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Lieutenants mother. thank you for joining us from dallas. when did you find out that apparently the government withheld some information at his court-martialing? >> that was the first of november. >> okay. and the information is that while the government had presented these to be just guys -- three guys on one motorcycle driving at a high rate of speed at his platoon and he instructed his men to open fire because they posed a danger, as it turns out, they have ties to terror, dont they? >> thats...

Your own web site. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> first the small picture then the big picture. that day, that time, your son. what bothers you about the events that took place prior to the chinook being shot down? >> they went in on an antiquated national guard helicopter. 3 1/2 hour operation had been underway. no preassault fire was laid down for that chopper as it went in. even though some people in theater have told us that the landing zone was so hot that the seals were pretty su...

>> thanks. next up, an army veteran making it his mission to bring the afghany man he credits with saving his life to live freely in the u.s. both of them are here live with that story. and then justin biebers embarrassing defeat by katy perry. shes leaving the biebs in the dust

Week that u.s. taxpayers are spending in afghanistan? >> wolf, as you know, were winding down. i raised questions two years ago when we really began this nation building effort. it was a very different policy. it was three years ago than what we had been carrying out. i think the nation building that weve conducted there is actually led to much of the corruption that has occurred there. even after we releave, even aft that, there will be a huge number of troops on the ground that will be afghany...

Its a lobster, either way. [ male annncer ] the capital one cash rewards card. with a 50% annual cash bonus, its the card for people who like more cash. [ italian accent ] 50% more dough! whats in your wallet? >> steve: a disturbing new trend in the afghany war insider attacks, more than 50 service members have been killed just this year from afghan soldiers turning on coalition forces, commonly known as green on blue

Weakest profile weve had security since 1979 first ambassador we had killed failed. in afghanistan issues we have people training, killing us. that is not -- and the surge was supposed to crush the taliban. the commander on the ground reports says the taliban is back. he talked about al-qaeda. >> bill: the taliban really we want away. lets look at afghanistan and iran in particular and then libya at the end of the discussion. in afghanistan, you have a lot of friendly so-called friendly, but its...

Weakest profile weve had security since 1979 first ambassador we had killed failed. in afghanistan issues we have people training, killing us. that is not -- and the surge was supposed to crush the taliban. the commander on the ground reports says the taliban is back. he talked about al-qaeda. >> bill: the taliban really we want away. lets look at afghanistan and iran in particular and then libya at the end of the discussion. in afghanistan, you have a lot of friendly so-called friendly, but its...

Disadvantage. >> now challengers tend to do really well in debate. thats been moment we believed all along governor romney probably has more benefit out of this debate potentially than we do. >> gretchen: republican vp nominee paul ryan agrees and says mitt romney will show voters there is a clear choice. >> people will see is who is mitt romney? what kind a president will be and what are the choices i have? that, to me s what matters in this debate and alt debates, which is i know what presiden...

Infiltrate the afghany police to attack us inside. >> gretchen: there were another two deaths over the weekend. they are not even going on patrol because the danger is too high. there is a lot of chaos. even though you listen to the president. he stix to his greatest achievement which is taking out osama bin laden. you have to dig doper . check out the wall street journey . mitt romney wrote about the presidents foreign policy and how he would differ if he were in charge. here is a snippet. pres...

Crazy picture. now weather alert. colcalifornia river nearly breaks a record. you are looking at video of a nearby park under water. police are letting residents return back to their homes. they were forced to evacuee. i can tell you in texas it was raining like that in dallas. that is moving to the east and we have a bunch of rain in the midatlantic and down in the panhandle in florida. it continues to get rain in the rio grand valley in texas. they could use the rain but not so much . we have ...