neil cavuto on the health care chaos and mel gibson gets a break. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. more bad news for acorn. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. at the risk of overdoing this acorn story, we can now tell you that the louisiana attorney general is reporting $5 million may have been embezzled from the organization. previously we knew 5 million may have been stolen and now we know $5 million was discussed at a 2008 acorn board meeting. today acorn ceo bertha lewis discussed charge. >> this a spekdz completely false and not based on any documentation or any audit or anything other than two disgruntled former board members. and this form -- forum of modern day acorn mccarthyism has got to stop. bill: mccarthyism? acorn has problems all over the place. the fbi should open a field office in its national

i am neil cavuto. nevermind the generals who say we cannot afford not to send more troops there. there are hardball and all of the money we are spending their. let's just say they have other numbers -- they are hard bolling -- hardballing all of the money we are spending there. our guest from "the washington post examiner" joins us. they are looking at the substantial money we are spending their region "the washington times -- we are spending there -- "the washington examiner" joins us. >> this is a hugely expensive undertaking. this is tens or hundreds of billions over time. neil: all right, so we have already known. we have been in afghanistan, $229 billion, and we know that if we do the 40,000 troops, that would be another $3 billion a year in afghanistan. >> at least, yes. neil: so they are looking at the dollar worth of all of this, right? >> if you are vice-president biden, and you are making or pitch as to why we should have a smaller footprint in afghanistan, why we should sort of leave the karzai government to his own devices -- you are making your pitch as to this, one

cavuto on business is up next. neil: coming attractions if the government gets a bigger role in the healthcare system, tens of billions uncovered healthcare frayed including 2 million prescriptions to r. fro dead people and 1,000 filled out by dead doctors. i'm curious whether the dead doctors wrote the prescriptions for the dead people. let's get reaction on all of this. we have charles payne and charles, what do you think of this? >> i'm not surprised. this system is so huge, so bewildering. just imagine if we pour another 47 million in used as government options and then to fight this waste and abuse, it is mind boggling to think we will extract waste, fraud and abuse from a system where we will actually get more. neil: this is happening now, sort of like the stimulus checks that went out to all these dead people and then to convicts, and you know, that happens. i know there is a certain amount of weird stuff that happens but it would be on steroids if we throw a trillion bucks at this, wouldn't it? >> it is absolute

that is only 1% or 2% neil: i do not think my wife is watching, but she thinks she has a lot of real gold jewelry. it is just cost him. what can i do if things get tough in the cavutoousehold? >> you could go to pawnshops. here in new york, there are hundreds of them. go get offers for them. neil: right, but you are not going to get as much. costume -- is it a gold? >> cost a mistake. -- costume is fake. it has no value. neil: have you noticed a lot of people doing it now? >> i see a lot of people selling out. the economy in vegas is pretty bad. neil: and that is a pretty big thing in vegas? >> bling has always been big in vegas. neil: and the response to the show has been great, i think in direct correlation to what is going on, right? >> the show has been crazy. i get over 700 people in my store where i only had 70 before. neil: thank you for the tips of the costume jewelry and all. i'll get back to you on that. but thank you very much. >> thank you. neil: the enemy is blowing up constellations, and guess what? it is us blowing them up. . . . . i'm okay with cutting back a little, but i still want to put my best face forward. with crest whitestrips advanced seal,