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Barely slept the past couple of weeks and is under 24-hour protection. send it over to brian. >> with that guy that glenn beck wants to meet. >> who doesn't? the world held its collective breath as captain richard phillips and his crew were held hostage by somali pirates, believe it or not, it was a year ago. it happened for three days. phillips was held alone on a small lifeboat before navy seals came to his daring rescue. he's regarded as a hero for the successful efforts to keep his crew safe. he says the navy seals are the real heros. he finally penned his story and it's a great one. the n...

But were his threats founded? should america be worried about handing afghanistan over to such an unstable leader? >> joining us right now is former c.i.a. operative and a stable guy, michael schoerer. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing fine. brian and i were chatting in the break, this is troubling. you have karzai over there saying if the united states doesn't stop mettling, we're going to turn taliban. what's going on here? > >> i think he's a survivor. he's always taken care much himself first. he didn't fight the soviets. he stayed safely overseas. the taliban had in...

Officials say steele was not at the club and had no knowledge of the expense. >> armed robbers tried to steal a pizza from a pizza deliveryman but the 19-year-old doesn't let them get away with it. the new york city man described how he fought off the bad guys. >> pick up the pizza and i punched him just like that and i pushed him against the elevator and then, another guy spin and punch me and i punch the guy. >> wow! can you imagine how proud that employer must be and the raise he must be enjoying at this hour. >> sometimes an employee gets fired for that. >> i know, that happened at one poi...

Mean any real threat for american cities? right now, we are joined by c.i.a. operative michael schoerer who joins us from our nation's capital. good morning to you, michael. >> good morning, sir. >> when you look at what happened over in moscow where two coordinated attacks about 40 minutes apart, you got to want -- and both women. you got to wonder whether or not these women are the so-called black widows. widows of soldiers or, rather, rebels who were killed in the struggle there and now trying to exact some revenge. >> it certainly seems likely that they're connected back to the north caucu...

Reduced collateral damage to civilians and kind of given the words to the bad guys, get out of town. >> while you still can. >> doesn't want to have a major firefight in a very highly populated city similar to marjah which you recall was the first offensive when the first began in afghanistan. michael schoerer who used to head up the c.i.a. was on the show earlier and had a different take on the situation. >> obama has to have a tough guy look until the 2010 midterms. afterwards, he needs the base of his party which is pacifist so he'll pull out of afghanistan and iraq and clearly, he's playin...