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Surge. the success of the surge is why the president is bringing home our troops in victory, not in defeat. he opposed it and he fought it tooth and nail as we have seen from the comments. it would be gracious and i think politically wise for him to give some basic acknowledgment of the fact it was a politically difficult decision and the right one. >> bret: we were told by the produce that president obama did telephone from air force one to former president george w. bush. we have video of former president bush and first lady meeting troops august 11. this is at the dallas airport. this is fr...

The transcript -- you want me to get the transcript out? i have the transcript. i'm ready to roll. megyn: catherine herridge live in washington. that was one of the commissioners on the u.s. commission of civil rights. they were going toe to toe. who was he arguing with? tell us what happened. >> reporter: the commission meeting seemed rather routine when it began. they dealt with house keeping issues and the status of their own report. they expect a draft of that report. 25-30 pages in length. then things kicked up a notch and they started discussing this matter that was sent to the commissio...

>> i find these sort of things quite scary. i'm not good in jungles. i find cities like new york frightening. >> gretchen: i thought you meant the three of us. >> these things are quite scary. >> brian: do dogs come from wolves? don't answer that. >> well, i did a show in georgia for this season h a wolf encounter and quite scary. but not like my dogs. >> gretchen: you can see the star of "man versus wild" premiering august 11 on discovery. >> brian: stick around for the after the show show. >> gretchen: how can you win a 50-dollar gift card to hooters? we will tell you how when we come back.

Ethics violations about a sentence, a trial that could unfold in september? >> alisyn: i mean, let's also call this what it really is. i, too, celebrate my birthday all summer long. >> dave: two months later? >> alisyn: i do. but this is a fund-raiser. he's charging between 200, 500, $1,000 and 2500 for tickets to his birthday and the money will go to the rangel victory fund, which is his campaign war chest. so you have to pay good money to get in there, which also might complicate things for the democrats. and again, he's now politically radioactive, some say, so even though you've committed ...

On being a renewable energy policy expert didn't seem scary enough about van jones, politics morphed him to an excon, jailed for racially motivated violence against white people. this is how glenn beck reported it on august 13, 2009. he said, quote, while i don't know ant you, i'm sure glad to know that van jones, the radical, the anarchist, the guy you know, part of the rodney king riots, he has the ear of the president. and august 11, the same guy, here is van jones, a convicted felon -- a guy who spent, i think, six months in prison after the rodney king beating. he was a black nationalist ...