voted who voted yes? here s who i have. alexander of tennessee, retiring, johnny isaac son of georgia. lisa murkowski, republican of alaska, a moderate. susan collins, republican of maine and cory gardner from colorado. the politics in colorado have swung since he was first elected as a freshman in 2014. shepard: so those defections, can we expect that at some point there might be more? if you get to 60, you can get something done. again, the math is the math. they got to 52. a long shot to get to 60. shepard: i ll say. all right. should there be more from the floor, we ll let you know. first, breaking news now on fox news channel. nicholas maduro, the head of venezuela, said to have been a
these young men have been at war for 30 years in some cases or at least their country has. so it s all of those things which makes it complex. general dempsey told me that even with this rise in insider attacks there is no plan to change the withdrawal timetable which will have u.s. troops down to 68,000 at the end of september and out of afghanistan for the most part at the end of 2014. shepard? shepard: jennifer griffin live at bag gram air base in afghanistan. denied claims from wikileaks founder julian assange that he is the victim of an american-backed witch-hunt. that accusation comes in assange s first comment since june when he began hiding out in ecuador s embassy in london. is he trying to avoid extradition in sweden to avoid sex assault accusations. last week ecuador grantd him asylum. steps off embassyed to arrest
a family of four. those experts say poverty is on the rise in suburban, america where it s already at record levels. we won t get the official levels will until the government releases the census this fall when those figure could say play a huge role in the november presidential election. how big a jump are we talking about here. well in 2010 it was 125.1% of americans living in port it could go to 15.7%. most likely come in at 15.2. this is a record you don t want to set. this takes us back to roughly 1983, very close to the worst year ever in 1965. shepard: a number of factors in play here according to this. not just the recession. exactly. people have been unemployed. some of them have lost unemployment benefits. a lot of other things going on. globalization, automation, outsourcing, immigration. all of these things contributing to higher numbers of folks living in poverty. now we are hearing some of these numbers will remain bad through 2014. shepard: gerri, with stocks
the barn to retire him and it is bummer, but, again, far from tragic, but, it is very disappointing. jonathan: very disappointing, an undersame, will probably head home according to his trainer, sunday or monday. this has been a big blow forren who has a a big employee for racing and now more will watch portugal beat germany in the soccer championship. shepard: you insane. jonathan: portugal will beat germany. bet on that. shepard: what is it, something, something, one world cup? jonathan: two world wars and one world cup. shepard: that is all england has. jonathan: it will be two world wars and two world cups in 2014. shepard: in a parallel universe. perfect activity at belmont,
media attention it. by and large they think the taliban has been contained and the afghan security forces are standing up quicker than expected and that would enable u.s. combat troops to get out in 2014. shepard: some touted getting out too soon. according to the president last night when our agreement is up, we will have been there about 24 years and the polls suggest the vast majority of americans want us out yesterday. it does. latest fox news poll just in recent days suggest that something like 78% of registered voters want to see u.s. troops come home, so the president has that political pressure. but republic buck mckean, who is the chairman of the house armed services committee today said he thinks the president may be pulling folks out too quick, take a listen. it s a lot less than what i think we need to carry out and finish up the mission. but the bottom line is after more than a decade of war, this is now the longest u.s. war ever. it s unlikely u.s. troops are goin