. >> brad taylor is a retired special forces colonel and defense analyst and a best-selling novelist whose recent book is "the forgotten soldiers", and he joins us from houston. the event in your new book is triggered by violence in afghanistan. how concerned are you that the taliban is staging a come back threatening progress since the 2001 war. >> i'm concerned about if. the progress we are making is basically the drug trade, like the sanaa lowa area in mexico. it's a powerhouse. in 2010 people forget there's a huge battle for marja, and it's the battle after the battle. we are talking about how we defeated i.s.i.s. in ramadi. i don't consider it a defeat until you see what happened six months from now. >> i.s.i.l. is increasing presence from afghanistan. what do the u.s. or n.a.t.o. need to do to secure the gains made over the past 14 years? >> the hardest thing is to get governance down there. helmand province is one of the biggest opium producing places in the universe. it's an economic power house. you want to put a government in there, you can't put in a government saying it's

taylor had the jury deliberated for three hours. the defendants did not take the stand. parker is the father of brad parker the man accused of killing his wife and his gambling partner for they face gambling charges. back in 2013. parker was convicted and the court of appeals overturned that conviction because of prosecutorial misconduct said his case back to the district court. sentencing will take place at a later date. >>> more information released about a shooting that took place yesterday near columbia. sonja gutierrez joins us live. we learn the name of the homicide suspect who died at >>> 42-year-old damon james wanted for murder his ex- girlfriend in houston, texas back in october 2014. the corner said it's looking inflicted gunshot wound to the head with a houston task force received a tip that james is in columbia for the notified the task force a couple of weeks ago in yesterday. they moved up. investigators say james fired first and officers returned fire. during that exchange is what james shot himself inside the vehicle. it james killed his ex- girlfriend more than a year ago and now s