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The u.s. and afghan governments are now in three-way peace talks with the taliban. all this as the taliban marked the 23rd anniversary of the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan just yesterday. they emailed a statement to the media saying, quote, selfish americans must learn a lesson from the russian deget and no longer fight a meaningless battle with zealous afghans. let's talk a little more about this. before we start off this conversation, let's remind everybody who the taliban is. not only are they responsible for the deaths and maiming of thousands of americans, but let me just show everyb...

Took over. that number, though, reflects many, many millions of americans who are underemployed or just can't even muster, really, the gumption, the enthusiasm to get out there and look for a job. so that 8.3% unemployment number is an indicator to president obama and to his allies in the media to make it look like things are getting better, but rook at the -- look at the price of gas, look at the price of a barrel of oil, look at the manipulation of the domestic oil supply via our's actions to lock things up, and you start getting a collier and truer indicator of how the economy's going. jon:...

Years was to legit myself the taliban as a central tenant of the afghanistan government. you ask many americans about that, they'd probably not think that was the goal. we'll continue to have this conversation, general scales and seth, thank you so much for joining us, both of you. jon: big brother is watching. the government monitoring social networking sites, causing even more concern about your online privacy. is it at risk? a live report straight ahead. also, a dog owner suing a big pet supply chain claiming a groomer there mutilated her little dog and then tried to blue back part of its e...

Call from president obama to one of the democratic negotiators to make sure he was on board. we do expect the senate republicans to oppose the package. they are senator jon kyl, senator jon barrasso, and senator craipo. but last night they announced a deal had been struck. >> we agreed, the congress is clear that we will have it sign, we have reached full agreement. >> reporter: needless to say they are brewing the coffee a little stronger here on the hill after a late night last night but this clears the path to extend the payroll tax holiday for 160 million americans for the rest of the year...

Is the nature of the problem. jenna: let's talk about that more. you have the upper class, correct me, you are defining, 20% top upper class as educated and married seems to have ties to that community. and a lower class not quite as educated, does not have the same marriage rates or core family rates? >> all sorts of things. whether participation in the labor force or rest of it. what i'm really say, jenna, look, 50 years ago we had rich people and poor people but had the same civic culture. there were a lot of common bond that dissolved. jenna: such as marriage for example? >> such as marria...