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i do not like this. his first television interview since his company s stock suffered a terrible fall. the founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg, opens up to matt lauer and takes on his critics. if a company has a billion customers how can they not be killing it making money? it depends on your definition of killing. about the samt-shirt he wears every day of his life. if you see my closet you have 12 of those t-shirts. maybe about 20. i get one drawer. my drawer is wait a second, are you telling me at home you have one drawer? also, tonight, the two-year-long journey of one american soldier. the army sergeant richard engel first met on a bad day on a battlefield in afghanistan. i try not to think about it. now back home surprise! to unexpected joys and sorrows. you knew coming back home would be tough. definitely. hard. also tonight harry smith on how both presidential campaigns are going after undecided voters. i m on their speed dial.
what the government can do to get people back to work. what are the prospects of washington acting during a fight over the economy? political paralysis is one of the factors holding america back, raising new fears that our country is in decline. this morning, a special discussion featuring thomas friedman, co-author of the new book, that used to be us. how america fell behind in the world and how we can come back. plus, previewing the political battles ahead in the 2012 campaign as republicans prepare to square off. it will include a new force in the republican field, texas governor, rick perry. historian and author doris kear kearns. maxine waters and political strategist, mark mckinnon. as the nation prepares to mark ten years since the 9/11 attack, veteran of iraq and afghanistan, joseph joins his mother doris to discuss how that day changed his life. how the attacks defined his generation. good morning. labor day weekend marks the unfortunate end of summer and kicks off
committee. journalist sebastian junger, author of war. tom ricks, author of the bestseller gamble about the war in iraq and author and combat veteran of afghanistan, wes moore and retired army general barry mccaffrey and a look back in our meet the press minute when president truman clashed with his top general. captions paid for by nbc-universal television 311 soldiers have died this year in afghanistan. the latest just yesterday by an improvised explosive device in the south of the country. june is the deadliest month since the war began in late 2001. the g-8 summit in toronto, president obama and david cameron and other war leaders decided to set a timetable of five years for withdraw of military forces from afghanistan. this as the new york times reports this morning of growing concern in afghanistan over president karzai s efforts to negotiate with the taliban and bring them into agreement with the afghan government. here live from kabul, richard engel. i want
injured. stay low. stay low. reporter: they re treated under fire. the troops keep firing, now supported by helicopter gunships. after 30 intense minutes, the battle is finally over. battles like this one are picking up and taking a toll. on many patrols, sergeant louis loftus is the point man. if there s an ied in the ground, he ll most likely see it first. or step on it. i m thinking about, you know, just getting to where we re going the safest route possible. i really don t dwell on, you know, this could be my last patrol. reporter: loftus, from akron, ohio looks at photographs of the girl he wants to marry after he goes home in a few months. when i ask him about a fellow soldier killed last week, it s clear how deeply these troops feel about the growing casualties here. right now, i m kind of numb to it, to be honest. i just don t really feel much. i pray for his family, i pray