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Loved ones back home are trying to cope with the worry and stress of having them in harm's way. well, our next guest wanted to use her experience as the mother of a marine to help other families deal with the emotional roller coaster of military life. joining us now is the author of "courage and faith", i hope i said that right and her son michael who served two tours in iraq as a sergeant and a marine. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> so taken by your book that you put together. you're just, excuse me for saying this, just a regular mom. >> that's right. >> whose son decides t...

And captures or kills mean you push down and squeeze them out. isn't that what's happening with the success in pakistan and afghanistan? if we don't kill them, they're moving on. >> i think to some extent, that's exactly right. we have, today, about eight or nine islamic insurgencies around the world in places where they were either very minimal or nonexistent. the growth in islamic radicalism in violence has been quite significant since 2001. >> right. and mike, thanks so much for joining us and gary, you're a busy guy. you're now running for congress right here in long island! >> new york's ...

And unfortunately, what's going on in afghanistan, we're not killing enough people. we're simply apologizing. >> why -- this is a joint operation between pakistan and the c.i.a. pakistan has known where a lot of these taliban guys and al-qaida guys have gone for years. why suddenly are they being so helpful? >> steve, in my experience, pakistan is very reactive to our requests if there's a short time frame. if you give them a long time frame, the guy always gets away. i suspect what happened in this case was the americans picked up the information and confronted the pakistanis with it and then...

News today in saying that the republican party now is going to become more conservative? because truth be told, is this not the biggest challenge for the republican party right now to determine what you are and whether -- the tea party becomes their own party. the republican party is in trouble. >> well, there was no -- i mean, i think i could say without really, you know, stepping outside of any bounds here that there was not any talk about becoming a third party. this is the frustration of citizen activists with a party that many had aligned themselves with over the years, so the biggest cha...

Lead with the total net golds, they've got nine. the united states one behind with a total of eight. as you can see, the germans also have three gold as do the south koreans. and that's a look at your winter olympics. >> remember yesterday, we were telling you we had a fox news alert they captured the number two guy in the taliban in pakistan. it was such good news because it looked as if the c.i.a. here at home was working with the pakistani officials in order to do this capture. so what will that capture have to do with maybe getting the big guy, osama bin laden? >> and real question is does...