WHITFIELD: This weekend, Tim McGraw is kicking off his "Brothers of the Sun" tour, the hugely successful country music star is also giving back. He's partnering with veterans group and Chase Bank to give away 25 homes to wounded veterans while on this tour. I talked with him about why he's doing it.</s>WHITFIELD: Why is it so important to you to help kick off your tour in 25 cities, 25 cities where mortgage-free homes would go to vets?</s>TIM MCGRAW, COUNTRY SINGER/ACTOR: You know, it's just -- when this was all kicked around, and we were trying to decide if it was all going to come together, I couldn't think of anything better. My sister is a veteran of the first Gulf war. My uncle was a Vietnam veteran. My grandfather was a World War II veteran, some of my best friends. To see how families sort of come together and survive those sort of times, and then you see soldiers come home that are wounded, and they can't sort of get their lives together. And things are not going right to sort of have that freedom for a soldier to have that, to come back from being wounded and giving everything that he's had for us to be able to live in our home, to be able to get in our car and to drive around and to go to our jobs and to have that sort of sense of freedom and that sort of sense of security for their family. I can't think of anything better for a wounded soldier to have.</s>WHITFIELD: In the 4:00 p.m. Eastern hour of CNN NEWSROOM, you'll hear more from Tim McGraw and you'll meet the first wounded Marine to get a mortgage free home from this effort. Also in one hour, political talk, President Obama takes on Mitt Romney's record as governor. Will that tactic work? Also, what are U.S. nuns doing to get spark strong criticism from the Vatican? The report accuses them of radical feminism. Stay with CNN. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. "YOUR MONEY" starts right after this.
Tim McGraw Gives Free Homes To Vets