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Doesn t arrive until december 21st, jenna, but some areas over the weekend, over a foot of snow. we re calling it snowvember! we ll talk about it. jenna: after snowmegeddon, i don t know if we re read grow that. all those reports coming you on happening now , but first, it s like the first day of school, washington, d.c.-style, that s jon style. jon: all kinds of bus loads of incoming freshman senators and representatives arriving on capitol hill. orientation day for them. jenna: steve centanni is live on capitol hill with more. steve. reporter: the new kids in town are here. the existing congress is meeting in a lame duck session, but of course, some of those members are going to be out of work come january 5th, the new people are just elected during the midterm election are in town now, they re not taking seats just yet but learning how to do their job, with ....
The somali brush and, as we understand, also enduring beatings at the hands of the pirates. now, as for that ransom, i ve been speaking to people close to the negotiations that have been going on literally for months. we re told the total ransom amount was $800,000, jon. i m told the first lump of that 800,000 fell into the hands of the pirates back in june and then they reneged on the deal. kind of unusual from our experience with pirates. and then the second portion of that payment came just in the past week, and that sealed the deal. i am told that the talks were not easy, negotiations involved a lot of players. that money came from a lot of players as well, but at the end of the day, it did the deal. here s a very short quote from paul chantler. he made this assessment of his captives yesterday upon his release. take a listen. we survived in the hands of a brigade of thugs. reporter: a brigade of ....
Might be forced to join the taliban if united states didn t stop pressing him to clean up corruption in his own government. so to some extent u.s. officials are well aware that president karzai makes these types of comments every so often. but this comes at a crucial time as petraeus is trying to convince the white house and the pentagon for more time. it is a very difficult situation for general petraeus and for the other western commanders here in the afghanistan, jon. jon: conor powell live from kabul, thanks, connor. jenna: we re going to take you, now, to capitol hill, a live look where tea party favorite congresswoman michele bachmann is about to give her two cents on earmarks and the lame duck session of congress. no pun intended, two cents forget it. all this as freshman congressmen arrive on the hill, and some have confirmed that senator jim demint is also out there, of course, a tea party supporter ....
With america s top commander there, general david petraeus. conor powell is is live in kabul with more for us. connor? this. reporter: well, jon, president karzai has had similar outbursts in the past, but this is being viewed as a very serious outburst. over the weekend president karzai said that he wants to see u.s. troops begin to wind down the military operations here in afghanistan. he also said he wants to see night raids ended, and he also said he wants to see u.s. troops have a less visible presence here in afghanistan. now, today afghan president karzai s spokesman tried to down play the comments, but i m told that president karzai s comments have really angered and frustrated general petraeus. there is a view here that president karzai s comments are a direct shot, it s a direct criticism of the petraeus strategy here in afghanistan which really puts a focus on protecting the afghan civilians, it has a focus of u.s. troops patrolling being out and about among the afghan pop ....
For them because they need the rain. okay, jenna, if you play your cards right, jon scott will do some shoveling for you. [laughter] jenna: we ll see. he looks skeptical over there. jon: i just had shoulder surgery, come on! reporter: true! i m sorry, you re off the. jenna: that means he s got one good arm. j.d., thank you very much. talk to you soon. jon: this just in, sarah palin ooh sitting down with fox news legal analyst judge andrew napolitano and making some news. judge napolitano, our senior legal analyst, the anchor of freedom watch premiering in this an 8:00 eastern time slot tonight. reporter: yes, jon. by the way, i ll help you with that snow shovel. jon: i appreciate that. everybody heard you ask the question, what s the answer? this. you re going to have to tune in at 8:00 tonight to find out. jon: answer the question. i ll tell you this, she s thinking about it. jon: okay. in a, in a way that it s worth listening to what she has ....