[laughter] hey, mike. reporter: there you go. you re probably going to buy some beer between now and the end of football season. well, there is one entrepreneur, retired navy pilot, who is hoping when you make a choice of what beer to buy, you ll buy the one that puts veterans the work. the name of the company is simple, the veteran beer company. it was founded looking at the statistics, unemployment statistics, 20% among veterans, 88% among disabled veterans. so with this start-up everyone from the brewmaster to the guy who delivers the beer honored a commitment to serve. that was the idea, just come up with a company that could employ as many veterans as possible. reporter: and paul jenkins, the ceo of the company, says when the guys apply military-specific precision to the beer making, yo i come you come up with a superior product. the kind of discipline trained in soldiers is a valuable force
pale ale or what? reporter: right. hence name, blond bomber. it s closer to a lager than most ales, so so it s not as bitter, as hop by as you find with a lot of ales these days, but it s good stuff. gregg: give it a try. all right, mike tobin, thanks very much. next hour, a live interview, by the way, with the man who started the veteran beer company, ceo paul jenkins, so you re going to want to stick around for that. heather: one nba coach going to have to pay $50,000 for a soda, jason kidd saying he intentionally spilled his drink as an unusual stall tactic during a game. and talk about a sticky situation, kidded, of course kidd denying it was on purpose saying the coke fell out of his hands. gregg: i think it was a pepsi. [laughter] heather: the nets, regardless, ended up losing that game to the
medicaid. those are the core constituents of the democratic party, people who are dependent on government for something as fundamental as your health care. obamacare s designed to increase that group of people in our population. heather: doug, i ll let you get the last word here. yeah, you know, terry, were that that were all ru, the vast majority of people don t want to be on it and those on medicare voted republican in the last couple of elections. bottom line i think you see hurricane if a way that i don t america in a way that i don t. democrats and republicans alike, especially on a holiday. heather: and speaking of how people see america, still trying to frame that message. the obama administration putting out talking points, telling democrats to support this, talk about the success stories of obamacare and also this morning we found out a $1.1 million grant awarded to a cane to build a web site company to build a web site to tout the success
to work. paul jones is here and he is chief and president of the veteran beer company. happy holidays to you. thank you for having me thank you for your service to the country. and now the service you are providing to viewers/veterans around the country. you are providing good beer and providing jobs to veterans coming back, some of whom are disabled. how is the beer selling and how far along are you in the goal of hiring 1500 people? the beer is selling well. we are relieved in illinois and indiana. we are expanding to other state in the spring. we did an evaluation to see how we did in the two states chose to home. we have 45 veterans working for the companies in those two