787 dreamliner. other than that, gold and oil, also higher, pushing up gold and mining stocks. also, positive start on wall street, gregg. gregg the list of gitmo detainees suspected of returning to terror on their release is growing. diane macedo has that story. reporter: before his december release, abdul hasif was released at 10:30, now officials say he s back home in afghanistan and working for the taliban, the pentagon says it makes him the latest addition to a greeg list, saying about 20 percent of released detainees are returning to terror. that s nearly double the estimate from last year. theories on fixing the problem vary dramatically depending upon who you ask. go to foxnews.com for both sides of that debate and more info on the former prisoners. gregg: mike, sandra, diane, thank you. jane: more on afghanistan now, nato is blaming mechanical problems for a helicopter crash in the southern province, fortunately, nobody was kid.
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gregg, how much should the government do, and when do you let the free market sort itself out and when does government jump in to direct that process? gregg: jim angle live in washington, thanks very much. jane: mitt romney is a small group of republican front runners in the 2012 presidential race. he s also an author, and he s on a book tour that just happens to take him through some states that would be crucial to getting him the nomination. steve brown is in des moines, iowa, where we expect to see the governor arrive at any moment. he s been very critical of this health care reform bill, but isn t the measure he pushed for in massachusetts similar? reporter: a lot of folks would say it s very similar or call it a semiplait for the federal system, and that s going to become something of a challenge for governor romney if he, indeed, decides to run for the white house in 2012 is explaining the differences of that because a lot of people see the similarities, particularly with the i
and what we see in that enormous expansion. i think obama believes that government needs to have a bigger role in the economy. he thinks that that s better for america. reporter: but defenders of the administration say it was necessity brought on by economic problems one after another that demanded federal action to avoid prolonged suffering. listen. no. the goal is not to exercise control over the economy, the goal is to help people who don t have jobs, are in danger of losing their homes and can t have access, don t have access to health care. it looks like we have an activist government, it looks like we have a government that s expanding. it s, its impact upon american life. but the truth is that we have a lot of big problems right now. especially in the economic area. so and that s why it s required. reporter: so this is a long-standing argument in american politics,.
health care thing he s going to have to square that away with republicans and conservatives if he hopes to land that. jane: steve, romney came up short in 08, of course, in the iowa caucuses. does that hurt him, help him? how does he view that? reporter: well, here s the beautiful thing about that. he did spend a lot of money and did come up short, so that s the negative part, but he s very familiar here in iowa, so he won t have to spend theory as much to become familiar, he s already a known quantity here. and he will not have the burden of expectation that mike huckabee would have. he won here, the expectation would be that he will win again, so he s got the highest expectation. romney a little bit less. yeah, he did spend a lot of money and come up short, but he has a benefit this go round at least if you talk to some folks in republican circumstances in the state of iowa. jane: steve s in des moines, thanks. gregg: breaking news out of juarez, mexico, the mexican army has detai