they are killed. i think to myself that s a message from the taliban. they are fighting back. yet karzai says we ll talk to the taliban. is that a strategy that is viable in any way? no, it s not. let me tell you why. you know, my book covers the 03 time frame when we recognized then that they attempted in 2003, the taliban, to come back on us foron force. they recognized then they couldn t win. we beat them badly. they got slaughtered in the attempt of force on force. they cannot win militarily against us. therefore, they are going to go where we are and hit the soft targets. this is a classic effort of insurgency. with that said, karzai is not the man to be implementing the peace process. he is hated by the taliban. therefore, we ve got to find essentially a neutral third party who can say everybody come to the table. everybody sit down. and this idea of talking to the taliban about a role in the peace process, no.
halloween. jamie: see you next weekend. weekend. captioned by closed captioning services, inc eric: fox news is america s news headquarters. battle for the beltway and our nation s future. the voting is ongoing and just in nine days when the polls open, what will happen? good morning, everyone. i m eric shawn. welcome to a new hour of america s news headquarters. i m jamie colby. the stakes are tremendous. control of the house. the senate. and the direction of our nation and this morning the leaders of the democrats and the republicans both parties make their predictions. our steve centanni is live in washington with that round-up. hi, steve. what did they say? reporter: hi, jamie. with the vote drawing closer, the two party chiefs are both predicting surprise, surprise the midterm elections will swing their way. now the president has turned into the campaigner-in-chief for democrats, at least for the time being. he just finished a big four-day swing across the country, w
a live report in america s news headquarters just minutes away. eric: jamie, we are at t-minus nine days and counting. with early voting well underway in many states, estimated one-third of voters will cast their ballots that way, even before the polls open on election day. well, today, both democrats and republicans claiming success from early voting. so which side is actually right? benefitting from early voting when it comes to the election. joining us for a fair and balance debate, democratic from texas, frost. and former assistant to the president brad blakeman. congressman frost, in a second i ll get to your hat and what it means for the election. brad, the republicans are saying they got the mojo, they got the mojo with the early voting, the republican early voting up 8-10%. do you agree with that? absolutely! look, we re outnumbered, eric. most jurisdictions almost twice the number of registered voters are democrats, as opposed to republicans. yet republicans have the
will be next year, too. yikes! reporter: the governor s race is one of the few places in the country where democrats could make gains and the white house would likely take credit for that. back to you guys. eric: politics makes strange bedfellows and the president quoting two als, albert einstein and al franken. jamie: and there are new predictions out showing republicans are in a good position to take over control of the house. everyone seems to feel that way, but the senate race seems to be anybody s call. we peer into the crystal ball, larry sabato, he owns it, director of the center for politics at the university of virginia, and the crystal ball is a little clearer on congress than it is on the senate? yes, i think at this point most analysts, nonpartisan analysts think the house will go republican. if you could have a consensus in this quarrelsome field that is a consensus and on the senate
about that just to occurred has been mostly peaceful for the entire war. now the taliban are targeting that area tells me like when you push a balloon, the air goes somewhere else. it doesn t go away. that s what we re seeing here. we have not been effectively applying what we understand are potential solutions to the problem. one of those i think people danced around and started talking about a bit. general petraeus said it three weeks ago now that we need to look at a peace process much akin to the northern ireland peace process as a path to resolving the insurgency. we cannot kill/capture our way out of this. the more we take care of small i m not saying this in a pejorative way. pakistan remains the issue. jamie: when i saw the video of the attack, a u.n. compound, one of the biggest, where homicide bomber crashes right through the gate, and three men get out in burkas,