for quite some time. the question is how senior are the taliban members that they are speaking to. i am told these are really fledgling efforts, jon. jon: why is he being so public about this, why admit he s talking to the taliban now? don t forget president karzai has an increasingly strained relationship with the obama administration right now, and became very nervous when the president set the july 2011 date for u.s. troops to begin pulling out. this is his attempt to make sure pakistan doesn t use the taliban to overthrow him. he s the u.s. envoy richard holbrooke about the effort. we re not involved in those talks but we support them, provided they follow the red lines that are absolutely critical. because we have a strategic interest here. that anyone deciding to rejoin the political system in afghanistan has to announce denounce al-qaeda. reporter: there s no evidence the taliban is doing that or laying down their weapons, so it s
jon: there s a new study just out today about television and children s health, and parents will want to pay attention. british scientists say kids are likely to have more psychological problems if they spend more than just two hours a day in front of a television or playing games on a computer, and unlike previous research, this new study says physical activity does not help alleviate the resulting problems. let s talk about it with psychiatrist and member of the fox medical a team dr. keith ablow. interesting study because they also researched the physical activity level of these kids and they found if they re watching television or playing video games, playing computer games, not studies but playing games on a computer more than two hours a day, even exercise doesn t take away some of the bad effects. that s right.
we ve got a graphic to show you, if you re in the 30,000 to 30.9000 range you ll have an additional tax burden of $917, taking your burden to more than $5400. if you re in the 50-$75,000 range, bump it up by nearly $1200 which you ve got to pay, taking that tax burden to 12440. in the group of 200,000, you ll jump up 3800, that takes the burden close to $36,000. those are the hard numbers. jenna: guess we have to start saving now. shannon bream for us in d.c. today, thank you. sure. jon: some new development toss tell but in the so-kaeuld pirate attack on a lake that straddles the u.s.-mexico border, mexican police are now reportedly hunting for two brothers they may say say may have gunned down an american tourist, tiffany hartley who says her husband was shot in the head reacting to that news this morning on fox p friends. we rant don t really know if these two people were actually involved in the shooting, or are they just