the rest of us vietnam veterans never got this. this is my payback to them. >> they helped pack these welcome home bags and she is happy to share this moment with third sons. >> i wanted them to actually see the people that are doing it. >> said means a lot to know that people are here to welcome me back to the united states and for a job well done that they do. >> operation welcome home maryland is a group of volunteers to come out here to the airport every day to greet soldiers when they come home. there is a link on our website a few like to get involved with the organization. we are live tonight at b.w.i. thurgood marshall airport. sheldon dutes, wbal-tv 11 news. >> losing a home to arson is bad enough, but for one moment, has become a real nightmare. she is now homeless through no fault of her own, and she has been built thousands of dollars by the city for the demolition of her house. >> is just inconsiderate. >> but next, the investigation, with reaction from city officials. >> we will >> after someone set fire to her house

those songs were already oldies by the time he was in vietnam. but i used." >> steve: yeah, man. come on. ♪ blue moon >> jimmy: ♪ blue moon so, anyway, we got thousands of tweets. in fact, within a half an hour, it was a trending topic in the united states, which is awesome. so, thank you for the tweets, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] so now, i thought i'd share some of my favorite, "i used to think" tweets from you guys. here we go. this first one is from @onedsheeranlove. she says, "i used to think an adam's apple was just a piece of apple that got caught in a guy's throat." [ laughter ] this one's from @gaylesharon. she said, "i used to think ellen degeneres was called 'ellen the generous' because she was so generous." [ laughter ] she is very generous. >> steve: she's a very generous person. i thought that too. yeah. she is. >> jimmy: "ellen the generous." [ light laughter ] this one's from @ticktokrobotsnot. [ laughter ] he says, "i used to think the asterisk on the phone's dialing pad was a snowflake my parents used to call santa and tell him when

very vague national security provisions and calls on the government of vietnam to stop abusing provisions of articles 79 and 88. you use articles to arrest peaceful democracy activists i believe is blatant human rights violations. vietnam is a signatory to the human larings of -- declaration of human rights and political rights. however, vietnam has yet to become a responsible member of our international community. and consequently, the vietnamese government has denied the denial of freedom, right to assembly, of a fair trial. how does this government expect to gain the respect of the international community when they refuse to treat their citizens with the same respect? house resolution 484 condemns the government of vietnam for its continued crackdown against democracy activists and calls on vietnam to repeal articles 79 and 88 and calls for the release of all political prisoners, writers and bloggers, who the only thing they have asked is to have a more open process, to have some civil rights, to have some human rights, to be able to discuss with each other a new way forward. as americans, we pride ourselves on bein

and in that taylor explained to us that it's a necessity that south vietnam keep the unity and stability. he advised us no more coup. no more coup. and here just after, you know few weeks after that meeting, he staged a coup. so i understand why taylor is very upset. so he call him asking him to see him, to meet him at the american embassy. but he for some reason didn't want to go. so he come to me and said, ok, ky, go to see the american ambassador. so i went to see maxwell taylor, and with me the general at that time army, another and the navy commander, so four of us representing him and armed forces council. we went to the u.s. embassy. but i saw taylor come and open the door for us, you know and looked very angry. and he just said, ok, sit down. >> you said in your book he said immediately, sit down, not a greeting, not a hello, just sit down. >> just sit down. >> what was your reaction when -- >> of course, we sit down. but then we listen. so he very angry tone, you know. he said to me, to us, well,, you know, at the dinner few weeks ago, i ask you, i told you this and that, but no

[laughter] >> pretty good day too. >> vietnam is a former adversary really worried about the rise of china, asked us to consider more engagements. taiwan has always been of that mind. you are seeing with this pivot announcement you are seeing some reactions on the global playing field that to your question would tend to leave me to conclude that we could be in the position of if not read the fighting and rewriting some of these treaties that at least giving them more meaning. i agree with -- all three of us agree on the same thing. the likelihood of a major conflict with china and any other country is probably pretty slim but the likelihood of brushfire challenges that have to be responded to in the presence of actually important being there is a deterrent it is a deterrent that works both ways. i think we're into a period of much more negotiations with some in asia and other issues we talked about. occasional spikes. the trick is to make sure those are brushfires and not force fighters. >> i met with the clause the chinese official and made an impassioned plea thatq chinese official and made an imp

since theoner epted, he has become press shy, declining inter surprised us bye phonehe wcalled. the tough-talking vietnam vet sounds shaken. my life is in gr. i run a business here. my gls are absolutely terrified. they are crying all the time. >>heesnsha not come as a surprise. terry jones says how productive it was. that is the way he wants it. he has built a gallows on which he has strungp an effigyf haadita v's head. h n plans to back down. >> we will definitely continue. nothing will cause us to run, hyde, a quick -- to run,qu. >> the attacks ain wte diplomats -- not hisau. the pastor and his allies are on a crusade. one with mortalnemies. above all, is lomb and the president's -- abovll, islam and the president. >> one side o heful race to the bottom of humanities. >> there are also iam leaders who use cartoons and them to push their message of intolerance, a ts iwh i looks like. my oinary muslims are angry about the film, including peopleerinai, but their rage has been fuelled and stirred up by radical islamists, groups including the egyptian islamic jihad and solophists organizing large protests.

surrounding china have the same time home could now in guam or soon the expansion of us bases and even the philippines and vietnam united states is now negotiating to go back into those countries to have its navy porting again or that again there are places like can't run bay and also subic in the philippines so clearly this is a part of u.s. expansion into the region just cannot just a war isn't that excuse that the u.s. and japan put forward that north korea is a threat why is that not a founded reason. but it's not a threat or north korea has an ancient military technology when you stack it up against what the united states has today. the u.s. is annually wargaming the u.s. space command a first strike attack on china so all you have to do is follow the industry reports from the aerospace industry the military industrial complex and you see that north korea. public statements really don't hold water the united states is war gaming a first strike attack. so how does see beijing responding to this breach just just briefly we're talking about this huge build up and this is heating up of tensions from the u.s. poi

us. we're going to meet with some people they're building a better cambodia, vietnam and working on issuesng, violence against women and also solutions such as getting more girls to the school and keeping them there. >> and in a special report for cnn, kristof sat down with these actresses to learn what they learned about the women holding up half the sky. olivia wild told us about her eye-opening journey to kenya. >> this is huge. >> the biggest market of second hand in kenya. >> jane is a businesswoman because of an organization in nairobi. jane had been a commercial sex worker for many years. she is hiv positive and she has three children and she has suffered unimaginable odds and come out of it as a dressmaker. >> oh, that's nice, yeah. >> and she's a great example of how financial empowerment can really work to transform the community. because of her business, her kids are all in school. not only are they in school, they are at the top of their class and these are people who were born in the toughest slum in kenya. i think the other extraordinary thing we saw was the communial power o

. >> now, regarding that vietnam reference, steve klein told us he himself is a veteran of vietnam. is some information we've gathered in addition to what he told us that indicates that he served in combat there and is a former marine. klein also told us that his own son had been wounded in iraq by a suicide bomber there. we can't independently verify that claim at the moment but there you have a little background on steve klein. >> do we know if anybody is looking for, searching for, questioning, investigating this movie maker? >> reporter: well, we know that several media entities have been doing that over the past few days, including cnn. we don't know much beyond that. he is apparently at least for the moment gone underground. he's a very difficult guy to find at the moment, although some media entities have been able to catch up to him, at least on the phone. no, we don't know if any federal authorities or anybody else are looking for him or are connecting him in any way as part of any kind of an investigation at this point. >> and do we know if he could possibly be charged with

us about his wife jo. you're a veteran, two tours in vietnam. a hard time since then, tell us about it. >> well, i've had cancer for the last 12 years, and i have a lot of chronic pain and neuropathy as we saw building with not only the chemotherapy but dealing with the side effects of the cancer. and it's directly because of being exposed to agenting orange. >> often the wives write in about the spouse. >> she would think you were the hero. you wrote in about your wife. are you there too, jo? >> i am. >> you wrote a beautiful letter and hopefully we've written a beautiful song to bless you. we'll see you on thursday. enjoy your time in new york. we'll see you thursday. >> yeah. coming up. >> i'm a little off today. >> we're all off. >> that's the problem. >> this will fix it. >> so what were your favorite celebrities up to while you were enjoying that holiday weekend, hodawoman? >> we'll catch you up on all that was buzzing around tinseltown after this. and crowd cheering just you know walking, sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering and

us. we're going to meet some people who have so impressed with the work they're doing to build a better sierra leon, a better cambodia, a better vietnamssues like sex trafficking, violence against women, and also solutions such as getting more girls into school and keeping them there. >> and one of those actresses, meg ryan. she tells us about her journey. >> i went to cambodia because for some reason, i have this -- i don't know why, exactly. but a real soft spot for these third world girls. >> they don't want to be here, but they have no choice. if somebody gave them money, they leave here. >> the more faces i saw, the more innocence and the beauty of these little girls and the fact that they are kind of on the front line of abuse. and they are actually -- these ngos and humanitarian organization talk about when you are the one to fix the third world, this group of people is who you look to. >> and you spent time in cambodia with one girl in particular. she was 14 when she was kidnapped. >> she's the girl in my segment whhas no eye. they wanted her to have sex with somebody and she said no, so they gouged her eye out. and her name i

for example, he embraced the great society, he got us out of vietnam, he made a nuclear arms agreementith the soviets and so on. and senator hugh scott, himself a liberal in 1970, said that under richard nixon the liberals got the action. now, why isn't, why doesn't richard nixon rank high in the liberal pantheon? >> listen, i will simply say this. i've been blessed and honored to tour around the country. tomorrow i'll be flying back to new york, and i'll be a guest with sean hannity wednesday night on his show to talk about the book, and i'm doing signings in long island, i was in texas and ohio, i will tell you something, this visit tonight and especially blessed by this room of wonderful patriots who came out tonight, the nixon library appearance is going to go down in 2012 as the single best appearance of my entire book tour. i'm proud to be here. very proud to be here. [applause] and real honored to be in this beautiful, beautiful place n this wonderful tribute to president nixon. the folks on the staff has been extraordinary and hospitable, and i'm just honored to be able to spen

vietnam's defense ministry. >> translator: this is so precious to us. we're grateful to the american soldier who kept it for so many years. >> reporter: it is part of the personal memento that finally reached his family 46 years after he died. they visited his grave to tell him the news. u.s. secretary of defense, leon panetta, personally handed part of the diary to his counterpart when he visited vietnam in june. faced with china's regional ambition, the united states is shifting its focus to asia. vietnam borders china to the north and has a 3,000 kilometer long coastline facing the south china sea. for washington, it's an important potential ally. state-run television and other media in vietnam reported the return of the diary as headline news. they touted it as a sign of improving ties between the former enemies. vietnam is at odds with china over sovereignty of the south china sea. it needs to bolster ties with the united states to counter its giant neighbor. but many individual vietmese still feel some stility tords eric the vernnt faces a challen

he surprised us by coming to the phone when we called. the tough-talking vietnam vet sounds shaken. >> my life is in great jeopardy. i run a business here. my girls are absolutely terrified. they are crying all the time. >> the response has not come as a surprise. terry jones says he knows how productive it was. that is the way he wants it. he has built a gallows on which he has strung up an effigy of mohammad with a devil's head. he has no plans to back down. >> we will definitely continue. nothing will stop us. nothing will cause us to run, hyde, a quick -- to run, hide, quit. >> the attacks against western diplomats -- not his fault. the pastor and his allies are on a crusade. one with mortal enemies. above all, is lomb and the president's -- above all, islam and the president. >> one side of a hateful race to the bottom of humanities. >> there are also islamic leaders who use cartoons and them to push their message of intolerance, and this is what it looks like. >> many ordinary muslims are angry about the film, including people here in cairo, but their rage h

us dying for it. >> bill: it's almost like vietnam. there were a lot of south vietnamese who were very loyal to the usa and appreciated our sacrifice. but then there is an element that isn't. you did the best you could and you won the medal of honor. so the book again "into the fire." a pleasure to meet you. >> thank you. >> bill: when we come back, is it legal on an aclu controversy in michigan, that far left group doesn't want a citizenship requirement to vote. another unbelievable situation. then madonna absolutely losing it in washington, d.c >> bill: we're coming right back ♪ [ male announcer ] this is karen and jeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, children laughing ] move to the country, d live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some retirement people who are paid on salary, not commission. they'll get straightforward guidance and be able to focus on other things, li

gabrielle union tells us how a 15-year-old girl in vietnam inspired her. >> nhi's mother had left becauseather was abusive. hz abuse was so epic he was famous in their community. the father is a clock and watch repairman. everything is digital so that the business is not brisk. and instead of changing occupations or picking up another job, he came up with the bright idea for nhi to sell lottery tickets. and she figured out a way to squirrel away money to get tutoring to get food for her and her brother to get uniforms, books, supplies. and some days when she just wasn't going to be able to sell all of her lottery tickets and she was going to go home and be beaten. sir, do you know why nhi is crying? could you tell us why she's upset? >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> i can see in nhi's face that there was a lot more to her story than even what she was willing to let on. i became a little attached, maybe too attached, some way would. >> it does seem to me that nhi's story in a sense reflects the real argument about why we should care about somebody in vietnam. tiny amounts of money -- t

vietnam to libya. activists are giving us a glimpse of how women worldwide are overcoming obstacles and changing theire better. "half the sky" has inspired a new documentary and profiles christophe and celebrity activists as they travel to different parts of the globe. he sat down with libya wild, meg ryan, gabriel and others about "half the sky" and how this project is so critical. >> we're going on a journey where the oppression of women and girls is truly the most extreme. we're traveling to six different countries and invited six different american actresses to join us. we will meet some people so impressed by the work they're doing to build a better sierra leone, better cambodia, vietnam, working on issues like sex trafficking, violence against women and also solutions such as getting more girls into school and keeping them there. >> america ferrera subsequent into the ums of india where she met a girl desperately hoping for a school, not a brothel. >> i always wanted to go to india, always imagining it as some sort of wonderful tour through the countryside, seeing beautiful sights. and, of cours

us dying for it. >> bill: it's almost like vietnam.e a lot of south vietnamese who were very loyal to the usa and appreciated our sacrifice. but then there is an element that isn't. you did the best you could and you won the medal of honor. so the book again "into the fire." a pleasure to meet you. >> thank you. >> bill: when we come back, is it legal on an aclu controversy in michigan, that far left group doesn't want a citizenship requirement to vote. another unbelievable situation. then madonna absolutely losing it in washington, d.c >> bill: we're coming right back i'm a marathon runner, in absolute perfect physical condition and i had a heart attack right out of the clear blue... i'm on an aspirin regimen... and i take bayer chewables. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. he's my success story. [ laughs ] >> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly. three hot topics, beginning with another unbelievable aclu campaign. this one in michigan. they're asking a federal judge t

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us under. no wonder why it doesn't seem like ancient history. for me, as a vietnammerican, the feeling that the veal nawm war just transpired is more pal pble, although my parents, who are here today, rarely talked about the lives in vietnam, and here, i can just imagine my mom saying, no, the past is in the past, why bring up sad memories while my father would admonish me, just focus on the present and get your homework done. i was, though, finally able to piece together what happened to my family in 1975. in fact, and i know this will make my parents sound like typical working class immigrants, but they only sharedded their story with me, the story of how we made it in 1975 to the united states when i told them that it was for a class assignment. [laughter] so, yeah, in one fell swoop, the past was finally in the present, and i got my homework done. what i learned was that when i was five months old as max said, my family, and you have to understand family in the vietnamese context does not mean nuclear family. my family, like my mom and dad, maternal aunt and gra

vietnam is a former adversary. we are worried about the lives of china and asked us to consider more engagement. taiwan has always been of that mind. hat you're seeing with this pivot and now is reaction on the global playing field that would tend to lead me to conclude that we are -- could be in an enviable position of redefining and rewriting some of these treaties but at least given a more meaning. i agree with my -- we agree on the same thing. the likelihood of a major conflict with china and in the other countries is probably pretty slim but the likelihood of a brush fire challenge that has to be responded to is actually important. bein there is a deterrent the works both ways. we are into a period of much more negotiations with maybe some in asia with some occasional spikes to make sure those are just brush fires and not for is buyers eric >> was our on-site chinese officials. i made an impassioned plea that our existing military alliances had been a force of stability in the region had facilitated the peaceful rise of china. at the end he said, you are right. i'm confident that was not in

then use of work around the war powers act after vietnam. we have seen how that has been or not been implemented and congress has been quiet on a lot of issues. we are starting to see in the last year or so attempts to start a legislation or letters to heads of agencies and what is notable it is not coming from one party in particular. it is from both parties. whichever is the winner they will face more pressure. the role of the democratic party which there are a number of people in congress who held their tongue because having a democrat commander-in-chief they may be more vocal than they would have been. >> that is a very thoughtful answer. three points to remind those who think of drones as sheep silver bullets. you were not suggesting that. drones are all only effective to the extent they're backed up by extremely good intelligence and classified $80 billion a year on american intelligence and only effective in pakistan because of the ground presence of american forces in afghanistan because otherwise there would be no basis in which to

who welcomed the iraq war many who go back even further and welcome the vietnam war how many times do they have to be wrong to us to for us to say stop anough is enough we don't want to hear from you anymore on these notion that we can do whatever we want around the country militarily what what kind of coverage you think robert greenwald the afghan war might get over the next few days the d.n.c. . somewhere between zero and none. it's you but it's what he wants to take responsibility for there are there are people over there now as you pointed out tom dying every single day can you imagine being the family or relatives or have someone over there who was killed in a war that is making no sense that never made any sense and what that does to you inside a lot in a lost somebody close to you is terrible enough think about what that would mean if it's a loss for a war that's absolutely senseless and at the america's longest war at that you know george w. bush when the when the taliban offered him bin laden should have just said sure we'll take him and anyhow at this point how do we end the war. as quickly as possible

we have to not let countries like vietnam and the philippines drag us into a war with china over the south china sea. to that clever balance. in any case, the u.s. has so much shale oil deposits in texas and louisiana and oklahoma and other places that i can name, that we are going to be -- because of energy reserves, we are going to be a significant power for decades to come in any case. so now is the time to try to get allies and like-minded others to do more. >> i would like to note that this book has on the cover a paragraph from henry kissinger. this is obviously a set of arguments that people need to consider very seriously. let's go to the arguments for questions. keep your questions ready. identify yourself and say yes, please, sir. >> i see the hand off right there. >> yes, hello, i just wanted to ask you about russia. because the argument you present it, it has been essentially used, the argument has been used to justify any and all expansions from moscow to the areas in the soviet and etc. so what about the interests of the countries around russia that are impacted by this

he says eddie did it for us, and i'm doing it for eddie. >> fixler also writes a book about the robbery and his vietnamerience called "semper cool" and donates all royalties to wounded veterans through the barry fixler foundation. >> i want to honor the men and women serving today. the men and women serving when i was in service. and, also, to leave a legacy to my family that, you know what, i'm a good guy. i love my family and i love my country. >> the retired marine continues to run his jewelry store. always mindful of the day two gunmen tried to rob him. >> i looked like a very easygoing fellow. non-threat fellow, nerdy. they really came thinking that this is going to be a cake walk. this is the easiest thing ever. and it turned out not to be the easiest thing ever. >>> coming up -- a store manager who never fired a gun in her life ends a robbery with one shot. >> got up like i was coming around and i grabbed the gun. >> when "caught on camera: armed and dangerous" continues. >>> a man claiming to have a gun holds up this gas station convenience store and demands cash. fearing for her life, the stor

ago or now -- almost the entire filipino government came to washington recently to ask us to come back. south vietnam, or vietnam, but vietnam north and south. i'm sorry. i'm dating myself a little bit here. [laughter] i'm a pretty good date too. [laughter] but former adversary. ask us to consider more engage ment taiwan, obviously, has been a bet of mine. you're seeing a pivot announcement. you're seeing some reactions on the playing field that would tell your question would tend to lead me to conclude -- give them more meaning. you know, but i agree with my -- all three of us agree on the same thing. the likelihood of a major conflict with china and any other country probably is pretty slim. the likelihood of brush fire challenges have to be responded to and more presence is actually important. being there, and it works both ways. i think that we're in to a period much more negotiations maybe some in asia in particular talked about some occasional spikes to make sure that -- those were just brush fires and not forest fires. >> i met with quasi government official. i knead a passion plea that the ex

use go along with demonstrations? not in the muslim world but in the vietnam area huge, huge. >> it would be nice if those guys could ripong load or two and mellow out. >> get prozac into them and bring them down a little bit you are right. >> this is hackie sack go sick. >> every big movement in america, protest movement, drugs all over the place, you would think that you would want to experience the moment because you are, you know, practicing your freedom of speech. you know, do you know what the answer to that question is? >> first off you have unemployable people part of the reason they are unemployable is drugs. secondly you can't get more than 250 white people together and play fish music without somebody lighting a doobie. i mean, that's just the way it works. so whenever you have large group of people get together. somebody is going to sell t-shirts and somebody is going to sell drugs. >> i just don't in the vietnam era and what's what i -- vietnam thing is much brighter than the occupy thing. there were a lot of people in the vietnam protest there were a lot of real crazy screwed up people as well. that drug i

us. always. >> it's believed that about 1700 american soldiers who served in vietnam are still missing in action. >> what a lovely day for such an important ceremony. >> yes, very nice. they got it in before the clouds came in. and we are looking at a treat tomorrow. it's going to be a double edged sword. it's going to be like summer, which is nice. days in the 80s are going to be few and far between. we'll the risk of a shower or thunderstorm and also in the evening. let's start with a live look outside. this is looking west from tyson's corner. you see the clouds here. temperature high 76. 75 downtown. dew point in the 40s, not bad. it's not uncomfortable out by any means and winds south, southwest at 11. they are gusting to 20. pressure on the rise, 30.14 inches of mercury. okay, satellite picture, radar combined. we'll zoom in. this is where the frontal boundary is. unfortunately, it is orienting itself more east to west. they slide across and waiver around the metro area. that's what this is going to do. thankfully, this heavy batch of showers and storms has diminished. it went through sout

i will defer you >> a few of us went to vietnam, and they asked why. again, i don't remember who was asking why in korea. but if the general took over from westmoreland was an associate from the battle of the bulge abrams with whom he had dinner before he left on a fact-finding into frame february february 1968. >> right after the tet offensive to check it out for himself he had dinner with his old buddy who apparently is saying the same thing that might add insult saying a few days later i was all fouled up and there is no good way out. other people are saying it, but because it was so little other internet , he was left with the responsibility of my dad to say out loud that this war didn't seem justified anymore, which wasn't radical so much as common sense a call. >> it is enormous movement. >> that is before, right? >> that is exactly correct. the great story that lbj watched mr. cronkite deliver that light and turn the television off and turn to his aides and said if i've lost cronkite i've lost america. very quickly he was in korea and he won ano

the vietnam plank, and so he was always behind his candidate first and foremost, and he real put his own political public policy ideals second. johnson intimidated him. that was another reason. he used to say that he would never let -- after he didn't tell johnson the truth about vietnam, he decided to tell the president the truth if asked. it turns out that almost every president after johnson did ask him for advice at one time or another, and incoming reagan even though he was in the carter administration and run carter's campaign against rage p. nancy reagan arranged for strauss and the former secretary of state, republican bill rogers, to sneak into the white house one evening. they went in through the treasury building, the underground tunnel. bob never wasn't through the tunnel before. he said it looked like there's a fallout shelters, beds on the walls, and he couldn't believe he was there. he went to the residents of the white house and advised the president on what to do about thee iran contra scandal, and he advised him to get rid of chief of staff, don reegan, and bring in howard baker, someone who could really have a lot of credibility in congress with both sides of the