort out a lawsuit from some counties unhappy about how the state s early primary is going to be held and in iowa an milestone for rick santorum. jo, let me start with you. it s the date everybody already knows but it hasn t been announced. tell us what we re going to hear today. that s right, chuck. secretary of state bill gardner is going to announce this morning at 11:00 many it s a very important day for new hampshire voters, widely expected to be january 10th, about a week after the iowa caucuses. it s been a lot of dram