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Homeland, train afghans in a way that allows them to stabilize their country. but we dont need to have a perpetual footprint of the size that we have now. >> reporter: the question will be the numbers in terms of the drawdown because the presidents base as we head into elections season will want to see significant troops come home. but the commanders, of course, always like having the flexibility of having more troops at their disposal to finish the job. jenna? jenna: mike, im going to hold on t...

Jenna: well, right now we know many of you have questions about what happened during the u.s. raid in pakistan. and o our team is digging up new information on how that operation went down. we asked what you want to know about the mission as we finish out this week here. excuse me. here to help us are national correspondent catherine herridge and national security correspondent jennifer given who have graciously accepted their invitation to let us peek into their reporter notebook. of jennifer, ...

Country? >> i think there is no question that the unemployment rate is going to stay high for some time. we are not just talking about the folks that are unemployed, we are also talking about the under employed, those part time folks looking for a full time job as well as the discouraged workers that have left the workforce all together. simply hire.com actually traction the number of job option across the web. we have a real time snapshot of jobs on company career sites, job boards and newspape...

Pakistanis -- pakistans government activities in the last couple of days, its a little like piling on, like getting a little piece of this counterterrorism action, but well find out more about these arrests in the coming hours. jon: lets hope the pakistanis seriously are helping us there. greg palkot, reporting live from islamabad, thank you. jenna: thats a good question for sure. heres a fox news business alert, new jobs out for april, employers adding 244,000 jobs last month, more than analy...

Attack or attempted attack on the united states in the last couple of years and the question is whether anwar al-awlaki is going to step up and become the public face of this new generation. i call it al-qaeda 2. o or the digital jihadist. jenna: that was inspire magazine, right, he has that magazine out there that you bring us every once in a while when it comes out. >> hot off the press. jenna: absolutely. catherine, a lot of our viewers have questions for you. we have a special feature today....

Than a year earlier and two-thirds of executives got a bigger bonus in 2009. that is food for thought isnt it when most of us are not seeing our wages go up at all. the u.s. labor department is reporting that companies are hiring at the fastest pace weve seen in five years. more people are looking for work. the unemployment rate is high her for the first time since november. steve moore a senior economic writer at the "wall street journal." fox news contributor fox lasinksi. and the ceo of simpl...

Several, you know, many people knew about this for months. back in august is when the president originally took the -- they had the key piece of intelligence that allowed them to move forward. but they had to wait until this big controversy with ray davis, the contractor, the cia contractor who had been caught in pakistan, until he was released. and the first of the five national security meetings started on march 14th after he was released from a pakistani prison cell. jenna: thats interesting....

Food and gasoline which may or may not be temporary. ben bernanke thinks it is temporary. housing is still a major problem. those prices are not going up they are going down. and theres other instances of that in the economy. we can focus on the good news or the bad news. the good news is the economy is adding jobs. and also the unemployment rate going up, while distressing and wed like it to be down, it really -- it means that more people are looking for work, and thats the silver lining in tha...

9/11. if you compare the 150,000-mile rail system here in norcoo or in the united states against about a 25,000-mile railroad system in great britain, they have over 3500 officers in great britain, the british transport police. jenna: that leads to another question jon and i were talking about during commercial, we of course have to get screened every time you get on a plane, theres a limited amount of airports, and there are miles and miles of railroad, so how is it possible or is it actually p...

The gates were all sealed with pink, bright pink sort of, i guess, law enforcement stickers that they stick on buildings that have been sealed. but i was squinting through a hole in the compound wall by a gate. i condition see anyone inside. it seemed to be deserted. its just been secured. as far as i can tell, theres no forensic examination going on inside. >> very interesting. nic robertson, look forward to your robertieporting in the com days on osama bin ladens hang down? president obama pla...