>> judge jeanine: tonight on "justice," a mom attacks a man she says gave heroin to her son and now she is the one facing charges and here is what else is coming up tonight on "justice." >> a divorce attorney breaking and entering for his client. >> by the way -- >> judge jeanine: all caught on tape. >> number one and camera number two. >> judge jeanine: was he justified? and gas prices skyrocketing. president obama's solution? form a committee to investigate. we'll tell you how that is going. plus, last week we asked for help and you answered the call. will this former marine be reunited with her dog? we have an update, coming up

tonight on "justice." >> hello and welcome to "justice." i'm judge jeanine pirro. president obama on the offensive in the wake of attacks on his administration's handling of the gas crisis. here to talk about it is the host of huckabee on the fox news channel governor mike huckabee. good evening, governor. >> great to see you, judge. >> judge jeanine: great to see you. the president talked about the fact that the oil companies are making more money than ever as if we didn't know that but we are still giving them $4 billion a year in subsidies. let's take a listen. >> in the next few weeks i expect congress to vote on ending the subsidies and we will put every single member of congress on record to either stand up for the oil companies for stand up for the american people. >> judge jeanine: you know, i can't imagine that any one is going to be against that but isn't the problem bigger than just the subsidies.

isn't it about the price of gas at the pump? >> it is. for example we have all these blends that the epa forces to us have, over 100. have to have a blend for each geographical region of the country and a blend for each season. mexico they have one blend. gas is $1 cheaper per gallon. if we would suspend the whole very awkward and very costly blend situation that the refineries have to follow for each region of the country that alone would have a significant impact on gas prices. >> judge jeanine: has anybody talked about doing that, this blend issue? >> people talk about it but the white house won't listen to it because i don't believe they want to ever do anything that hangers the folks on the far left who believe this is a big environmental issue. the president was a little disingenuous w when said theres more drilling going on.

there is less drilling on federal lands than there has been. if we went into the federal owned lands and went into the places where we have it whether the anwar and continental shelf we enough oil to last us for another 400 to 600 years. we are at 61 times less than what we ought to be and could be but drilling more but it is not on the federal lands. when the president says we are doing more, he is not. the government isn't. but it is some private sector that is drilling more than they were. >> judge jeanine: and isn't it a lot of it due to a permits that were approved some time ago that are just kicking in? >> yeah. >> he makes it sound as they he approved all this and we are on our way to a recovery. to eliminate price gouging and other fraud a year ago the president amounts to much trumpeting that he was creating this oil and gas fraud working group under the auspices of eric holder and the department of justice. a year later they haven't done a darn thing.

i mean the latest fox news poll in fact says 61% of americans do not like the president's handling of the gas prices. and he keeps talking about alternative energy and at the end of the day he says republicans are flat earthers with no ideas. but other than giving away a half a billion dollars to this green company solyndra, what has the president done to lower the prices of gas? >> mike: when talks about ending subsidies let's end the subsidies to the companies like solyndra. let's end the subsidies to gm. we baled them out and they produced a $40,000 car called a volt that won't run. nobody wants to buy it and the average person who buys a volt. the whole point was to make this affordable car that was green and clean. the average person who buys a volt makes $187,000 a year. this is a car for hollywood liberals and people who have vast amounts of money. not a car for the average joe

schmo to drive off the lot to commute to work. >> judge jeanine: the bottom line is his green energy plan hasn't really helped a lot of people. >> the president said he wants to get a volt when leaves office. he was saying five year is. i think we ought to make him where he is ready to go into the marketplace for a volt after november and go ahead and get the volt because nobody else is buying him. he might as well buy one. i bet he can negotiate a real deal on it. >> judge jeanine: switch gears to the justice department move to make sure that the texas law requiring a display of a voter i.d. be blocked. why is the white house doing this? >> mike: i don't know. i tried to ask liberal and democratic friends and ask this sincerely because i'm not against making sure that everyone eligible to vote can vote. youster to have a photo i.d. to cash a check. you have to have it in order to go and get into a building anywhere in manhattan.

>> judge jeanine: right. >> mike: get on a plane. to buy liquor. for a lot of things. bly why is it such a big deal and why does the justice department pick on texas when they ought to be helping texas secure its border and deal with a very dangerous situation that is a whole lot more dangerous than this whole idea of texas having a photo i.d. law. >> judge jeanine: who is he appealing to by saying we are going to block in voter id law? how does he benefit? >> mike: the left has made this their cause celeb. >> judge jeanine: why? do they want people to vote who can't identify themselves. >> gretchen: they say they don't. why else would you be so adamant. they say it is to protect people who find it difficult to get a photo i.d. if it is that difficult to get a photo i.d., won't it be difficult to go to the polls. >> doug: and register. plus the i.d. is free. there is no cost. >> gretchen: there is no cost. >> mike: there is no coast. and let's make it easy and put up a photo i.d. distribution

points at wal-marts. >> judge jeanine: send mobile crisis teams out. >> mike: i have no problem to make sure that people can vote. i should have to show the photo i.d. so my vote is legitimate and legal otherwise you disenfranchise my vote by letting an illegal person vote. >> judge jeanine: eric holder fast and furious where we sent guns to the mexican drug cartels. eric holder trying to block the voter i.d. law. had him recommending the 9/11 terrorist trials be tried down the street here and with the christmas day bomber mirandaizes him in 50 minutes and then the military people can't interrogate him. is he an alba cross i albatrosn election year around obama's neck? >> mike: i think he is. i think it would be a great benefit to the president. the only thing that eric holder is doing right now is creating a lightning rod that takes some pressure off of the president

and puts it on eric holder. otherwise there is no great political function that he is serving. >> judge jeanine: i don't think that a lot of people would disagree with you on that. certainly not me. always good to see you. >> mike: thank you, judge. great to be with you again. >> judge jeanine: rick santorum declares war on pornography promising to ban hardcore porn if elected president. will this help or hurt his chances?

>> judge jeanine: thamitt romny campaigned in puerto rico this morning taking advantage of controversial comments by rick santorum that people in puerto rico had better speak english if they want statehood. doug schoen. kelly ann conway and alice stewart press secretary for rick santorum. okay, guys. rick santorum created quite a hornet's nest by saying that as

a precondition to statehood english should be the main language of puerto rico. is he wrong? >> first of all, let me clare are fie that he never said that. i was with him in at least two dozen interviews and town halls and press conferences. he never said that. that is not what he believes. rick believes that all puerto ricans currently english and spanish are the official languages. he said he would encourage the schools to teach english for all puerto rican children to learn english because english is the language of opportunity. >> judge jeanine: he must have said something. kelly ann? >> i believe he said that people should speak english and learn that -- that english should be the official language of the united states which, of course, it is not. i think that governor fortune must have been there because he quickly pounced on the remarks and he, of course, endorsed mitt romney who hasn't. he pounced on the remark and

said my own three children have a bilingual education and people speak spanish. i will think in the hyper sensitized election season. >> judge jeanine: anything wrong with saying that english should be the language of the united states? >> nothing wrong but rick santorum keeps the putting his foot in his mouth. he is not talking about the issue most people puerto ricans and americans on the mainland care about, the economy. he is focusing on social issues that is a not a path to the nomination. >> in rick's defense let me say -- in rick's defense it doesn't even compare to mitt romney going to mississippi and saying hey y'all, i love cheesy grits. that was foney baloney. >> he believes that it should be english in addition to spanish. not only. >> judge jeanine: we got that, english in addition to spanish. we got that. a lot of people calling on your

candidate to drop out. isn't he hurting the party by holding on? >> people have been calling newt to not run in the first place. drop out before any vote was cast so that is nothing new. a different state, different calls to drop out. he is not hurting the party. the party needs this kind of competition. that kind of competition gave us the 2010 republican sweep where all of the underfunded unknown candidates were told you can't win and they sit in the house today. what nude said recently this week, he said i want to take a petty campaign to a national conversation. >> judge jeanine: even though he has missed the states that he said he had to win. >> he is going to tampa and i don't think he is a buccaneers fan so i think he is going to the convention. >> judge jeanine: doug the neutral guy here. should he say in? >> his decision. the bottom line. he hurtinganine: is he putting the party? >> he is hurting the war going on because there is a battle

going on only hurt, the republican brand. rick santorum desperately needs a one on one shot with mitt romney and he is not getting it. >> gingrich is fracturing the conservative vote. the fact that he didn't win, alabama, or mississippi is a clear sign that conservatives are not rallying behind him especially in the bible belt. what we need now is for tea party groups the conservative base and really strong party officials to rally behind the conservative candidate and that is rick santorum. >> judge jeanine: we know that but now alice, my favorite question for the night. rick santorum declaring war on porn. is this guy serious? i mean people don't have jobs, they can't afford gas and now you want to take away their porn. i mean you just lost the male vote probably a lot of women, too. i mean -- >> no, the women will like that. >> this issue is something that was put on the website weeks ago. >> judge jeanine: it is during the presidential campaign. >> the issue is what rick wants to do is to give parents the authority to monitor the content that their children have access to.

>> judge jeanine: they do. they can block that stuff, can't they? >> we are talking about english versus spanish. porn versus nonporn. i'm against porn. most right thinking people are. but there is a country with real problems. afghanistan. iran. job creation. all we are talking about on the republican side are issues that are not fund mantel. >> it is not about pornography. the supreme court said it is about obscenity. i judge said i know it when i see it but i can't define it. >> the strangest attempt to bridge the gender gap by a republican i have seen to go after porn because i disagree. i think women will say great idea and the men won't like it but the fact is doug is absolutely right. voters are against two main things. one is distraction and the other is overreach. every time a party overreaches their party loses the next

election. the overreach of obama should not be met by the distraction by the republicans. they need focus. >> judge jeanine: let's talk about obama. he came out with this documentary this week. isn't it a little early in the campaign? in the president election? is he worried? >> he is very worried and i say this as a democrat. he is worried that the negative news on the economy, the fact the country is perceived to go in the wrong direction, gas prices are high as you were saying with governor huckabee is a huge, huge problem for him. he is trying to distract attention from his record both with the documentary and more particularly attacks on the republicans which he leveled this week. >> and certainly. >> judge jeanine: and the one republican in particular, mitt romney. >> right. >> judge jeanine: and neither of your candidates was referenced. feel bad? >> he highlighted the doom and gloom around '0 and blaming everything on president bushed a now he doesn't even mention jobs and the economy. almost like they forgot to mention 2011 which is his

responsibility. >> like anybody else on tv. nobody is under oath so said whatever they wanted in the documentary. >> judge jeanine: so nice of you to be here this evening. >> thank you. >> judge jeanine: thank you. president obama standing by his plan to withdraw troops from afghanistan in 2014. find out why one decorated general believes that if we withdraw the taliban with sweep in within minutes.

>> judge jeanine: president obama's plans to withdraw troops from afghanistan at the end of 2014 has plenty of critics. general thomas is a fox news contributor and james carafano is director of foreign policy studies with the heritage foundation.

good evening, gentlemen. >> good evening, judge. >> judge jeanine: i will start with the war in afghanistan. now, the white house are they losing this war, general? >> i think they are, judge. and because they have fundamentally the wrong strategy. they build a strategy that is a sand castle. you have the events like the koran and new recently the incident in which 16 people were killed and all of a sudden the whole strategy starts to fail and president karzai backs out. he is a feckless leader and so we have a major problem. we need to shift from a counter insurgency strategy winning hearts and minds which we will never do over there to a counter terrorism strategy, defeat and destroy the taliban. >> judge jeanine: and james, isn't it true that we went in to get the taliban to go after al-qaeda, that was accomplished shortly after we went in in 2001. 2001.

when the general talks about not winning their hearts and minds. do we think the afghans want a federalist government? >> no, they won't. you will never get one out of -- the point was is we went in and the plan was simple, kill, capture those guys and we are done. what happened is they flowed back into pakistan and we thought musharraf would take care of this and he didn't. now, we have the problem of the taliban and al-qaeda washing back into afghanistan and the streak was to create enough of a firewall to keep them from coming back in. from the beginning the political guys were in when the president made a decision for political purposes he gave the commanders half the troops they asked for and half the time they needed to get the job done and told everybody when we were leaving so big shocker we are failing. >> judge jeanine: we spent half a billion dollars. 1900 americans have died. half a trillion dollars i should say. 1900 americans have died. what do we hope to accomplish? how is the white house

sustaining or argueing that we are making progress when we all know the taliban is in there three minutes after we leave? >> well, they are and that is the problem. they are losing the confidence of the american people. i would just make a minor correction one of the things that james said. pakistan is driving the taliban and giving them all the assistance economic and sanctuaries and driving them back in. if pakistan would cut off the taliban this war are would be over next week but they are not. we to come to grips and face to face with the paks and tell them enough is enough because we are coming in to pakistan to get them. you have that particular problem that is even exacerbating the white house problem. >> judge jeanine: and pakistan, of course, a problem as we know from osama bin laden. >> gretchen: a bigger problem and he is right that has been the problem since the beginning. the reason why the taliban took over to begin with is the

pakistani military decided that the best thing for them is if they worked with these guys and controlled these guys. when we pushed them out pakistan push faced a moment of decision, cut off these guys and they didn't. some of these guys they like and some they didn't. the problem for pakistan is they are not going to be happy. they have long memories and if they get back in afghanistan and al-qaeda establishes itself at some point they will come after the pakistani government and then we are looking at loose nukes. >> and the problem with that, of course, is it gets even worse. general let me ask you quickly. this week marines were asked to disarm in the presence of the secretary of defense. the first time that ever happened. they first came out with a lame excuse saying since the afghans were disarmed we didn't want to be armed when they weren't. aren't our men in the middle of a war in a country we have been there for 11 years. what was the thinking behind that? >> judge, it is absolutely

insane and unfortunately we have got that kind of leadership that doesn't understand the ideology we are fighting. and then they do this to our troops. now, i will only say it is absolutely insane and our military leadership ought to be ashamed of themselves. >> judge jeanine: i don't think you disagree with that, james? >> i'm not going to second guess the decision they make. our president has a losing strategy. he said this was the only war that was important and now he is lying to us and he is losing. >> judge jeanine: i think disarming our men is absolutely crazy. thank you so much for being with us this evening. >> thanks, judge. >> judge jeanine: a mother in hot water for attacking the man she says gave her son heroin. and feeling the pain from high gas prices? president obama creates a panel to investigate. have you heard that one before? .

now, back to the judge.

>> judge jeanine: a woman believes her son is buying heroin from a local man so what is a mother to do. sherry gavin took matters into her own hands. >> actually my mother's instinct took over and i got paranoid. i had no idea what to do because we had asked the father to please keep his son away from us, which obviously did not get relayed. so i went to talk to him. he got out of his car, i got out of mine asked him if he knew who i was and why i was there and he said, yes. he went to his son's car that he was driving to get something out and that is when i turned around and got the baseball bat out of my jeep because i was scared. he started coming towards me so i made the misjudgment of hitting him with the baseball bat. i asked him to stay away from my son, to never come anywhere

near him. so he started to come toward me again and that is when i hit him for the second time. >> judge jeanine: joey jackson a former criminal defense attorney and prosecutor and arthur adayla. she is charged with assault. is that justice, arthur? >> she should get a trophy. look, she went to the kid's father first. the heroin dealer's father and confronted him and he closed the door in her face. he didn't address the issue with his son. then she sees the heroin dealer pursuing her own child in a restaurant. >> judge jeanine: where she is working and brought her son. she follows him. i don't believe she was scared of him. i think she was hey, get away from my child. >> judge jeanine: you think she gets out of the car with the bat and goes right at the guy. what do you think, joey? >> i think she is brave. however, we can't resort to the self-help, your honor.

we have to be a society of laws. first aluminum bats and then wooden bats and then guns and newberrys. >> judge jeanine: what if she handed over the text messages of the heroin supplier to the police and the police do nothing about it. and he is chasing her son and then the police chief has the nerve to say we can't turn our backs on an assault victim? >> this is the kind of case judge if it went to trial you you would get jury nullification. even though she is guilty the juror would say i don't care if she assaulted him. she has every right to assault him because the system failed her. >> let's go out and get everyone we disagree with. this one is engaging in injustice. can't do it. unacceptable. >> attorney raven arnham wants to get her belongings from her estranged husband.

the attorney shows up at the man's house and it is call caught on tape. he bangs on the door but the husband anthony stoneseifer doesn't answer. after awhile he emerges and in the driveway the attorney confronts him. >> camera number one and camera number two. >> camera number one and camera number two. >> once the husband is out of sight he wastes no time kicking in the side door. >> by the way -- >> and then he and his client enter and take back her possessions. they also rip a no trespassing order off the door. at one point they pause for an odd lawyer client hug. >> i need a hug. i need a hug. >> judge jeanine: but back outside he returns for one more drivebase face-off with van arnu. >> by the way, you are trespassing. >> really? >> yeah, really. >> the attorney says that he

was helping his client get a basinette and childrens things out of the home. was evangelicalhe justified? . even if he has a legitimate claim. come on. you can't do this. >> judge jeanine: you are so for truth, justice and the law. >> you got to be. >> with the greatest amount of respect i look at this and thank god for my father being a lawyer and my role model. if i thought of doing something like that for a client at 44 my dad would still take off his belt and beat my butt. and the lawyer by the way was already arrested for possession of cocaine. possession of cocaine. >> and lost his law license for awhile. >> judge jeanine: the woman who he represented had a baby three weeks guy and couldn't get the bassinette for the baby. he is living with his girlfriend in the house and he didn't let them in.

>> take up a collection and buy the $30 bassinette for the child. >> judge jeanine: she was charged with conspiracy to do damage to the house. >> why shoddent she be? >> because it was her house. >> wiser minds should have prevailed and they should have purchased one. >> he said he didn't have time to go to court. like that one? >> unbelievable. i don't think he should be practicing law. >> you really don't? >> let me defend it for a little while. i don't think that he should get his law license pulled. maybe a little suspension. >> judge jeanine: he will spend 30 days in jail. think of the clients he can pick up in jail. >> criminal law. >> what is he doing hugging her by the way? anyway and finally my favorite, courts gone wild. and this is an escape for the record books. stun gun doesn't seem to phase

a 25-year-old christopher ruffin in court for a probation violation. >> you can see him there. all right. the court officers are chasing him or waddelling after him. and then they have a few more chasing him when passes by security. and then apparently he goes into an apartment building tries to get in a car. the guy locks the doors and gets in another car with a woman and two-year-old and then runs out and the police finally catch him. and by the way, guys this guy has got prongs hanging out of him from the taser gun. >> strong dude, right? >> he has got to be a powerful man to get tased like that. ever see the movie the hangover? getting tased is not fun and he is running through the streets like o.j. simpson through the airport. >> judge jeanine: they are supposed to immobilize you. >> he doesn't like jail. have to do a cost benefit analysis. it was a 9 90 day probation

violation. >> and now he will do years. >> judge jeanine: what about all of the court officers who couldn't catch the guy? >> jenny craig? >> judge jeanine: should have jenny craig. >> i'm not touching that. we have to go to these courts, art, be careful. >> it happened to me. when i was a prosecutor the defendant went after me and the court officers were right on it. that's brooklyn. >> judge jeanine: arthur, joey, we love you both. thank you. all right, guys. and soaring gas prices and it will only get worse. so what is president obama doing about it? wait until you get a load of this one. @

>> judge jeanine: what is the best way to respond to sky high gas prices? if you are president obama, you create a task force and then you put eric holder in charge. tyson crow couple i slocum and, a host the "the five" right here on the fox news channel. welcome, gentlemen. >> great to be here. >> judge jeanine: tyson, i will start with you. please explain what the oil and gas price fraud working group is on who is on it and what this he have done? >> well, they haven't done anything. a whole bunch of -- to put it bluntly. looks like more like a prime minister by the obama administration to try and address gas prices than getting

at one of the central issues which is the role that excessive speculation has played in driving excessive gasoline prices higher than they should be. the task force comprised of eric holder. the commodities futures trading commission which is a nominally independent agency that oversees commodity futures markets. the federal trade commission which since 2007 has expanded authority over oil markets, the department of energy and several other agencys. >> the department of energy that gave away a half a billion dollars for solyndra and then decided to put the taxpayers at the back of the line. you are talking agencies now, tyson. are there any people on the committee? >> well, yeah, there are people from each agency. >> agency obviously. sounds like that he just put all of the agencies under the auspices of eric holder's department of justice and if the whole mission was to make sure that they rooted out ma

nip lakes in the oil markets and the consumers weren't gouged at the gas pump a year later what have they done? have they done anything? >> they haven't unfortunately. they haven't released any report that details the results of their investigative findings. they only met a handful of times and so this is pretty disappointing because we as public citizens along with a whole bunch of other consumer and industry groups understand the role that excessive speculation has in raising prices higher than the supply demand fundamentals. this is causing real pain and we suspect that there are cases of market ma nip lake manipulae think that the federal agencies ought to be doubling down but half heartedke a halftime effort. >> judge jeanine: have you put any pressure on the so called oil and gas fraud working group to see if they could come up with a resolution? >> we called on congress to put the pressure on. we called on the administration

to effectively root out excessive speculation. >> judge jeanine: but they are not doing it, tyson and that is the problem. eric, what is your take on the group's effectiveness? >> a great example of how government has no clue of what is going on. the department of energy steven chu is as lost as lost can be. the reason why president obama says republicans are like flat earthers because they have no answers. this he have no solutions they point the finger anywhere they can. speculation tyson has nothing to do with the price of gasoline. you are going to tell me that gas is $3.83 a gallon because of speculation? what about when gasoline went from $4.11 down to $1.83 when president obama was elected? guess what? those were speculators pushing it down, too. don't blame speculators when prices go up and sai oops, i don't know about the speculators when prices go down. that is misguided. >> judge jeanine: before you get into -- here is my question, tyson. this group is there to help the

american people. you are saying they haven't done spit. met like a handful of times and whatever the reason is for the rise in the oil prices we have got another bogus committee where we have got eric holder in charge, a guy who botched fast and furious. he is the guy who told the president to close guantanamo and give the christmas day bomber his miranda rights stopping us from getting intelligence and wanted the 9/11 terrorists tied in new york city. is he hapless or just plain stupid? >> we don't have a conviction yet or indictment over the whole financial scandal from 2008. but the big thing here is that contrary to what your other guest is saying speculation plays a role. that is not just public citizens saying that. that is goldman sachs.

>> you have sung the same tune over and over again. i don't hear you saying speculator tion are fantastic when prices go down. the week of july 15, 2008, when prices reached their all-time high and president bush said you know what we are going to drill a little bit more off the offshore outer continental shelf and also on the coast prices went -- the barrel level went from 147 bucks a barrel that week to $33 a barrel six months later. where were the speculators then, tyson? >> with us the speculative oil burst because of the collapse of the delivetive housing market. the credit default swaps and the banks that dominated the speculation market. >> why don't you just admit it the answer is you don't have anywhere to go with, if. the obama administration is looking all over the place for an answer and don't have it. >> eric, you have 20 years in the oil business and say you owned and operated oil and gas trading businesses. what is the solution to the issue at the pump?

>> first of all, you have to make it clear to everyone in the world that you are willing to drill. we are not cook. that is not the only answer. here is a big one not the ultimate one but here is one. get one blend of gasoline. groups like tysons won't like this if you have one national blend for gasoline it won't matter where you blend or refine it or use it. right now there are probably over 100 different blends in america. >> judge jeanine: you think it comes down to one blend. >> judge, there is one more and i will not tell you and i offered this to president obama. >> judge jeanine: why aren't you going to tell us? >> the silver bull let they are looking for. i guarantee a dollar lower and he will probably get reelected. >> judge jeanine: we never know about that. thank you both for a spirited debate. the issue, of course, is impacting americans in their wallet every day. >> judge jeanine: now, we issued a justice call to arms to help a national hero. a dog called sargent rex and you responded in a big way. up next, an

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>> judge jeanine: a four legged war hero. sergeant rex. a military working dog with the marines who at ten years old is about to be retired but his fate is up in the air. they served together in the war torn streets of iraq. marine meghan levy and her dog sergeant rex. he was faithfully at megan's side for two tours of duty. sniffing out ieds on over 100 mixes. then in 2006, tragedy. a road side bomb exploded, megan and rex were both seriously injured. they were sent back to the united states and spent over a

year recovering. both megan and her partner were awarded purple hearts. eventually, sergeant rex was put back into service at camp pendleton. megan was discharged and the pair separated. this year, sergeant rex faces retirement. for some military dogs that could mean being put down but megan is hoping to adopt rex and bring him home to spend the rest of his life with her. last week, we called on you for help and you responded sending hundreds of e-mails asking the military to cut the red tape and reunite the duo. so will megan be able to adopt rex? >> mike was rex's handler before megan. he is the author of sergeant rex the unbreakable bond between a marine and his military working dog. good evening, mike. >> good evening. how are you? >> what is the latest? is megan going to be able to

adopt sergeant rex? >> well, i cannot officially announce anything. that is only the marine corps can do that but what i can tell you is that rex will be adopted out by megan. he is in the final stages of the adoption process right now. and as soon as he gets through that he should be done very, very shortly. and the marine corps i'm sure will come out and announce it officially. >> but mike, it has taken years. why so long? >> well, he is a great working dog. he is very, very good at what he does. and he loves to work. that has been his whole life. and so because he was useful they kept him working. he was very useful to the marine corps and the military and has done a lot of great things. up until recently -- he has been ten years. the average military dog does about six to eight years and that is how good he has been. now, that he is finally developing medical conditions it is time for him to retire and he will go to megan. the marine corps and military, everybody wants to see him get adopted out and get the love he

deserves with megan. just a process, that's all. >> judge jeanine: you wrote a book and i was looking at it i'mre the show started and 77' an animal lover and you wrote a book about rex. why do you think he is so special? >> well, all our military dogs are special because they he go through so much. but rex served a very long time. he has done three combat tours. i wanted to write the book to bring awareness to all military dogs and what we go through in combat and the bond that we developed but rex specifically his three tours were in really bad area from 2004 to 2006. he has seen a lot of combat. he has been wounded. he recovered. he kept working. and this whole process. i don't want people to blow it out of the water too much. it is very necessary the transition process just like every service member like myself has to go through when we get out of the military there is a whole transition process. it is no different for the dogs. they need to go through the transition process as well.

sometimes it takes a little longer than it should and megan and myself and everyone else involved we love our dogs more than anybody else and wanted to make sure that he he would get out in a timely efficient manner that is all. >> there is no question that the dogs, mike, are not trained to be pets but i have to tell you i was looking through the book and this dog is absolutely beautiful. looks alert and smart and obviously your life depended on him when you were working with h him. >> yeah, well, there is a reason i mean we nicknamed him sexy rexy because he looked so beautiful, you know. he had another nickname and that was ti tyrannus rex. you just can't simply retire them and the next day give them out. it is important that they go through the evaluations and everyone that conducts them loves the dogs as much as we do. never a question of whether or not he was going get adopted out. just a matter of when and how fast and we are happy to know that heel come out quickly

here. >> thanks so much, mike. i would be curious if the dogs get a pension but that is it for us tonight. thanks for joining us. and e-mail us your comments