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Sacrifice of our years with our troops. it has create add depth of the kr relationship that weathered the set backs. >> it has been 13 of the forces killed by afghan allied troops or police officers that we have been training. how can we go forward when you cant trust the very people to whom you want to give control. >> lets step back and look at the big picture. the big picture is every single day american and international forces serve with tens of thousands of afghans. they serve together acr...

but house speaker john boehner still slammed the president this morning. he says, quote, todays report shows that families and small businesses are still struggling to get by because of president obamas failed economic policies. could it have been better? well break down the numbers for you in just a few minutes. and president obama has a message for women. im thinking about you. the president spoke just a short time ago, kicking off the white house forum on women and the economy. >>...

Reporter for "in the times and the nation". thank you both. before the break, alison, we were talking about specifically losing presidential candidates. i want to talk about them a bit still but broaden this out about losing social movements, the way in which we start big processes but sometimes fail sometimes on the road to success and just sometimes on the road to more set backs. >> and sometimes failing isnt a bad thing because it creates breathing space in our society where a group like occu...

Of real progress. listen. >> dismantling al qaeda, breaking the taliban momentum and training afghan forces so they can take the lead and our troops can come home. that transition is underway and about half of all afghans currently live in areas where afghan security forces are taking responsibility. >>shepard: he averaged the dip in public support for the war but added he thinks most understand the reasons for continuing the fight. and now ed henry like at white house. from the feedback we get ...

Of 2009 when president obama signed the stimulus into law and this prevented a full free fall, a second depression. theyve made that case again and again. were going to hear that in the presidential campaign over the next few months over and over. as you noted, though, house republicans having a news conference this hour where theyll be blasting away at the president. theyve been blasting away for three years saying the price tag of nearly $800 billion was too much. the president promised 3 year...

meeting between the president and his top party leaders in congress? >> reporter: as far as we know, the president is meeting right now with senate majority leader harry reid and with leader pelosi from the house, the leader of the minority in the house. and we dont have details on this yet, its a closed press meeting, meaning we didnt even get our pool cameras inside to get a glimpse of this, but we know from a white house official that they are meeting here at the white house and wer...

Emergency crews are facing a shortage of basic supplies including flash lights. fema personnel on the ground . a death toll of 300, this is the second deadliest tornado outbreak in u.s. history. >> insurgent leaders will launch an attack on u.s. basses and congressman voys. nato said it is a sign of taliban desperation over recent set backs. >> in a live address. muammar el-qaddafi call would for an end to the fight open to negotiations with the west. qaddafis comments came hours after the gover...

Foxnews.com/shep and chat with jonathan hunt. lyian leader muammar qaddafi suffering more set backs as american f-15 fighter jets fired at his sites around tripoli. but its not a war. the defense secretary saying no one is in a position to predict the outcome in libya. and now to the pentagon. jennifer griffin, the u.s. wants to transfer command, they keep eling us but they have not been very specific about it. what is the timeframe? >>reporter: well, we just heard a tweet from a reporter who is...

An american teacher who went missing when the earthquake and tsunami struck japan over a week ago is no longer missing. the family of 24-year-old taylor anderson said they received a call from the u.s. embassy with devastating news her body has been found. anderson had been in japan teaching english the past two years, and she was due to return home in august. operators at japans fukushima nuclear power plant suffered several set backs. workers had to evacuate twice after smoke started to rise f...

Theres no chapter that talks about the sequence of whats happening. hitting the reactor with firehoses, thats not in any text book, calling out firemen to put out a nuclear accident. >> but every day we have further explosion, we have smoke, radioactive plumes pumping out, attempts to reconnect electricity, none of its worked. how many days is it now, ten? >> two set backs in two days. yesterday smoke coming out of the reactor because of the spent fuel pond is boiling over. if those rods are exp...