welcomwelcome to "geraldo t large" i'm kimberly guilfoyle. geraldo will be joining me shortly from afghanistan. first, this is a fox news alert. southern, california has been hit with a 7.2 magnitude earthquake sending shockwaves that can be felt as far away as san diego and los angeles. there are no reports of damages or injuries but officials fear a destructive wave of aftershocks may be on the way. i will continue to monitor the aftermath for aftershocks, damage and injuries throughout the program. here is what else we have for you on this special edition of "geraldo at large" live from afghanistan. one president brings hope and another in far off

afghanistan begs his people to support a coming storm. tonight, as our troops around the world celebrate easter sunday, we report from the forward marine base set in a sea of opium and intimidation. plus, they may be down in iraq but the enemy is not out. not yet. tonight the latest from the triple suicide bombings in baghdad. and, with the church under fire, spiritual support from across the centuries. >> by imtating those distortions we could take the shroud image and put it back into that shape and figure out what the face looked like. it gave us a blueprint geraldo is this what jesus looked like? >> what we do see is science showing us what this face on a shroud would look like would greater perfection. >> plus, is mommy in the coal mines? kimberly is on the case of the search for susan powell. and a political pillow fight? i'll let kimberly explain.

>> all right, geraldo, i will be back later with breaking news on unemployment that may have 200,000 americans seeing red. it will be an easter battle royale debate like you have never seen. and between our resident political chicks ann and kirsten, not those chicks, guys, these chicks, the real ann coulter and kirsten powers will join me and we will see the ladies later in the program. now, let's go out to geraldo. hi, geraldo. geraldo hi, kimberly. welcome everybody to the marine forward operating base marja. an instant city, a for treasure created in the center of the poppy growing region of afghanistan. it was here, 49 days ago that the largest helicopter borne assault since the war in vietnam began and it is here that yesterday a different kind of operation began, one to convince the local people to

stop growing opium poppies. this is lieutenant colonel cal worth, the commanding officer of the first battalion sixth marines. how do you think it went yesterday, colonel? >> things have begun relatively slowly but it is a start and nothing happens fast in afghanistan. >> geraldo: nothing happens fast that afghanistan, indeed. i was here with these marines six years ago. let's take a look at some of what they did yesterday. >> today is the first day so we are giving them about two to three weeks to do it, to cut the opium and then they come back and we give them cash for it and also see if they want to grow something else because it is banned in the whole country now so we are giving the alternative to choose to grow different crops. >> geraldo: just to give you an idea of how pervasive it is and how daunting a task, i want to show you how prevalent it is. just in the shadow of the united states forces here to try to wean the population off the addictive drug i want you

to follow me into the compound. feet away, open the old door that has been here for quite awhile and what you see is a wonderland of opium stars the eye can see. in the past they were given vouchers and when the time game the vouchers were never redeemed. they are very skeptical people. >> a lot of people sound like they are ready to do this. we are giving them the yellow piece of paper and after they prove to us that they committed to their end of the bar gain we will send a marine patrol to witness it and they will sign this and bring it back to us and verify and we give them the money for following up. >> comes out to $300 every two and a half acres. >> just about, yep. >> how much would that be worth on the streets of new york? >> the opium itself is probably worth a lot more than that? >> geraldo: the question is will the farmers buy into the programs to compensate them for

their crop or will they go for the bigger money with the taliban or other drug dealers and get this opium processed, shipped out of here and into the veins and noses of the victims of heroin everywhere in the world? >> geraldo: what do they think of the program? >> the first thing we need in marjah is security to save our family and make sure we save -- we are safe and our family is safe and houses are safe and nobody can destroy it or damage it and the second we need school. our kids are just studying other province but we need a school and we need a clinic and a road here. but the first thing we need security in marjah. >> field coordinator for one of

the many programs trying to substitute opium for some other legitimate crop like wheat. it has been so long and there have been so many promises made to the people that they have a deep sense of skepticism and cynicism about the government's giving them monitor the crop. do you think that will be different? >> we are not doing crop substitution. they are having a hard time bringing crops to market, they are being threatened by the taliban. they would like to get new crop seed in the ground but they have no market for the crops. if they were given carrots for cabbage for the fall. they are threatening the farmers and threatening the people this they are the ones patrolling the people coming and going. people are afraid to come out of their houses. but it is still really dangerous out there for them to

travel two kilometers or even right down the road. >> geraldo: how many of you were at one point in your life members of the taliban? gll >> these people never been with talib and never support talib. they hurt us and damage our houses and damage our economy but sometime we don't have a choice. they force us. they came to our house to feed them, of course, we don't have the choice. they have the guns and they have the power, yes, we did but in the present, no, we didn't help them and we are not with them and we never be taliban or a part of taliban. >> geraldo: in some ways the fight against the opium is going to be tougher than the fight against the taliban. you drove them out in four days. how long do you think it will be to rid these people of this habit? >> i can't give you an exact

time but it will take awhile for the population in marjah to realize there are other means to make money and feed their families and that takes a little time and it will take more than one planting season for them to be convinced that is possible. >> geraldo: yesterday, i spoke with your boss, the division commander, general -- brigadier general and he talked about the intimidation factor and something called night letters. here is general nicholson. >> geraldo: the governor spoke of the night letters and the fact that they come at night to intimidate after the marines leave. >> that is true. we are seeing some night letters. i don't know how prevalent it is but in some areas where we don't have elder buyin and i think what you saw today was reaching out to the elders and trying to gain their support. one thing we do know is if the elders support the governor we

don't have problems in the neighborhood. they have tremendous influence. part this of traveling ministry today, if you will the road show is to reach out to some of the elders he hasn't met and try to enlist their support and try to clean up the areas where we still do have the intimidation 48 days after we are clear. >> geraldo: major heath henderson is the battalion xo. how do you build trust with the people? >> counter insurgency is about security for the people and once we can establish conditions where they feel secure and can resume a normal pattern of life and go about their lives. >> geraldo: how do you tell the good guys from the bad, colonel? >> it takes time. this is about building relationships. counter insurgency is about security for the people and it is about trust. when they trust us enough to really, really invest in the security force hire to include the coalition forces and the afghan forces then they will talk to us and trust us and

build relationships and we will be able to tell who is who because they will tell us. >> geraldo: they will tell you. well, let's take a break. we'll be right back. >> as u.s. troops prepare to move the war in iraq to afghanistan, three massive suicide bombings rocked baghdad today, killing at least 42 people and wounding 230. our own dominic di-natale is there with the latest. >> we are just 500-yards away from the iranian embassy and we were there soon after the attack. ten people were killed here as the car bomb exploded at the check point to the compound. vehicles passing by were incinerated in the attack. it is the first time there has been a car bomb attack on this particular site. since 2003, no car bomb has gotten past the barricades. a night which saw mortars fire inside the nearbuy green zone and a weekend which witnessed a

vicious attack on sunni muslims. al-qaeda is believed to be behind that and is a key suspect in the strikes. they still haven't formed the new government and there are many militant groups that would like to take advantage of the instability and precarious situation as iraq goes through the paces of learning to become a full democracy. >> when we return, it is time for the two angry political chicks, not niece but the real one -- not these but the real ones. all that and this. coming up, what a rotten easter egg. tomorrow, 200,000 americans will be cut off from unemployment and some say congress is to blame. and this -- >> basically it would be deep and go straight down and for someone to find something down that it would be literally impossible. >> breaking news in the case of the missing utah mom. could her husband's conscience

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200,000 people will be without any income starting tomorrow morning all because congress failed to extend the unemployment benefits program before leaving for easter break. but, in a show of support, president barack obama attended easter services with his family at the allen chapel, a church located in an area of d.c. besieged by high unemployment

and poverty. joining me for what is bound to be a lively debate here is the ladies. ann coulter and kirsten powers. the chicks are under the sting in the nest right now, ladies so you are safe. bahawhat do you make of this? >> it has been blocked a couple of times by two different republicans and i think that it is something that probably won't go over too well with the public in terms of the republicans are trying to put it off on the democrats for going away for the easter break. i think it as sad time to decide to be fiscally disciplined. you know, you don't hear them -- >> have a heart. >> you don't hear them coming up with fiscal discipline coming up with paying for the iraq war but people who are desperate to pay for food and keeping the electricity on and paying their bills is now the time they decide to be fiscally disciplined and saying things like this will keep people from looking for jobs so let's cut them off and let's sort of leave them as if people aren't looking for jobs. >> ann?

>> i think it is very hard to blame the republicans for the massive unemployment numbers now. the democrats control every branch of government. we can't even stop the socialist takeover of healthcare. and if obama really wanted to show some sympathy for the unemployed i think he out to make himself downemployed because that would help most people who don't have a job. what they want isn't a government handout. what they want is a job and the job numbers keep getting worse and worse and worse and there is no question that they will continue to get worse because everything that obama is doing it making it harder for employers to hire. you have an unemployment rate technically 9.7 but the real rate is 16.9 when you throw in part-time workers but would prefer full-time work or people who have stopped looking for a job because they have been looking for a year and can't find one. and what are the democrats doing? putting on more regulations on employers. is this big healthcare bill

going to help or hurt someone get a full-time job as opposed to a part-time job? obviously employers are going to prefer temporary and part-time workers because they will not get the panoply of government regulated benefits. and it will take a republican president to come out of the recession. >> what do you say to the senior democrats -- >> and happy easter. >> can we be kind and gentle, sweet and cuddly on easter? no. what do you say to those that say 162,000 jobs created in march. >> and 230,000 jobs lost and 48,000 of those jobs are temporary jobs working for the census department. >> and 15 million americans still out of work. >> that's right. and also minimum from what i have seen, 40,000 federal government jobs. but and, oh, yes, we have the other good news is we have 16,000 workers being hired by the irs to enforce the

healthcare bill. >> the irs. don't put me in a bad mood on easter sunday. i can't take th the news. >> more from geraldo with the troops in marjah and craig brings us the latest on reducing casualties in war-torn kandahar.

back at the marine forward operating mays marjah, named for marjah the -- probably the world's heroin capital or opium capital. it was a bitter three, four day fight here. where were you lance corporal during the fight? >> i was driving an m 98 armored combat earth mover. another blade to push dirt where need. >> and a lot of small arms fire

headed your way? >> not too much. just enough to keep me inside my vehicle. >> and keep your attention. >> geraldo: and what kind of injuries did the marines suffer here. in. >> a wide array ranging from lassations to the chest all the way to concussion grade three concussions and each of them just as severe as the other. >> geraldo: and how is the morale, colonel worth, the commanding officer of the first battalion, now is the morale? >> the morale is good. they have done a fantastic job of keeping their thoughts positive and realizeing that we are doing something important for the people of afghanistan. >> geraldo: the way we fought this war before this surge was from the air and, you know, long distance and i think it did a lot to alienate the local people. is different now? >> though we use m raps. >> geraldo: the big armored vehicles. >> absolutely. we use those for protection when we have to be on the roads we spend much of our time

conducting patrols and interaction with the population and that is where the war is going be won. >> geraldo: with shoe leather. craig has more on how we are phasing away from the air force kind of directed warfare to something much more personal and much more on the street. here is craig. >> one of the changing aspects of the war here in afghanistan under general stanley mcchrystal's new plan is to have more boots on the ground and less reliance on air support. i'm with the air wing commander here at bagram airfield. how has your job changed? >> the job has just used the flexibility of military power to bring support to general mcchrystal and his directives. >> directives that have changed after a series of civilian casualties with errant air strikes.

one came after aerial surveillance and a ground command to strike what they thought were insurgents. a translated apology, general mcchrystal spoke to the afghan people. >> and these weren't just words. coalition forces must now wait 72 hours to establish a "pattern of life" before bombing a house where insurgents have taken refuge. >> does it frustrate you as an air commander the fact that there is less relevance for the impact of what you do or what your pilots -- >> it is actually more relevant. i mean bringing in materials. the effect can just be an eye in the sky that can watch the enemy and wait until the enemy leaves the village. it can be the electronic warfare that can shut down the enemy's ability to talk to one another so they have to stop fighting and they move on to a place we can get to them.

air power is actually more powerful in this counter insurgency than it was before. >> the general also makes the point that this enemy is fighting a public relations war and often uses innocent civilians as bait. >> they fight from the villages. they fight from the homes. they ambush our forces from areas of sanctionary where they know we will not bring firepower to bear because there could be innocent people. >> but it is bait that they are no longer taking. >> anybody can drop a bomb but american and coalition air power is even more encouraged and more capable of helping in this counter insurgency where our job is to bring goodness and not death. >> although the total number of civilian casualties rose in 2009 to more than 2400, nato troops were responsible for about a quarter of those deaths which is down from nearly half the year before.

but those are statistics that general mcchrystal and general quaff hope to cut even further. geraldo? >> geraldo: thanks very much. it is already 7:00 a.m. monday morning here at forward operating base marjah but when we come back i will tell you how these marines spent their easter sunday. that is coming up. that and more.

at any time ironic that this elaborate irgaition system put in place to allow farmers to irrigate the wheat fields and cotton fields are being use 50 years later to irrigate fields growing poppy that will be converted into heroin that will end up in the neighborhoods in the united states? n on sunday.

now, back to "geraldo at large." for all your headlines gorgeous to fox news.com. >> geraldo: welcome back live to forward operating base marjah. in a couple of minutes i will show you how the new vehicles have been protecting marines lives. before the break i told you i was going to tell you what the troopers did with, what these marines did on easter sunday. here is the battalion chaplain. he is captain terry buehle. how was easter sunday for the marines? they say there are no agen no s in foc holes or trenches. is that true? >> it was a normal day for them. they got to eat a good male, had some steak and had an easter service for them. >> it was a two hour line but well worth it at the end. a lot better than the mree. in terms of their faith and

their religion but more spiritual and just a specific religion, is the marine corps almost a religion in a sense? >> in some ways they have their own code of ethics and things that they believe and really stand for and in that sense they could be considered that. >> geraldo: and there is a tremendous spirit i see here. is it reenforced on an easter sunday? >> i really believe it is. >> geraldo: and colonel, how do you keep them jazzed, and say the world is paying attention and cares about you? >> well, you provide them opportunities like this to make sure that their stories are getting out and that america understands the sacrifice they make by being here and being away from their families and quite frankly you talk about something that you to outside of here on a day to day basis? >> geraldo: sports. politics. >> ask them about their families, how they are doing and how does their family feel

about them being here in marjah and you let them go from there. >> geraldo: you know, the catholic church specifically, ladies and gentlemen, as you know has been rocked by some scandal in the recent weeks and months, but something has happened that i think will kind of infuse a lot of believers in a very positive way. here is kimberly now with our own father morris about something that the history channel has done kind of to bring religion and maybe myth and ledge end int legend into d fact. >> a new history channel documentary may bring us the chosest we have come to seeing what jesus christ looked like. ray downing constructed a 3d image from an ancient cloth known as the shroud believed to be the burial cloth of christ. it took six months to recreate

and may be the most accurate desixthion made of the man many believe to be jesus christ. joining us is father jonathan morris who is also an advisor on the film the passion of the christ and is i in the history channel special airing this weekend. thank you for being with us. what is the shroud of turin? >> the most studied document or piece of history that we can grab on to, artifact ever in history. the most studied artifact. >> and what about the skeptics that say this could not be possible? >> i'm all for listening to scientists but make sure that scientists work within their own field. they can't say i'm a scientist and therefore it is not real. they have to show why it is not real or at least what it is. not a single scientist today has been able to explain how that image would have gotten on to that. it is definitely an image of a

man who was crucified. this is not -- there is no question about that. ray downing pulls out the blood marks on the face of jesus, pulls them forth using computer graphics and shows a man who was crucified, beaten unbelievably. >> which would be consistent with the story of jesus christ and the crucifixion of what we know. >> and the story of the romans of how they did crucifixion. absolutely consistent. >> let's go into a little bit of how the 3d image was created. you talked about pulling the blood from the clothe. what else was done? >> the scientists behind this and graphic artists found is that the shroud has three dimensional information within it because it was wrapped around the body and so when you look at the image of the shroud in and of itself it is two dimensional and a little bit distorted and you can't figure out what he would have looked

like. by going in and getting the 3d information he was able to pull it out and create in image and basically made a death mask of a person. >> and what about the people who would love to make a pilgrimage. >> in turin this spring they will open it up to the public. they don't do it very often because the elements affect the image. the elements of the light and being with all of the people around it and they are very careful to protect? thank you so much for revealing the truth. in march, 2006, albert snyder got the news that every military parent dreads. his 20-year-old son lance corporal matthew snyder had been killed serving in iraq. the heart ache wasn't over for the devastated family. a week later members of the west borrow baptist church a religion fringe troop that claims good is persecuting america picketed matthew's funeral. albert sued the controversial

church over the free throw test and won millions. now, three judges over turned the ruling and awarded legal fees to the tune of $16,000. joining me now on the phone is albert snyder. >> hi, kimberly. it has been pretty rough. it has been a long four years. sometimes i feel like i have been fighting this battle now forever and i do see a light at the tunnel, you know, maybe in a year or two but it has been a long haul. >> and the interesting development in the story now is, of course, that the judges awarded this church, the $16,000 in legal fees which would be the photo copying, filing costs, kind of administrative costs that they claim that they are out. >> yeah, kimberly, we don't know what -- why the fourth circuit did what they did. we were kind of waiting that they would sit on this to see what the supreme court did, why they sat on this for three months and then, you know, and

then decided to rule on it is something that we don't know. this is not uncommon for a court to rule like this to pay people back for lawsuits. however, with my financial circumstances and the fact that i'm not a corporation, i'm just a single individual, the court could have reduced it, they could have even told them no, he doesn't have to pay you at all but they elected to go with the full amount that they requested. >> now, we understand the case will go to the supreme court. what do you think is going happen there? >> kimberly, i just want to tell you listeners also that this isn't the only thing they are going after. they are urinara also going after the lower court -- they are also going after the lower courts where the judgment was in my favor for a total of $98,000. >> and they said in one of their filings he actually can pay the money because he is

going to receive death benefits from the death of his son. how outrageous is that. >> that is unbelievable, isn't it? that is unbelievable. >> shocks the conscience. i know that you have a lot of public support. you have been a brave man to go forward in the way that you have. we will be following this case closely and we do want to reach out to viewers this evening on this easter weekend. any one looking to donate to the snyder's legal fund go to www.matthewsnyder.org. thank you for being with us and for the service of your son. joining me is criminal defense attorney are to discuss the case. this man wasn't allowed to mourn his son and have a proper funeral without the protesters disrespecting him and his son who served our country and gave his life for our country and that is why people are angry. and they are saying pay me the

16 and going after him for another $98,000. >> let's look at the positive side of the story. there has been a tremendous outpouring of support even from our own bill o'reilly and everyone is supporting him. that is the positive side. the negative side is mr. snyder is clearly with it. he said it, it is common for judges to do this, to award the fees. that is the purpose of that so people know is to discourage people from bringing frivolous lawsuits so other people don't have to pay to defend themselves if they didn't do anything wrong. in this case a court could have used discretion and should have used discretion. they didn't say you have to pay the whole $100,000 legal fee, you only have to pay the $16,000 for all of their expenses but this is one of the cases where they should have used their god given common sense the judges should have and said there are no fees. >> thank you. >> but now the united states supreme court is going have something to say about this and

justices scalia and thomas will have something to say about whether there were violations. >> and you know the judges. >> and i know how they think as well and i think they will have a hard time with allowing people to protest in this manner and enviedin invading ps vie valuable informationcy. people's privacy.

>> geraldo: in the ten years we have been covering the war this this region we have seen the devastation that those improvised explosive devices can do. in the early days we drove around in open topped vehicle then unarmorred humvees and now they have massive vehicles but still the improvised explosive devices most of which are made with ammonium nitrate do inflict considerable damage. you can see how tearing fenders apheter entire front part of the cab bin structure there. other vehicles as we move on, broken axels, other damage to the front. you can see them lying here or there. this one got torn up pretty well by a substantial explosion. but what you don't see is damage inside the cabin itself. that is why these marines drive around in these heavily armored vehicles now. this is why we have essentially defeated the ied as a weapon

against our troopers. obviously some still get injured, obviously they can be enormously frustrating and complicating to the mission because it takes time to clear them but when you look around at the damage that they do to the heavy metal and understand how few of our marines and gis, other gis are injured as a result of these explosions you can see how far we have come in protecting our troops from what was really the enemy's best weapon. >> thanks, geraldo. joining me now in the studio, retired u.s. army colonel david hunt. a lot of people want to know are our troops finally getting the resources and support that they need over there? >> absolutely. what geraldo is showing, the marines and army and special forces guys, we have been there nine years and we have been supplying them. one of the hardest places to fight in the world but they are

getting the support they need. >> do you think there is a marked tiv len difference frome level of support and what is going on there for the troops et cetera? >> a dramatic change. change in tactics and the change in leadership with mcchrystal. the problem in all this is the lack of government control by the afghan. it is a failed government right now and we are doing a great job but the afghan needs more help than they are getting now. >> what else can we do strategically to improve the outcome there in a short expedited amount of time? >> pakistan, we have to keep pressure on pakistan and build up the afghan government, police and military. as great as our guys are doing, if their government doesn't get right and continue pressure we will be in real trouble. >> what is the long-term plan for pakistan? i think you make up an excellent point. that is a huge problem for the u.s. we may be able to make inroads and make improvements, okay, in other area but if we don't take

care of pakistan as well that could all be compromised. >> pakistan needs stability not as much as afghanistan. afghanistan is in a lot of trouble that way. but we have to keep pakistan stable because of a lot of issues, one, of course, is the atomic bombs and they are friends of ours and we depend on them for a lot of help. we needed them a lot getting in and out of iraq. but stability is the key issue for pakistan. less so, it as more mature government than in afghanistan but the afghan and pakistan stability of their governments a huge issue for us. >> they can be codependent with one another. >> yes. >> and what about briefly your thoughts on iran? >> iran has to be dealt with directly economically, socially, militarily is a bridge too far. we already have two wars going on. >> you're right. we can't overextend ourselves. when we return, take a look at this -- >> coming up,. >> basically it would be deep.

it would go straight down and for someone to find something down that it would be literally impossible. >> breaking news in the case of the missing utah mom. could her husband's conscience lead to a confession and her

we are continuing on the weekends and the first of the week following up on information and reports that we have got for something suspicious out in the middle of the desert. there is mine shafts and this time of year there is a lot of dangers. >> well, it has been almost four months since utah mom susan powell was reported missing. her husband josh was the last person to see her and remains the only person of interest. this week search efforts resume

in a desert filled with a mine shaft that may be holding her body. dorothy from the "national enquirer" joins us now. what can you tell us? >> we all know that just this week we heard that a friend of josh's, you know, susan's husband came forward and said that a year before he she disappeared he talked about the best place to hide a body in a mine. when one of the child was reporting with one of the detectives he blurted out mommy is in the mine looking for crystals. why would a child just say that and now that we are friending out that the friend has told us about the whole mine connection it is making even more sense. >> it does make sense. what do you -- >> he is the suspect, let's face it. his alibi about bringing the two sons out when it was

freezing out to go camping and the wife disappears at the same time and the thing a year before we he mentioned it was a good place to hide a body down a shaft. there is so many shaft there's and some get narrowed down the end so it would be difficult for the search teams to go out there and search every one of these. they have to look at some of these shafts that go down there and a lot of them they are going to be able to go in there and find anything. he might have gone down there and buried her in the back. you would have to put somebody down there and crawl in there and tens of thousands of shafts, that is going be difficult. >> what is so compelling is you have a child saying something like this. we would the child make this up and another witness that supports the child's statement. they are going to go in and do the search. >> the only problem we will have here is if we don't find this body and you have been involved with investigations where husbands kill their wives

if we don't find the body all you have is circumstantial evidence and certainly not enough to convict him on this. >> and this is in this week's enquirer which has jesse james' dog fighting scandal on the front. and plastic surgery for somebody, baywatch beauty. a lot of information. and this story about susan powell on page 34. not to be missed that is for sure. >> we will see what it instales. but it looks like -- what it entails but it looks like that the dad is in big trouble. >> i think there is no doubt in anybody's mind that the husband was involved with the disappearance of his wife. and like any type of case that you investigate when you were a d.a., kimberly, you know what it leads that way 99% of the time it will end up going that way where he disposed of the wife's bodies. >> i and a child psychologist is going to be brought into it. why would the child blurt

something like that out. >> but they are not going use that what he is saying now. you have one psychologist on the defense will say one way and the prosecution will say the other way, they like to take the children there to look for crystals and then you will be out. that that works both sides. >> but they will have other evidence. there is premeditation suggested there that he made the comment a year before his wife disappeared. thanks for being with us, always a pleasure and back to geraldo, live in afghanistan. >> geraldo: kimberly, that is not me but that is a member of the afghan army. they are allies, fighting for their own country and lieutenant colonel cal worth the commanding officer, how are the afghans perform nag combat. >> i think they have done well for themselves. we have been partnered with them since the first weeks here in afghanistan and we trained with them and prepared for this operation and now we are making

inroads into the afghan population in ways we can only do with their security forces. >> geraldo: will they stand alone when we leave? the president wants to start withdrawing in a year or so? >> it will take some time but they will be better prepared than they are right now today and they will learn some lessons from what they have done over the last eight years we to remember as well. they will do fine. >> geraldo: colonel, thanks for the hospitality. first battalion sixth marines. thank you. any of you guys have greetings for the folks back home. >> taylor swift, i can't wait to see you when i get back home. >> taylor swift. >> a beautiful thing, sir. can't wait to see you when i get home. >> geraldo: let me get somebody a little more up close and personal. >> hi to my beautiful wife i love you. and all my friends and family back in the northwest. i will see you soon.

>> hi to my wife jennifer in south carolina and all my family and friends. >> geraldo: captain? >> i would like to say hi to my wife, kids, matthew and christopher williams and mom, dad and mike. love you all and see you in a couple of months. >> hi to my mom and my beautiful girlfriend brit. >> geraldo: all right. corporal? >> hi to ashley my beautiful fiancee. love you and see you when i get home. >> geraldo: that is it from the first battalion sixth marines. marjah, forward operating base. we will see you as the week

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