watch fox & friends to get your news. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org steve: a casual friday so that could explain why eric bolling is not wearing a necktie. actually never wear as necktie. he is in for brian kilmeade starting the weekend early. i never wear a tie, steve. if i did, i would definitely wear that tie. gretchen: sucking up already. steve: going to be a good three hours. gretchen: start the morning off with a fox news alert because overnight u.s. marines launched an all-out assault to take down the taliban in afghanistan. it s called operation angry cobra, the first major offensive since president obama announced his new strategy. 300 marines were dropped into what the military is calling a central strategically important area in helmand province. u.s. commanders say they are trying to cut off enemy supply and communication lines to the north. this as nato warns that sending more tr