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2000 miles of border, over some of the most inhospitable terrain on the earth. you're talking about the richest country in the world, hard up against one of the poorest countries in the world, wracked by narco violence, and we're asking these incredible men and women to put themselves in harm's way, and i think a lot of people do not really understand or appreciate how difficult and challenging that job is. bill: you lived down there for 18 months, nick. you've seen so much. can you pinpoint what the biggest change was in the time you were there? >> well, i mean, we have seen so much. we start...

Redirect the group, he'll run right into them. >> the guy is running this way. >> okay, got him. >> there's a group with the light. >> i think that he, you know -- i need to get there up and get on them. bill: what are the men and women in uniform up against down there? nick stein is a series producer of the national geographic's "border wars". good morning to you. we've seen a lot of clips and it's fascinating stuff. especially the telescopic video at nighttime. what did you learn during the many, many months you spent down there that you think the rest of america needs to know? >> well, i th...

Protection, which is border patrol office of field operations and marine, and everything we do down there is shocking. when you think you've seen it all, you haven't. the biggest single -- i mean, you know, the first time we were jumping out of black hawk helicopters, you know, they land us in the mountains at night, they put one wheel down on a rock, they yell go, go, go, we pull out of this thing and we're chasing illegal immigrants all over the mountains, we never know whether they're a drug smuggling group or whether they're actually just undocumented workers. but you know, we've been shot...

I don't think anybody could have predicted this level of ruthlessness and this level of inhumanity over there. your life isn't worth much when it comes to the northern parts of mexico, because they have a thing, they call it the letter of the gold, you either take the bribe or the bullet, and this is a tough way to people -- for people to live. we also talk to the migrants and we talk to people coming across and it's unbelievable, they sold everything, they've gone into debt, their lives are in danger, kaeurp constantly threatened, the women are in terrible jeopardy and often, we will save the...

jobs in august. it's going the wrong way, that arrow is. martha: turn these things around. this report does not include government jobs. it's just private sector jobs. it's clearly a sign the economy is struggling to get back on its feet. bill: varney and company, what do you think of this? >> we were supposed to be adding hundreds of thousands of new private sector jobs each and every month. that where we were supposed to be. but we lost 10,000 jobs in the month of august in the private sector. they were spread around, small business 6,000, medium size business, net, net, 10,000 job...