foxnews.com, click on the you decide link to take the nonscientific survey and today we re asking can the taliban be defeated. more than 48,000 people have voted so far. 57 percent say yes, if the u.s. keeps up the fight, 20 percent say maybe, the victory will not resemble past wars, and 21 percent say no, the taliban will regroup and come back. bill: in the meantime i mentioned this with scott, new details about that mass operation in the town of marjah, intense fighting continues in southern afghanistan, where marines are combing for increased supporto calling for increased support to take out sniper squads as wur force continues there. troops on the ground saying it appears the resistance from the taliban is more organized than in previous days. this is some of the latest videotape we have. only yesterday international forces killing more than ten militants while pursuing a taliban commander in the helmand province. our conor powell is on the ground, embedded with the marines and he
principles. alisyn: interesting, steve centanni, thank you. bill: we re watching. nasa tv? wants to snow what it is like in space, huh? guess who went to space, kind of, sort of. alisyn: who better to answer that question, than phil keatsing. he went there and they said, we have a problem and we ll get a behind-the-scenes look today at how astronauts. alisyn: train. bill: train for their high pressure missions. alisyn: can t wait. bill: coming up in minutes.
on the project for to keep busy during the winter months when i m out of work. alisyn: what is the temperature in there. caller: about 30 to 45. alisyn: 30 to 45 and speaking of all the future girlfriends you will get with this, do you have a phone line in there for them to call? caller: no, i do not, but i have a cell phone soit they can give that a ring. bill: you have quite a creation, my friend and quite an imagination and are you in there, by the way, right now. caller: no, i m not. bill: when you go back out there, make sure you turn on the fox news channel because you have cable. caller: absolutely! bill: good man, jimmie. alisyn: good luck with that. i m sure there are some hearty women who will soon be vikz ysi you after they re. bill: well done, jimmie, tell your buddies we said hey, he is perfect for that. alisyn: he is, but i don t know, most women don t like to be cold all the time! bill: we re getting breaking news from the world of toyota
member of the sura council, that overarching policy group that tells the taliban what to do, everywhere, wherever they are. bill he s command and control, he s military, he s political, he s religious. right, yes. bill: what does he know or i think maybe the better question is who does he know? he knows everybody. bill osama bin laden? he definitely knows osama bin laden, and i get right now that the pakistani and american officials who are interrogating him are asking him about the whereabouts of that gentleman. bill: and also mullah mohammed omar if he is giving that information up. absolutely. bill: the pakistanis helped us with this. yes. bill: it is more than fair to say we would not have gotten this man out their help. no. bill: why has it taken nine years? it s really, bill, taken nine years for the pakistanis to understand that the taliban are a threat to them, to their government, to their regime, to islamabad, and once they understood that, because the taliban h
devastating attacks within pakistan and near islamabad, they finally got the message and now you see the type of cooperation that american military officials have been begging for. bill: you re saying the pakistani government doesn t want another assassination, it doesn t want another coup, it doesn t want yet another overthrow and it s only the recent violence that has convinced them they have to do something now, otherwise they re going to be the next victims. right. because otherwise why not just wait it outum the americans leave, and then they ll know all the key guys in the taliban who are going to take over their neighbor? over whom they just this influence. bill bin laden we understand this man has been interrogated, these are the reports we re getting by u.s. officials, by pakistani officials, and it s fair to say also that he was not read his miranda rights. i don t think this time! bill: welcome home, thank you for the report. thank you. alisyn: here s a debate, teachin