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Talking about. when he came home from iraq in 2008, after seven ied attacks, he was diagnosed with trauma brain injury and post-traumatic stress. >> aid hard time keeping my basic aspects of my life in order. i was frustrated. that translated to anger quite a bit and it pushed me to say i dont want to live like this. >> reporter: he went on to graduate from college determined to make it. believing the governments promise that his war time servicemen his disability check would always be there. bu...

>> well, of course, shes going to a hard time trusting relationships for the rest of her life. one third of american girls suffer some form of abuse, whether that abuse is physical, sexual, or emotional. it most often comes at the hands of somebody they love. so this can be very confusing. girls can grow up to have an anxious or disorder detachment kind of style. again, we dont know how severe the trauma will be on her mentally. whether shell have toss traumatic stress disorder, these flashback,...

I dont want it do that yet. but at some point, our monday morning does very well and at some point well be picking them. >> gretchen: thats true. and you may be in the game yourself. donald trump, always great to speak with you. have a great rest of the week. >> eric: thanks a lot. >> gretchen: coming up, he survived two i.e.d. attacks, but not a walk on the beach. coming up, a veteran kicked off a boardwalk because police didnt believe his dog was service dog. >> tucker: it will soon be easier ...

Its a legacy of the war on terror. improvised explosive devices known as i.e.d.s have wreaked havoc on u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan tearing through armored vehicles and in afghanistan amounting to half of all u.s. troop deaths. with the devastating bombing at the boston marathon the threat that is overseas has come home. >> it is an enduring threat. >> this lieutenant general runs the defense departments counteri.e.d. operations and last year said, quote, were dreaming if we think this th...

>> 3,709 iraqi civilians were killed last month. that makes october the deadliest month of the war. >> suicide car bomb killed at least 14 people outside iraqs interior ministry. >> the bomb has ripped through united nations headquarters in baghdad. >> at least 12 iraqis were dead after a huge explosion outside the jordanian embassy. >> reporter: and so proud purple stained fingers from iraqs first ever free elections were overshadowed by anguished bloodstained hands from a seemingly endless ons...

Its what the military in afghanistan calls enemy initiated attacks. all the years of all fights in afghanistan all have that general sort of pattern where it peaks in the summer and drops in the winter. thats what they call the fighting season in afghanistan. looking at that, see what the overall level was. that was the first calendar year president obama was president. after looking at those numbers he decided to do the surge. thats the level of violence he was looking at when he sent more troo...

Of that blood and treasure and sacrifice, we have a new level which is higher than when we started. so thats for enemy-initiated attacks. heres the same number for executed ied attacks. so bombs in afghanistan, right? here was the rather outrageously high numbers of bombs in afghanistan in 2009 when president obama was making his decision about the surge. these are ieds. heres the level now. heres what we went through during the surge years. the interim years. thats 2010 and 2011. so, you know, ...

That includes a spike in the use of improviseed explosive device. this comes as some in congress complain the pentagon is withholding software this could protect our troops from ied attacks. mike emmanuel has that story. >> with improvised explosive devices, the single greatest threat to the u.s. military and its mission in afghanistan, technology to detect the danger has become a critical tool. research shows software has improved the successful clearing of ieds by 12% and now a member of the h...

im erin burnett. outfront tonight we have breaking news. a surge of the day. stocks just jumped to the moon. dow and s&p had their single best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. the ebulliance. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no con...

best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. the ebulliance. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no concrete action. in europe, the central bank chief said officials stand ready to act and there were reports of talks of a possible deal to ba...