there goes my baby can be added to the long list of hits for charlie wilson. is two brothers' rise to fame began in the late 1970s when the gap band became one of the most popular groups in r&b with classic hits including "burn rubber on me," outstandi outstanding. scoring big hits with songs like -- ♪ ♪ ♪ >> which was produced by r. kelly and of course, wilson's latest, co-written by legendary hitmaker babyface. i caught up with the tulsa, oklahoma, aetnaive in new york city where we talked about the ups and downs of his career, how he almost lost it all, including his life, and the new life and death battle he's fighting for himself and others. charlie wilson, good to see you, man. >> good to see you, too, man. >> before we get into the history of charlie wilson the singer and all of what we have, i want to ask you something, and i mean this with all due respect. you are no longer a spring chicken. now this new album. >> yes. >> really is contemporary music. >> yes. >> there are a lot of guys who at your age could not pull this off. what makes charlie wilson

desire to silence and to sentence the boot supposedly as the russian equivalent of the senator charlie wilson who unleashed the. proxy war in afghanistan thirty years ago now it is a high possibility that before the week her case will be closed or resolved the truth will come out the u.s. state department is actively interfering with the us lloyd foresman operations in afghanistan thus providing the political cover for the real culprits who are involved in arms and drug trafficking in afghanistan under the watchful big is of the central intelligence agency let's just imagine that sooner rather than later we kill leaks we'll reveal the new data regarding the nefarious connection between the cia and drug dealers and eventually the main all the afghan president step brother while they've got his eye real pol pot the velvet incriminating evidence for leading their corruption and drug relating enterprise as the top drug being and as available cia asset in afghanistan well guess what happened next i can assure you nothing. plans to build a mosque two blocks from the none of that and sites have been

>> i have to tell you this is sort of the charlie wilson's war scenario, the movie where at the end of the movie we forget about afghanistan and the rest is history. i have never lacked for senior level attention from washington. during my 16 months there, i never liked -- lacked for senior people being well-informed and engaged and visiting. i never had that problem. i never lacked for the washington bureaucracy offering me tips on how to do my job. [laughter] it was amazing, every day, a new idea that i never thought of, and i appreciated every one of them. i think the issue will be more on the resource side, where people need to understand that the overall national security outlay in iraq is plummeting. as we pull out striker brigades and things like that, the overall outlay of funds we are putting in iraq is coming way down, and yet we are having trouble getting some things funded that are so much cheaper than what we have been funding. funding for peace is a lot cheaper -- a lot less than funding for war. and yet we're having some challenges there. you have to be respectful of the

>> this is the charlie wilson's war scenario where we forget about afghanistan and the rest is history. i have never liked for senior level attention from washington. -- i have never lacked for senior level attention from washington. there have been well informed and engaged. i never had a problem. i never lacked for the washington bureaucracy offering me tips on how to do my job. i appreciated everyone of them. [laughter] i think the issue would be more on the resource side. people need to understand that the overall national security outlays in iraq is plummeting. the overall outlay of funds we are putting in iraq are coming down, yet we are having trouble getting some things funded better so much cheaper than what we have been finding. funding for peace is a lot less costly than funding for war. there are a lot of malaise that are needed, not just in iraq, not just in afghanistan, but west virginia and places like that. i think we have to be respectful of what our congress has to look at every day. i'd like to think that people will understand that, if we can stay at it for a few mo

>> this is the charlie wilson's war scenario where we forget about afghanistan and the rest is history. i have never liked for senior level attention from washington. -- i have never lacked for senior level attention from washington. there have been well informed and engaged. i never had a problem. i never lacked for the washington bureaucracy offering me tips on how to do my job. i appreciated everyone of them. [laughter] i think the issue would be more on the resourced side. people need to understand that the overall national security outlays in iraq is plummeting. the overall outlay of funds we are putting in iraq are coming down, yet we are having trouble getting some things funded better so much cheaper than what we have been finding. funding for peace is a lot less costly than funding for war. there are a lot of malaise that are needed, not just in iraq, not just in afghanistan, but west virginia and places like that. i think we have to be respectful of what our congress has to look at every day. i'd like to think that people will understand that, if we can stay at it for a few m