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

first, geraldo, what is the word from the frontlines in afghanistan? >> geraldo: hi, kimberly.ere in this country, this war-torn country aside from the decades of violence is that it is among the poorest nations on earth and among the least educated, particularly the females. girls are not allowed or were not allowed under the taliban to go to school. craig now reports on some volunteers who are changing that in a big and better way. >>> geraldo, more than half of the population of afghanistan is illiterate and the incidene of illiteracy is higher among women who have been the target of attacks under taliban rule. because of that the central asia institute decided to open up 85 schools here in afghanistan to fill a desperate need. >> in the time the taliban here is not allowing for girls to go to school or go outside the home. the good for them now that they have time to go outside and get education. >> central asia in city tuesday or cai is the brain child of greg mortensen, an american adventure remember and veteran who conceived of the area in 1993 while attempting to summit

geraldo? >> geraldo: thanks. obviously she is not going do that. sheriff joe arpaio on your left joins us as does congressman lincoln diaz bellarte on the right, republican in miami. sheriff, how do you define reasonable suspicion? is it like obscenity that you don't know how to define it but you know it when you see it. >> if someone doesn't have a license, doesn't speak english, ten guys smashed in the back of a van, i think that is cause to take action. the obama administration the first 60 days in office sent the civil rights office after me. it has been a year and a half they have been investigating me and nothing has happened. i feel comfortable that this law will pass muster. just gives me another tool to get the job done and law enforcement. >> geraldo: be that as it may in your press release you claimed 38,000 illegal immigrants were arrested investigated and detained but you but i can't find anything in your literature that tells me how many people you stopped who were citizens and said i am fifth generation mexican american for scam. >>

. >> well, i have learned that geraldo is live and at large in afghanistan starting right now! >> this is a fox news alert. hello, everybody, i'm geraldo rivera in camp hans at the base for the third battalion sixth marines. we are here to tell the story of the efforts of these marines to bring normalcy to the once taliban occupied province. the center of opium production here in afghanistan but we have this fox news alert we have just received word that three italian medical workers are among nine people arrested in an alleged plot to kill the provincial governor. i'm not kidding about this. we are just getting word that

i am geraldo rivera. coming up we will have the latest on the volcanic eruption and the gigantic disruption it is still causing around the world. tens of thousands of passengers stranded, hundreds of millions of dollars lost every single day. that story and our probe of the pending senate showdown on financial reform that promises to dominate political news this coming week. up for a dramatic developments in two high profile further investigations we have be -- mur investigations we have been following. don chapman has the brutal murder of the case in mexico. we begin with the long search for haylee coming e -- cummings. it seemed on the verge of resolution. >> over the last few weeks information has been obtained by investigators that lead them to leave haleigh cummings is most likely deceased. >> you can understand why ronald would be shocked with that. he's hoping that it ends but still holding hope that maybe they are wrong maybe something else happened this will end up as another false lead. >> the i

i am geraldo rivera. coming up we will have the latest on the volcanic eruption and the gigantic disruption it is still causing around the world. tens of thousands of passengers stranded, hundreds of millions of dollars lost every single day. that story and our probe of the pending senate showdown on financial reform that promises to dominate political news this coming week. up for a dramatic developments in two high profile further investigations we have be -- mur investigations we have been following. don chapman has the brutal murder of the case in mexico. we begin with the long search for haylee coming e -- cummings. it seemed on the verge of resolution. >> over the last few weeks information has been obtained by investigators that lead them to leave haleigh cummings is most likely deceased. >> you can understand why ronald would be shocked with that. he's hoping that it ends but still holding hope that maybe they are wrong maybe something else happened this will end up as another false lead. >> the i

. >> geraldo: be that as it may

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it's time for geraldo. you're back. >> hello. >> brian: incredible work in afghanistan. on around the country and how much this meant to so many people when it came to paying your taxes. are you surprised about the number and the volume with the tea party? >> yes and yes and let me say that as a former activist myself, someone who really was a formative part of my life, being on the streets and being part of a manifestation or demonstration, complaining or advocating one thing or another, i'm very happy that people are getting off their couches and going to protest. i think that the specifics of what exactly is comprised of what you pay taxes when you deduct social security, medicare, medicaid and having come back from afghanistan, the huge expenditure of the wars, the two wars that were never budgeted, i think if you support the war, then you should support a war tax. we have always in the past paid for our wars and now we're not. >> gretchen: then everyone should pay the war tax since we're all being kept safe. that's not the idea of the war tax, i don't think. i think

. >> geraldo: want to get gary b in. you did mention that taxes around the world and in fact, history shows us though, gary b, that they haven't been all that successful. >> well, exactly. i'm glad-- you know i was waiting, i wanted to see how mike would spin the value added tax was a good thing and did he a remarkable job. unfortunately he pointed to europe. hey, they have it in europe, i guess implying that hey, if they have it in europe, it's done okay there. the average tax burden in europe which does have this essentially, this you know, across the eu. in fact, this mandatory value added tax or national sales tax, if you will, it's about 40% the average, the government spending over there because of this revenue, it's about 47% of gdp. here is the problem with all of that. study after study after study has shown from the federal reserve, by the way, you know, to the national bureau of economics across the board, have shown that higher taxes, higher government spending, the bigger the government is, leads to lower ec

geraldo riverra drew in the sand. >> he got kicked out of iraq but he's been invited back. >> based on his reporting, if i were the enemy, i'm not sure -- wait a minute. that's a joke. >> my own belief is, of course, these embedded people are fine. the information that they can provide to the american people is extremely modest. one of the great failures of american journalism is that they're not good at languages. so -- and the -- both in iraq and in afghanistan especially, afghanistan at the present time, that they can't get around. can't get around. so those are the more -- i mean, so if one wanted, you know, if one wanted to say, well, you know, do -- does the thoughtful or not so thoughtful reader of american press actually have a sense of what's going on in afghanistan politics? i don't think the answer is yes. the -- but the other feature i want -- and of course, i mean, i'm all for the embedded journalism, but there's only so much that you can learn from a particular perspective in a particular place on the field, and it's good drama, good television, but i don't really think i

don't expect geraldo at large tonight. he is embedded with a group of u.s.nes in southern, afghanis

. >> bill: here now to analyze a very emotional bullying situation is fox news anchor geraldo rivera.bunch of kids. >> five. >> bill: i'm a former teacher. i think the schools have got to be proactive and tough even though this bullying goes on off campus on the internet it's still tied into school. >> i believe that school administrations have to be in very aggressive terms engaged with the students. they know because the, you know, the bullies are often the most popular people in school. they know exactly what's going on. they have hands off attitude that suspect too modern. i have two teenage girls now and the whole panoply of my five children and myself have been on both sides of the bullying issue. i remember when i was in high school my coach had a very innovative idea. he said i want the football team to be advocates for and in many ways the avengers for the victims of bullying. in other words, the least popular weakest students were being protected in a pro active way by the. >> bill: very smart coach. >> that's what schools have to do. >> bill: right. >> i also think there sh

geraldo had a chance to sit down last night and had an interesting discussion with sheriff joe arpallo. pink underwear for inmates, we had himmen talking about an initiative. >> bicycles to power the tv's, that's the guy. >> he's in favor of this legislation and geraldo took him to task last night. >> all this heat, all of this stuff coming from the president, i don't know why he's interfering with arizona, the people of arizona and by the way, the president should understand, we, this law mirrors the federal law. so if he has a problem with the state law he's got to have a problem with his own federal law so he ought to be looking at the federal law. you know, no matter who you talk to, it's pretty evident that this legislation in arizona will do probably, yes, it will being challenged, but probably just puts a lot of pressure on the federal government as president obama said the other day to actually start acting on immigration reform. >> right, there are critics that say first off, the federal government is the only one that can enact and enforce immigration law. >> take a look at t

geraldo unbelievable this weekend as usual.ohn paul stevens is looking at retirement and that has washington buzzing about rumors about who might replace the 89-year-old liberal justice. some of the names mentioned including solicitor general and chicago appeals court judge and washington appeals court judge merrick garland. predicting a tough fight for the senate. justice stevens says he'll step down with president obama in office. a new search is planned for susan powell, that missing utah mom who went missing back in december. but law enforcement only wants professionals to take part in the april 10th search in the desert. that's because the area being canvassed is considered dangerous. it's also where powell's husband josh says he was camping when susan disappeared. josh is considered a person of interest in this particular case. >> is the ipad leaving up to hype? early sales figure for apple's new gadget are topping predictions. apple sold about 600,000 to 700,000 on launch day. that's several hundred thousand more than ex

. >> now it seems this week we are actually, i saw general mcchrystal and geraldo was there and olliehat, but we have another issue in kandahar in particular, and that is hamid karzai's brother. >> yeah. >> he's in a leadership position. how do we get him out of the way and how important is it that we build up other leaders so that he is ma marginalized at a mini? >> nats a great question, jamie. the bottom line is there's not a smoking gun with akmed karzai. the plan is to wire around him, to operate around him, to find other leaders they can use to buttress this guy, not force him out of office but to try to establish control in kandahar, reestablish confidence in the government while karzai stays in place. to your point exactly, jamie. this is going to be very difficult because kandahar is owned by the taliban. there's very little regard inside that city among the local population for karzai and his crooked cronies, a very, very difficult job that puts the coalition under a great deal of pressure to get this right. >> as we continue to send millions, if not billions more in aid and